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Ohio has been ruled by GOP for nearly two generations (35 years) Ignored Supreme Court demands they stop gerrymandering Eliminating commission that adjudicates campaign finance violations Permanently blocking FOIA requests for emails & texts between legislators 1/5

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Active duty Marines at my old Campo Station. They patrol the border 2x/day looking for undocumented persons. Violates Posse Comitatus. Takes yrs to learn tracking out there. Border Patrol has abandoned southern CA border for ICE raids. The CA border w/Mexico is open. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

ICYMI — “FRIDAY evening theSenate rejected a war powers resolution that would have blocked Trump from making further attacks on Iran, despite widespread disapproval of last week’s strikes… Rand Paul (R) voted for it… Fetterman (D) voted against…”

submitted 10 hours ago • 178 comments

Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

ne jamais oublier que ce totalitarisme a pu prendre racine grâce la complicité des médias, quand ils ont fabriqué une panique anti-woke

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Approximately 55 Canadians have been detained by ICE, minister says - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

🪶🙌🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

Protection rackets are shitty. Protection rackets where the mob boss will escalate demands even if paid are shittier still.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Call for papers – Fez Agenda for Border Studies II International Conference - Fez, Morocco | 18-21 May 2026 The Fez Border Studies Conference II: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Borders, Walls, and Security

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This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

True question: should we be assessing the increase of immigration detention in the light of the declining incarceration rate? Any reasonable private prison corporation must have adjusted its business plan accordingly. Can those two be linked at all?

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it seems the Trump admin is going to turn the National Science Foundation headquarters into a personal mansion for HUD secretary Scott Turner talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/natio...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 264 comments

More Americans are witnessing their first immigration raids www.byteseu.com/1125604/

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Iranian authorities intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region (Guardian)

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The Trump administration must convince the Iranian regime that the United States will not attack if Tehran gives up its nuclear program, argue Jennifer Kavanagh and Rose Kelanic.

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More than 150,000 people traveled out of state to get an abortion last year, nearly one-fifth of whom coming from Texas alone — and new numbers paint a picture of how far they went to receive care. It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. wapo.st/3TCXhxF

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class

submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments

DIA has been long considered to be the conservatives and the right wingers and the intelligence community

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

#60Minutes story on #VPHarris that caused #Trump to sue CBS for $20 billion? It's up for an #Emmy this week! #KamalasKarma #SheShed

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

[email protected]: “McAllen, Texas, can be the birthplace of a new Democratic Party that puts working people first, kicks out the corrupt politicians regardless of party, and saves our country for everyday people.”

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Germany will dramatically increase defense spending — not to appease US President Donald Trump but to counter the threat from Moscow, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today.

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🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

submitted 4 days ago • 196 comments

One wonders who.could.have.predicted.this #duhsadly

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CARTOON OF THE DAY… 🇺🇸

submitted 6 days ago • 214 comments

The former vice chief of the National Guard is calling for an end to President Trump's dangerous deployment of troops in Los Angeles to carry out his political agenda. Military troops shouldn't police their own communities.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

“Title 42 did not help control cases of COVID-19 in the U.S.” but “Title 42 had a pronounced negative impact on the mental and physical well-being of migrants and asylum seekers and strained the healthcare systems meant to support them” jha.scholasticahq.com/article/1341...

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Wow. 48 hours later, news really seems to have normalized the whole extra-legal, on-a-whim-and-vibe, strategically short-sighted Iran attacks. Already being discusses as "how will it play" and "what's the risk for the Republicas."

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

They are treating people worse than mere numbers, not even bothering to track them once they’re in the system. Unacceptable.

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

submitted 6 days ago • 603 comments

« the majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence » #🪦ruleoflaw

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L'explosion du #cancer du pancreas en France serait due au #cadmium dans nos céréales. Exception française due à la source de nos engrais. Et quand l'alarme est lancée en 2021, que fait le gouvernement ? Il refuse de prendre des mesures. => Mangez BIO. #agriculture www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Every single Constitution-loving American needs to do exactly this when confronted by racially profiling rogue government agents. "I will not answer your questions. I will not identify myself. I will leave now. BYE." If this gets you beat in America, it's not America anymore.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

"There’s a recurring pattern behind the fires and state violence. The objective is to clear the way for the handover of territories to real estate developers, extractive industries, and military forces." www.ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/...

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"Never before in human history has there been a digital environment where political speech can be filtered through an algorithm that incentivizes extra outrage and uses mounds of data to send that message directly to the people who will be the most outraged about it." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Un maire du Val-d’Oise et plusieurs de ses administrés seront jugés, lundi 23 juin, pour s’en être pris à des familles roms. L’occasion de rappeler la manière dont les pouvoirs publics ont contribué à fabriquer un « problème rom » en France. Par @carinefouteau.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

#TwistingnarrativesGOPstyle

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new usa student visa requirement: must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

number of executive orders signed by president trump , as of this week: 163 more signed in 147 days than biden’s entire term

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Painfully accurate. And clearly problematic

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Last night President Biden, who has Stage 4 cancer, flew on a commercial plane from DC to Texas for a Juneteenth celebrations. Meanwhile the current president, who has Stage 4 Bigotry, Posted on social media implying that Juneteenth shouldn’t be a holiday.

submitted 8 days ago • 70 comments

Word

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"Whether bombing Iran was a good idea or a bad idea—and it could turn out to be either, or both—it is war by any definition of the term, and something Trump vowed he would avoid," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

Remember that as usual there is no plan, and no real thought given about what comes next. #sinontoutvabien

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