A rural Kansas county is postcard perfect. Its for-profit jail is a way station to deportation hell. β’ Kansas Reflector
For years the 148-bed detention center, owned and operated by the county, has been a major source of revenue.
Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, sounds like it's just down the road from Mayberry. But its jail is a profitable point in the county because "under a contract with ICE, the jail is filled mostly with foreign nationals from Mexico and Central and South America." kansasreflector.com/2025/05/04/a...
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Letβs set the record straight: Trump is not a βsuccessful businessman.β He is, objectively, a business failure.
How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich
Howard Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years."
Hello?
Trump has killed almost every business he's ever touched. Watch. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=1AQLnUjnabA61SN-
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Kansas senatorβs ridiculous immigration hearing casts nun aside, eviscerates norms | Opinion
Mike Thompson refused to let Sister Therese Bangert testify at his one-sided hearing that was announced just the night before. | Opinion
Itβs ironic that the politicians most likely to purposefully present as tough guys are scared to death of things like peaceful immigrants and nuns. Knowing this particular nun, he should be scared, because sheβs a force. But still, Thompsonβs a coward. #ksleg
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