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Lots of response to our coverage last night of the successful protest campaign to get Avelo Airlines to end its contract with ICE and stop flying deportation flights for the Trump Administration. Here's more on that: truthout.org/articles/her...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

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FWIW we have an extradition treaty with Spain www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

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Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers: Overall approval: 37% On immigration: 38% On economy: 37% On trade: 36: Federal budget: 29% Overall approval among independents: 29% news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The mostly symbolic move puts added diplomatic pressure on Israel as the war and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip rage. France is now the biggest Western power to recognize Palestine.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

“I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse…the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

really useful disambiguation resource for figuring out which agencies are doing what in these big militarized immigration raids: calmatters.org/justice/2025...

"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams... “She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?” www.12news.com/article/news...

Thanks, GOP! Thanks, Trump! "Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium... plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, has resigned. cnn.it/4f16A4z

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives. (gift link, no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

This whole story is insane

“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”

Ah yes, I remember all those boisterous 2024 campaign events where Trump and all the Trump Republicans rallied crowds and voters with their inspiring pledges to destroy storm tracking and weather forecasting in America! USA! USA! www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

"As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!' He then raised his arms in celebration after breaching the Capitol in a face mask... and escaped through a window..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

“CoreCivic has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of running a humane facility. Now, the company flouts city approval to move forward with an ICE center based on false promises.” In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump screws active-duty servicemembers out of $80m they were due to be reimbursed after bank scam: apnews.com/article/navy...

“Trump’s approach to economic statecraft is to impose pressure and get leverage and try to get the best deal possible,” he said. But “for whatever reason, with Russia, he doesn’t want to have any leverage over Putin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

"In April, the Trump Administration quietly lifted limits that had been placed on the wife of a Russian oligarch. Her husband, Boris Rotenberg, is a childhood friend of Putin’s and has been a central figure in his inner circle for decades..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

"Trump also shuttered the KleptoCapture task force, a DOJ unit formed in 2022 to identify and seize assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs. The unit coordinated investigations across agencies, leading to high-profile seizures of yachts, real estate, private jets..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple: 'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

😵‍💫 Germany's Merz: Some US lawmakers unaware of scale of Russia's rearmament – Reuters

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... (link opens warren's very punchy short report in pdf format)

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

What would @petebuttigieg.bsky.social change if he could go back in time to 2020?

Congress's new crypto bill includes provisions letting tech moguls issue their own currencies, require users to only do transactions in those currencies & charge big fees on those transactions. The bill comes as Meta is trying to launch its own currency.

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Trump is hopeless when it comes to Putin - whom he both fears and admires as the Renfield to Putin's Dracula - but he has no effective national security or defense team around him to pick up the slack and actually run anything like an actual foreign policy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

This is a foolish peace plan, as it is absolutely not in the Kremlin's interests to commit to a real ceasefire - they have rejected this numerous times because they feel they can still win. Putin will only stop fighting when Ukraine is given enough support to force him to stop.

🇸🇪 Sweden allocates over US$500m to strengthen Ukraine's defence capabilities

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“Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research after a lengthy application process by individual scientists, work that is not typically done at trade schools…” www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.

A section of California's scenic Pacific Coast Highway that has been closed since January's deadly Palisades Fire reopens in time for holiday weekend traffic, to mixed emotions and high hopes for Malibu businesses.

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison and national civil rights attorney Ben Crump to reflect on how the city and nation have changed.

NPR visits a hospital in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, in a town where many residents have fled but some young couples are holding on and hoping to raise their children one day in peace.

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mazel tov! great news — and a great series. well done!!

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