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Infuriating, appalling cruelty and ineptitude: enough food to feed everyone in Gaza for a month and a half is about to go to waste because of USAID cuts: www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

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The Lathe of Onion

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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...

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Israel kills 136 Palestinians in one day as Gaza death toll passes 53,000 aje.io/ox0t7b

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" ... at the end of the day, when you hold your hand on your chest and you say 'liberty and justice for all,' it should mean something to all of us.” Interview with the NH man who was detained for two months and mistreated for no good reason. Just an appalling story. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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RIP to one of the very few global leaders of this era who did it well

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This fucked me up but it’s beautiful and important #FreeMahmoud

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Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

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personally? I think it is absolutely insane to just start using “refugee” in whatever way the Trump administration decides it should be used

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Migrants in Libya have previously reported being sold as slaves. Trump is gonna ship deportees there www.npr.org/sections/par...

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Welcome to Trump’s black sites: hundreds of migrants forcibly sent to El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica - now Libya? Next Rwanda? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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Really wish 20-something me could have trusted teen me that Dave Matthews was Good. 30-something me knows the truth

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This replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family last year was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday. The original vehicle was shot 335 times by Israeli forces.

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A vehicle manufactured for Pope Francis’ visit to Bethlehem in 2014 is being transformed into a mobile health clinic to treat ill and wounded Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip — an initiative that he blessed in the months before he died.

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Brutal: WFP might reach 21% fewer people with emergency assistance in 2025 compared to the 80 million assisted in 2024: up to 16.7 million people risk losing their food assistance. reliefweb.int/report/world...

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Five months ago I reported that the head of Mexico's Immigration agency, Francisco Garduño Yáñez was leaving his position. He didn't leave. He was held on until today because of his relationship with U.S. immigration officials. But finally Garduño Yáñez is gone. My story for El Paso Times:

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President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, the phenomenon of men disappearing into prisons is all too familiar. “It’s a death realm,” said one former prisoner. “The realm of the devil.”

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This is an athlete Trump doesn't want you to know about. He's a pro soccer goalie with no criminal record. He legally immigrated to the US, fleeing persecution from Venezuela's dictator. But the White House disappeared him to El Salvador — because of a tattoo: www.youtube.com/watch?si=zNc...

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Trump is jailing immigrant families again--a legal nonprofit says 100+ families were held at Karnes, TX detention center since Mar. 2025, then were transferred to a bigger, more remote facility in Dilley it asserts isn't adequately retrofitted for children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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I did a brief follow up to the incredible and frightening story from Sarah Stillman at @newyorker.com, who wrote about a woman who starved to death in our local Tucson jail. Latest for @azluminaria.org azluminaria.org/2025/04/28/n...

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ICE DEPORTED THREE U.S. CITIZENS, ages 2, 4 and 7, with their moms early Friday per @efelton.bsky.social @maeganvaz.bsky.social. They were seized during a routine check-in and not allowed to call family or lawyers. The 4-year-old, with Stage 4 cancer, was removed without medication wapo.st/4jJ7BPC

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SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

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I know! It’s because I can’t turn this shit off!

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Nikola Jokic is the smartest basketball player I’ve ever seen, so I spent most of this season working on a story that tries to explain every reason why: www.theringer.com/2025/04/24/n...

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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

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"Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance...." Corp media values profit over independence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

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very bring your kid to work energy bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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New: @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I spoke to lawyers and a relative of Venezuelans at the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas at risk of imminent removal under the Alien Enemies Act—potentially to El Salvador. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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#BREAKING Senator Chris Van Hollen was turned away at a military checkpoint while trying to visit Kilmer Abrego Garcia.l at the CECOT prison in El Salvador I was in the convoy as it was flagged down at the side of the road. Traffic continued as normal otherwise. We were 3km from CECOT

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Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

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Both Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have gone out of their way in public statements from detention to advocate for the rights and freedom of others. A striking contrast to the petty, cruel, solipsistic mindset of everyone in MAGA world. Which kind of person would you want as a neighbor?

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A ruling that came down at the same time DHS says it’s reviewing the social media of millions of immigrants

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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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