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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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It’s Only About The Oil!
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s Only About The Oil!
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration.
Among their responses were:
• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support
Among their responses were:
• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support
What Could Have Kept Me Out of Prison
We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable housing and a living wage topped the list.
www.themarshallproject.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration.
Among their responses were:
• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support
Among their responses were:
• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support
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I know why, JD.
It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers.
People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.
It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers.
People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.
JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."
August 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know why, JD.
It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers.
People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.
It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers.
People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.
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For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong.
What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.
What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.
Cumberland County Jail officer detained by ICE had applied for asylum
Cumberland County Jail officer detained by ICE had applied for asylum
Gratien Milandou-Wamba was detained by ICE officers while driving to work on April 19. He is being held in a New Hampshire jail awaiting court proceedings.
www.pressherald.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong.
What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.
What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
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World Autism Awareness Day:
RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary.
It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation.
RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade-
He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.
RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary.
It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation.
RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade-
He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.
April 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
World Autism Awareness Day:
RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary.
It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation.
RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade-
He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.
RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary.
It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation.
RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade-
He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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If I was a judge and a DOJ lawyer filed a brief saying "yes, we mistakenly shipped someone with a right to be here to a foreign gulag but you have no power to order us to bring him back" I'd put that lawyer in jail until that person was brought back.
April 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If I was a judge and a DOJ lawyer filed a brief saying "yes, we mistakenly shipped someone with a right to be here to a foreign gulag but you have no power to order us to bring him back" I'd put that lawyer in jail until that person was brought back.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.
February 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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February 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools
clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
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And just like that, America lost her allies.
February 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
And just like that, America lost her allies.
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every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
How I arrived on Bluesky
January 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
How I arrived on Bluesky
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.