Mike McCombs

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name She even had her U.S. passport on her.

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule NTSB report finds OceanGate company did not adequately test submersible before 2023 voyage to wreck of Titanic The deadly implosion of a submersible traveling to the wreck of the Titanic was the result of faulty engineering, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on Wednesday. The NTSB’s final report on the voyage that killed five people in June 2023, said that OceanGate, the private company that owned the Titan, did not adequately test its experimental submersible before the trip. The Washington-state based firm, which suspended operations after the catastrophic implosion, was unaware of the submersible’s true durability, the report said. Continue reading...

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule

Pope Leo Calls on Christians to Care for the Poor in His First Teaching The message signaled a continuation of one of the priorities of his predecessor, Francis.

Pope Leo XIV placed the poor at the center of the Christian message in his first major document, which was released on Thursday, urging people to defend and protect the most vulnerable as Jesus did while carrying out acts of charity like almsgiving.

American Gulag The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

Be sure to check out our special package, American Gulag.

A well done story.

Nicely done.

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Emmett Till Investigation Records Released 70 Years Later Days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records on the lynching of Emmett Till.

Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman at a grocery store in rural Mississippi.

He was abducted by Roy Bryant and John William “J. W.” Milam, who tortured and killed him in a barn. His body was later found in the Tallahatchie River.

An all-white male jury acquitted them.

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time.

To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

JFK's grandson John "Jack" Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg
calls out his cousins for staying silent as RFK Jr sits for senate confirmation -- suggests they know a lot that's damning.

Sounds pretty pissed off

UPDATED LIST 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information:

Alabama
Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124
Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744

Alaska
Senator Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665
Senator Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004

Arizona
Senator Mark Kelly 202-224-2235
Senator Ruben Gallego 202-224-4521

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We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video!

Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

We all should be disgusted.

Happy to follow the greatest radio station in the world. My favorite thing to come out of Spindale, N.C.

Carrie Underwood Embraces Trump With Inauguration Performance The country star will sing “America the Beautiful.”

Carrie Underwood, whose most popular song is about a woman teaching a cheating man a lesson by vandalizing his car, is going to sing at the inauguration of a serial adulterer, rapist, and convicted felon. So, really, she can go fuck herself. www.vulture.com/article/carr...

White nationalist Rebecca Hargraves says she would gladly accept "free migration" for white immigrants, but "we need to stop being welcoming" when it comes to non-white immigrants: "These people need to feel discomfort here."

The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...

NEW: Inside the Plan to Funnel Taxpayer Dollars to Religious Schools @alecmac.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com

Filipino fast food chain Jollibee was seen serving free food to people that have been affected by the LA wildfires. Love this.

This from the Washington post Editorial board is correct

The GOP Nativity scene:
No unwed mothers, Middle Eastern people, refugees, and obviously no wise men.

People trolling @mariashriver.bsky.social for her work bringing attn to LA right now

Saying things like.. where were you when FL, NC, etc needed help?

She's the former first lady of CA & an LA resident FFS

Where are Casey DeSantis (FL) & Ann McCrory (NC) now? What are they doing to help LA?

Truth

This.

Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82 Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.

With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Zuckerberg went super homophobe the same week he started publicly sucking dick.

Man Convicted in Pizzagate Shooting Is Killed in Confrontation With Police Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, of Salisbury, N.C., who was sentenced to four years in prison for the 2016 shooting at a Washington restaurant, was fatally shot after he pointed a gun at an officer during a...

A man in North Carolina who fired a rifle inside a Washington restaurant in 2016 because he wrongly believed an internet conspiracy known as Pizzagate was fatally shot by the police in North Carolina over the weekend when he pulled out a gun during a traffic stop, the authorities said.

10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021 After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft