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Mirian
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Caffeinated and slightly depressed first generation immigrant.
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A federal judge decided against DOGE and the US government this week in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million.
DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters
A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”
wrd.cm
May 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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We owe it to those already there to make this right. In whatever equitable way possible.
Re: U.S. CECOT detainees, the main q is NOT 'did they ever allegedly commit a crime?'

Rather: Is the US allowed to deliver them into lifetime imprisonment in a notorious Salvadoran prison camp without charge, trial, sentencing, or consideration of international/asylum/anti-torture law?

Clearly no!
April 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In desperate need of therapy and intervention
March 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Breaking news: A federal judge in Florida has cleared the way for the release as early as Tuesday of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into alleged election interference by President-elect Donald Trump.
Cannon clears way to release Trump Jan 6. report as early as Tuesday
President-elect Donald Trump, his co-defendants or the Justice Department may appeal any part of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Scientists on Friday confirmed that 2024 was the first to surpass a dangerous warming threshold of 1.5 Celsius that nations had pledged not to cross.
You just lived through the hottest year on record. Again.
Scientists on Friday confirmed that 2024 was the first to surpass a dangerous warming threshold of 1.5 Celsius that nations had pledged not to cross.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Read more: cnn.it/3Wekfgo
January 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Americans are so out of touch🥲 As a canadian, this is starting to be annoying.

globalnews.ca/video/109483...
‘Proud Canadian’: Doug Ford comments on Trump annexation threat in Fox News interview | Watch News Videos Online
Watch ‘Proud Canadian’: Doug Ford comments on Trump annexation threat in Fox News interview Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
January 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
How is this man the president-elect? C-R-A-Z-Y, literally
January 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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So far, Mike Johnson has a concept of a Speakership.
January 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The sad reality is, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know there's a voter for the Speaker going on, don't care & won't be able to name him after the vote. This is what happens in a country where civics education is no longer universal. Its absence lets darkness settle in over democracy.
January 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
January 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Montenegro’s government began a three-day mourning period after a gunman opened fire on New Year’s Day — killing 12 people.

Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said that an upcoming national security meeting will now consider a “complete ban on gun ownership.”
Montenegro considers gun ban after mass shooting kills 12
The New Year’s Day shooting shocked a country where gun ownership is widespread.
wapo.st
January 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A federal appeals court Monday upheld a $5 million New York civil trial jury verdict that found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump loses appeal in $5 million E. Jean Carroll defamation, sexual abuse case
The ruling by federal judges said Donald Trump did not demonstrate that the district court “erred in any of the challenged rulings.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Kenyan President William Ruto has promised to stop abductions of government critics, in an apparent change of stance for a leader who has previously called the wave of disappearances “fake news.”
Kenya’s president promises to stop abductions following wave of disappearances | CNN
Kenyan President William Ruto has promised to stop abductions of government critics, in an apparent change of stance for a leader who has previously called the wave of disappearances “fake news.”
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, a veteran’s organization.
The oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor dies at 105 | CNN
Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daug...
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report slammed the CIA for its treatment of patients with a mysterious ailment known as “Havana syndrome,” determining that “many individuals faced obstacles to timely and sufficient care.”
Senate Intelligence Committee criticizes CIA’s treatment of ‘Havana syndrome’ patients | CNN Politics
A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report released Friday slammed the CIA for its treatment of patients with a mysterious ailment known as “Havana syndrome,” determining that “many individuals...
www.cnn.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has called home, sending a signal confirming that it survived a historically close encounter with the sun, when it traveled to within 3.8 million miles of the flaring surface of the star.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.
wapo.st
December 27, 2024 at 4:34 PM