James B
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NY, USA
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“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Use this link to send a letter to your representatives denouncing the illegal bombing and murder of people in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Tell Congress: Stop illegal military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific
Since Sept. 2, the U.S. has bombed multiple boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, killing at least 83 people. The Trump administration claims this is part of a new “armed conflict” with “narco-traff...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Use this link to send a letter to your representatives denouncing the illegal bombing and murder of people in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, ＆ Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, ＆ chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/UdlvGgaZ
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
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November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, ＆ Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, ＆ chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/UdlvGgaZ
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BREAKING: The Trump administration has renewed its Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen during the shutdown.
States face uncertainty as Trump administration tries to reverse SNAP food payments
States are facing uncertainty about providing full monthly benefits for a federal food program serving 42 million Americans.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration has renewed its Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen during the shutdown.
Example of the long, ongoing apartheid Palestinians suffer through daily.
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From the ABoringDystopia community on Reddit: Apartheid Israel in action
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October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Example of the long, ongoing apartheid Palestinians suffer through daily.
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Cutting aid has a human cost.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Cutting aid has a human cost.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
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Last year, Andrew Cuomo brought in nearly $5 million for "consulting."
We don't know who paid him.
Or who he now owes.
We don't know who paid him.
Or who he now owes.
Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million From Consulting in 2024, Returns Show
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Last year, Andrew Cuomo brought in nearly $5 million for "consulting."
We don't know who paid him.
Or who he now owes.
We don't know who paid him.
Or who he now owes.
This is truly evil. Due process is gone in America, what used to be constitutional rights are now just ideas that can be violated everyday. Stunning how fast a country can take the mask off and go full fascist.
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From the illinois community on Reddit: Today in Aurora, a Chicago suburb, ICE agents surrounded the car of a U.S. citizen in a parking lot,firing into her windshield as she screamed that her children ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is truly evil. Due process is gone in America, what used to be constitutional rights are now just ideas that can be violated everyday. Stunning how fast a country can take the mask off and go full fascist.
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
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By @richardawebster.bsky.social
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Millions of Americans are bracing themselves for a significant hike in their 2026 health insurance premiums without the subsidies at the center of the government shutdown battle. It comes as insurance costs are rising significantly throughout the country.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Millions of Americans are bracing themselves for a significant hike in their 2026 health insurance premiums without the subsidies at the center of the government shutdown battle. It comes as insurance costs are rising significantly throughout the country.
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Private donors to President Trump’s planned White House ballroom include tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Apple, as well as the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the cofounders of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, according to a list provided to PBS News. https://to.pbs.org/48KQ73o
Who’s paying for Trump’s $300 million ballroom?
The president has maintained that the multi-million-dollar project will be paid by private donations — and not by taxpayers.
www.pbs.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Private donors to President Trump’s planned White House ballroom include tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Apple, as well as the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the cofounders of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, according to a list provided to PBS News. https://to.pbs.org/48KQ73o
More, now in NYC
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From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: Masked ICE agents have begun foot patrols and started kidnapping/disappearing random black and brown people in NYC
Posted by I_may_have_weed - 185 votes and 11 comments
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October 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
More, now in NYC
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. https://to.pbs.org/4nWzvKF
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. https://to.pbs.org/4nWzvKF
In the light of current peaceful protests that are being painted as violent. Here is an ACTUALLY violent riot from January 6th, 2021. Trump pardoned all of them.
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From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: This is actual footage from the capitol incident, every single one of them was pardoned
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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the light of current peaceful protests that are being painted as violent. Here is an ACTUALLY violent riot from January 6th, 2021. Trump pardoned all of them.
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This feels evil.
Worse than using their children as a human shield, they are using this child to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza.
This feels evil.
Worse than using their children as a human shield, they are using this child to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza.
From the ABoringDystopia community on Reddit: Israeli protesters using a baby to stop aid trucks entering into Gaza
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October 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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This feels evil.
Worse than using their children as a human shield, they are using this child to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza.
This feels evil.
Worse than using their children as a human shield, they are using this child to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza.
I don’t like the phrase “treating people like animals” because animals deserve to be treated well.
Our government is treating people like dirt. This is inhumane and needs to be stopped.
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Our government is treating people like dirt. This is inhumane and needs to be stopped.
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From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: This is so far beyond acceptable.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I don’t like the phrase “treating people like animals” because animals deserve to be treated well.
Our government is treating people like dirt. This is inhumane and needs to be stopped.
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Our government is treating people like dirt. This is inhumane and needs to be stopped.
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Our government is lying to us, they exaggerate protests saying they’re violent, and they downplay actual violence against Americans from law enforcement
Our government is lying to us, they exaggerate protests saying they’re violent, and they downplay actual violence against Americans from law enforcement
From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Our government is lying to us, they exaggerate protests saying they’re violent, and they downplay actual violence against Americans from law enforcement
Our government is lying to us, they exaggerate protests saying they’re violent, and they downplay actual violence against Americans from law enforcement
I just asked my Representative in Congress to cosponsor a new, historic bill–H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act, led by Representatives Delia Ramirez, Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan.
Can you join me in sending a letter to your Representative today?
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Can you join me in sending a letter to your Representative today?
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Block the Bombs to Israel!
Join me in asking your Member of Congress to support H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act. This bill would prevent the Trump administration from delivering weapons to Israel to inflict genocide against P...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I just asked my Representative in Congress to cosponsor a new, historic bill–H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act, led by Representatives Delia Ramirez, Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan.
Can you join me in sending a letter to your Representative today?
actionnetwork.org/letters/bloc...
Can you join me in sending a letter to your Representative today?
actionnetwork.org/letters/bloc...
“ICE agents arrest alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest person at Humboldt
Park hospital”
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Park hospital”
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From the law community on Reddit: ICE agents arrest alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest ...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“ICE agents arrest alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest person at Humboldt
Park hospital”
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Park hospital”
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Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’
Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’
Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney, and FCC chief, Brendan Carr
Late-night show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon and former host David Letterman have all rallied behind Jimmy Kimmel following ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend his popular late-night show after his comments about the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.
In his opening monologue on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert mocked executives at Disney, ABC’s parent company, for caving to threats from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, when they pulled Kimmel off the air. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’
Disgusting tactics: ICE agents attempt to entrap family members, saying “tell us he’s a citizen and we will let him go.” If she had, they would have arrested her as well. Please be careful.
(Via u/UnanimousControversy on Reddit)
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(Via u/UnanimousControversy on Reddit)
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From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: Attempted entrapment??
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September 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Disgusting tactics: ICE agents attempt to entrap family members, saying “tell us he’s a citizen and we will let him go.” If she had, they would have arrested her as well. Please be careful.
(Via u/UnanimousControversy on Reddit)
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(Via u/UnanimousControversy on Reddit)
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Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon say Israel is systematically destroying Palestinians
Two Democratic senators claim they’ve reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force locals to leave, and they say the US is complicit.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign relations committee, released their findings in a report on Thursday after returning from a congressional delegation to the Middle East where, they note, the destruction goes beyond bombs and bullets. They say they also found a systematic campaign to strangle humanitarian aid, which they call “using food as a weapon of war”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing
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"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
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Mamdani’s New Ideas on Crime Show Make His Opponents Look Old
What he understands and they don’t.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
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