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The quota incentivizes arresting the *opposite* of what Trump promised. Tracking & arresting a drug gang takes time and it's dangerous. Raiding a large workplace or sitting outside courtrooms is easy and safe, so ICE does that. And there are no consequences for improper arrests, so grab everyone.
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
www.forbes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The quota incentivizes arresting the *opposite* of what Trump promised. Tracking & arresting a drug gang takes time and it's dangerous. Raiding a large workplace or sitting outside courtrooms is easy and safe, so ICE does that. And there are no consequences for improper arrests, so grab everyone.
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Former governor Inslee is not having any of this. We agree, and think it's time to start planning for what Oregon and Washington will do to increase autonomy if this gets worse. #Cascadia
Arresting judges. Disappearing people. Punishing law firms. The Supreme needs to come down on him like a ton of judicial bricks now, not later, when it could be too late. Authoritarians get more dangerous the longer they are accommodated.
April 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Former governor Inslee is not having any of this. We agree, and think it's time to start planning for what Oregon and Washington will do to increase autonomy if this gets worse. #Cascadia
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Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
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#BookstoreDay
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#BookstoreDay
April 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
#BookstoreDay
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#BookstoreDay
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Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
April 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
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To everyone celebrating today, Michelle and I hope you have a blessed and happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
To everyone celebrating today, Michelle and I hope you have a blessed and happy Easter.
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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
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I'm about to do an interview with local media on HJR 73. It is the bill to put an abortion ban back on the ballot after we just overturned our abortion ban back in November.
Friends, Republicans are going to try to put lies on the ballot summary and trick our neighbors into voting for another ban.
Friends, Republicans are going to try to put lies on the ballot summary and trick our neighbors into voting for another ban.
April 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm about to do an interview with local media on HJR 73. It is the bill to put an abortion ban back on the ballot after we just overturned our abortion ban back in November.
Friends, Republicans are going to try to put lies on the ballot summary and trick our neighbors into voting for another ban.
Friends, Republicans are going to try to put lies on the ballot summary and trick our neighbors into voting for another ban.
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And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.
April 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.
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President Trump’s tariffs have been a catalyst for the end of an era of US exceptionalism, analysts say, pushing investors toward markets in Europe.
Trump’s trade war is pushing investors away from America | CNN Business
Global markets have been shaken to their core by President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade agenda — and despite his promise of a “new golden age of America,” the long-held appeal of US investment is s...
www.cnn.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
President Trump’s tariffs have been a catalyst for the end of an era of US exceptionalism, analysts say, pushing investors toward markets in Europe.
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That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.
We're going from "foreign tourists afraid to visit the US" to "US citizens afraid to go abroad because of what could happen when they return to their own country"
April 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I mean, it's not like we didn't point out that a loudmouth drunkard with poor impulse control and a history of abuse wouldn't make a great SECDEF...
April 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I mean, it's not like we didn't point out that a loudmouth drunkard with poor impulse control and a history of abuse wouldn't make a great SECDEF...
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The White House press secretary said that President Trump still has confidence in his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, after a New York Times report revealed that Hegseth shared highly sensitive planning about a military strike in Yemen on a second Signal group chat. Follow updates.
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www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The White House press secretary said that President Trump still has confidence in his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, after a New York Times report revealed that Hegseth shared highly sensitive planning about a military strike in Yemen on a second Signal group chat. Follow updates.
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"In one of his final public appearances leading the stations of the cross on Good Friday, Francis [said], “Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-pope-who...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-pope-who...
A Pope Who Preached Decency in Indecent Times
Pope Francis’s death leaves a spiritual void at a moment of great stress.
www.thebulwark.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"In one of his final public appearances leading the stations of the cross on Good Friday, Francis [said], “Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-pope-who...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-pope-who...
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“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.”
Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth
“The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,” John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece.
www.politico.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.”
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Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.
April 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.
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Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.
April 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.
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Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
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‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
Existence of group chat including Hegseth, his wife and others prompt calls for defense secretary to step down
* US politics live – latest updates
A former top Pentagon spokesperson has slammed secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the department of defense, as pressure mounts on the US’s top military official following reports of a second Signal chatroom used to discuss sensitive military operations.
John Ullyot, who resigned last week after initially serving as Pentagon spokesperson, said in a opinion essay published by Politico on Sunday that the Pentagon has been overwhelmed by staff drama and turnover in the initial months of the second Trump administration. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Pete Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
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*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
April 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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You cannot fight for democracy with values that don’t include caring about the 50% of Americans who say they struggle to afford rent and the over 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck.
If you don’t care about the collective health of our society, then you don’t care about Democracy.
If you don’t care about the collective health of our society, then you don’t care about Democracy.
April 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You cannot fight for democracy with values that don’t include caring about the 50% of Americans who say they struggle to afford rent and the over 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck.
If you don’t care about the collective health of our society, then you don’t care about Democracy.
If you don’t care about the collective health of our society, then you don’t care about Democracy.
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