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“Gringos, go home”: Latin America reacts to Trump’s expanding military campaign "It could inflame South America."

On Friday, the Trump administration escalated its military presence in the Caribbean and South America.

The expanding campaign, which legal experts have warned violates international law and amounts to extrajudicial killings, has raised alarm in Latin America.

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago (RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’

The treatment of religious demonstrators at the facility has become a political flashpoint and, ultimately, a legal one.
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'King-like powers': Chris Murphy says Trump prefers the government to remain closed The government is heading into its fourth week of a shutdown.

Sen. Chris Murphy says Trump prefers the government to be shutdown.

“[Trump] likes the fact that the government is closed because he thinks he can exercise king like-powers,” he told CNN's Jake Tapper.

ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.

Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.

Florida scrubs arrests of U.S. citizens from immigration enforcement data After the 'Miami New Times' asked why nearly two dozen U.S. citizens showed up on a Florida immigration enforcement dashboard, those numbers disappeared.

After a local media outlet asked about arrests, a Florida immigration enforcement dashboard was quietly edited to remove evidence of officials arresting U.S. citizens.

@cjciaramella.bsky.social reports:

Federal judge permits another Arkansas school district to be added to Ten Commandments lawsuit | Arkansas Advocate A federal judge has allowed for a second time the addition of an Arkansas school district to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in…

A federal judge has allowed for a second time the addition of an Arkansas school district to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public schools. #arpx

Why the ACA needs young people — and the looming 'death spiral' for health insurance Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown over health care tax credits.

Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown over health care tax credits.

@cnn-news.bsky.social ASK JOHNSON, "WHY IS the GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN?" Then ASK HIM 5 MORE tiems and ASK HIM TO TELL THE TRUTH.

“An attack on anyone’s fundamental rights is an attack on all of us.”

We have more power than they do, if we choose to exercise it.

Stop shopping as much as possible.

Call big box stores and tell them why.

Write your reps, no matter their party.

@rbreich.bsky.social

1. Reagan’s speech is real

2. It’s public domain

3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians

4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check

5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭,” 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 — 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐜𝐲.

He wants us dead.

Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY.

If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people.

Listen to his inspiring words from primary night.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise that was as American as apple pie ... or a fighting unicorn.

Around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the response to MAGA’s nonsense.

For many, the cleanest response to violence isn’t a manifesto—it’s a snort-laugh and a unicorn horn. It’s “I don’t know what that means, but I do know you’re full of shit.” trib.al/IPv6hYa

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Trump’s America.

Meiselas: We’re 24 days into the government shutdown, and Trump left the country — the first president in U.S. history to leave the country during a shutdown.

This, while food lines are being seen throughout the United States. This is Trump’s America. Food lines like we saw in COVID are back.

June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from 'Lassie' and 'Lost In Space,' dies at 100 June Lockhart, beloved for her roles in “Lassie” and “Lost In Space,” has died at 100. She died Thursday of natural causes at her Santa Monica home.

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The bulldozer and the ballroom: Trump puts permanent stamp on the White House — Reuters When President Donald Trump met with donors for his new ballroom at the White House earlier this month, he relayed a story that thrilled his real estate mogul heart.

Don’t you mean the bulldozer, the bunker and the ballroom: Trump permanently wrecks the White House? Stop with the sane-washing headlines.