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Donald Trump: Making the world less safe for everyone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Donald Trump: Making the world less safe for everyone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@repdangoldman.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
ICE has taken Chinese dissident Guan Heng into custody and is threatening to return him to China.
Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.
Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A quick sidenote about this; one reason I stay on X is specifically because of exchanges like this, where @davidjbier.bsky.social and I got a prominent government official to make a claim so outrageous that it’s now ricocheting around the internet and actively undermining official PR campaigns.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A quick sidenote about this; one reason I stay on X is specifically because of exchanges like this, where @davidjbier.bsky.social and I got a prominent government official to make a claim so outrageous that it’s now ricocheting around the internet and actively undermining official PR campaigns.
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I was ready for a deep dive on Bovino’s life. Bovino has become the face of anti-immigrant in this country but his roots lie within immigrant ancestors from Italy. His story displays many of the contradictions to what he is now in charge of doing to migrants. A longer read but worth the time.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I was ready for a deep dive on Bovino’s life. Bovino has become the face of anti-immigrant in this country but his roots lie within immigrant ancestors from Italy. His story displays many of the contradictions to what he is now in charge of doing to migrants. A longer read but worth the time.
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As with everything she writes, Sarah Kendzior's meditation on a St. Louis cemetery is well worth reading. I never knew that there was a St. Louis Prufrock.
I am shadow-banned and was previously banned-banned for quoting Johnny Cash lyrics. Now I've quoted a dark TS Eliot poem and fear my Bluesky account may implode. If you like this article, please share it! Thank you sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bell-fount...
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
As with everything she writes, Sarah Kendzior's meditation on a St. Louis cemetery is well worth reading. I never knew that there was a St. Louis Prufrock.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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AP: “Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, some more than five months… Attorneys highlighted the government’s own admissions to longer custody times, contaminated food, lack of medical care…” apnews.com/article/immi...
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
AP: “Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, some more than five months… Attorneys highlighted the government’s own admissions to longer custody times, contaminated food, lack of medical care…” apnews.com/article/immi...
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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This alone should be investigated by House Democrats
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This alone should be investigated by House Democrats
Maybe I just wanted flights to be on time and reimbursed for cancellations and schedule changes over two hours. Maybe I wish you were Pete Buttigieg.
Maybe this dude should go back to Road Rules.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Maybe I just wanted flights to be on time and reimbursed for cancellations and schedule changes over two hours. Maybe I wish you were Pete Buttigieg.
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
There is no sense of decency left. We have lost our humanity.
Barbarity
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
There is no sense of decency left. We have lost our humanity.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
I'm truly at a loss for why corporate media has dropped this story--and even Trump moved on. That tells me there is so much more to this that Trump doesn't want the public to know about the killer and Trump/CIA's connection. And I don't mean in a conspiratorial way. Rather based on public facts:
A CIA trained killer who Trump granted asylum to killed a National Guard member. But for some reason the corporate media has moved on. They don't want to talk the CIA's ties to the killed and Trump's approval of the killer's asylum. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/a-cia-trai...
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
Hey @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
! How many children died from complications due to COVID in the same period (ans: >25)?
! How many children died from complications due to COVID in the same period (ans: >25)?
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hey @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
! How many children died from complications due to COVID in the same period (ans: >25)?
! How many children died from complications due to COVID in the same period (ans: >25)?
To top it off, this so-called analysis leaves out the fact that it was Trump who created the plan for the withdrawal from Afghanistan that the two paragraphs above imply Biden crafted from whole cloth and Trump opposed.
If you read the above two paragraphs credulously, you get *wildly* misinformed.
If you read the above two paragraphs credulously, you get *wildly* misinformed.
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Alternate take if you are not a Trump toady like Judge Winebox: Performative militarization of a relatively safe city — extremely so around the White House — puts lives unnecessarily at risk. This avoidable tragedy all falls on the administration.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Alternate take if you are not a Trump toady like Judge Winebox: Performative militarization of a relatively safe city — extremely so around the White House — puts lives unnecessarily at risk. This avoidable tragedy all falls on the administration.
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM