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Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

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Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board early Monday, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas.

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NATO allies cannot rely on the United States to defend them and need to step up themselves, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

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Russian forces launched an overnight drone strike on the city of Pryluky in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, killing five people — including a one-year-old child — and injuring six others, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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BREAKING: The bodies of two hostages with dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship have been recovered from Gaza by Israeli forces, 20 months after they were taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Procter & Gamble to slash 15% of office jobs in cost-cutting drive https://www.ft.com/content/a1bf888d-f5f4-4790-87a6-4afdbd906cb5

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President Trump formally asked Congress to rescind $9.4 billion in already approved funding for foreign aid and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS.

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Democratic politicians, activists and rank-and-file partisans of the moribund party are rallying around an unlikely message: The government is broken

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Djamel Bendjaballah a été tué par un militant d’extrême droite. Pendant deux mois, sa famille a crié dans le vide. Pas un mot des élus. Pas un geste de la République. 🧵 lesjours.fr/obsessio...

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This weekend, our show is highlighting all the ways - both big and small - that Americans are standing up for democracy. Whether you’re trolling far-Right figures online, bringing a friend to vote in a local election, or running for office yourself, you’re making a difference. #Velshi

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Intercepted Russian radio chatter obtained by CNN appears to correspond with drone footage showing the suspected execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war last year. The killing of surrendering Ukrainian troops is alleged by Kyiv and international experts to be part of an orchestrated Russian policy.

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🗣 I found my wife curled around our son — her last act was to shield him Serhii Yefimenko lost his wife in Russia’s biggest drone onslaught since the war began; his four-year-old survived but suffered life-changing injuries

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Utah religious leaders from multiple faiths used the vigil to speak out against “racist, dehumanizing policies” and in favor of ensuring Utah is “a safe place” for all.

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The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks.

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You know air travel is great when your flight is over a week out and the airline suggests you change plans because they are alreay anticipating delays.

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🚨 ICE is conducting raids in DC today and they've been spotted in various spots, incl Fort Totten, Dupont Circle, and K Street. DC folks in need of legal support can contact Amica Center for Immigrant Rights at (202) 331-3320. More via @migrantinsider.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/ice-raids-...

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Exactly ⬇️

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When this statement from university prez came out ten days ago, it has ~ 180 signatures. Today it is nearing 600. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... A hard choice for many of these institutions. Especially earliest signers, who had no idea how much company they'd have. But people keep standing up.

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WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

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“Desperation has reached unspeakable levels. Mothers are boiling grass to feed their families. Children are suffering unbearable hunger, trauma, violence, and abandonment.” ~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland Irish Examiner

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Ahem Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

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Germany: Two Russian spies arrested by intelligence services had US Defense Secretary Hegseth's private phone number on their cell phones, — Der Speigel 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Ukraine is ranked the 75th most corrupt country, so it's nowhere near one of the most corrupt countries. But as someone who wrote a book on it I can tell you two things: Kremlin propaganda is focused on overstating corruption in Ukraine, and much corruption in Ukraine is orchestrated by the Kremlin.

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Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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Whoever at the CA bar was responsible for this should be fired immediately.

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Stay loud stay visible stay brave

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Verified Russian asset Tim Pool, who was exposed for spreading propaganda and misinformation and who was being paid $400,000 a month by Russia state TV, is now in a White House press briefing as a reporter. Unfuckingbelievable.

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How Trump moved swiftly to punish perceived foes in his first 100 days rappler.com/world/us-can... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy

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From @reuters.com: Three more federal prosecutors who worked on the now-torpedoed corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams have quit "after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

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Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

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Pope Francis dies at 88. The Vatican reports he passed away at 7:35 a.m. on Easter Monday

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“.. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as ‘bonkers crazypants.’ .. you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.” @politico.com #BonkersCrazypants 🤡 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’. Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts". www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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NOW: Judge Boasberg has called an emergency hearing regarding the imminent movement of detainees to CECOT in El Salvador. I'm on the public line and I'll post what I can about the hearing here. 1/

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Yesterday I was fired by Columbia University after eight months as executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. This was the first time in a 25-year career that I've ever been subjected to discipline in a job — much less terminated from one.