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"The Marine veteran says his father, Narciso Barranco, was working outside of a Santa Ana IHOP on Saturday when several masked men approached him. Frightened, he began to run away, his son said. Moments later, he was on the ground, held down by the men, who struck him."

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Use of the word "pray" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.

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1,900+ “No Kings” protests are set for tomorrow across all 50 states. GOP governors are deploying troops to intimidate, Trump's new Middle East war, and rain expected on Trump's parade. Catch up with the latest news in today's bulletin:

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Demonstrators in LA think it sure would be a shame if ICE agents couldn’t get any rest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

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LA's domestic violence service providers talk to @juliannemcshane.bsky.social about ICE's chilling effect on their organizations and the undocumented survivors they serve. “She literally had to choose: physical harm or potential [ICE] custody.”

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House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

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In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.

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BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

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Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead. This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...

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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 117. This is a big one packed with lots of news from all over the place. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Dog owners can be as close to their pets as to their children, study shows

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BREAKING: The DOW is on track for its worst April since the Great Depression, critical cancer research could be impacted as a Harvard scientist has been detained by ICE, and Trump's approval rating plummets. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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This is who we are now?!

submitted 63 days ago • 327 comments

For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS | Margaret Sullivan

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"I will not be silenced. I will not be bullied. I will not bend. I will not break. And I will not bow to anyone. No one is above the law, including the president of these United States." NY AG Letitia James Read more here:

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, the Easter bunny who came to break all the eggs

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Dear fellow radical leftist lunatics, I'm just 188 subscribers away from hitting 133,000 tonight. Help me cross the line and piss off Mike Huckabee, who is one spot ahead of me in the rankings: www.thegodpodcast.com/subscribe

submitted 68 days ago • 78 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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AOC is calling out colleagues for stock trades before tariffs were paused: “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hrs should probably disclose that now … It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.” AOC is absolutely right. More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/saturdays-...

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Help us get to 10,000 letters against the voter suppressing SAVE Act! Less than 1,000 to go! Send your letters here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments

Flippers Up!!! Who knew the thought of penguins creating industry and trade was so high on the Trump Administrations worry list.

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MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

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