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Someone with a valid work permit and a pending asylum case is LEGAL, folks.

That’s how we know it’s not about safety or following the law.

After Daycare Teacher Taken By Feds, Local Officials Fight For Her Release: 'This Is Not Normal' blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/06/a...
After Daycare Teacher Taken By Feds, Local Officials Fight For Her Release: 'This Is Not Normal'
The teacher had a valid work permit and pending asylum case, officials said. Meanwhile, agents — including Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino — once again had a heavy presence on the Southwest Side Thursd...
blockclubchicago.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
ncnewsline.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Who benefits from an economic crisis? Trump does. He declares an economic emergency—then manufactures one—which allows him to expand his power. Under the National Emergencies Act (NEA), the president can unlock more than 120 special statutory powers. No wonder he was just out golfing—crisis pays.
April 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My retirement portfolio is down about 20%. Are we great again yet?
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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*screams externally*
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
CORY EFFING BOOKER. ❤️
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.

Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.

“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
propub.li
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Everyone who studies Trump closely—this author included—said to take his many prior intimations about seeking a permanent presidency seriously.

More often than not we were scoffed at by the normopaths in journalism who still don't understand that this man is a sociopath and fascist.

We were right.
March 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
From the party of free speech absolutists, no less. 🙄
Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."
March 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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HUD concluded a Texas state agency had steered $1B in disaster funding away from Houston and nearby communities of color after Hurricane Harvey.

On Jan. 15, HUD referred the case to the DOJ.

On Feb. 13, it rescinded that referral with no explanation.
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
propub.li
March 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down

Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
February 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“The Post declined to comment.” 🤦‍♀️
"We are deeply alarmed by recent leadership decisions that have led readers to question the integrity of this institution, broken with a tradition of transparency, and prompted some of our most distinguished colleagues to leave."

400+ Post journalists appeal to Bezos. www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n...
Will Lewis's first year at 'Washington Post': Cancellations, red ink and an exodus
Subscribers and star journalists have fled the Post in its first year under CEO and Publisher Will Lewis. Now staff have signed a petition asking owner Jeff Bezos to intervene.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM