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“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by ...
www.democracynow.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
@amyrulocal.bsky.social
Thanks for your good letter in the Sunday LNP today.
Thanks for your good letter in the Sunday LNP today.
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@amyrulocal.bsky.social
Thanks for your good letter in the Sunday LNP today.
Thanks for your good letter in the Sunday LNP today.
No war on Venezuela: rootsaction.org/war-powers-v...
Tell Congress to Pass War Powers Resolution to Prevent War on Venezuela
Congress may soon be voting on a war powers resolution on Venezuela, and has a responsibility to vote Yes. Tell them so!
rootsaction.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
No war on Venezuela: rootsaction.org/war-powers-v...
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North Carolina Republican uses 'connections with the Trump admin' to threaten reporter
North Carolina Republican uses 'connections with the Trump admin' to threaten reporter
Republican Party officials are now using their “connections” to the Trump administration to threaten journalists into dropping critical coverage.That’s what Doug Bock Clark, a reporter for ProPublica, recently discovered as he worked on a feature-length story on the rise of Paul Newby, the Republica...
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
North Carolina Republican uses 'connections with the Trump admin' to threaten reporter
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Behind the real reason for demented Trump's newest action
Behind the real reason for demented Trump's newest action
Monday night, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker came right out and said it. Trump sending troops into American cities has nothing whatsoever to do with crime or policing but, instead, is all about stealing the 2026 election:“Eight of the top 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republica...
bit.ly
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Behind the real reason for demented Trump's newest action
The Supreme Court's timing couldn't be worse
The Supreme Court's timing couldn't be worse
Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate. In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, unde...
www.alternet.org
July 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Supreme Court's timing couldn't be worse
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And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
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Often the mysterious variable fact-checkers can’t/don’t include in their formulas is a candidate saying one thing during a campaign and doing the exact opposite five minutes after they win.
July 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Often the mysterious variable fact-checkers can’t/don’t include in their formulas is a candidate saying one thing during a campaign and doing the exact opposite five minutes after they win.
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“Sanchez came to the United States in 2022 from Colombia and applied for asylum; he was granted temporary permission to remain in the country while his claim was processed.
His pending asylum status required him to report for routine check-ins with federal authorities, which is what he did”
Bethlehem man with pending asylum case showed up to a routine ICE check-in. He has been in detention for a month.
Edwin Sanchez, native of Colombia living in Bethlehem as he awaits a decision on his petition for asylum, showed up one month ago to a routine immigration check-in in Philadelphia. He hasn’t …
www.mcall.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“Sanchez came to the United States in 2022 from Colombia and applied for asylum; he was granted temporary permission to remain in the country while his claim was processed.
His pending asylum status required him to report for routine check-ins with federal authorities, which is what he did”
Here's the real reason Republicans hate the middle class.
Here's the real reason Republicans hate the middle class
A Pew poll published last week finds that 59 percent of Americans say the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that cuts taxes for billionaires and raises them for working-class people — and was passed by the S...
www.alternet.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here's the real reason Republicans hate the middle class.
Of course they did.
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Of course they did.
Can someone please tell me what to expect if Trump attempts to cancel mid-term elections? Why else would the Republican Congress vote for this bill no one but Trump wants?
July 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Can someone please tell me what to expect if Trump attempts to cancel mid-term elections? Why else would the Republican Congress vote for this bill no one but Trump wants?
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Folks can argue about the relevancy of the “Democratic socialist” label all day. But if that’s what you’re hung up on, you’re missing the larger point.
People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change.
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People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Folks can argue about the relevancy of the “Democratic socialist” label all day. But if that’s what you’re hung up on, you’re missing the larger point.
People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change.
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People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change.
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GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through ea...
theonion.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
May 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is why a president corrupts a Justice Department.
The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm.
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
May 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thought Merlin app was mistaken when it said I had bobolinks but I was delighted to confirm there was a flock in the walnut tree!
May 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thought Merlin app was mistaken when it said I had bobolinks but I was delighted to confirm there was a flock in the walnut tree!
What the Trump administration did wasn't an accident.
What the Trump administration did wasn't an accident
It was a cold, gray morning in Oklahoma when the government came crashing through the wrong door.Without warning, ICE agents clad in black tactical gear burst into a quiet family home. Guns drawn, boo...
www.alternet.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What the Trump administration did wasn't an accident.
April 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Gotta love Boston.
MeidasTouch Network on Substack
WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Wa...
substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Gotta love Boston.
"History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state may be you."
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state…
www.democracynow.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM