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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Two leading health economists laid out the case: standard economic theory about consumption just does not apply well in health. Every other country has figured this out, but its such a point of dogma now in the US to insist that health is just another product.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
Opinion | We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It? (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Two leading health economists laid out the case: standard economic theory about consumption just does not apply well in health. Every other country has figured this out, but its such a point of dogma now in the US to insist that health is just another product.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
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Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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This was *entirely* preventable.
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This was *entirely* preventable.
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It’s hard to describe the fury & heartbreak I feel over policymakers choosing over & over again to allow students & staff & families to go through what happened at Brown last night - & what has happened so many other places. We don’t have to live like this. It’s the guns.
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s hard to describe the fury & heartbreak I feel over policymakers choosing over & over again to allow students & staff & families to go through what happened at Brown last night - & what has happened so many other places. We don’t have to live like this. It’s the guns.
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The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN”
Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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December 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN”
Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Once again I must shout: Philanthropy will never be a replacement for services the government is supposed to provide
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
December 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Once again I must shout: Philanthropy will never be a replacement for services the government is supposed to provide
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
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Great read for New England folks, as we have many areas within the CBP's 100-mile border authority.
ACLU has a guide about this. You can (and should!) remain silent.
www.aclutx.org/en/know-your...
This only "works" for them if everyone answers yes and is allowed to proceed. Simply say "am I being detained?" or "am I free to go?"
www.aclutx.org/en/know-your...
This only "works" for them if everyone answers yes and is allowed to proceed. Simply say "am I being detained?" or "am I free to go?"
Your Rights in the 100-mile Border Zone
This content is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice.The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary
www.aclutx.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Great read for New England folks, as we have many areas within the CBP's 100-mile border authority.
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MA needs to not treat all of these cuts as inevitable. We are a rich state. No one should go hungry here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
SNAP could end or be reduced for more than 150,000 Massachusetts residents. What can the state do? - The Boston Globe
Food pantries and advocates are worried that support will wane as the SNAP suspension slips from the headlines.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
MA needs to not treat all of these cuts as inevitable. We are a rich state. No one should go hungry here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
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"It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place. " cepr.net/publications...
Jeffries’ Strong Floor and No Ceiling: We Need to Fix the Roof
Owen Libby promotes old policies, like UBI and patent monopolies, as new solutions that still favor the rich.
cepr.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place. " cepr.net/publications...
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"The baseline is that millions of people don’t have attorneys, and then the ones that do, for the attorneys to even find their clients is incredibly difficult."
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
Legal teams are having to work ‘miracles’ to get immigrants out of detention - The Boston Globe
As more people await hearings behind bars and with a shortage of immigration judges, legal cases take more work and time.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The baseline is that millions of people don’t have attorneys, and then the ones that do, for the attorneys to even find their clients is incredibly difficult."
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
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“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained
Patty Murray of Washington state said ICE agents lied to Wilmer Toledo-Martinez to lure him outside before dog attacked him
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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A Mexican woman was grabbed by ICE right after a c section.
She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU
They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump
She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.
She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU
They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump
She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A Mexican woman was grabbed by ICE right after a c section.
She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU
They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump
She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.
She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU
They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump
She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.
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Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
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Billionaires have been spending vast amounts of money to keep rigging tax policy so that the rest of us have to pay to support them.
Meanwhile, I'm reading my community's angel tree list where 12 year old children are asking for "a warm blanket" as their whole holiday wish list.
Meanwhile, I'm reading my community's angel tree list where 12 year old children are asking for "a warm blanket" as their whole holiday wish list.
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Billionaires have been spending vast amounts of money to keep rigging tax policy so that the rest of us have to pay to support them.
Meanwhile, I'm reading my community's angel tree list where 12 year old children are asking for "a warm blanket" as their whole holiday wish list.
Meanwhile, I'm reading my community's angel tree list where 12 year old children are asking for "a warm blanket" as their whole holiday wish list.
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
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"But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself."
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself."
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Fifty years ago, Congress passed a critical right affirming the right to a free appropriate public education for disabled children. The Trump admin is working overtime to obliterate these protections.
50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fifty years ago, Congress passed a critical right affirming the right to a free appropriate public education for disabled children. The Trump admin is working overtime to obliterate these protections.
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At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.