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Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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You said you graduated from University. You didn't.
You came here on an Einstein Visa. You were a Grade D model at best.
You have an anchor baby - Barron.
And you wanted to see Barack Obama's birth certificate when you are the liar/cheat.
#ReleaseEpsteinTrumpUnredactedFiles
August 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Russian scientist imprisoned by ICE writes a beautiful essay. Such courage in the face of injustice.
Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The grift is next-level, and it’s happening right under our noses in broad daylight.

@pivotpod.bsky.social
@karaswisher.bsky.social l loop
May 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.
May 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.
May 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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No great (or even little) sympathy for Mike Waltz—his Faustian bargain has come due. But as an objective matter, I will note that firing Waltz and Alex Wong would remove two of the less unqualified and less irresponsible members of the security team.
May 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Marshall Plan: The United States helps its allies in their time of need.

The Trump Plan: The United States shakes down an ally in its time of need.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Deal on Proceeds From Rare Earth Minerals
The agreement is intended to give the U.S. access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of minerals and to help fund the rebuilding of Ukraine when the fighting stops.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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What a difference a year can make to a cult.
May 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.
April 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Since 1945, American Universities have been envied worldwide for their Government-funded research.

Hard to justify via corporate R&D, frontier science is vital to our long-term health, wealth, & security. To withhold University funding is to amputate the engines that Make America Great.
April 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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If they were arresting judges in another country with an authoritarian-inclined (even if democratically elected) government, we'd be alarmed.

We in the U.S. should be alarmed.
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Our secular Democracy implicitly grants religious freedoms to all. A good thing. But if you're Christian and want to vote into law tenets of Christianity, you open the possibility of a different religious majority in the future out-voting you, instituting their laws instead.
April 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The President’s wife is a European immigrant. Both parents of the Secretary of State are Caribbean immigrants. Both parents of the FBI Director and the richest person on the World are African immigrants. And 1/3 of the 320 American Nobel Prizes in science have gone to immigrants.
April 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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What fool gave history’s greatest monster a sword
April 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM