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REPORTER: “Any message to the United States?” POPE LEO: “Many.”

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Many American voters are likely to excessively overcorrect from 2024-2025 to look for honest, authentic, effective, consistent communicators who don’t rely on slogans and platitudes in 2026-28. They aren’t plentiful.

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“Two of the sources independently say that ICE used the undocumented Brazilian woman’s daughters and grandchild as “bait,” in an operation that the Trump administration is now touting as another victory in its sprawling, often lawless crackdown.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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These people are following the rules.

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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BREAKING: Federal judge in Pennsylvania, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation is properly invoked against a designated "Foreign Terrorist Organization," but that insufficient process is currently being given in the implementation of the AEA proclamation.

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Montana Federation of Public Employees, my law firm has filed a new pro-voting lawsuit challenging two new Montana laws that reduce opportunities for Election Day registration and add more burdensome ID requirements. www.democracydocket.com/cases/montan...

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"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?

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Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state A state where there is no higher authority

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Librarians’ professional heroes include women who rode horses and mules over mountains to provide books to people for free, and who lost their jobs because they wouldn’t discriminate against African American kids at libraries. Why would you think they would be pushovers?

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Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.

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"Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter, as if the election gave you some mandate to violate the Constitution and the laws passed by this Congress. It did not give you that mandate." --Sen. Chris Murphy confronting DHS Secy Kristi Noem www.americaamerica.news/p/confrontin...

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The feds can detain you at an airport or border crossing and demand to search your electronic devices (that's being challenged), but they can't force you to talk to them, and you absolutely never should without a lawyer.

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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News.

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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel.

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Pretty much admitting it now

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very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

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“We don’t know when, if ever, they will be able to reunite with their family.” Thousands of kids are stuck in immigration facilities—with no end in sight.

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Read everything Masha Gessen has written.

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Where is Bill Ackman right now calling out Pete Kegseth's alleged plagiarism? Crickets?

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Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

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I’m so glad papers like the Berkshire Eagle still exist. this reporter covered every detail of these arrests, including quashing a rumor that the building’s maintainance guy called ICE on these men (he didn’t). support your local journalists!

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters. “Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”

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53 GOP senators were asked if Trump should uphold the Constitution. None answered. They don’t serve the people – they serve the guy trying to burn it all down and crush our freedoms.

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Corruption should be one of the main themes that Democrats are hammering relentlessly from now on. It is the single easiest message to get across. It’s completely accurate, with insane abuses. And everyone hates it.

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After Jailing of Newark Mayor, DHS Official Warns of “More Arrests Coming”—new @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters chant “Free our Mayor!” outside the DHS building in Newark, NJ where Mayor Ras Baraka is being held (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

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Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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Everyone keeps saying that they can't say what they hope happens to the ICE agents who are doing this but I can - they're clearly engaged in gross violations of the law and I want every Democratic candidate from here to infinity to pledge to help prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law

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this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

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Sean Hannity on new Pope Leo XIV criticizing warehousing immigrant children in cages: “It sounds like he’s been indoctrinated into the liberal way of thinking” www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

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A FedEx board member will now be running the USPS. That’s going to entirely predictable places.

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It took approximately six years to get my Afghan SIV client — who supported U.S. and allied operations and was threatened by the Taliban as a result — vetted, approved, and resettled.

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