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notably *at the time* it was treated as a big deal, and then the media decided it couldn't be because that would mean doing work.

Border Patrol dumped a blind man at a Buffalo donut shop A nearly blind Burmese refugee has been missing since Thursday after Border Patrol dropped him off at a Buffalo Tim Hortons.

ICE stole an older, blind refugee who can’t speak English, then dropped him off at a random coffee shop in Buffalo and he hasn’t been seen for 5 days in the freezing cold…

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i like rice in all shapes and sizes

Reese’s grandson accuses Hershey of degrading chocolate, making it ‘not edible.’ Is he right? H.B. Reese spent two years at Hershey before leaving to form his own company and inventing Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1928. His grandson says Reese's is ruining that legacy by cutting corners.

Truly the hero we need.

H.B. Reese is waging a one-man war on Hershey’s for ruining his grandfather’s legacy (and his Peanut Butter Eggs) 🍫

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Because a bunch of guys with hunting rifles aren't going to beat the American security state, but a Tahrir Square moment could.

Obviously no liberal non-electeds are saying the public should disarm, but Harper also makes the fallacy of assuming the kind of internal strength needed for fighting against fascism is the willingness to kill for your cause when actually it's the much rarer willingness to die for it.

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody.

That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term.

We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

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This is a very important point that I have often discussed. Most people think of "news judgment" being a reporting thing, but so much of news judgment is shown before and after.

It's the story selection, who gets talked to, the overall frame.

Then it's the story placement, design, and promotion.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

In the Viktor Orban method of democratic backsliding, the state forced over 90% of media into the control of political allies. Opposition parties exist, but few hear them.

Orban was a featured speaker at CPAC, including one where Americans went to Budapest, and is often praised by Trump officials.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

My three main issues:
- Neither man has heard of the Fourth Amendment.
- Sanchez did not explain that administrative warrants do not involve a judge.
- Sanchez did not explain and Alford ignored that this was a change secretly implemented by DHS in this administration.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

I am heartbroken to learn that Ofelia, my 16-year-old constituent with cancer whose father was taken from her at a Home Depot, passed away.
 
Even as Ofelia fought cancer, she also fought to bring her father home and ensured that he would no longer have to live in fear in the shadows. 1/2

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

as another round of "Israelis steal organs" goes around, I am again trying to find a succinct way to say "do you realize you can think the Israeli government is full of criminal freaks, something I believe too, and that doesn't mean you have to believe outrageous antisemitic conspiracies, right?"

I refuse to talk about Gavin Newsom getting the presidential nomination until there is actually a chance of that happening, the primaries for the midterms aren't even over yet

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

A young man at our town hall asked if I was pushing class warfare.

I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”

I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?

It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.