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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...

“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”

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Showed our toughness this week. Let's keep stacking wins. #GoBigBlue 😼

This is terrifying! #ICE

“We need to start to think of ICE in a different way. This isn't merely a governmental agency. It's a para military group that has seen its ranks swelled by people drawn from the far right's base. They are not enforcing laws, they are pursuing a political ideology.”

- @its_mccarthy

“Remember when we said that Project 2025 clearly laid out how Trump was going to turn ICE from a border-focused immigration enforcement agency into a national secret police force answerable only to Trump as his own personal Gestapo, operating everywhere with impunity?

Yeah. That.”

Holy Shit, Mike Johnson A man who defends a video of Trump defecating on Americans probably shouldn’t call himself a Christian. Or a leader. Or a man.

Holy Shit, Mike Johnson
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🚨 A January 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump has been ARRESTED for allegedly THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 1/

If the Trump WH could just be honest with us for once & tell the truth about these “peace talks/deals” we could handle it. Tell us it’s going to be difficult with lots of things unresolved & pitfalls to navigate. Instead, because of Trump’s craving for praise, we get propaganda.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

These two things are true at the same time:

1. Republicans don't care about health care

2. They may still try to destroy Obamacare once and for all

Remember, they've got a reconciliation bill next year, with no filibuster.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...

I’m so sorry this is happening to you and other small independent businesses. My father owned his own auto parts business for 45 yrs. When he retired and sold the business he said “I hate that others won’t have the same opportunity as I did. I buy from family owned businesses as much as I can. 🙏

“Spiritizing”? 🤦‍♀️ I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. He’s a complete embarrassment. I can only imagine how frustrating and maddening this must have been for these 800+ Generals to have left their posts to watch these two cosplay.

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Exclusive: In the first half of the year, upheaval from the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze delayed the delivery of hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies to regional warehouses in dozens of countries.

The consequences were deadly.

You’re leaving out one of the most damning statements made. He said “We can either do this the easy way or the hard way”. That sounds like a direct threat or promise, if you will, from the FCC. This is where we are now! It took Putin and Orban years to do this and Trump has gotten here in 9 months!

At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.

Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Assault Destroys U.S. Families and Communities YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal

Starting at 8:30 EST, @immcouncil.org’s own @naynagupta.bsky.social will be testifying at a shadow hearing held by Congressional Democrats on the impact of Trump’s mass deportation policies. Check it out! www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...

Wolff: I remember once, when I was at Mar-a-Lago to do a sit-down interview, his aides asked for a rough outline of what I wanted to talk about. I had a lot of subjects, but I also said Epstein.

And they told me, “If you ask about that, he’ll just stop the interview and you won’t get anything.”

This is Trump's ICE Gestapo. In what democratic country do federal employees of the government wear black masks to hide their identities — and drive around in black vans with blacked-out windows kidnapping and terrorizing people, including American citizens and legal residents?

The pictures and videos are all amazing for NKD, I hope you’re getting to watch them! The cult leader looked very small and defeated and the minions looked bored out of their minds. What a waste of millions of dollars!

Hey there!😃 I’m so happy it worked out for you! It was great! There will be something in the local news tonight so hoping they have a number. This was an amazing day across the country as well for the protest! Safe travel wherever you may go.
🤗🙏💙

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#ObamaAppreciationDay
I miss complete sentences, don’t you?
#Obama #NoKings

#NOKINGS

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

I just checked radar. If it holds true there if off and on rain however, the bad thunderstorms seem to be staying out of downtown!🙏

Yes, I had hoped that we’d have better weather. I’m praying it dissipates!🙏 At least it won’t be 90 degrees, right?😂

You’re welcome! I’ll warn you that getting into and around downtown has a lot of one way streets so be careful! There is on street parking on the side streets all around downtown, however, with it being Saturday a lot of people are home so they might be few and far between. Welcome to Kentucky! 💙

I hope this helps and I apologize for not seeing your posts until this morning. # NOKINGS

You can definitely try that one first! It still says Open 24hrs online. I suggested the other because I just don’t know what the PD might have blocked off, if anything. If you can’t get into that one you’ve got the backup. Your maps app will pickup “Rupp Arena Parking” to get you there!

Carrie, I just checked and the downtown parking garage on Main Street has posted that it’s “temporarily closed”. I’m not surprised given that we’re blue dots in a red state. I just wanted to give you a heads up in case you were considering that parking garage. Safe travel!🙏

This is happening right downtown and there is not a lot of street parking there. I would not use the garage there.When you’re just outside Lexington put Rupp Arena Parking Lot in your maps app. There’s parking there & a parking garage right by that if it’s full. Short walk from there. Be safe!🙏🤗