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Baby involved in Worcester ICE arrest safe with its mother, minor released from custody

A woman apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement likely remains in custody, but one of her family members arrested and charged with endangering a baby has been released.

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May 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM

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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone”

On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Tim Onion

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

April 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM

rcannava.bsky.social

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open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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April 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Marisa Kabas

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Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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Jaime Montana Cook is at
Sackets Harbor Central School.
5h •
Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Asha Rangappa

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So the Trump administration’s argument is that this dude, not a court, should have the final say on who ends up in an El Salvadoran prison.

Does that make you feel safer in America?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 23

Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)

March 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Will Li

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lol haha wtf

David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · Mar 25

News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼

REPORTABLE: NPR’s Tom Bowman has learned that a Pentagon-wide email went out one week ago warning about the vulnerability of using the messaging app Signal. "A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," the email begins. The app is the same one used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other leading national security officials within the administration to discuss bombing Houthi sites in Yemen – journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group and privy to the highly sensitive discussions.

March 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Dustin Moskovitz

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First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime.

Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide.

Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.

March 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM

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Jerry Chen

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hey did anyone else get invited to "blame canada/land invasion" nextdoor group chat too

March 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Tim Onion

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From Deep Throat in All the President's Men: "Then there must be something, mustn't there. Look, forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

March 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM

rcannava.bsky.social

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Well, that was cool — a whole hour at St. Anselm’s. She’s delightful. She hung out afterward and spoke to everyone and signed things. And I got to sit next to her brother and sister-in-law and talk to them for quite a long time, which was also cool.