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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Floridians were preparing new initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other issues on the ballot. But a new law makes these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment. boltsmag.org/florida...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas — appointed by Donald Trump himself — has just ruled that Trump's controversial attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations is unlawful.

If you are on apple news you can also read it here apple.news/AUh94aMx5T8i... They told at least one of the mothers to bring her children to the appointment, then denied access to lawyers or choices.

The US government doesn't subsidize university research. Rather, universities subsidize government research. I've seen recent threads deceiving the first half of this, but nothing recent describing the extent to which universities are doing the subsidizing.

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history."