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Staying politically informed and active in the Hudson River communities of southern Westchester, NY.
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Aaron Sojourner
about 3 hours ago
"In Minnesota, we will continue to follow the letter of the law, which requires us to protect the private data of our voters. "It is deeply disturbing that the US AG would make this unlawful request a part of an apparent ransom to pay for our stateās peace & security.*
www.kttc.com/2026/01/25/m...
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Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon releases statement in response to U.S. AG Pam Bondi letter
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has issued a statement in response to a letter written by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to Governor Tim Walz.
https://www.kttc.com/2026/01/25/minnesota-secretary-state-steve-simon-releases-statement-response-us-ag-pam-bondi-letter/
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 hour ago
Is it normal for an executive branch agency to send information just to one party's congressional delegation?
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Jon Cooper
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iSqueam
2 days ago
So, if US Marshals just show up and arrest Trump, he got his due process then. Says so right there, as soon as law enforcement shows up, your due process is at an end. What's that? That's not how it works, you say? Well, tell that to the people with the fucking guns.
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dell cameron
about 17 hours ago
Iāve never heard of a ālaw enforcementā agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And thatās because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as youāll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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Mark Copelovitch
6 days ago
I've criticized Obama in this vein, too. But the real question is where the hell are GWB & Mitt Romney (& John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Bob Gates, Hank Paulson, etc). Obama isn't going to convince the 10 people in Congress who can end this now
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber
about 22 hours ago
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
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Andrew Weissmann
1 day ago
Just when you thought it could not get worse: extortion on the table?
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
1 day ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
13 days ago
Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd. š·ļø: Jeff Wheeler
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David Corn
1 day ago
Imagine having to defend your fatally shot son from Stephen Miller's slurs that he was a "domestic terrorist" trying to "assassinate" ICE officers. This is what Trump and Trumpism has brought to the United States.
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Kyle Cheney
1 day ago
Another ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old.
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David Corn
1 day ago
Tell that to the J6 rioters.
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The Bulwark
2 days ago
Minneapolis Police Chief OāHara: "Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city to do so with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demandsā¦We urge everyone to remain peaceful."
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Matt Novak
2 days ago
This is so fucking haunting.
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Will Stancil
3 days ago
This something I want people to understand. If you donāt get their names, theyāre just gone. Thereās no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we canāt find out who they are or what happened to them.
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Radley Balko
2 days ago
It isnāt healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isnāt healthy if this doesnāt make you angry.
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Catherine Rampell
3 days ago
Indiaās holdings of US Treasury bonds have fallen to a 5-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves. People āare looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds"
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Conrad Lange Zbikowski
3 days ago
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
3 days ago
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
4 days ago
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
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NPR
3 days ago
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year ā and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims.
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Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year ā and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims.
https://n.pr/4qDfABZ
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Ruth Zakarin
4 days ago
This man is reprehensible. And it still deeply offends me that a parent of young children would be okay with this. Iām telling you that this is rooted in this countryās unhealthy obsession with rugged individualism. It taught too many people to care only about them and theirs. And here we are.
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Kashana
4 days ago
They like cops so much that all weāre getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops
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Alt National Park Service
4 days ago
This has to be criminal. ICE is out of control!
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Emily Farris
4 days ago
The ādonāt take down historyā crowd is awfully silent.
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Tamara Keel
4 days ago
Nate not realizing that our "unincorporated territories in the Caribbean" were acquired from Denmark in the first place in exchange for... relinquishing all claims to Greenland. Peak punditry right there. 10/10, don't ever change.
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Brian Finucane
4 days ago
"The UN Charter, adopted by the Senate 89-2 in 1945, giving it also the force of U.S. law, bans the US from issuing the 'threat or use of force against the territorial integrity' of a nonoffending member state...This isnāt international law, MAGA types, itās US law."
www.wsj.com/opinion/gree...
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Opinion | Greenland Is Trumpās White Whale
He needs therapy more than the U.S. needs toĀ own the island toĀ ensure its defense.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/greenland-is-trumps-white-whale-abdb503a?mod=hp_opin_pos_3
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Hunter Walker
4 days ago
This boy was sent to detention in Texas. School officials say they are working to locate two other children who were detained by ICE.
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Marisa Kabas
6 days ago
Newā An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Mark Copelovitch
5 days ago
This sounds crazy & partisan & extreme, & then when you think about it for 30 seconds more, you realize itās the baseline moderate position now if you care even minimally about the rule of law, civil liberties, & the Constitution.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 days ago
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
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southpaw
5 days ago
Spraying pepper spray directly into the eyes of a detained person whoās already fully subdued
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TrumpsTaxes
5 days ago
HOLY SH*T! A judge has just ordered the NY Redistricting Commission to redraw GOP-held
#NY11
by February 6th! If this goes through (Iām sure there will be appeal), Democrats could flip this Staten Island-based seat!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 days ago
Chillingly, the whistleblower says that ICE trainers were directed (no paper trail?) to train all of ICE's new recruits that these administrative warrants authorize breaking into peoples' homes, even though DHS's own training materials still make clear that's illegal!
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Prem Thakker ć
5 days ago
Trump approval, per The Economist ā Georgia: -18.6% Maine: -18.4% Texas: -17.2% Michigan: -15.8% North Carolina: -13.6% Ohio: -9.2% Iowa: -8.7% Florida: -7.5% South Carolina: -7.3% Mississippi: -6.9% Alaska: -6.6% Louisiana: -5.1% Nebraska: -1.8% These states all have Senate elections this year
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David Ho
6 days ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Michael Hobbes
6 days ago
10 years of this shit
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D. Earl Stephens
5 days ago
šI'm glad Mark Carney and Canada have had enough of our fascist shit. I sure have.
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jamelle
7 days ago
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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James Cameron
8 days ago
These troops could be for Minnesota, or they could be for Greenland. The fact that we have to consider the latter shows Europe is now in a security dilemma with the United States. We are in a security dilemma with our most powerful "ally."
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James Ball
8 days ago
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than āquixoticā for Trumpās plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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Wayne GauthieršØš¦š°š·
7 days ago
A handful of Republicans could shut all of it down. Today. They choose not to.
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Nicole Foy
7 days ago
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The New Republic
7 days ago
A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday.
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Ruth Zakarin
7 days ago
According to the government of the United States it is not appropriate to investigate a man who shoots a woman in the face and calls her a fucking bitch. I am a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence and this makes me want to weep.
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Marisa Kabas
7 days ago
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing heās a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Shashank Joshi
7 days ago
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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š¦ Seth Masket š¦
9 days ago
Not just here, but all over the world, people have actual problems to take care of and lives to lead, and they end up spending so much time and energy just dealing with the damage Trump needlessly causes every day. It's exhausting.
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Aaron Rupar
11 days ago
Q: Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy. Are you saying the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny? LEAVITT: Where you in the room? Only someone like you would take that so seriously
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