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Catalina Fernandes

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BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.

March 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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Phil Lewis

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ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

March 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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U.S. Senator John Fetterman @fetterman.senate.gov · Mar 14

My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.

My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.

I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.

I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.

March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Bonnie

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Every victim of the war on drugs is a political prisoner.

December 4, 2024 at 5:50 AM

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Bonnie

@handle.invalid

Right wingers are trying to use transpbobia as a break in the salt circle meant to protect society from racism and sexism

We are the red flag in front of the raging bull of white supremacist patriarchy.

December 4, 2024 at 5:54 AM