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Judge Demands Answers About Deal to Return MS-13 Gang Leaders to El Salvador

Mysterious deal trading MS 13 leaders detained in the US to El Salvador for a discount on the $6M we paid to send the Venezuelans to CECOT. Are any of these people really MS 13 leaders? How do we know? A judge wants details.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/n...

Signed. Thank you for sharing it.

Demand that there is no more funding. Ask that Congress investigate how over 280 men were stripped of due process and sent to this torture prison, illegally. 252 Venezuelans were released, fortunately. But at least 36 Salvadorans were sent from the US to CECOT- and remain.

#humanrights#libertad

And we do not know anything about these Salvadorian men. No one talks about them. Many of them came to the U.S. when they were little. They committed no crimes, yet they were deported to CECOT. Their families haven’t heard anything about them since they were sent to that prison.

Accessible Voting is Under Attack 35 Years After the ADA | ACLU From restrictive legislation to inaccessible polling places, barriers persist that undermine the rights of voters with disabilities.

For 35 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act has been a critical tool to protect voters with disabilities.

Our job now is to ensure we fight to fulfill its full promises over the next 35 years and beyond.

Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs Major law firms are scaling back the free work they do for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

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"After repeated beatings in CECOT, Martínez said he could no longer get out of bed. He would wet himself, and he relied on his cellmates to feed him."

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“It’s abhorrent”: A whistleblower contractor speaks out as Gaza's famine spreads Retired US Army officer Anthony Aguilar recounts violence and chaos at food sites run by the American group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in this special France 24–Mother Jones report.

This video...man. Whistleblower talks about US military contractors in Gaza firing nonlethal and lethal munitions at crowds of hungry Palestinian civilians, harming and possibly killing innocent people.

‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison Arturo Suárez and others deported in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at Cecot

"Suárez said conditions inside the maximum security prison were so dire he and other inmates considered killing themselves."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Venezuelan deportees say they endured months of abuse inside a Salvadoran prison Trump framed the deportation of more than 230 Venezuelan men as a long-overdue campaign to rid the country of immigrants who have committed violent crimes. The facts tell a different story.

Venezuelan men were tortured daily inside CECOT. Their suffering wasn’t isolated,it was systematic,relentless, & hidden behind concrete walls.The world must not look away.This facility isn’t a prison,it’s a site of state-sponsored cruelty. It must be shut down.

www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/v...

Curtis Yarvin tweets: "Here’s how the libs got the USG to spend $2T a year on libbery. They greased the road with their OWN MONEY FIRST. That’s where this NGO empire came from. Before WW2 it was all private. Do you know what it took to raise a mil or so for Doug Mackey? I wasn’t involved. But I saw it" Then a second tweet from him: "No. We have only one problem. The problem is: our billionaires are n—ers. They may be rich. But they’re n—er rich. The nature and function of their wealth is profoundly negrous. You can probably name exceptions. I can too. But in every way, the exceptions prove the rule"

Some utter nonsense, really just drivel, the conclusion of which is edgy racism - this is the essence of Curtis Yarvin, the purest distillation of who he is as a person.

170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...

An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for son

This week, I wrote about Ingrid Mejia, a Guatemalan egg farmworker who spent more than four months in ICE detention after a traffic misdemeanor, while her 3-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was stuck in foster care. www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...

Inquiry Is Opened After Jacksonville Officer Punches Man Through His Car Window A Black man was beaten by a white officer in Jacksonville, Fla., during a traffic stop. The sheriff’s office said that it was reviewing the episode.

A Black man whose car window was broken by a white police officer and who was then punched, dragged out of his car and thrown to the ground during a traffic stop in February said on Wednesday he was “really just scared” during the arrest. The sheriff’s office said this week that it is investigating.

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

'It felt like tentacles': the women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct Allegations against president span decades, with Amy Dorris at least the 26th woman to come forward

#26

There's a lot we still don’t know about Jeffrey Epstein Amid the conspiracy theories, the totality of Epstein’s crimes—and how he made his fortune—is still a disturbing mystery.

For years, there have been loose ends, unanswered questions, unreleased documents, and an endless amount of fodder for future conspiracy theories bit.ly/4117Cre

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Does he know how long Latin/Hispanic people have been in this country?

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.

He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.”

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He is back. We saw him when he walked out of the plane.

Here's a thread from a member of Congress following a law that is unambiguous: representatives must be allowed to visit ICE detention facilities. This is not a norm or a best practice or a subjective exercise by which DHS gets to evaluate whether member is engaged in the "right" sort of oversight.

U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans

Stunning news in so many respects, not least as yet another reminder that the US government (despite its claims to the contrary) clearly has control over the Venezuelans being held in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...

'Bottom of the barrel': Internet torches Kristi Noem over 3-day disaster delay The internet erupted on Wednesday after a bombshell report by CNN revealed that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem waited three days before approving disaster aid for Texas after the deadly Kerr County flood. CNN reported on Wednesday, citing four anonymous sources, that the Feder...

The internet erupted on Wednesday after a bombshell report by CNN revealed that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem waited three days before approving disaster aid for Texas after the deadly Kerr County flood.

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?

🇭🇹 Ces derniers mois, les groupes criminels se sont étendus au-delà de la capitale d'#Haïti, notamment à Petite Rivière. Fin avril, une vendeuse de rue de 64 ans, mère de 7 enfants, a fui son domicile après avoir été agressée.

Elle vit maintenant dans la pauvreté avec ses enfants.

What Donald Trump is doing in Los Angeles and across California isn’t just cruel — it’s un-American.

He’s not concerned about our safety, he’s instilling fear.

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I miss having a human president.

Absolutely.