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Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such a...

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, according to a new investigation by ProPublica and @azluminaria.org.

PinkNews (@pinknews) on Threads Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare classic https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/sir-ian-mckellen-shakespeare/?utm_content=1748427600&utm_medium=soci...

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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

I work with single moms and families that were lifted out of poverty, homelessness and addiction because they had the opportunity to have free childcare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Therapist Explains Why 1 ‘White Lotus’ Character Is So Mean But ‘Strangely’ Alluring “That's a really meaty narcissistic story,” clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula said of the most recent episode of the hit Max series.

Covert Narcissism and other PD are some of the hardest diagnoses to treat, which is why the therapist in White Lotus is hardly to blame. Plus a wellness coach is not a clinical therapist. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated” The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire,…

The Trump administration has shut down the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Office of Equity Assurance, effectively hobbling internal VA efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities the department itself has acknowledged.

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To compassion is to human.

Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Vivian Responds To His Transphobia: "Go Touch Some F–king Grass" Vivian Jenna Wilson's response comes after Musk shared her deadname with the world in an interview with Jordan Peterson.

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YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko Full White House Video of Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy

Full exchange with Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy

Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

Opposition movements always seem hopeless until they’re not. Apartheid existed for decades and then came crashing down rapidly.

How to Contact ProPublica Securely — ProPublica ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the…

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

Zelensky ‘politely declines’ to sign agreement granting U.S. mining rights for half of Ukraine’s ‘future mineral reserves’ — Meduza Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly refused to sign an agreement presented by American lawmakers in Munich that would have pledged half of Ukraine’s “future mineral reserves” to…

U.S. lawmakers in Munich reportedly handed Volodymyr Zelensky a "piece of paper" today that would have granted Americans the mining rights to half of Ukraine's "future mineral reserves." Zelensky refused to sign.

One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands. The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...

FAA is next…

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

Update: Author Tom Robbins, La Conner resident, dies at 92 | Cascadia Daily News Legendary novelist — described as 'the most dangerous writer in the world today' — lived in Skagit County for more than 5 decades

I read Even Cowgirls….upon my post high school US return after living most of my childhood abroad on military bases. Where weird and playful meets mindful and philosophical, he introduced me to unique subculture Americans and I’m still smitten…RIP Tom Robbins www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/feb/09/...

Wow!

Still missing this soul every day❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Leaving Greece about a month ago. Still reeling from that trip!