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This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Ohh that's RICH (@ohhthatsrich) on Threads Holy shit — if you’ve ever heard someone say “immigrants are a drain on the economy“ just show them this video. Because…wow. #immigrants #immigration #economy #maga #trump

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I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme.

I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

“The U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke … There is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot,” Stacey Abrams tells Anne Applebaum.
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go off jack white

If only someone had thought to make a nuclear arms treaty with Iran back in 2015. America and the western European countries could have eased sanctions in exchange for Iran ending their nuclear weapons program and avoided all this conflict. Oh well. I guess now we'll never know.

Trump wants his fucking name on everything. Name everything after me and maybe I’ll help the American people!!

This is from the Fulton County elections raid. Far from the most important thing going on with it but I’m curious whether MultiCam armor and ballcaps are a formal uniform standard instituted under Patel or simply a new cultural norm that everybody either wants to lean into or feel like they have to.

Where are they fighting? The surface of the sun?

Oh, glad she cleared that up for us.

Yes, it should.

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Jim Scoggins (@jimscoggins) on Threads Watch this young man confront a “Patriot Front” white nationalist-supremacist recruiter. Well done.

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This is the authoritarian tell:

If a judge rules against your preferred outcome, declare the judge illegitimate.

If that mindset takes hold, courts stop being guardrails and become targets.

Democracy cannot survive a government that believes the law only counts when it wins.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."

Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."

This presser worked like a charm.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

This is the way 💥 ☠️ 🤣

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Jesus Christ…

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Josh Jagdfeld (@josh.jagdfeld) on Threads I couldn’t possibly add anything else to this absolute masterclass of an assessment of what we’re experiencing as a country right now. Absolute mad respect to Cornel West.

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WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.