El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Meredith
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Formerly @meredithbklyn. No longer a Brooklynite. South Carolinian turned Washingtonian turned Raleighite. Proud union member. ✊🏼 Go Gamecocks. 🤙🏼🐔
Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states
the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.
research has actually become a lot harder now that google doesn't really recognize booleans anymore
If you have a minute NEW PROJECT newsfor38yearolds.com basically a Drudge of indie left media goal is to function almost like an RSS reader of the best pubs & newsletters of the left updated constantly with one jokey headline thoughts? No need to verify your age; if you're on Bluesky, you're 38
This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
The SC Republican U.S. Senate debate just wrapped and let’s just say I am ready to debate any & all of them tomorrow. 🇺🇸
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d agoABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
A Guatemalan couple’s attempt to reunite following an ICE deportation ended with the two being shot to death in a sugarcane field in the country. The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying near their bodies. trib.al/67G4ya3
Missouri Couple Found Tied Up and Shot Dead After ICE Deportation
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying near their bodies.
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Set aside the oaks, the Stanley Cup, and even the Tobacco Road basketball lore. Raleigh is an ice cream town, a cow-to-cone city in a frozen melting pot of a region churning with flavors from Greece, Thailand, Mexico, Japan—and, of course, North Carolina farms.
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
Mexican Man From Durham Dies From Leukemia While In ICE Custody
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
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Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
She’s right, of course, about all of this.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5d agoKamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
Oh yes, you did. You voted precisely for this. You just voted for it to happen to other people you don't know. Just own up to it already. Texas Trump voter furious after ICE arrests her nanny: 'I didn't vote for this' www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
Texas Trump voter furious after ICE arrests her nanny - 'I didn't vote for this'
Joyce Basele, 64, a caregiver based in Houston, was detained by ICE in June following a routine immigration appointment.
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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit
Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Wow Charlotte Tilbury is a delight! Who knew! #dcc #americasSweethearts
I hope the intern who had to sit there and count Clark's shooting stats in freaking warmups for that ESPN graphic at least gets a living wage. #WNBA
We only rate dogs. This is a very fast tater tot. Please stay out of the way as he clearly has places to be, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: choppertp)
if there’s any clear indication of elite impunity it’s the fact that the mainstream press has moved Ross Douthat toward increasingly visual formats
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.