Laura

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Noticing a pattern here.

Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:

I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.

I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

Learn to juggle, friends! 😂

United States v. Bendler, 1:25-cr-00109 - CourtListener.com Docket for United States v. Bendler, 1:25-cr-00109 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

There should be far more attention to this CIA guy, Dale Bendler, who pled to taking Secret Docs from CIA and sharing them w/2 different foreign principals, had JESSE BINNALL rep him, and hopes to get just 2 years in prison.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/69919...

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

REPORTER: When can we expect the first deportees to be sent to Rwanda?

HOMAN: We're working on it

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.

That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

I’m here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where military style vehicles have pulled up down Wilshire and Alvarado, amid rumors of an ICE raid in the park have proliferated since last night

Footage continues to emerge showing missile impacts in Israel. This video is from Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv.

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

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Why does El Salvador's far-right president Bukele have a "high-end" coffee brand -- with sketchy (at best) bean sourcing -- that is registered as a US-based LLC with a Miami address?

He wants to build prisons in El Salvador for American citizens he doesn't like.

Enough's enough. He needs to be stopped.

Once again sharing this info.

Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.

I want to write a report fully detailing the conditions in CECOT via curatorial journalism—there is so much people don't know—but I'll tell you honestly that writing my last three reports on this subject has broken my spirit. My health has been affected. This is the worst topic I've ever written on.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..."

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights..."

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Man leading meeting stands at a chart pointing to the nadir of a huge drop in the stock market

Trump is trying to quietly wrest control of a top federal civil rights board He wants to demote the Democratic chair and replace her with a hand-picked Republican.

“They’ve been relentlessly dismantling every single civil rights agency in the federal government, and this could be the last one standing.”

Garza added that she is “prepared to challenge any attempt to illegally remove me as chairwoman.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":

"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

FYI: Did you intend to include your own email in the pic posted? Be safe!

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?