Nathalie Baptiste 🇭🇹

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Senior national reporter at HuffPost. nathalie.baptiste@huffpost.com nhbaptiste@proton.me Signal: nhbaptiste.01

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?

Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.

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The True Texas Project and Young Republicans are hosting multiple events in Texas next month with the head of a self-styled white nationalist "think tank," the White Papers Policy Institute. WPPI promotes mass deportations and "remigration." It has strong ties to major white nationalist groups.

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🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

A graphic poster reads "We have a deal! The ProPublica Guild has reached a deal with ProPublica's management on our first contract and has voted to ratify it. Swipe for the highlights [pointing emoji].

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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At least 363,000 Haitians and 7,000 Syrians who have legally lived and worked in the U.S. for years after escaping war, famine and natural disaster, are expected to officially lose their temporary protected status on Monday. My latest for @huffpost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/i-want...

‘I Want To Be With My Family’: Law-Abiding Refugees Scramble After SCOTUS Rules They Can Be Deported Or Arrested

For hundreds of thousands of immigrants in America, the reality of being arrested or deported came into even sharper focus Monday.

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It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

“I’ve been here when people have been released, and then, two days later, they’re back in line, visiting their friend.” I wrote about Delaney Hall, and the mutual aid effort dedicated to families ripped apart by immigration enforcement: www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

Their Chances Of Bringing Down Delaney Hall Are Slim. They're Fighting Like Hell Anyway.

Detainees at the East Coast’s largest ICE jail took a huge risk when they launched a strike. But allies on the outside were ready to join their fight.

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the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

NEW: Democrats are calling bullshit on Susan Collins, who blamed them for the ICE agent who fatally shot a man in Maine on Monday not wearing a body camera. "Completely absurd," said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Collins' counterpart on the Senate approps panel. www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-...

'Completely Absurd': Top Dem Calls Out Susan Collins Over ICE Body Cams In Maine Killing

The GOP senator blamed Democrats for delaying body cameras to ICE agents. Except the agency has been sitting on billions of dollars to do this.

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"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak

“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.

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Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

A member of a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis shot and killed a person there on Wednesday, the second fatal shooting by a task force member in four days, and the fourth death involving the unit since it started in September. https://cnn.it/4eRZy3F

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