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From 2018

We love you, God. It's me, Donald.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Republican Town Hall PLAN BACKFIRES in their FACE

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Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

Well, that’s a fun exchange.

We may make the squeaking our ringtone

No Kings Day in Huntington, NY

Today in Huntington,NY

Booker, Schumer, Padilla, Schiff, Raskin, Swalwell, and Johnson Introduce Bicameral Bill to Move US Marshals Service to Judicial Branch | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey <p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. </strong>— Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced legislation that would ad...

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

"We are finally free from the shackles of capitalism. I mean, to be clear: it’s still capitalism. We’re just making sure that basically none of you benefit from it anymore."

From now on, when I post a good NYT piece & someone responds with caustic attacks on the newspaper, I’m gonna block ‘em. I have plenty of criticisms of the newspaper myself, but I subscribe to it bc it has tons of great reporting & opinion pieces & it’s annoying to get into this tedious loop

America’s northern blind spot Scenes from last night's Poilievre rally in Oshawa.

View from Canada: North America's Blind Spot

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Republicans inherited one of the strongest stock markets in history and in 1 month they've fucked it all up.

Scotten’s brief email was eloquent.

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