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Jennifer Vroom

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Longtime history teacher. Lapsed glass artist. Reader of all things not fantasy/spiritual. I'll travel anywhere. Learning Arabic. Seahawks, Mariners. She/her.

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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tiedβ€”attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

20.11.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2696    πŸ” 1565    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 153
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β€œTicking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

19.11.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2392    πŸ” 1241    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 122

Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.

19.11.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1139    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 29

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

20.11.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8510    πŸ” 2565    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 262
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Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

20.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5200    πŸ” 1935    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 181

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

20.11.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9914    πŸ” 7637    πŸ’¬ 312    πŸ“Œ 761

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

20.11.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8018    πŸ” 2831    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 54

Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.

19.11.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2243    πŸ” 472    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 20

<4 weeks later, that long period of static polling seems firmly over. The shutdown and Epstein, presumably, have finally made a dent. After months at a stable -10, now at -15.

19.11.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 438    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 8
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Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants It’s a β€œviolation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.

Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

19.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 924    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 21

Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.

The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.

20.11.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 17612    πŸ” 3692    πŸ’¬ 476    πŸ“Œ 277
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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.

He said he had β€œnothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.

Release the transcript.

19.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5943    πŸ” 2192    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 121
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RAJU: What's the impact if the Senate does in fact change this bill?

MASSIE: They're part of the coverup. Speaker Johnson's press conference shows he's unrepentent. They have a backup plan. And I think it's gonna work poorly, by the way

18.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3315    πŸ” 870    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 38

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

18.11.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4495    πŸ” 1433    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 51
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Trump admits he doesn't understand the stuff he's reading in his speech: "I asked one of my guys because when I was coming over I saw that in the speech. I said, 'What does that mean?'"

18.11.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 995    πŸ” 276    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 52

1000 survivors

18.11.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

If FIFA really wanted Americans to care about soccer, they probably shouldn't allow Donald Trump to dictate the terms of their brand name global tournament that only occurs every four years. This is how you dead stop any inroads soccer has been making in the USA.

18.11.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 228    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1

He was going to lose the vote anywayβ€”and the language of the bill says DOJ can withhold files related to a current investigation, one of which he just coincidentally opened this week.

17.11.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

These capabilities ICE has via Thomson Reuters and Motorola are mind boggling. marries license plate data with voter and ownership records, future location prediction (unclear how good this is), face recognition. Surveillance state continues apace

www.404media.co/this-app-let...

17.11.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10
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Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

18.11.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 14150    πŸ” 4320    πŸ’¬ 795    πŸ“Œ 296
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How a family secret led Greg Bovino to lead Trump's border crackdown Before he became the face of Trump's tough ICE policies, Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino endured a childhood marked by a family scandal that changed the trajectory of his life.

An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.

"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"

17.11.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1629    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 66
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Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

17.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4530    πŸ” 2729    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 426
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

17.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3518    πŸ” 2169    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 236

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

18.11.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4314    πŸ” 1052    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 49

β€œMarketed for kids 3-12, Kumma gave step-by-step instructions on a common β€œknot for beginners” who want to tie up their partner. Another time, the AI explored the idea of introducing spanking into a sexually-charged teacher-student dynamic, which is obviously ghoulishly inappropriate for young kids”

17.11.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 18
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White House aggressively posting β€œtrump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

16.11.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8543    πŸ” 1724    πŸ’¬ 677    πŸ“Œ 406

She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.

16.11.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3856    πŸ” 489    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 37

lololol

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