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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.”

“I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

It is sheer lunacy to oppose reigning in Trump, as we stand on the brink of another 20-year conflict in the Middle East.

Congress alone can declare war, and waging wars of aggression is banned under international law.
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Scientists worry about lasting damage from Potomac sewage spill Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe. n.pr/4kOnfLF

Using saliva to detect disease holds promise, but it's not perfected yet Easier than a blood test, saliva tests have the potential to detect cavities, infections and even cancer. But a lack of insurance coverage and other obstacles stand in the way of wider use.

Easier than a blood test, saliva tests have the potential to detect cavities, infections and even cancer. But a lack of insurance coverage and other obstacles stand in the way of wider use. n.pr/4asRynA

If it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all.

When you understand that, you can see how the news media actually created conditions in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports The Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports reut.rs/3ZGliXV

This is flying under the radar:

Donald Trump FIRED the DOJ official in charge of suing Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing ticketing and hiking prices.

Then, their stock jumped.

If Trump's DOJ takes it easy on Ticketmaster, it'll be a slap in the face to every American.

Mass departures from Justice Dept. are boon for law firms, legal groups and political campaigns More than 5,000 employees have resigned, retired or been fired​ from the Justice Department in the first year of Mr. Trump's second administration.

!! JUST FILED: Mass departures from Justice Dept. are boon for law firms, legal groups and political campaigns

Former official: "Firms are capitalizing on DOJ's idiotic decision to drive out many thousands of brilliant career employees"

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Does that seem fair to you?

Trump’s cabinet.

Of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

According to multiple reports, ICE is using facial recognition and video recordings to track and surveil protesters.

Yet despite mounting evidence of agents recording — including the agent who killed Renee Good — ICE told us it has no policies on these uses of tech.

Here's what we did ⬇️

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

Is this the “golden age” economy we’ve heard so much about?

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Grocery prices in Chicago have climbed double digits over the past year despite Trump's vow to lower them

The Sun-Times has been checking the prices of 35 common grocery items at four Chicago stores for the past year and most items haven't become cheaper. Here are the details.

Donald Trump is threatening your health and well-being to reward his fossil fuel donors.

While he sells out our nation's future, I won't stop believing in the science and fighting for what Illinoisans need — affordable energy, clean air and water, and good jobs.

House Republicans passed the SAVE Act to block millions of women from voting. We will fight this bill tooth and nail in the Senate! This isn’t over!

DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different. "It’s time to get aggressive," a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.

Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.

Illinois AG sues to prevent Trump admin. from cutting $600M in public health funds from 4 states Illinois' attorney general is suing to block the Trump administration from cutting public health funding. Among the $600 million in cuts would be a $5.2 million program at Lurie Children's Hospital.

Donald Trump is stripping critical public health funding with one goal in mind: harming states he doesn’t like.

It’s a slap in the face to Illinoisans.

We will not stand by idly as Trump illegally cancels the Congressionally-allocated funding we are owed.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:

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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?

NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

4 people have died from eating death cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway. “He thinks our people are idiots.”

It’s “the perfect example of where the Biden administration did something for a very rural Appalachian area, but it wasn’t pushed by the press in this area. People don’t see truly who’s trying to help them."

Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county Trump wants control "over the voting in at least 15 places.” He could start in Fulton County, Georgia.

Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren The last U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty expires this week.

The last U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty expires this week.

Without a new agreement, we're at risk of an arms race.
This is serious.

The Trump Administration must continue to pursue arms control deals to keep Americans safe.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

The New Yorker Article: Trump's Profiteering Hits $4 Billion

$4 billion for Trump and his family.

Higher prices for you.

The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then "Coalie" showed up.

Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

From our friends at @grist.org:

Screenshot of tweet by @DHSgov dated Feb. 2. The text reads: Homesick? Take advantage of the historic CBP Home deal we are offering TODAY: a $2,600 exit bonus and a FREE flight to your home country. Illegal immigrants can leave safely and travel normally if they self-deport now. The post image shows a custom DHS plane ticket that says "$2,600 Exit Bonus," "Free Flight," and "CBP Home."

DHS keeps touting a program that offers free plane tickets and “exit bonuses” to immigrants who self-deport.

But last fall, we spoke to a dozen immigrants who said they followed Trump's instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

➡️ Read their stories: https://propub.li/3Zeb4xF

The videos of the abduction today in heavy traffic in Columbia Heights is truly one of the most dystopian things I’ve seen since Alex’s murder.
Ice surrounded a vehicle in heavy traffic boxing it in and then pulled everyone out of the car while other people were honking and then they just took off.