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Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21h agoThe new planned ICE facility for kids at England Airpark in Alexandria Louisiana "will be built on a defunct Air Force base that has been found to have some of the highest levels of forever chemical contamination in the country." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
AT&T: My WIFI has been down for two days. Every time I call or go on your website, I get an AI clown that can’t solve my problem. Stop cutting corners and go back to actually helping your customers, you cheap gouging bastards. #AT&T
Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking: An undercover ICE agent’s dropped recording device revealed a purported operation that religious groups say violates a court order barring most immigration enforcement in/near churches. Now the groups want ICE held in contempt. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
So much admiration for our colleagues at Stars and Stripes, Erik Slavin and Lara Korte, for standing up for journalistic independence and the public's right to know. (Who were canned today by the Hegseth/Trump team, precisely for their independence and honesty.)
donate your miles! help us add to the list of 100+ families we’ve gotten to reunite with no money changing hands!
Katie@katiestp.bsky.social · 17h agoGuys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles
US judge strikes down policy suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 nations reut.rs/45H1bfa
US judge strikes down policy suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 nations
A U.S. judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statutory authority.
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You gotta appreciate @ag.state.mn.us and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for being the only state-level lawyers to criminally prosecute federal immigration agents who are terrorizing our streets
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 14h agoICE agent, Christian Castro, shot a MN resident, fled the state, & was caught in TX. @ag.state.mn.us sued Gov. Abbott for ignoring his extradition demand. He joins me on the case & updates us on the investigations into the murders of Alex Pretti & Renée Nicole Good. youtu.be/Asvit5TMFhU?...
Jon Ossoff's Excoriating Speech - Trump’s Iran War ‘Uniquely Despicable’ Ossoff brought up Natalie Harp, Trump’s printer and "executive assistant", who has drawn scrutiny for her inexplicable closeness to Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Jon Ossoff calls Trump’s handling of Iran war ‘uniquely despicable’ in excoriating speech
Georgia Democratic senator has stoked speculation for 2028 presidency bid by delivering stinging attacks on Trump
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In the american context communism is mostly unrelated to economics. Any progressive redistributive policy is communism, as is any egalitarianism of race, gender, or sexual orientation. Integration is communism, women in the workplace is communism, marriage equality is communism. It's deeply stupid.
“They made you pay more for everything, and took us to war on lies, and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world’s most famous pedophile. While the Crook Trump and his Crook Family raked in billions and your tax dollars were put to work backing Trump’s businesses.”
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 15h agoRemarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year while raking in record profits. Earlier this year, Meta began laying off 8,000 workers as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $190 billion. The irony of a Big Tech King buying a castle is not lost on me.
Meta’s Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland
Strancally Castle was built around 1830 on land overlooking the River Blackwater and underwent extensive renovation in 2
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CORRECTION: After looking at the flight data a little closer, there were SIX third-country removals, with an additional stop in Equatorial Guinea -- where migrants already trapped there say officials are beating them and threatening them at gunpoint.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayYesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
Stripping a Black war hero's name from a ship to potentially replace it with the name of a 5x draft dodger is disgusting and disrespectful af.
For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.
Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 12h agoThe State Department’s sweeping suspension of immigrant visas to nationals from 75 countries violated federal immigration law and exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority, a district court ruled Friday.
Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...
U.S. deportees assaulted, threatened at gunpoint in Equatorial Guinea, three say
Immigrants deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea say they have been threatened at gunpoint and fear for their lives while detained at a former hotel.
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Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere.
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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John Roberts has to go They all have to go We can't have a Supreme Court that just lets their favorite president violate the law with impunity
As a lawyer, I spend my days fighting for democracy in court. But as the founder of Democracy Docket it's my job to explain what is happening in the elections to everyone. That is why I am excited to do this AMA at 10 a.m. ET on Aug. 25. www.reddit.com/r/DemocracyD...
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www.propublica.org/article/miss... Missouri won’t be fooled! No on 3 MO
Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...
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Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief is being recalled across the United States because the manufacturer cannot assure the product is sterile, creating a potential contamination risk. The recall covers 39,060 bottles. #TheCityBrief
