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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

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Judge Sessions is right. Neither Rumeysa Ozturk or anyone else in America should be in jail for authoring an op-ed critical of Israel, or on any subject. Trump and colleagues should read the Constitution and, especially, the First Amendment. Ozturk must be released immediately.

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A federal judge ordered the government to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper criticizing the war in Gaza.

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‘JD Vance Is Wrong’: The Pope Appears Uneasy With Trump Immigration Policies Before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became pope, a social media account under his name shared criticisms of the Trump administration’s positions on immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

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We are living in the dumbest timeline

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BREAKING: Denmark says it will summon the US ambassador to respond to reports that US intelligence was ordered to step up espionage in Greenland. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told Ritzau: “It worries me a lot, because we don’t spy between friends.”

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The discharge petition is meant to pressure Republicans as they assemble their party-line megabill.

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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Ben Meiselas at Milken Institute: They want to hear: Why are you bullying a marginalized community? Why are you punching down at human beings? We are the United States of America—why are you treating people like this?

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Guaranteeing universal paid family and medical leave in America would cost $325 billion. It would cost around $50 billion to build 1,000 schools. Ending homelessness costs around $200 billion. A Five & Dime wealth tax would raise $7 TRILLION. See why we say "tax the rich?"

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Sure, why not wreck another great American institution that has been a beacon of light around the world for decades and replace it MAGA’s North Korean style channel. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

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Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear isn’t just saying he “would consider” running for president. He’s actively laying the tracks for a potential 2028 campaign.

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Do your job, Sean.

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Think Elon Musk is out of Washington? Think again. DOGE is quietly building a massive data collection system designed to centralize unprecedented access to your personal information Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses, and more.

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"Biology isn't bigotry" - Nancy Mace "Bigotry isn't biology" - Shelley B. Woke

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Had to call out Nancy Mace and her hypocrisy over trans people. I won’t stop fighting for our community.

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Does Nancy Mace have separate male and female toilets in her house? Because most people don’t.

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell on the decision for the Federal Reserve to not lower interest rates: "We are in the right place to wait and see how things evolve. We don't feel like we need to be in a hurry...There's so much uncertainty."

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

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Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

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It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

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some people go on vacations to sightsee and go on beautiful hikes but nancy mace flies around the country looking at bathrooms

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Buttigieg: Like I love A1 steak sauce, but A1 steak sauce is not one of the most important things confronting humanity right now. Artificial intelligence is. And somebody who doesn't understand that probably should not be leading an important federal agency.

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Watch: @citizencohn.bsky.social talks Republican Medicaid proposals with @samsteindc.bsky.social: "It's another way of sort of cutting healthcare for low income people, in a way that maybe you can sort of sell as not a cut, or as a kinder cut."

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Chicago is on to something.

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Holy shit!! The felon is now demanding that other countries and foreign cities end their DEI programs if they want to do business with the US. www.rawstory.com/trump-dei-26...

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Your daily reminder that it is our judicial system that decides if someone is a criminal, not the criminal President or his minions in the executive branch.

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NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

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Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis informed the White House that he won’t be supporting Ed Martin, Trump’s pick for federal prosecutor in Washington, because of Martin’s past defense of the January 6 Capitol riots.

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100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

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U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein also barred any further removals without due process of alleged Tren de Aragua members held in his district.

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Kristi Noem‘s much-hyped “REAL ID” D-Day is here, but those without proper identification are not feeling “even a hint of extra pain.”

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Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic. “The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”

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What could possibly go wrong? Trump administration has shut down #CDC's #infection control committee. Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter. #Medical #health www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...