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Put down the Confederacy.

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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These clowns thought a US and Israeli war against Iran would be a cakewalk. Trump and Netanyahu believed regime change was no biggy. Lindsey Graham said Iran would start collapsing within weeks. We are in the worst possible hands.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

SCOOP: A 28-year-old man running from “an encounter” with federal immigration agents at a gas station in St. Augustine, Fla., was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday morning, according to a state highway patrol spokesman.

Man in Florida Fatally Hit by Truck While Fleeing ICE, Official Says (Gift Article)

Details about what exactly happened at a gas station in St. Augustine before the man was hit were unclear Tuesday.

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FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, a progressive online activist known as Beto Coral, is a supporter of President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, a leftist who has clashed with President Trump. He has publicly criticized Abelardo De La Espriella, a right-wing candidate backed by Mr. Trump. Mr.
Coral was arrested by immigration authorities on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a memo determining that he was deportable from the United States.
In the memo, Mr. Rubio noted that Mr.
Coral arrived in the United States in 2015 on a tourist visa and has a pending asylum application. But "Coral Garrido has used his presence in the United States to conduct political activity in support of the Petro government" and has advocated against a candidate for president, Mr. Rubio wrote, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The New York Times.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Trump administration detained a Colombian immigrant this week in Phoenix after he spoke out against a Trump-endorsed candidate in his home country’s upcoming presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Trump told us he was going after the worst of the worst. We have seen time after time that he was lying. There are over 700 detainees in Delaney Hall, a majority of them have no criminal record, and many of them were on approved status. ICE is violating their rights.

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... “Screening mail ballots for voter eligibility … would amount to an unprecedented, and potentially unconstitutional, involvement of the federal government in the administration of elections.” This is fascism in America!

USPS eyes new rule that would block ballots in states that balk at Trump’s demands

That it’s even a possibility the U.S. Postal Service might refuse to deliver ballots unless states comply with unnecessary demands is breathtaking.

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