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Florida is building a new migrant detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” converting an airfield deep in the Everglades into one of the Trump administration’s most ominous additions to its immigration crackdown. FDT!

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Samuele Jenkins and his wife Jessica Ivey sit in jail grieving their 7-year-old son, Legend, who was hit by a car and killed on May 27. They're charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse for allegedly letting Legend and his 10-year-old brother walk two blocks alone. nbcnews.to/4kVmMq4

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⚡️Ukraine returns bodies of 3 Russian soldiers repatriated as remains of Ukrainians, Interior Ministry says. Ukraine has said the practice of passing off the bodies of Russian soldiers as Ukrainian is part of an attempt to obscure the scale of its military losses from the Russian public.

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“No one risks their life like this unless they have no other choice,” he said. “We go because we’re starving. We go because there is nothing else.” www.972mag.com/hunger-games...

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Why is the fucking @washingtonpost.com giving opinion space to the #puppykiller Noem in its newspaper? @harvard.edu must fight the trump administration with all it’s got and not to submit to their fascist intimidation tactics #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 wapo.st/3HTSOnJ

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After weeks of having visit requests denied, Avellaneda Delgado's children saw him in detention and were shocked to find him in a wheelchair, unable to speak. The next day, he died. He spent four decades raising a family & working on farms in the U.S. He was a human being. He was our neighbor.

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Chabria: Rep. Judy Chu wants to go inside immigration detention facilities. ICE wants to stop her

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As Trump warps America, the DNC has been busy melting down over David Hogg

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Fox is reporting Qatar has shut down their air space and warned Americans they are targets now with a shelter-in-place after Trump’s attack on Iran The largest 🇺🇸 military base in the Middle East is in Qatar

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“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

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At least 20 people have been killed and 52 more are injured after a “terrorist attack” on a Greek Orthodox church in the Syrian capital, according to the country’s health ministry.

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Britain warned Iran today that retaliatory fire on US bases in the Middle East and the blockading of a key trade route would be a "catastrophic mistake."

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UPDATE: Iran has just voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. (Higher prices on everything loading) nypost.com/2025/06/22/w...

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So this is “bringing jobs back”? Farmers are going broke, turning into welfare cases, cause you deported their hard working people. Americans won’t pick crops. And at this rate, we’ll be importing our food. Your policy’s not pro-America. It’s stupid. www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

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The group is suing on behalf of three white male, heterosexual law professors who submitted articles in the past and were rejected, the suit said.

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As we continue to endure our shared hellscape timeline, altNIOSH reminds you that the heat many of us are experiencing is terrible for workers (whether at work or not; unlike some we see workers as actual, valuable human beings)! Here are some good tips to stay safe outside- at work or at home.

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Patient celebrates the day, nearly two years ago, when she was able to stop taking insulin to manage her type 1 diabetes, just a few months after getting a dose of experimental stem cells as part of a research study. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

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A wildfire in southwestern Utah destroyed 17 homes, and threatened hundreds more, as it grew to more than 1,500 acres on Friday night, the authorities said.

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President Trump and Republicans’ massive tax legislation would force the government to undo billions of dollars in electric vehicle investments made by the U.S. Postal Service. This would mean auctioning off nearly 7,200 brand-new postal EVs.

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Trump: "We're looking at doing something where in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people they hire. Because we can't put the farms out of business ... I never want to hurt our farmers. They keep up happy and healthy and fat."

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In Virginia, a guy followed 2 Latino men and killed them at a gas station. He said he did it because he was "pissed" about illegal immigrants coming here and getting gov handouts. All the propaganda is dangerous and has deadly consequences. They weren't even illegal. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

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At least three people are dead in rural North Dakota after severe weather swept through the area, officials say.

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The Gunnison River Basin’s spring runoff seemed OK this year. But zoom further out and it’s the latest in a streak of low years that, collectively, are worse than the Dust Bowl. coloradosun.com/2025/06/19/c...

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OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care (1/x)

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Texas may soon enact restrictions on when and how students can protest www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Social Security has stopped publicly reporting its processing times for benefits, the 1-800 number’s current call wait time and numerous other performance metrics, which customers and advocates have used to track the agency’s struggling customer service programs.

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A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettucine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores. apnews.com/article/list...

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This is as big a lie as anything the Bush folks said in 2003. Demonstrably false.

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Seems like a lot of people probably don’t even realize this happened. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

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From Teen Vogue http://tnvge.co/ygivMx7 This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. Click the link for the step-by-step guide.

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www.newsweek.com/anti-ice-pro... Department of Homeland Security has said that 250 anti-ICE activists stormed an ICE field office in Portland after protesters squared off against federal agents.

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When you’re just grabbing brown people

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1/5 🚨 New item quietly added to the CDC ACIP agenda: a vote on thimerosal in flu shots. Let's talk about why this worries us 🧵 TL;DR: Thimerosal is safe. This debate was settled decades ago. Reopening it signals a shift toward disinfo-driven policy...and that’s dangerous.

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After the attack, to ensure the cougar was no longer in the area, the property owner followed “in the direction the lion was last seen,” officials said.

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The National Institutes of Health said it will fund longer-term health studies of the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, after a 2023 train derailment that sent more than a million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, water and air.

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Facing the possibility of losing control of the US House next year, Republicans are weighing aggressively redrawing congressional districts in two states in hopes of ousting several longtime Democratic lawmakers: cnn.it/4liEUdp

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Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

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When it’s gone, it’s gone. We’ll never get it back. We don’t need this money this way. We can’t undo the environmental damage that will follow. This is a bad idea.

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The Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance: cnn.it/4edTalh

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