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What unfolded over the next fifteen or twenty minutes changed everything. My long-awaited trip to Turks and Caicos became something else entirely—not the memory I had hoped it would be.

"In My Room," by Yaz(oo), is a song that speaks volumes right now. In its haunting simplicity, it captures the tension between retreat and vulnerability — the search for refuge while the world outside feels heavy with chaos. “In my room” becomes more than a space; it’s a prayer for peace, for strength, for deliverance.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” wrote Justice Sotomayor, the first Latina on the Court. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.” - Justice Sonia Sotomayor If you’re struggling to grasp what Justice Sotomayor was warning against in yet another blistering dissent to a truly horrific ruling by the 🤬🤡 Roberts Court, watch the video above. What she describes is already happening.

Trump's actions are in direct tension with a 1935 ruling that upheld restrictions on the president's ability to remove FTC commissioners without cause.

TO THE CITIZENS OF DC – WE FEEL FOR YOU, AND WE’RE WITH YOU. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE YOUR FRUSTRATIONS OVER A LAWLESS, CORRUPT PRESIDENT—TRYING TO DISTRACT FROM HIS FAILURES, COMPLICITY WITH A KNOWN PEDOPHILE, AND DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES—OUT ON THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NATIONAL GUARD NOW PATROLLING YOUR “STATE.” THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. DISOBEYING ORDERS WOULD COST THEM DEARLY, AND COULD PLUNGE THE COUNTRY INTO EVEN DEEPER TROUBLE. DIRECT YOUR PROTESTS WHERE THEY BELONG: THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL. MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD BY THE FECKLESS, IMMORAL LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS UNNECESSARY “POLICE ACTION” THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CRIME. THEY DESERVE YOUR WRATH.THEY DESERVE YOUR ANGER.THEY DESERVE TO BE SHAMED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Amid reports of starvation in Gaza and growing international outrage, news of the worsening crisis began to break through into mainstream Israeli media.

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