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HAPPENING NOW: Protesters flood the streets of New York City for a protest against the kidnappings being carried out by Donald Trump and ICE (Video: NJEG Media)

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Whenever a major Los Angeles story hits national news, I am always struck by how little anyone from elsewhere in the country understands just how big the city actually is.

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BREAKING: We're suing Jefferson County, Illinois for putting up a nearly seven-foot-tall monument of the 10 Commandments on the county's courthouse lawn.

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Protest is on Saturday. Some of the protesters are going to be in church on Sunday.

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We stand united.

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we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

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Glendale, which is a city in LA County, just canceled its contract with ICE. Because protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Every accusation is a confession.

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The people in the face masks are ICE

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Arkansas!! I know you have some passionate blue folks and the No Kings map shows just that! I count 12 No Kings events 6-14. Some of these towns include West Memphis, Mountain Home, Monticello, and Fort Smith. Link to check out the other 8 registered events below

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#NAFO #Fellas #NAFOArticle5 Bonk this vatnik POS.

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If you speak Spanish, or are good with closed captions, watch coverage of the L.A. protests on Univision or Telemundo. You’ll see that so many protesters are moms, mostly brave women who are protecting their families. Very touching.

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"HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in the streets of Los Angeles, California to peacefully protest against Donald Trump’s American Gestapo (ICE) (Video: Anthony Cabassa)" https://bsky.app/profile/marcofoster.bsky.social/post/3lr4v2g5hvc2k #ICEProtests #ICE #USPOL #LA #Resistance

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ICE crossed a line in LA

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We’re in the find out part of democracy now

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"U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy is 'booming,' he’s wrong..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Then they came for the trade unionists. 😪

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NEW: Nakedly eugenic comments from Donald Trump and RFK Jr have advocates worried that the administration will target people it doesn't want to reproduce. The US has a long history of coerced sterilizations but the White House can limit reproduction in other ways My first piece for @autonomynews.co

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4 Russian airbases have been struck by hundreds of FPV drones. Olenya Airbase Ryazan Airbase Ivanovo Airbase Irkutsk Airbase

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✈️💥 As of 18:00, the destruction of 7 strategic aircraft Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 and 1 military transport aircraft An-12 has been visually confirmed, - Dnipro Osint

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RFK Jr. LIES AGAIN: After promising not to make vaccines difficult to get or to discourage people from getting vaccinated, RFK Jr. confirms Covid vaccines will no longer be available for "healthy" pregnant women and children. No one from the CDC is in this video and no questions are answered. 1/

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Scott Pelley tells T R U T H‼️🔥🗽🇺🇸

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Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always

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Pigs.

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apnews.com/article/trum... Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them. Great minds who would flock to American universities are now being recruited to Institutions of Higher Learning elsewhere. Trump is destroying academia and research in America.

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Can you tell which one is Ukraine and which one is Gaza? This is what mass murder looks like.

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It's important to know the warning signs.

submitted 15 days ago • 237 comments

At first I thought this was a job posting for ICE.

submitted 15 days ago • 130 comments

Apparently one of those "Leopards Are My Face" situations.

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Now with better picture 😀 open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

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Another victim of Trump's cuts to key government services?

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University: "We expect faculty to attend professional conferences/engage in professional development and we will support you." Also university: "You're attending a conference too close to the end of the fiscal year and we don't know how to handle it, so figure out how to pay for it all yourself."

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It appears this article is suddenly relevant to coverage of certain aldermanic social media posts presswatchers.org/2022/08/the-...

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GOP Lawmaker Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) Refuses to Read Their Own 'Tanning Bed Tax Break' Out Loud for Democrat in Congressional Hearing. "We're prioritizing tanning beds over hospital beds!” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez declared.

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🔥🔥🔥

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When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen. Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

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Looks like I will be cancelling an upcoming conference trip. Doing requiring overseas flights is inevitably complicated. Unfortunately, I found out today that I will be basically swallowing several thousand dollars that I don't have. I hope to see my #SIPS colleagues another time perhaps.

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Y'all must find a way to wake up your non-MAGA friends and family. We don't have until 2026.

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I'm sure Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson will be reporting on this clear case of presidential cognitive decline, right? Right?

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Sen. Cory Booker is out here having another moral moment—and we need it. Real leaders don’t traffic in fear. They lift us up. They remind us that we have the power—power in unity, in collective action, in showing up for each other. That’s the kind of leadership we deserve. @booker.senate.gov

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Some good news! www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/e...

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