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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Is Bari Weiss capable of feeling shame? Because she should definitely be feeling shame right now.
So much for Free Press.
So much for Free Press.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Is Bari Weiss capable of feeling shame? Because she should definitely be feeling shame right now.
So much for Free Press.
So much for Free Press.
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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"As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks."
Five debt hotspots in the AI data centre boom
As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks.
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks."
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The uninsured rate of 6% in West Virginia will “creep back up to 18-20% over the next couple of years” if the subsidies lapse.”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
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A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
‘A full-blown crisis’: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar
www.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The uninsured rate of 6% in West Virginia will “creep back up to 18-20% over the next couple of years” if the subsidies lapse.”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
www.ft.com/content/beec...
A man “who paid $18 a month for the cheapest insurance plan this year will have to fork out $1,041 a month for it next year”
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Just staggering levels of greed, corruption, and gluttony, daily.
Five-byline alert: 🚨
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just staggering levels of greed, corruption, and gluttony, daily.
America has failed this woman in so many unimaginable ways. Heartbreaking read.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
America has failed this woman in so many unimaginable ways. Heartbreaking read.
Clark Street bus is one of the worst. So many close together stops. The busses always start to bunch up so you can be waiting a half hour and three busses in a row finally arrive.
I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Clark Street bus is one of the worst. So many close together stops. The busses always start to bunch up so you can be waiting a half hour and three busses in a row finally arrive.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
That's a lot of work that would go into making old tweed coats. Dang. Nice rhythm they got going, but such druggery.
If you care about how things were made, not just how they look, then this connects you to an old craft tradition. Harris Tweed originated in the early 19th century as a home industry when crofters wove cloth by hand for their own use and for local exchange.
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
That's a lot of work that would go into making old tweed coats. Dang. Nice rhythm they got going, but such druggery.
I can't imagine what kind of twisted people keep going to work at such a place, treating other humans with such cruelty.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I can't imagine what kind of twisted people keep going to work at such a place, treating other humans with such cruelty.
This messaging should be everywhere. There should be a public outcry loud enough to break through the bubble the president has wrapped himself in.
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This messaging should be everywhere. There should be a public outcry loud enough to break through the bubble the president has wrapped himself in.
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When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean
Bribery Ballroom being built while the government is shut down and masked goon squads are in the streets... quite the legacy he's building.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Bribery Ballroom being built while the government is shut down and masked goon squads are in the streets... quite the legacy he's building.
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.
Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.
www.publicnotice.co
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster
Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster
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A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
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Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
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So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you
October 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you
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No words
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No words
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.
Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)
President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.