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CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

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“.. the overlapping timeline of that decision with his meetings with Senate staff and the White House Counsel’s Office has not previously been reported.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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👇👇

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What a despicable comment from his press secretary. Jose Padilla is a convicted terrorist.

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JD Vance flew into a state where Alex Padilla got more votes than Trump (and Gavin Newsom) and slandered him, using the name of a terrorist.

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Lee’s greed was a tactical blunder. Call the Senate tomorrow. They’re weak on this. 📞 (202) 224-3121 www.usa.gov/elected-offi... “Lee drew strong condemnation from many of his fellow conservatives in particular, who have slammed the proposed sell-off as a betrayal of the American people.”

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Today’s decision out of Rhode Island isn’t getting a lot of attention, but it’s very important. Trump tried to withhold fed’l funds from states that won’t help with his immigration policy & mass deportations. A Judge just told him he can’t do that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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This is more notice than they are prepared to give people before deporting them

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Common sense gun laws save lives, and there new data to support what we’ve always known.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

More political violence directed at Democrats. Not a coincidence.

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So grateful he’s released

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

I would pay $100 to see DJT get hit in the face with a banana cream pie, ecen in a convincing VR setting. Bring back Electric Company for Middle Aged Gen X! A much needed virtual comfort blanket for my generation!

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We went from UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!! to “we’ll see what happens in two weeks.”

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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 2 days ago • 1598 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 3 days ago • 441 comments

They've got to stop taking no for an answer.

submitted 3 days ago • 259 comments

I don’t know, I just don’t think we should be making decisions with geopolitical implications that could result in millions of deaths and catastrophic damage based on a passage in Genesis.

submitted 3 days ago • 836 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

I know you can’t stand either one of these clowns, but please sit back and enjoy Tucker Carlson steamroll Ted Cruz over his Iran ignorance. It’s like watching two snakes fight and still rooting for the venom. Clearly, Tuckums planned this, and Cancun Cruz walked right into his trap.

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Winston Churchill said it was worth five battleships or 50 destroyers. Franklin D Roosevelt ordered it to be rushed into theatres. Joseph Goebbels hated it. Released in 1942, Mrs Miniver, based on Jan Struther’s novel, was the story of an English family’s stiff-upper-lip heroism, early in WW2.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Make this go viral.

submitted 3 days ago • 168 comments

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

submitted 4 days ago • 185 comments

lol. lmao, even

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This is going to come as news to the President. 🤡 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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ROSENBERG: “.. If President Trump has managed to do anything on the trade file thus far (besides taking in gobs of tariff revenue, which is akin to a tax on the private sector), it has been to tighten the economic ties in the rest of the world.” 🇨🇦

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NEWS: Federal judge finds Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for telling law enforcement they could enforce Florida's criminal immigration law despite the court's TRO barring its enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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my favorite ben domenech fact is that after being fired for plagiarizing pj o'rourke he was then fired again a few years later for taking payola from the malaysian government.

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

Also one of Martha Alito’s flags. Gross.

submitted 4 days ago • 241 comments

Prayers for an “allergic reaction.” But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe. With no apology or remorse. Fake Christian, small man.

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Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.

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RIP US Department of Justice Tax Division. Zeroed out in the new DOJ budget memo. This does “a grave disservice to tax administration by destroying consistent and competent application of our tax laws” as 60+ leading tax lawyers warned in April www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

That's what's up

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History teaches us to be very wary of promises of ideal outcomes like regime change from military ventures. Most times when the bomb drops the rubble settles in unpredictable ways.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

The mob boss president

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how can we treat people who helped us - at great personal risk- like this?

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This has not aged great

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He has to pay $2.3M.

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as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

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Sounds like some fireworks here today. Plaintiffs' brief: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... DOJ response: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Over 75% of folks in ICE custody this year had no criminal record beyond immigration or traffic issues. Less than 10% had serious convictions. Fear sells, but facts matter. #ImmigrationTruth

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Regret can’t change the past. Anxiety can’t change the future. But gratitude can change the present moment

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