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OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia's Journalism School, discusses how student journalists responded to pro-Palestine campus protests.

His new collection of essays "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here" is out now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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That Supreme Court is not here to uphold the law.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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(Politico) - A federal magistrate judge scolded Justice Department prosecutors on Wednesday for an “indict first, investigate second” posture in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, raising new questions about a “highly unusual” case ..

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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In labor news, several major U.S. companies have announced layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers. Amazon said it would eliminate about 14,000 corporate jobs, with Reuters reporting that number could more than double, as artificial intelligence tools increasingly replace white-collar workers
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Your Lincoln Project pal!
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“You don’t know the way out.”

They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them.
They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them
Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can't be sent home
www.motherjones.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:

The right defends economic power.

The left resists economic power.
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...
www.thedissident.news
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New in PN: The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter intimidation

"If Hispanic voters are no longer in the GOP fold after watching Trump’s ceaseless, country-wide violence against immigrants, the administration’s solution is to make sure they can’t cast a ballot."
The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter suppression
Trump's Big Lie has become government policy.
www.publicnotice.co
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.

He is destroying decades of political messaging.
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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this is my home club. That young man is one of the night managers. Nate is a good dude. And I'm told that's his mother you see/hear in the video. I cannot imagine watching my kids get snatched by these cowards. Im already struggling knowing that Nate got taken. This is too much
NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.

He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.

Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Trump's layoffs within the Department of Education’s special education were described as part of cuts to “Democrat programs that we were opposed to.” This was news to many conservative parents of disabled children, as well as disability policy experts.

#Pinks
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/23/t...
Trump’s attempt to gut special education office has some conservative parents on edge
Trump’s Education Department layoffs slash special education oversight, alarming parents, advocates, and sparking bipartisan concern.
theblackwallsttimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Flaccid bully threatens SF and then seeks thanks for flaccid bullying threat cancellation. Also: Release the Epstein files, you old goat.
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Alphabet
Altria
Amazon
Apple
Blackstone
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carrier
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Google
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Microsoft
New York Jets
OpenAI
Palantir
Reynolds American
Ripple
Roblox
T-Mobile
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM