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9. UPDATE: "A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges."
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7. The pair was released after being detained for five hours. In a statement, the CBP said its officers "acted in accordance with established protocols."
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6. Bachir Atallah and Jessica Fakhri, a married couple, were detained by immigration authorities while returning by car from a family vacation in Canada earlier this month. "They held us in two separate cells, and neither of us had shoes or a jacket," Atallah said. "It was freezing."
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5. Julio Noriega was arrested by ICE officers on January 31 in Berwyn, Illinois, while he was out applying for work at area businesses. Noriega, who was born in Chicago, "was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van"
He was detained for 10 hours.
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4. Hermosillo was DETAINED FOR 10 DAYS before an immigration judge dismissed his case and ordered his release. ICE would not comment on his arrest.
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3. Court documents obtained by Danyelle Khmara of AZPM say that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona" and that he "admitted" he was not a citizen.
(Nogales is more than an hour from Tucson. Hermosillo says he has never been to Nogales.)
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2. 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a US citizen, was visiting Tucson, when he passed by the Border Patrol headquarters, and "an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country."
Hermosillo told immigration officials that he was a U.S. citizen, but they did not believe him.
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6. Why is Truth Social, a social media company, offering investment products?
It is failing as a social media company.
In 2024, the company lost over $400 million on revenues of just $3.6 million.
It refuses to release any information about the number of people who use the service.
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5. Truth Social is marketing these accounts as a way to profit from companies that benefit from Trump's policies.
"At a time when the foundations of American prosperity are shifting, it's critical that our investment strategies reflect the values that define us"
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4. Trump, as President, will be able to significantly influence the performance of these assets through tariffs and other policies.
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3. Trump is the majority shareholder in Truth Social and will financially benefit from these accounts. Both because Truth Social will invest their own cash in these accounts AND collect fees from others who invest in them
Interest in the accounts is directly tied to their performance
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2. Trump's tariff announcements have had massive and predictable impacts on stock prices.
His reciprocal tariffs tanked the market. When he paused some of them, the market rebounded. Carving out an exemption for consumer electronics imported from China boosted Apple stock
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11. Today's edition was a special collaboration between @popular.info and
@bryanranderson.bsky.social of Anderson Alerts
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9. Whether the voters on the list ultimately have their ballots counted is still to be determined. The Democratic candidate, Allison Riggs, is challenging the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision in federal court.
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8. In 2011, the NC General Assembly unanimously passed the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, which allows "individuals born overseas to parents or guardians who were North Carolina residents to vote in the state." They "are not required to have lived in North Carolina or the US"
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7. IMPORTANT NOTE: Even in instances where voters have never lived in North Carolina - typically children born to American citizens living abroad - it does not mean their vote should not be counted.
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6. Overall, Popular Information identified 29 people — through voting records, publicly available information, and interviews — whose votes were discarded who have lived or currently live in North Carolina.
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5. Other voters whose ballots were tossed for allegedly never residing in North Carolina include Cameron Avila (a postal worker based in Jacksonville), Abdulai Conteh (an army mechanic at Fort Bragg), and Vidyaranya Gargeya (a retired professor who taught at UNC-Greensboro for 30 years).
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4. Neil McWilliam taught at Duke for 20 years. Since retiring in 2023, McWilliam has spent most of his time in France. His vote in the 2024 election was tossed based on the false allegation that he was never a resident of North Carolina.
"The challenge to my vote is spurious," McWilliam said.
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3. In all, at least 11 people whose ballots were discarded based on the claim that they have never lived in North Carolina have VOTED IN PERSON IN NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS strongly suggesting that they are, in fact, North Carolina residents.
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2. Another voter whose ballot was discarded, Derrick Raphael, attended law school at Duke University, from 2009-12 and worked in NC for years.
Raphael voted in person in NC from 2006 to 2014.
Since that time he has lived in Canada with his spouse but maintained his residence in NC
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2. Josiah Young was born & raised in North Carolina
The 20-year-old attended college in NC and runs a photography business in the state.
His ballot was invalidated based on the false claim he has never lived in NC
"My residence is in Jackson County. It's really not that hard to figure that out"
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8. As a result, Alabama is using $1.5 million in federal funds to replace malfunctioning septic systems.
The Trump administration, however, is canceling the agreement because making sure kids aren't playing around raw sewage is racist, apparently
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7. The 2023 agreement between Alabama and the DOJ required Alabama to stop the criminal enforcement of its sanitation laws on impoverished Lowndes County residents, assess the health risks, and create a roadmap for improving public health infrastructure.
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6. The DOJ investigation found, by failing to address the problems, Alabama had violated a provision of the Civil Rights Act "prohibits recipients of federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin in their federally funded programs and activities."
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5. A study of county residents "found that 34% tested positive for genetic traces" of hookworm, "an intestinal parasite" generally associated with areas of extreme poverty.
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4. The area has no access to municipal sewer systems, and the septic systems that most residents rely on "often fail to drain properly into the region’s heavy clay soil." As a result, "[r]aw sewage bubbles up into yards and homes."
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3. About 72% of the county's residents are Black, but "despite ADPH’s awareness of the issues and the disproportionate burden and impact placed on Black residents in Lowndes County, it failed to take meaningful actions to remedy these conditions."
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2. In 2021, the DOJ launched an investigation into the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). The 18-month investigation found that the ADPH "engaged in a consistent pattern of inaction and/or neglect concerning the health risks associated with raw sewage" in Lowndes County.