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Here’s what we know about the latest changes initiated by the Trump administration and what’s ahead for numerous immigrant children in New York as they scramble to prepare for these hearings.
NY Lawyers Fear Trump Blitz Will Speed Up Child Deportations
The Trump administration is accelerating asylum proceedings as legal aid funding expires, leaving immigrant children less time to prepare.
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As a POC in the US, everything that is happening is crystal clear to me. My country doesn't want me anymore. Its citizens are OK with released, deputized proud boys, gunning me down in the streets no questions asked. currently.att.yahoo.com/att/us-judge...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
“There is so much money right now in detaining people.”
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ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland [via @canarymedia.com]
New York tackles the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
Officials are resisting the misinformation spread by the White House and influencers.
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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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FACING DEPORTATION: More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration didn't enter a new agreement to take over their legal services @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lega...
Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation
WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal ser...
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“There is so much money right now in detaining people.”
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
motherjones.com
Video shows worm-like creatures in drinking water at ICE detention center in California - Los Angeles Times #HumanRights #ICE www.latimes.com/california/s...
Video shows worm-like creatures in drinking water at ICE detention center
A federal court judge ordered sweeping changes at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Southern California two weeks ago. But some detainees say issues persist.
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On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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We could've had nice things ... but it seemed a little inconvenient at the time, so ... 🤷♀️
Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 2d agoEarth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
“The ICE agents that attacked me followed me by transport in one of their unmarked vehicles to the hospital, and then came into my room with me in a trauma unit while I was trying to be treated."
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
motherjones.com
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0
Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know
Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months ...
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“.. many of us are blind to how many people have been left far behind. So far behind that they scarcely inhabit the same country as the rest of us. And this pain across America is now magnified by President Trump’s cuts in food stamps ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/o...
I’ve been yelling about it this all year. Municipalities still act like these are unfortunate incidents instead of what they are. They’re attacks on critical infrastructure. We’ve underinvested in modernizing essential systems and infrastructure while degrading cybersecurity.
“You’ve said ‘we have a Muslim problem’ in Tennessee and you want to ban mosques… how is that constitutional?” FRITTS: “As a Christian how can I have any other perspective?”🤔 Ben Hall asks far right extremist Republican candidate for Governor Monty Fritts (a state rep) about his bigoted ideas.
They also keep finding black people hanged in trees in the Charlotte area in NC too. They were not suicidal, according to everyone who knew them, but the police always say suicide and sweep it under the rug. The MAGA movement is a pox on this country.
🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
ICE separated nursing mom, an asylum seeker from Guatemala, from her infant and toddler. The kids haven't seen her since May Human rights group say ICE is violating its own rules against detaining nursing moms and failing to publicly report data on #s in custody tennesseelookout.com/2026/07/31/i...
ICE separated nursing mom from infant, toddler in Nashville, against its own rules, advocates say • Tennessee Lookout
Human rights organizations seek the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, detained in May by ICE.
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Despicable. What a sad chapter in history this will be. If we dont react soon, so many of us will die...
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 5d agoFor Texas DACA recipients, a fearful present and an uncertain future as protected status expires. Many of the roughly 80,000 Texas residents in the program are facing renewal delays that can leave them undocumented, unable to legally work and exposed to possible deportation.
“A child a day— the Israeli Air Force continues to routinely kill Gaza’s kids” These are all current/recent Haaretz headlines:
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said. (Published Sept. 2025)
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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And if you prefer to read while you listen to my video: OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five. open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five.
The DOJ's own memo tells its Epstein reviewers to black things out for at least three reasons Congress never authorized. Tw of the ten files a federal judge is reviewing are defended on that ground.
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