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As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis Trumpโ€™s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world.

As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

05.12.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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After Trump's Latest Racist Rant, Ilhan Omar Hopes 'He Gets the Help He Desperately Needs' | Common Dreams โ€œHis obsession with me is creepy," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, the first Somali American ever elected to the US Congress.

After Trump's Latest Racist Rant, Ilhan Omar Hopes 'He Gets the Help He Desperately Needs' www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-o...

03.12.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive.

03.12.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why does the press need to do this song and dance with the press secretary where they ask her if the president was sleeping? What she says doesnโ€™t matter. They are suckers for staying in the game when itโ€™s all lies. Of course he was sleeping. Was else was he doing? We can all plainly see it.

03.12.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

03.12.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.

03.12.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5386    ๐Ÿ” 751    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 222    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Vile, unhinged, gutter racism, the kind of horrifying attacks that literally everyone must rally to oppose

03.12.2025 04:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 615    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

02.12.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2645    ๐Ÿ” 796    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105    ๐Ÿ“Œ 68
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Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep

03.12.2025 12:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3717    ๐Ÿ” 862    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 103    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54
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DOGE Isnโ€™t Dead. Hereโ€™s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has โ€œburrowed into the agencies like ticks,โ€ government sources tell WIRED.

NEW: DOGE isnโ€™t dead, despite recent reports.

Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.

w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...

02.12.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 614    ๐Ÿ” 353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Trump War Sec Hegseth Bragged on Fox Hours After No Survivors Boat Strike โ€” โ€˜I Watched It Liveโ€™ Pete Hegseth bragged on Fox News that he watched, in real time, the controversial boat strike that he is now distancing himself from.

Smoking gun: Pete Hegseth Bragged on Fox Hours After No Survivors Boat Strike in September โ€” โ€˜I Watched It Live.โ€™ This guy gave the order to kill survivors. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

02.12.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 621    ๐Ÿ” 234    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
Why Palantir is America's Most Dangerous Corporation
YouTube video by Robert Reich Why Palantir is America's Most Dangerous Corporation

The AI surveillance state is real โ€” and it's being built by Palantir. youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?...

02.12.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 978    ๐Ÿ” 397    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-in...

30.11.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2417    ๐Ÿ” 506    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 158    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

โ€ข If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a โ€œnon-international armed conflict,โ€ as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to โ€œkill everybody,โ€ which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give โ€œno quarter,โ€ and
to โ€œdouble-tapโ€ a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes.
โ€ข If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

โ€ข If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a โ€œnon-international armed conflict,โ€ as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to โ€œkill everybody,โ€ which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give โ€œno quarter,โ€ and to โ€œdouble-tapโ€ a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. โ€ข If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

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Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are โ€œpatently illegal,โ€ anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are โ€œpatently illegal,โ€ anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon โ€œNo Quarterโ€ Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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29.11.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6739    ๐Ÿ” 2823    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 117    ๐Ÿ“Œ 173

Indeed, it's a confession and admission of guilt to heinous crimes.

30.11.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3997    ๐Ÿ” 1116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 184    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38
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Homan on asylees from "third world nations" -- "I really truly think that most of them are gonna end up being deported"

30.11.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 472    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 113    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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โ€œAh, just one more thing, sir. Youโ€™re blowing up those boats, saying theyโ€™re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. Thatโ€™s billions of doses. Help me understand that.โ€

30.11.2025 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24229    ๐Ÿ” 8101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 609    ๐Ÿ“Œ 378
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Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.

Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

30.11.2025 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1316    ๐Ÿ” 620    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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this week in stupid: November 29 edition Sporky gets pissed, Donny gets dissed, and so much more...

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: November 29 edition" โ€” Sporky gets pissed, Donny gets dissed, and so much more...
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29.11.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1020    ๐Ÿ” 204    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Miller wrote Trump's Thanksgiving "message" --- or at least the first draft --- didn't he? The whole western civilization bit was obviously him.

29.11.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps maintain Americans' access to vaccines An effort to include autism cases could bankrupt the program. The secretaryโ€™s anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.

RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps maintain Americans' access to vaccines

29.11.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

๐Ÿคฌ

29.11.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

29.11.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19913    ๐Ÿ” 7297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 778    ๐Ÿ“Œ 437
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Trump And His Regime May Be Heading Towards A Legitimacy Crisis Congress returns to a series of crises on Monday, and must act with great speed and ambition now

Failing, flailing, corrupt and deeply unpopular, a sundowning Trump and his rancid regime may be heading towards a legitimacy crisis.
My latest ๐Ÿ‘‡
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-and-...

29.11.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 289    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿคฎ

28.11.2025 05:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I seem to recall that one of the GOP's main criticisms of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was that he betrayed the Afghan allies and didn't allow enough of them to come to the US. They shouldn't be allowed to forget that.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...

27.11.2025 04:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 193    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

27.11.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2659    ๐Ÿ” 728    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

๐Ÿคฌ

28.11.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump honoring Afghan translators at the White House in 2019

27.11.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 398    ๐Ÿ” 117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

๐Ÿคฌ

26.11.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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