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@msnewsdesk.bsky.social Just saw breaking news on the USSC decision but I must correct you. Has been a fight in Ohio for years.
Republican officials announce $105M in federal money coming to Ohio charter schools | The Statehouse News Bureau share.google/jAcjTARqPZPJ...
Republican officials announce $105M in federal money coming to Ohio charter schools | The Statehouse News Bureau share.google/jAcjTARqPZPJ...
Republican officials announce $105M in federal money coming to Ohio charter schools
Ohio will get a big chunk of federal money to support existing charter schools and launch new ones.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
@msnewsdesk.bsky.social Just saw breaking news on the USSC decision but I must correct you. Has been a fight in Ohio for years.
Republican officials announce $105M in federal money coming to Ohio charter schools | The Statehouse News Bureau share.google/jAcjTARqPZPJ...
Republican officials announce $105M in federal money coming to Ohio charter schools | The Statehouse News Bureau share.google/jAcjTARqPZPJ...
A little beauty and awe in a time of ugliness #aurora #northernlights
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A little beauty and awe in a time of ugliness #aurora #northernlights
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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
www.rollingstone.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Such comparisons also sit uneasily alongside the many angry calls at this event for retribution against and the vanquishing of their perceived enemies (roughly half of their fellow citizens). Not exactly what Jesus would do, but whatevs
Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.)
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
September 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Such comparisons also sit uneasily alongside the many angry calls at this event for retribution against and the vanquishing of their perceived enemies (roughly half of their fellow citizens). Not exactly what Jesus would do, but whatevs
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This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
#hope #violinofhope there is hope even in the greatest darkness
Secret note found inside violin built in concentration camp: "Made under difficult conditions"
A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances.
www.cbsnews.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
#hope #violinofhope there is hope even in the greatest darkness
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Latest: The IDF investigated itself, but questions remain about how Israeli soldiers closed around on and fired for over six minutes at rescue workers who were unarmed, in uniform and praying, killing all of them. Our video investigation reconstructs what happened.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Latest: The IDF investigated itself, but questions remain about how Israeli soldiers closed around on and fired for over six minutes at rescue workers who were unarmed, in uniform and praying, killing all of them. Our video investigation reconstructs what happened.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
I didn't quite get the smiley face everyone was talking about but if you look at it just right it is a frown 😂 #justmissedit #nightsky
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I didn't quite get the smiley face everyone was talking about but if you look at it just right it is a frown 😂 #justmissedit #nightsky
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People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
I have taken this wrong turn. I cannot imagine this terror.
Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge
NPR has for months been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, has revealed more that 200 detentions thi...
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I have taken this wrong turn. I cannot imagine this terror.
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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
nyer.cm
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Thousands of protesters gathered at the Ohio Statehouse Saturday afternoon in a nationwide protest against the Trump administration.
Thousands gather at Ohio Statehouse to protest Trump administration
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Thousands of protesters gathered at the Ohio Statehouse Saturday afternoon in a nationwide protest against the Trump administration. “I’m a United States N…
www.nbc4i.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Thousands of protesters gathered at the Ohio Statehouse Saturday afternoon in a nationwide protest against the Trump administration.
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A harrowing story of a USAID employee who was stranded in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Carol feels a sense of deep betrayal, loss and anger. Our own government has treated her and the entire USAID workforce as if they were criminals.” www.thebulwark.com/p/abandoned-...
Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone
One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.
www.thebulwark.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A harrowing story of a USAID employee who was stranded in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Carol feels a sense of deep betrayal, loss and anger. Our own government has treated her and the entire USAID workforce as if they were criminals.” www.thebulwark.com/p/abandoned-...
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I’m looking at the 3 young men around this Senator who he’s teaching to behave with disrespect, disregard and cruelty towards a constituent. I worry for our future.
This is Senator Jim Banks from Indiana. No need to tell you he’s a Republican—it’s clear by the cruel disdain he shows his own constituent who was laid off.
Note: he waits until the door’s about to close before telling him he deserved it & calling him a “clown.”
He’s not just cruel—he’s a coward.
Note: he waits until the door’s about to close before telling him he deserved it & calling him a “clown.”
He’s not just cruel—he’s a coward.
April 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m looking at the 3 young men around this Senator who he’s teaching to behave with disrespect, disregard and cruelty towards a constituent. I worry for our future.
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RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
March 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
2019 doc on this as well.
What strikes me now is 1) we never bothered to clean up the environmental disaster we created before 2) we would, under Trump, decimate the entire island looking for minerals and leave behind a 2nd environmental disaster far worse
What strikes me now is 1) we never bothered to clean up the environmental disaster we created before 2) we would, under Trump, decimate the entire island looking for minerals and leave behind a 2nd environmental disaster far worse
See photos of Camp Century, a secret US military base built beneath Greenland's ice sheet
Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.
www.businessinsider.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
2019 doc on this as well.
What strikes me now is 1) we never bothered to clean up the environmental disaster we created before 2) we would, under Trump, decimate the entire island looking for minerals and leave behind a 2nd environmental disaster far worse
What strikes me now is 1) we never bothered to clean up the environmental disaster we created before 2) we would, under Trump, decimate the entire island looking for minerals and leave behind a 2nd environmental disaster far worse
At 2yrs old no one is lost 💔
It’s Election Day in Louisiana: Voters are deciding a measure that would allow lawmakers to move more children into the adult criminal system. A GOP lawmaker who supports the measure said, “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” boltsmag.org/louisia...
“Some of These Kids Are Already Lost When They’re Two Years Old”
Louisiana leaders want more leeway to charge kids as adults. A measure on the March 29 ballot would enable lawmakers to move more teenagers into the adult criminal system.
boltsmag.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
At 2yrs old no one is lost 💔
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All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders
A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)