PJ
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Neighborhood Friendly Nuyorican Immigration Lawyer
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Minneapolis 01/18/26- Anti ICE protestors gather in 10 degree weather outside the Whipple building. Barricades have been added overnight, which the sheriffs dept say is for protesters safety.
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Minneapolis 01/18/26- Anti ICE protestors gather in 10 degree weather outside the Whipple building. Barricades have been added overnight, which the sheriffs dept say is for protesters safety.
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Many of us US citizens support Europe strongly pushing back against this foolish madness
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Many of us US citizens support Europe strongly pushing back against this foolish madness
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Forget Robert E. Lee. We need statues of Joshua Chamberlain.
January 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Forget Robert E. Lee. We need statues of Joshua Chamberlain.
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Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless
Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.
www.city-journal.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
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Important context in this piece: migration is part of the civil rights project and this government is taking us back to the 1920s.
My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Racial quotas for immigration are back | Heba Gowayed
The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Important context in this piece: migration is part of the civil rights project and this government is taking us back to the 1920s.
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The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
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ICE’s street violence is extreme. What abuses occur behind its prison walls?
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Deaths in Detention Warn of Horrors Behind ICE’s Prison Walls
At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and four more have already died in ICE custody this year.
truthout.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ICE’s street violence is extreme. What abuses occur behind its prison walls?
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❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet using 🇺🇸American GBU39 guided bombs strikes positions of 🇷🇺Russian drone operators and a building with infantry and ammunition inside
January 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM
❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet using 🇺🇸American GBU39 guided bombs strikes positions of 🇷🇺Russian drone operators and a building with infantry and ammunition inside
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January 17, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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What if he invades Minnesota
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) says he anticipates that Trump will be impeached if he invades Greenland. omaha.com/news/local/g...
Rep. Don Bacon says House could impeach Trump if U.S. invades Greenland
Rep. Don Bacon tells The World-Herald that there would be GOP support for an impeachment of Donald Trump if the U.S. invaded Greenland.
omaha.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:11 AM
What if he invades Minnesota
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"It's not bribery unless it's from the Bribe region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling gratuities"
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
"It's not bribery unless it's from the Bribe region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling gratuities"
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No laws or ethics apply to a person with total immunity.....thanks Supreme Court.
January 17, 2026 at 1:29 AM
No laws or ethics apply to a person with total immunity.....thanks Supreme Court.
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Jimmy Carter spinning in his grave screaming "They made me sell my fucking peanut farm!!!!"
January 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Jimmy Carter spinning in his grave screaming "They made me sell my fucking peanut farm!!!!"
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Cowardly ICE agent fantasizes about being an MMA fighter by kneeing a restrained man with his body armor pathetic & disgraceful.
January 17, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Cowardly ICE agent fantasizes about being an MMA fighter by kneeing a restrained man with his body armor pathetic & disgraceful.
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ICE is operating like how slave catchers would’ve operated if they had technology
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
ICE is operating like how slave catchers would’ve operated if they had technology
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"If we elected an entire new government tomorrow, I don't know how long it would take to get those markets back....This is a real existential threat for the American farmer."
Wright Thompson talks tariffs and markets with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
Wright Thompson talks tariffs and markets with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
January 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
"If we elected an entire new government tomorrow, I don't know how long it would take to get those markets back....This is a real existential threat for the American farmer."
Wright Thompson talks tariffs and markets with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
Wright Thompson talks tariffs and markets with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
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We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes
January 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes
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17 January 1894 | Czech Jewish woman Gertruda Krausová born.
She was deported to #Auschwtiz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
She was deported to #Auschwtiz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
17 January 1894 | Czech Jewish woman Gertruda Krausová born.
She was deported to #Auschwtiz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
She was deported to #Auschwtiz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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Yes, it absolutely is barbaric!
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Yes, it absolutely is barbaric!
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Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
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Shut them down.
No Dem votes for a budget.
No Dem votes for a budget.
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Shut them down.
No Dem votes for a budget.
No Dem votes for a budget.
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Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
it's easy to start an investigation of walz and frey. indictments & convictions are orders of magnitude harder. but the goal is what's important and it's nothing that breaking the power of the states which is the only brake on trump's attempted tyranny
Watch What They’re Doing: Trump Threatens to Make War on the States talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watch...
January 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
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What the hell is a “Notice of Inspection“? Give them a “Notice of Show Me A Warrant Signed by a Judge Or GTFO of My Store.”
January 17, 2026 at 1:06 AM
What the hell is a “Notice of Inspection“? Give them a “Notice of Show Me A Warrant Signed by a Judge Or GTFO of My Store.”