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River
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Canadian 🇨🇦 First Nations 🪶
Supporter of Pro-Choice, Marriage Equality, Safe Spaces, Schools and Healthcare workers, Science and Vaccines.
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Migrants sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison faced beatings, shaved heads, no drinkable water, no hygiene, and daily abuse - including sexual assault in “blind spots" not covered by cameras.

No charges. No due process. No trials. No justice.

Tell these stories! US media won't!
July 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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For fuck’s sake. This sick shit must end now! 😡
July 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We absolutely should not become numb to this
July 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...
July 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
July 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.

Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
July 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This is what you voted for⁉️

Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.

Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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#ProudBlue

This man was reunited with his family after being released from CECOT in a prisoner exchange.

A few men that where released needed wheelchairs. There are reports that these men where beaten daily.

This man had NO criminal record. Most of them don’t.
July 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Last night we got another midnight special from House Republicans. A rescissions package that slashes public broadcasting, even though millions rely on it for life-saving emergency alerts. They also voted to cut foreign assistance, which helps keep us safe.

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July 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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REPORT: Most seizures of fentanyl occur at U.S. points of entry, not via migrants. In reality, U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers.
Fentanyl smuggling: Most seizures occur at ports of entry where U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers - American Immigration Council
Most fentanyl enters the U.S. through ports of entry, not via migrants. U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers, often recruited by criminal networks. Effective solutions focus on better screening at ...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Resist fascism.
July 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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This is not a fight about soyabeans and transistors. Trump is the front face of a right wing insurgency that has undermined the international rule of law. Canada is the front line standing up to his increasingly dangerous rhetoric.
Here is my latest piece.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
Trump's Tariffs Are Just the Beginning
Is Canada the next Ukraine?
charlieangus.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA
July 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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🚨🚨🚨 Rep. Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”

We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I fucking can’t.
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Surprise, surprise. All roads lead to Putin.
😲 This explains SO MUCH:

👉 Darren Beattie – the man behind the State Department purge – is married to a Russian woman with close family ties to Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺

Yes, really.

newrepublic.com/post/196029/...
Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.
newrepublic.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Watching ICE going into medical facilities to arrest people who are there being treated or seeing the doctor....pisses me the f*ck off. There is no bottom to this sorry ass administration.
July 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work.

She orders the agencies to stop.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The government is using $450 million of our tax dollars a year to fund an inhumane immigration detention facility called “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Tell Congress: Demand access and shut it down.
Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz"
"Alligator Alcatraz" is an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The cruelty must end. Join me in telling Congress to demand access and block all federal funds until this compound is shut down.
action.aclu.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“Your silence will not save you!”
True words from Héctor Rivera.

Good trouble lives on, July 17.
Everywhere.
July 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
July 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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NEW: There is a hearing right now concerning Mr Abrego’s amended complaint in which he details his torture at CECOT prison in El Salvador. You can read his account here, but CONTENT WARNING. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Mr. Abrego's Account of Torture at CECOT in El Salvador
Mr. Abrego has filed an amended complaint asking the court to declare the government's actions unlawful and to order his release. He describes his torture in El Salvador in the complaint.
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Alina Habba in Feb: “On Epstein, it’s incredibly disturbing. We have flight logs, info, names that will come out. There were so many names hidden who had not been held accountable. Now it’s time for accountability. I really believe with Kash and Pam there will be accountability.”
July 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM