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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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We already have a nearly trillion-dollar military budget and nobody can say definitively where all the money goes. But the GOP will throw another $156 billion on the pile for dubious items like the Golden Dome. Great piece from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

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NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was just arrested at immigration court for asking to see warrants on behalf of those being detained:

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Senior former Marine leaders speak out against the deployment of #Marines to #LosAngeles www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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How Barron Trump May Have Earned $40 Million From His Dad’s Crypto Venture

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A shocking look at the type of feudal society the Right Wing is now trying to instill in this country. In Louisiana- eviction cases are heard by Justices of the Peace - who can pad their own pockets with the fines they impose on the desperately poor boltsmag.org/louisiana-ju...

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A landmark new study finds that after a major SCOTUS decision, child gun deaths soared—but only in states that loosened gun laws. In states that kept them tight, the outcome looked much different. Jeff Nesbit explains.

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Mike Lee has proven beyond all doubt that he is the antithesis of everything a Senator (or even just an American) should be!!

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(Axios) - President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/06/16/i...

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I hope the good people of Utah fire him in 2028 - though he should resign now.

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#nokingsprotest Bribe Force One

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Wow! See the difference? Thank you for your service.

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I noticed this, too. If you marched shitty on purpose, or know someone who did, my signal contact is in my bio. I’d love to know more about this, and I’ll keep you anonymous.

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No Kings!

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We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

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Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.

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8 points www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-appr...

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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

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Here’s some more contact info for ICE in case you want to call them or do whatever.

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LA is on fire!!!!! No really, they’re cooking today!

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Rev250. Time for another declaration of independence.

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Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

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We were spared the embarrassment.

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According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, 10.9 million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2034. Let that sink in—call your Senators and tell them to vote NO.

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As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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Meet Rep Brandon Gill R-TX, the son-in-law of "pardoned" criminal Dinesh DeSouza. Corruption is a Repugnant pre-requisite. Where did he come up with $850,000? He's been in Congress FOUR MONTHS! [Linked article with details follows]

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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

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Magaville is fuming over this on X

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The US had asked China to resume rare-earth exports. Beijing has slow-walked rare earth export approvals - WSJ

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.