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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Breaking MS NOW:

Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Health care monopolies on patient care screw over working families and destroy your ability to access affordable care.

All so corporate CEOs, like those from CVS Health, can pad their pockets.

We must break up big medicine. We need a Glass-Steagall for Health Care.
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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A whistle-blower group on Wednesday said that ICE officials drafted guidance saying that deportation officers are allowed to enter homes to arrest people without a judicial warrant.
ICE Said Agents Can Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrant, Group Claims
A whistle-blower group said a memo apparently signed by the leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
nyti.ms
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

One year ago, President Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he used the presidency to enrich himself, the @nytimes editorial board writes. This is how Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
nyti.ms
January 20, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Federal prosecutors are investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. n.pr/4qqiXvI
Justice Department opens investigation into Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor
Federal prosecutors are investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey.
n.pr
January 17, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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President Donald Trump is issuing a slew of pardons, a White House official said Friday, including granting clemency again to a woman who was convicted for a second time after he commuted her sentence in his first term.
Trump’s pardon of convicted woman is the second time he’s erased her sentence in a criminal case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is issuing a slew of pardons, a White House official said Friday, including granting clemency again to a woman who was convicted for a second time after he commuted her sentence...
www.cnn.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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The Trump administration took a major step toward giving President Donald Trump’s sweeping new ballroom the green light with the appointment of four new officials to a key Washington, DC, board this week. https://cnn.it/3NhoiHg
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Klein: Were Medicare and Medicaid mistakes?

Ramaswamy: I believe they were. With the benefit of retrospect, particularly Medicaid.
January 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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The Trump administration is cutting nearly $2 billion in funding to more than 2,000 mental health and addiction programs.
Trump Cuts $2 Billion in Federal Funding for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Notices went out late Tuesday to more than 2,000 programs nationwide that will be affected by budget slashing at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
nyti.ms
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Ice is terrorizing Minnesota and California and and and and
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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MICHIGAN: Police arrest protestor of Trump’s attack on Venezuela while she’s live on air 🤔🇺🇸
January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Today was a banger for stupid crap

RFK jr vs childhood vaccines
Trump administration vs nato

Tomorrow could at least theoretically be worse
January 6, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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I mean things may get stupider
January 6, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the U.S. for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down
Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it.
nyti.ms
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Born deaf and blind, she's caught in Trump's anti-diversity crusade:

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump admin cut the program's funding over diversity goals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Nicola Jennings on Trump and Putin’s Christmas Day – cartoon
Nicola Jennings on Trump and Putin’s Christmas Day – cartoon
The presidents fail to offer each other any comfort as Trump bewails the lack of a peace prize and Putin his failure to take Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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After Bari Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, abruptly postponed a segment of “60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration, several veteran correspondents questioned how she had handled the segment after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom. trib.al/nS4UDkt
December 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and exaggerated gestures. ❄️⛷️☃️
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM