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"Give me your tired, your poor,🗽 Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" On this day, June 17, in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City 1/

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28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

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Abolish ICE.

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Exactly. This.

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You just stand up for people who are more in danger than you. You just do it. It could be a self-interest thing, that you realize that someday you will be the one in danger. But it’s even more important to do it if that’s never true. You just do it because humans are worth standing up for.

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I don’t know how else to explain this…if you’re cheering for someone else’s rights to be taken away, you’re cheering for your own to disappear too. This isn’t cake. You don’t get more by refusing to share. Either everyone has rights, or no one really does. Thats it. It’s simple.

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ICE raids on schools and workplaces don’t make us safer — they rip apart families, terrorize children, and criminalize hard work. This is cruelty masquerading as policy. We need humane immigration reform, not fear.

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This is so spot on, and coming from the widow of a service member:

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President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

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now that Garcia is in the US, it is time to put the pressure on for Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay Venezuelan hairdresser with no criminal record. His case was dismissed in court last week but he was shipped out of this country to the El Salvadoran supermax prison in April. he needs to be freed.

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For the record, it is not legal for the U.S. President to deploy U.S. Marines or other active-duty military forces on U.S. soil for law enforcement purposes. #AuthoritarianTrump

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Employer-provided healthcare is a failed system. Most workers still must pay a premium out of their paycheck. To add spouse/children costs hundred if not a thousand or more $$ a month. If you lose your job, retire, get sick, you lose your insurance. We can do better.

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“It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day.”

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Marcelo Gomes was supposed to play in the band at his high school's graduation ceremony yesterday. He was in ICE custody instead.

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Today I honor my grandfather, KIA in France in 1944.

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“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

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NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives. Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

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We could have had nice things. Healthcare for all. Affordable housing. Efficient, modern public transportation. And the basics like due process, free speech, three branches of government. But no. Instead, we have whatever this is.

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"Wouldn't it be great if we could just form a new country from all the world's refugees?" I think, and then I remember that's what the United States was supposed to be.

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Thank you to @slarrry.bsky.social for this tip. Using the Waze app to report Icy situations. She’s a great resister very active on TikTok always has great content. Give her a follow on both platforms.

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This reconciliation bill isn’t just bad policy—it’s an attack on our rights to protect our sacred and special lands and hold corporations accountable. We must stand up for public lands, tribal sovereignty, and our Constitutional right to be heard.

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“I feel like America is not really a free country, but one with more potential for threats and chaos." After immigration crackdown, international students in Texas self-censor to protect their education www.texastribune.org/2025/05/09/t... via @texastribune.org

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If there’s a fight on Sesame Street and you’re not backing Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, the Count, and my boy Grover, you’re a piece of shit.

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are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread: justjournalism.org/page/better-...

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