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She's a nurse & grandmother who had been here for 30 years

She had a work permit

She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in

She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.

She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*

7:11 Done L 1k の 山 ... By Noah Robertson and Jeremy Roebuck The FBI has requested interviews with Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a controversial video last week reminding U.S. service members of their dur to disobey unlawful orders, further escalating the Trump administration's campaign to punish

Btw, why describe this as a “controversial video”? Controversial to whom?

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The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

In the years to come, the Tulsa massacre was not widely taught in American history classes. In Tulsa itself, memory was suppressed. Police records vanished, newspaper archives were tampered with, and victims were buried in unmarked graves. Some residents reached adulthood unaware that the massacre had happened. But its 100th anniversary, in 2021, brought it renewed attention, coming a year after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, had sparked nationwide protests.

After one of the worst acts of racial terror in our history, *we erased it.*

We didn't teach it.

We didn't take anyone to trial.

Police records disappeared.

So did newspaper archives.

The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.

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I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened

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In South Carolina, a Colombian family of five went to a government office for a fingerprinting appointment, only to have the parents detained while the children — ages 5, 11 and 15 — were sent into the shelter system for four months. In South Florida, a 17-year-old from Guatemala was taken into custody because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad after a traffic stop; his dad is deaf. In Maryland, a 17-year-old from Mexico ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn onto military property.

What our government is doing to families who follow the rules.

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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

BREAKING: Trump is again separating kids from families

The govt isn't releasing info, but we found ICE has sent record # of kids to shelters.

One family went to govt office , only to have parents detained while the children—aged 5, 11 and 1--went to shelters

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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

“Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire.

“Many of the razed buildings did not appear to be damaged prior to being destroyed. There were houses with gardens, trees and some small orchards.”

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3:41 . he day alter our conversation, Mr. Olbermann called to clarity something that had not come up; he wanted it known that they did not begin a physical relationship until Ms. Nuzzi was 19. Ms. Nuzzi apparently does not consider her relationship with Mr. Olbermann to have been "marriage-y." "I have not ever before and will not now acknowledge any claims made by this person," she wrote in a text. <

Olbermann.

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Agents of course have been breaking many car windows -- with kids inside, and leaving people bloodied and traumatized.

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They met for dinner, she was 18. He was 52l Instead of working together, they began dating, he said. They got two Maltese puppies and James Thurber-inspired tattoos. "It was marriage-y," Mr. Olbermann said. "It was very much an at-home-with-the-dogs sort of thing."

She was 18. He was 52.

“It was marriage-y,” Mr. Olbermann said.

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yet another case of U.S. Citizens arrested by immigration agents on serious charges — then the government drops those charges

A common trait in many cases of citizens detained by immigration agents that @propublica.org reviewed

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"Scientific orthodoxy" doesn't feel like the description....science.

Daniel Lozano-Camargo was shipped to Venezuela despite federal court deal protecting him from deportation.

Now, he's missing.

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The government's team consisted of Ms. Halligan, a former White House aide and Gersonal lawyer to Mr. Trump who is working on the first criminal case of her career. She was accompanied by Mr. Lemons and another assistant U.S.

Amazing.

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Just a “driver safety” initiative.

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Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown

In Trump’s America…

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Quite a defense.

“They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about work they told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud”

What is he talking about? I mean, seriously.

"encroachment"?

"I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross." -priest who was protesting peacefully.

Julia Baran, the new owner of the Animal Connection, said in an interview on Friday that nobody from the Lurie administration called her or visited the pet store during their vetting process. It they had, she gala, they would have learned that Ms. Alcaraz left behind a freezer stuffed with pet corpses. Furthermore, she said, the store was covered in urine and feces and short on inventory. "I'm very familiar with the smell of death now," she said.

If you’re gonna be a politician, perhaps best to not leave freezer full of pet carcasses when you sell your store.

Also, feces and urine.

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Mr. Carlson explained his nonconfrontational approach to lor Fuentes in part by saying that he viewed himself as more of an oral historian in the manner of Studs Terkel than an interrogator. Acknowleuging that he had not prepared much before interviewing Mr. Fuentes, he said, "Honestly, I was guilty of the same thing I criticize others for, which is judging him by a few three-minute clips I saw."

This comparison is a shonda.

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If anything, Mr. Carlson's interview with Mr. Fuentes may have increased his visibility, or, at least, it did not hurt it. According to the YouTube monitoring website VidIQ.com, his show had 1.46 million paid subscribers the week before the interview. The week after, his subscribers totaled 1.5 million.

Tucker Carlson’s paid subscribers *grew* after his Fuentes interview.

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Memes please.

Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say The chemicals stay closer to the ground and may become less effective, though using tear gas outdoors is questionable practice in any weather.

News you can use, 2025 edition.

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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

NEW:

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

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