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San Francisco editor and writer who's covered wars, politics, and religion.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
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El Refugio is a house where people visiting detained immigrants can stay. The org's head said this year has been the hardest ever, but the volunteers’ work is a reminder that “in the midst of everything, there is something you could do.”
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...
The Small House Offering Aid in the Shadow of an ICE Detention Center
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
El Refugio is a house where people visiting detained immigrants can stay. The org's head said this year has been the hardest ever, but the volunteers’ work is a reminder that “in the midst of everything, there is something you could do.”
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...
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Clean energy is cheap, & clean energy can get built quickly, but the government is making it harder and more expensive to build clean energy. All at a time when AI data centers are spiking electricity demand. Demand is up & power supply is being constrained. It’s a crisis. youtu.be/f6536KWBZAc?...
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Clean energy is cheap, & clean energy can get built quickly, but the government is making it harder and more expensive to build clean energy. All at a time when AI data centers are spiking electricity demand. Demand is up & power supply is being constrained. It’s a crisis. youtu.be/f6536KWBZAc?...
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If you've been following the Daily Memo, you know it's getting worse out there. L.A. TACO is here to provide everyday Angelenos with local independent news, but we need your help to continue our work.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.
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The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
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Logan Hosts Food Bank For TSA Workers Amid Longest U.S. Government Shutdown | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Is California next?
Is California next?
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Is California next?
Is California next?
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Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
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San Francisco State will guarantee admission to qualified San Francisco Unified seniors and City College transfers, an effort to reverse its free fall in enrollment.
‘You’re in!’ S.F. State launches guaranteed admissions plan with City College, S.F. schools
San Francisco State will guarantee admission to qualified San Francisco Unified seniors and City College transfers, an effort to reverse its free fall in enrollment.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
San Francisco State will guarantee admission to qualified San Francisco Unified seniors and City College transfers, an effort to reverse its free fall in enrollment.
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That anger, that weariness, that dismissal you call divisive and unproductive *comes from someplace.* In this case from 2023.
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
That anger, that weariness, that dismissal you call divisive and unproductive *comes from someplace.* In this case from 2023.
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"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."
A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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The US is deporting a journalist today
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The US is deporting a journalist today
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
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An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee.
As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...
As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...
October 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee.
As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...
As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...
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NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era.
Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.
Today, at Law Dork:
Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.
Today, at Law Dork:
Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era
Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback.
www.lawdork.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era.
Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.
Today, at Law Dork:
Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.
Today, at Law Dork:
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The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The journalist who has been in an immigration prison is just...going to be deported.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice
Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The journalist who has been in an immigration prison is just...going to be deported.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.
Gaza City under relentless bombardment as Israel launches ground invasion
Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.
bit.ly
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.
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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
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New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya