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After Trump left them in Honduras, “Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, has arranged for the presidential plane to facilitate the ‘dignified return of Colombian nationals who were to arrive in the country today in the morning hours, coming in from deportation flights.’”

thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What you can do
Ten ways to resist Trump II
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.
January 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Most immigrants Trump targets have been here 10+ years, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities.

Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.

https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on the Gulf of Mexico: They say they are going to call it the Gulf of America on their continental shelf...For us and for the whole world, it is still called the Gulf of Mexico (digitally translated)
January 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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For those of you who may be looking for someone with a positive outlook you might want to try Simon Rosenberg. He writes Hopium Chronicles substack. A Dem operative of many years experience, he puts a brighter spin on things. Smart guy, too.
From Hopium:
- We must pull the curtain back on the orange Wizard everyday. For he is weak, not strong
- Trump is stumbling out of the box, making mistakes
- The video of Bishop Budde’s plea for mercy, w/ugly reaction shots from Trump entourage
More 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/courage-an...
Courage And Mercy, Trump Stumbles Out Of The Box, Pulling The Curtain Back From The Wizard
Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm ET/Welcome new subscribers!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Most employers will fire you for being drunk on the job - yet Mullin defends Hegseth & says if others can do their job drunk, so can he

We aren’t talking about someone who’s had a beer with dinner. He’s had to be carried out of work events because he couldn’t stand up.

Disqualifying.
COLLINS: How's the bad behavior of a senator a defense of someone who wants to run the Pentagon?

MULLIN: It's not. What I was trying to get to is if you're capable of doing your job and you're able to still drink on the job or late in the evening, don't tell me that Pete can't
January 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM