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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lmfaooo www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department filing on the Reflecting Pool, two people familiar with his thinki...
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“I lost not only a lady working for me,” the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor says, her voice broken by sobs. “I lost a friend.” apnews.com/article/immi...
Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them
A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is rippling far beyond immigration courts.
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Abigail Spanberger announced she is restoring the voting rights of about 66,000 people with past felony convictions, reversing the course set by Glenn Youngkin. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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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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There once was a time when you didn’t have to defraud the military to support your second family.
a lot on the right are celebrating these job losses, thinking that they will be filled by (white) U.S. citizens, but they're going to be in for a huge surprise www.wpbf.com/article/flor...
19 Palm Beach County school employees lose jobs after Haiti TPS expiration
Nineteen Palm Beach County School District employees were separated from their jobs after Temporary Protected Status for Haiti expired on July 27.
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ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture
Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention, document reveals
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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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i understand the impulse to react to a terrible story by saying that you’re not surprised, but i hope i’ll always be surprised by terrible stories.
"Any government building you walk into, you can be sure that someone with T.P.S. has done work there." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status
A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.
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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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Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...
Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN Politics
The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last weekend.
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"but did you die" as national health policy is crazy work
Look who’s taking the side of explosive diarrhea
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.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Our latest on the newly released ICE enforcement data. Over 100,000 new arrests since April
“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 Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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 🤪”
This is a disaster created by the GOP. It's important to identify the culprits. It was directly created by them as POLICY. They clearly articulated that this was what they hoped to accomplish. gothamist.com/news/food-pa...
Food pantries see long summer lines as New Yorkers lose SNAP benefits in Trump overhaul
They say they have enough food for now but worry they’ll run out of supplies once more New Yorkers begin losing their SNAP benefits.
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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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imagining what our government could look like if every single person in this country was forced to watch 2 hours of a house committee hearing
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.
As of June, all but three of the 7,730 refugees admitted into the U.S. in fiscal 2026 were from South Africa, according to newly released State Department data.
Trump Is Deploying Every U.S. Refugee Officer to Just One Country
Inside Trump's program to bring Afrikaners to the U.S.
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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