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Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS.
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS.
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
“Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”
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AOC '28 would be MamdaniX100 -- all the same stuff about youth and inexperience, 'she's never run anything,' ties to socialism and (totally bogus) cries of antisemitism
But like Mamdani, she'd bring in a tsunami of young voters. I'd love to see it www.salon.com/2025/06/30/w...
But like Mamdani, she'd bring in a tsunami of young voters. I'd love to see it www.salon.com/2025/06/30/w...
Why AOC should run for president in 2028
After Zohran Mamdani's win, Trump reveals how scared he is to face Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
www.salon.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
AOC '28 would be MamdaniX100 -- all the same stuff about youth and inexperience, 'she's never run anything,' ties to socialism and (totally bogus) cries of antisemitism
But like Mamdani, she'd bring in a tsunami of young voters. I'd love to see it www.salon.com/2025/06/30/w...
But like Mamdani, she'd bring in a tsunami of young voters. I'd love to see it www.salon.com/2025/06/30/w...
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There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
June 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
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The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
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Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
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Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
newrepublic.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
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I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
June 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
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This is absurd. @nytimes.com needs to find a better way to convey to readers what it knows to be true: These "findings" are not actual "findings" in any sense that most people would understand the word. The casual reader comes away with zero sense of the deep rot of bad faith at play here.
June 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is absurd. @nytimes.com needs to find a better way to convey to readers what it knows to be true: These "findings" are not actual "findings" in any sense that most people would understand the word. The casual reader comes away with zero sense of the deep rot of bad faith at play here.
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Every time I see a new species at the Fishtown pollinator plot, that’s a huge hell yeah.
June 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Every time I see a new species at the Fishtown pollinator plot, that’s a huge hell yeah.
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Much of the Kodiak kickback was thrown out in Byrdbath so haveing moved the bill ahead to make passage possible Murkoswki can now vote no on the final bill (provided there are not 4 nos). This is the cynical, cruel and careerist politics we now face.
June 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Much of the Kodiak kickback was thrown out in Byrdbath so haveing moved the bill ahead to make passage possible Murkoswki can now vote no on the final bill (provided there are not 4 nos). This is the cynical, cruel and careerist politics we now face.
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No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. That’s not an officer that’s an armed thug with government protection. If you can’t show who you are or why you’re detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.
June 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. That’s not an officer that’s an armed thug with government protection. If you can’t show who you are or why you’re detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.
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Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami
The cause of death for the 49-year-old man is still under official investigation.
www.miamiherald.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
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The Hortmans funeral yesterday in Minneapolis.
Firefighters carried their caskets into the Basilica of St. Mary, where Biden and Harris sat in the front pew.
American law makers assassinated on US soil yet still silence from the Republicans' Daddy, who just freed another criminal.
Firefighters carried their caskets into the Basilica of St. Mary, where Biden and Harris sat in the front pew.
American law makers assassinated on US soil yet still silence from the Republicans' Daddy, who just freed another criminal.
June 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Hortmans funeral yesterday in Minneapolis.
Firefighters carried their caskets into the Basilica of St. Mary, where Biden and Harris sat in the front pew.
American law makers assassinated on US soil yet still silence from the Republicans' Daddy, who just freed another criminal.
Firefighters carried their caskets into the Basilica of St. Mary, where Biden and Harris sat in the front pew.
American law makers assassinated on US soil yet still silence from the Republicans' Daddy, who just freed another criminal.
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Trump and Republicans are about to jack up energy costs on families across the country if they pass their big bill, which will also devastate the clean energy industry that has created thousands of jobs in Arizona. That only helps China and hurts American families and workers.
June 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Trump and Republicans are about to jack up energy costs on families across the country if they pass their big bill, which will also devastate the clean energy industry that has created thousands of jobs in Arizona. That only helps China and hurts American families and workers.
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
June 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
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More fake ICE agents doing horrible things.
Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
June 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
More fake ICE agents doing horrible things.
Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
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Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation."
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
www.politico.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation."
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers.
Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this.
Where is the censure and condemnation?
Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this.
Where is the censure and condemnation?
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers.
Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this.
Where is the censure and condemnation?
Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this.
Where is the censure and condemnation?
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Since Election Day, there have been 255 mentions of Zohran Mamdani, Israel, and antisemitism on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and local NYC-based television outlets. 167 mentions of rent and Mamdani, 115 mentions of groceries and Mamdani, 54 mentions of buses and Mamdani.
June 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Since Election Day, there have been 255 mentions of Zohran Mamdani, Israel, and antisemitism on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and local NYC-based television outlets. 167 mentions of rent and Mamdani, 115 mentions of groceries and Mamdani, 54 mentions of buses and Mamdani.
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Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Zohran Mamdani Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. What Does That Mean?
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
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Heads up -- another new ICE tactic.
They are going door-to-door, claiming to be doing a "police" welfare check.
This man was smart, and this is how to stop them.
Stay vigilant.
They are going door-to-door, claiming to be doing a "police" welfare check.
This man was smart, and this is how to stop them.
Stay vigilant.
June 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Heads up -- another new ICE tactic.
They are going door-to-door, claiming to be doing a "police" welfare check.
This man was smart, and this is how to stop them.
Stay vigilant.
They are going door-to-door, claiming to be doing a "police" welfare check.
This man was smart, and this is how to stop them.
Stay vigilant.