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Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Kavanaugh Stops resulting in exorbitant Kavanaugh Fees the likes of which we haven’t seen since his credit card debt mysteriously disappeared

Let's get this straight: Speaker Johnson canceled session and refuses to swear in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva, who would be the 218th signer of the discharge petition to force a vote to release the Epstein files.

Bring us back in session, release the files, and let's open the government.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Amy Poehler as Pam Bondi and Tina Fey as
Kristi Noem! That Kristi Noem sketch was a riot. Attorney General Pam Bondi (Amy Poehler) testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Andrew Dismukes, Ashley Padilla, Jeremy Culhane…
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Watercolor painting with blue and red blobby shapes

Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased. #sciart

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

Why don’t we indict UK for the stupid games they played by promising Israel not just to the indigenous people but also to the Arabs and the French? For playing games getting Jews killed?
„British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes“
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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

GOP strategist Stephen Miller: "The president has plenary authority."

Nazi strategist Joseph Goebbels: "We have made the Reich by propaganda."
#WakeUpAmerica #NeverAgainIsNOW

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
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Sometimes even Google’s AI gets it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“AI Overview
A 650% discount is not possible in a conventional sense because a 100% discount would make an item free. A number greater than 100% is likely either a typographical error or part of a scam.”

Federal judge rules against ICE in the warrantless arrests of 11 KC-area workers • Missouri Independent The decision has implications affecting the treatment of immigrants suspected of civil immigration violations in six midwestern states

ICE has been out here playing “arrest first, justify later.” A federal judge in Illinois ruled that detaining 11 immigrant workers without warrants broke a binding agreement. Deportation cases dismissed, and DHS has to clean up its mess.

ICE agents in Chicago kidnapped WGN-TV camera operator Debbie Brockman, loaded her into a van with a New Jersey license plate. @booker.senate.gov Can you help explain? @jbpritzker.bsky.social did anyone give permission for ICE agents from NJ to invade Illinois?

The first two of my plays to be performed will be premiered tomorrow at Volcano Theatre. I have been writing plays for the past seven years. None have been performed until now. Seeing my name in huge letters outside the theatre today was a very nice surprise 🙂
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Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Hakeem Jeffries Straight Up Accuses House Republicans Of Trying To ‘Cover Up For The Pedophiles’ “We don’t buy it at all," the House Democratic leader said.

Good. About time someone accused them of what they are actually doing. Now keep it up.

#USDemocracy

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project 2025

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is the leader we need - “This is exactly the moment for people to stand up...It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.” #DV1 #ProudBlue

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YouTube video by The Bulwark Schiff calls out Bondi’s refusal to answer

Watch here how Adam Schiff (D-CA) calls out all of the questions that Pam Bondi refused to answer in this Senate hearing! NO Republican on this Committee spoke up to instruct her to answer these questions! They are all in on the cover up!

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

Just inject them with heroin. Look what it's done for RFK Jr.

Trump has removed President Biden’s portrait at the White House and replaced it with a portrait of an autopen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Au5...

Trump is a petty, jealous, childish, and hateful person.

I’m sharing a portrait of President Biden as a sign of respect and support.

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

This is one way to fix the outcome of future elections. This country is FUCKED!!!

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics share.google/sKQJs5CCGfgQ...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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