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These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them. Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

truthout.org/articles/the...

08.03.2026 21:37 — 👍 192    🔁 106    💬 1    📌 0
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France became the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. Lawmakers passed the Loi Garot, which requires all grocery stores larger than 400 square meters to donate edible food to charities and food banks instead of sending it to landfills.

08.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 382    🔁 100    💬 6    📌 14

To be fair, at current tech this does sound somewhat easier than building a time machine, going back, and *not* tearing up a perfectly effective treaty preventing Iran from trying to go nuclear in the first place. Probably.

(No, those are not the only two options.)

08.03.2026 19:14 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.

They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.

We do not have serious people running our country.

01.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 6745    🔁 2128    💬 316    📌 93
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

01.03.2026 13:10 — 👍 10160    🔁 3607    💬 43    📌 56
🔴 Just now | Drone strike reported at hotel in Bahrain

An Iranian drone struck the Crowne Plaza complex in Manama, Bahrain, according to reports circulating online.

The Crowne Plaza Manama is a large five-star hotel in Bahrain’s Diplomatic Area, near key government and financial buildings.

There has been no immediate confirmation from Bahraini authorities on damage or casualties.

🔴 Just now | Drone strike reported at hotel in Bahrain An Iranian drone struck the Crowne Plaza complex in Manama, Bahrain, according to reports circulating online. The Crowne Plaza Manama is a large five-star hotel in Bahrain’s Diplomatic Area, near key government and financial buildings. There has been no immediate confirmation from Bahraini authorities on damage or casualties.

🔴 Drone strike reported at hotel in Bahrain

An Iranian drone struck the Crowne Plaza complex in Manama, Bahrain, according to reports circulating online.

The Crowne Plaza Manama is a large 5-star hotel in Bahrain’s Diplomatic Area, near key governmentt & financial buildings.

There has been no...

01.03.2026 20:04 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

I recommend the film Control Room for insights about what is going on right now

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🚨 The death toll at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab has risen to 148 dead and 95 wounded, Iranian state media reported.

Most of those killed were between the ages of 7 and 12.

Video via Mehr News Agency (X: @MehrnewsCom)

01.03.2026 20:06 — 👍 187    🔁 132    💬 8    📌 8
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariff regime The justices hand a rare rebuke to a president they've enabled.

The justices hand a rare rebuke to a president they’ve enabled.

21.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 320    🔁 68    💬 11    📌 3
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Speaker Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request for the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

“Mike Johnson will defend a president who wants to unlawfully nationalize elections but won’t authorize a civil rights legend to lie in honor,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

21.02.2026 02:15 — 👍 245    🔁 117    💬 38    📌 19
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ICE's First Shooting Victim in 2025, a 23-Year-Old, Was Just Uncovered
By Izzy Ramirez

LA TACO NEWS ICE's First Shooting Victim in 2025, a 23-Year-Old, Was Just Uncovered By Izzy Ramirez

Martinez’s death would mark the 1st shooting victim under DHS in 2025, and overall 5th under the Trump Administration alongside Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.

21.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 430    🔁 237    💬 10    📌 9

Ruben Ray Martinez Was Killed in an Undisclosed ICE Shooting in March, His Family Says (New York Times)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

21.02.2026 00:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I have never met Dan Sinker but I think he is pretty cool

20.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted."

20.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 355    🔁 173    💬 20    📌 2

This could not be more timely

20.02.2026 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gisèle Pelicot, on her then-husband, who drugged her and invited dozens of men
to rape her for nearly 10 years: “I only knew a kind
and caring man.
Which is terrifying.”

Gisèle Pelicot, on her then-husband, who drugged her and invited dozens of men
to rape her for nearly 10 years: “I only knew a kind
and caring man.
Which is terrifying.”

Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by her husband, Dominique Pelicot — who also invited dozens of men into their bedroom to rape Pelicot.

In a candid and emotional interview, Pelicot opened up about the trial that shocked the world. nyti.ms/3Og9cCh

16.02.2026 00:30 — 👍 128    🔁 31    💬 11    📌 10

Texas voter here. 💯% agree with every point Chris made. 👇🏽

My vote is going to Jasmine Crockett for TX Senate. 🗳️

🚨Early voting begins Tue, 2/17
Texas Primary March 3

Make your voting plan.

#TeamJasmine
@crockett.house.gov

15.02.2026 23:18 — 👍 581    🔁 170    💬 14    📌 5
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World Cup Waitlist — RESISTANCE STUDIES SERIES

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We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

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13.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 554    🔁 264    💬 12    📌 23
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

15.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 5300    🔁 1684    💬 100    📌 97
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The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis Congress proposes sweeping documentation barriers to combat a form of fraud Americans are more likely to experience as a lightning strike than at a polling place.

The Rational League looks at the SAVE Act: “A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[and] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”

15.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 65    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 1

Incl Chicago

13.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi-this might seem weird but could you follow me so I can message you to ask some advice re whistles? Thx in advance

13.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman" May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

Stephen [Miller]’s the ideas guy. And then I’m trying to be the one who makes it happen.”

Meet May Mailman, the mastermind behind Trump’s sweeping anti-trans orders.

13.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 74    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 0

This looks fantastic

13.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : les dernières informations L’Ukraine a été attaquée par 11 missiles balistiques et 149 drones russes, dans la nuit. Côté russe, le ministère de la défense comptabilise deux drones ukrainiens détruits entre 7 heures et 9 heures, heure de Moscou. Au moins quatre personnes ont été tuées.

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : les dernières informations

09.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Libya: Deux bébés parmi les 53 morts ou disparus après le naufrage d'un bateau de migrants au large de la Libye

Libya: Deux bébés parmi les 53 morts ou disparus après le naufrage d'un bateau de migrants au large de la Libye #Refugees

09.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

09.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 12003    🔁 2661    💬 58    📌 64
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Bad Bunny sends a message at the Super Bowl:

"God Bless America"

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"

09.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 1116    🔁 285    💬 16    📌 17
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It’s crazy to me, how many Americans still think Puerto Rico is a foreign country. And insulting them.

Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. And when any of them move to the mainland, they are able to vote for the president of the United States.

09.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 4194    🔁 1019    💬 178    📌 56

Regardless of this particular race: Dems draw from a much more diverse candidate pool than the GOP. They can make that an advantage by choosing great politicians from lots of different demographic groups...or a disadvantage by trying to choose only from the straight white men running as Dems.

04.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0