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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

We won 🚲

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My neighbors and I worked tirelessly to clear the walks. They were pristine until the plows came through.

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

#EastEndTO !

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

Apartheid state Israel

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender Far-right minister defends killing of two men in Jenin, saying ‘terrorists must die’ Video of an Israeli military raid in Jenin shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier. The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under justice ministry review, but has already been defended by Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared: “terrorists must die”. Continue reading...

Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender

Now we’re arresting 80 year old veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military vanity birthday parade on Capitol Hill.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
Make sure some of them wind through the dark end of the forest.
Make sure they lead to the haunted cottage of the twig witch, and past the dens of creatures born of moss and dark mischief.

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall.

It didn't have to be this way.

But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall.

Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

The NBA and WNBA are now actively posting on Bluesky and I can't emphasize enough how important it is that we do everything possible to support these accounts, because how many followers they acquire and how much positive engagement they get will 100%, unequivocally determine how committed they are to this place AND how likely it is that other leagues & sports personalities could then come here too. These accounts aren't just big accounts, they're bridges to entire communities and the ripple effect of them succeeding here would be MASSIVE. If you want to stick a stake through Twitter's heart, this is how you do it - but remember, the NBA and WNBA don't *have* to be here and it's not a foregone conclusion this isn't anything more than a trial run. So yes, don't just follow these accounts: help promote them and positively interact w them too. Let's show them this place is worth investing in.

YOU CAN FOLLOW:

@nba.com
@wnba.com

"The report found that 11 of Canada’s legacy news outlets, including the National Post and Toronto Sun, have endorsed the Conservatives in the last six elections. Just 1 endorsed the Liberals."

Postmedia dominates Canadian media which is owned by far right billionaires.

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Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:

“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Trump accused of ‘mocking’ Catholics after posting image of himself as pope US president displays ‘pathological megalomania’ as cardinals gather to elect new leader after death of Pope Francis Donald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an AI-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media. The image, shared on Friday night on Trump’s Truth Social site and the White House’s official X account, raised eyebrows at the Vatican, which is still in the period of nine days of official mourning after Pope Francis’s funeral on 26 April. Continue reading...

Trump accused of ‘mocking’ Catholics after posting image of himself as pope

Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone

Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America:

America accounts for much less than a fifth of global trade. China, on the other hand, is the biggest trading partner for over a hundred countries and it hopes to pick up some of the international goodwill destroyed by Trump.
#TrumpTariffs

Scheer 2019: Wins popular vote, wins his riding, loses election remove him as party leader
O’Toole 2021: Wins popular vote, wins his riding, loses election remove him as party leader
PP 2025: Loses popular vote, loses his riding, loses election We gotta find a way to keep this guy as party leader

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

"The accounts have tell-tale signs of being bots: posting at very high volume and frequency, often only retweeting content, and consistently sharing a variety of common links — in this case promoting Poilievre and attacking Carney." Archived: archive.is/sTAPc

"What we are witnessing is not only a political crisis or a humanitarian catastrophe, but a collapse in moral and intellectual infrastructure. The tradition that once claimed to guide our judgments ... can no longer bear the weight of the present."

Advocates celebrate court-ordered pause on Toronto bike lane removals An Ontario judge paused the Ford government’s plan to rip out three of Toronto’s major protected bike lanes, handing cycling advocates a symbolic victory.

“We’ve always argued that ripping out bike lanes won’t solve congestion, and the judge’s comments reflect that,” said Michael Longfield, executive director of Cycle Toronto.

Good. Lots of other wonderful, and safer, places in this world.

Harvard Is Fighting Back. So Can We. The Trump administration wants a battle with civil society.

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