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Ms. Martinez’ lawyer says body cam footage shows the agent turned into HER car and yelled “do something bitch” before firing shots.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

elderly golfer big mad because he can’t do a fascism in Portland boo fucking hoo, Donny

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This SC judge blocked the Trump administration from getting voter data and was targeted by a top Trump aide on social media.

In Maine the Maine Wire and state GOP are targeting Shenna Bellows. She and her husband have gotten death threats. I hope nothing like this happens.

#mepolitics

I believe the term is "shithole nation".

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

ICE to conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl, according to Corey Lewandowski.

Sure, because it's undocumented immigrants who are snapping up those $10K tickets. What a stupid statement.

Stick to being ICE Barbie's side piece, Corey. That requires no brains, just a strong stomach.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Militarized federal agents raided a Chicago apartment complex and pulled men, women, and children from their homes and into U-haul vans, separating the children from their parents.

Some people were pulled from their bed naked and terrified in the dead of night.

shitheads being shitheads: the Republican shutdown, day one and European leaders laugh at what a dumbfuck Donny is

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Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

Priorities.

dunk-tank clown and demented pantload lecture actual soldiers on soldiering what the fuck was that?

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This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Are we great yet?

Khanna: "We have to understand how abnormal this is. You don't mock someone and put a video out about how they look. You don't ever mock people's ethnicity. How do you negotiate with that? And how have we made this normal?"

Donny does a racism, because fuck you, what else is new? scenes from an impending government shutdown

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People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

dumbest doofus ever is gonna cure all the autisms welcome to the wonderful world of superstition-based medicine

My hero Jeff Tiedrich today:
"it’s a trifecta of dumbfuck. it’s the Three Stooges of Science. on the left, the guy who knows more about dead bear cub kidnapping than all the dead bear cub kidnappers. on the right, the fake-diet-pill flim-flam man. and at the podium, Mister Let’s Drink Bleach."

dumbest doofus ever is gonna cure all the autisms welcome to the wonderful world of superstition-based medicine

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