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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.” www.propublica.org/article/life...

"For Mars advocates, however, Musk’s turn is a bitter pill to swallow. There have long been many dreamers who spoke of settling Mars, but only Musk actually built the hardware and financial war chest to make such dreams a reality. And it is true that, in the long-term, Mars offers a more favorable (although still inhospitable) environment for human settlement, with a thin atmosphere, water ice both on the surface and beneath the ground, methane, and more. But those dreams are now deferred as Musk has bowed to a harsh reality: The Moon may be hard, but it is a lot easier to develop than Mars, which is only accessible every 26 months when the planets align."

wait until Eric finds out that neither Mars nor the Moon is ever being settled by Elon Musk and this is all a stock-fluffing lie largely designed to prop up financial fraud! his brow will most assuredly be furrowed!

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Marco Rubio is out as archivist. His replacement will likely also flop Plus: The Trump ‘library’ grift continues

On the one hand, Marco Rubio never should have been acting archivist of the United States.

On the other hand, his replacement will probably be no better.

Read this story and more in our latest secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds, (and subscribe):

Quite remarkable to see the ecstatic joy at Bad Bunny just saying their country's name, while meanwhile American conservatives say "The fact that white male Christians have gone from 99% cultural/political/economic dominance down to like 80% means that we are the most oppressed of all peoples"

incredible article about incredible work.

Prince and gymnastics?! I'm sat! 10s across the board.

The dull teeth-gnashing about Bad Bunny should be considered in the context of how the right responded to the rise of AOC. She was criticized for having lived in the suburbs and being called Sandy by her friends. How dare she “act White”! How dare he not!

Really funny how the ruling class keeps justifying infringing on our liberties with "we gotta protect the children" while bombing palestinian children, protecting a global billionaire network of child trafficking, and building measles infested children prisons

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...

3 government proffer because it was not material to the Court's decision. Had Ms. Levy Armstrong been given an opportunity to respond, she would have vigorously denied that she knew she was being followed and "fled" back to her hotel. She also would have explained that she was staying at a hotel because she had been receiving death threats as a result of top officials in the government denouncing her in the media, and because she was trying to be in a location where she could facilitate her self-surrender at the federal court several blocks away. As previouslyexplained, the governmentthroughUnitedStates AttorneyDaniel Rosen himself refused to allow Ms. Levy Armstrong to self-surrender at the courthouse but instead insisted on arresting her at the hotel where one of the arresting agents video recorded her arrest on his cell phone. Despite the agent promising that the video would not be on Twiiter, a photo of her being arrested was placed on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's Twitter Feed, and then digitally altered to portray Ms. Levy Armstrong in a false and derogatory light and published on the White House Twitter feed.

As part of a bid to loosen her release conditions, Nekima Levy Armstrong reveals that the goon who took a video of her arrest on his phone told her the video would not be made public.

But then it was not just posted by Noem, but altered by the White House

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"I became a historian because I wanted to share the knowledge with people outside of academia. But never in my life did I think that Bad Bunny would help my scholarship reach such broad audiences, using the biggest platform in the world."
Interview w/ @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social , author of
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So it definitely sounds like there is some fuckery going on with the self-deportation documents he allegedly signed.

As always, I have to think of the cases that are not being publicized.

Washington state is quietly trying to move abuse lawsuits out of court and behind closed doors.

SSB 6239 would push people who were abused in state custody into mandatory arbitration instead of a public jury trial.

Sen Manka Dhingra is the main sponsor of the bill.

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Thanks to ProPublica for citing my prior @texasobserver.org report in their story about how an "election fraud" researcher who is a convicted bathroom voyeur may be fueling the federal government's investigations

I will admit that in past years I thought it was likely that Bill Clinton had the deeper Epstein ties and trump, while having partied with Jeffrey, inflated his relationship in the media because he thought Epstein was Cool and Hot, but it is really something that Clinton is all: I will testify…

He obviously knows the jobs report this week is going to be terrible. But Haslett says not to worry because a tiny handful of people are concentrating more wealth than at any point in human history and we should all be happy for them. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Everyone complicit in this moral horror needs to be prosecuted.

University of Houston/Hobby pol

Texas Democratic primary
🟦 Jasmine Crockett 47%
🟦 James Talarico 39%
🟦 Ahmad Hassan 2%

1/20-1/31 LV
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Important context: this is not happening; she is not doing this. But otherwise...

When Trump was running in 2023, he vowed to end Russia’s war against Ukraine in 24 hours.

As foreign policy experts predicted, Putin has played Trump like a fiddle, since.

YouTube video by NFL Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

ICYMI, the full Half Time show with Bad Bunny, aka the Benito Bowl.

youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

“I will love myself later if I do the thing now” is my go-to

The Triumph Of Bad Bunny’s Unapologetically Boricua Halftime Show The Puerto Rican artist’s Super Bowl performance was a reclamation and a reminder that, after more than 500 years of colonization, seguimos aquí.

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here.

www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

we were supposed to bow and surrender when trump won again. they are mad that we wont bow and break. celebrating american diversity makes them sooooo mad and it is our strongest weapon.

Alexis Wilkins @AlexisWilkins An important clarification on my post last night: I didn’t watch Bad Bunny’s performance at all. My point wasn’t the show. My point was that we can’t give the left an inch of the ground we gained in the last election. They’re clearly going to cosplay as people who “love America” and our constitution to pick up moderates and youth votes. We have to be mindful to unite as the right (clearly this is not our strong suit) and recognize that Dems in office is worse than anything the right could ever produce in office. I’m looking at optics and I see the left performing as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We all thought Bad Bunny was going to come out in a dress that said ICE OUT - but he didn’t. This would’ve all been easier to message if he did. They’re pulling the unity trope and we can’t let them have it.

The FBI Director's girlfriend, who gets unlawful protection from FBI SWAT teams, is calling to "unite the right."

Is she also endorsing murdering women with cars?

Posting again.