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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 13

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens

The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Jul 4

pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 2

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Jun 17

My statement on the unjustified arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander by the Trump administration.

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Benjamin Easter, Free Palestine @pighway.bsky.social · Jun 13

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 13

Schiff: "One thing that got lost in the horrendous treatment of Alex Padilla today was what Kristi Noem said at that press conference in saying it was necessary to have these troops there to 'liberate the city from the socialists' ... the fact they would use the military that was is unconscionable."

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Ducksoup @goose55.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · Jun 7

Hell of a photo

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 3

MURPHY: Did you worry about what your decision would do to these kids where you've ripped away their counselors & social workers literally in the middle of the program?

McMAHON: I certainly worry about mental health

MURPHY: It's a really cruel thing to do

M: I can't evaluate every program

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 3

Merkley to McMahon: "I strongly encourage you to understand how the changes you're making are hurting ordinary kids across this country ... if you'd take the very effort to read the evaluation of the TRIO programs, you wouldn't be here making that argument today."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · May 31

trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested:
a judge
a democratic mayor
a democratic congresswoman
now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer

gothamist.com/news/homelan...

Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building

Two dozen demonstrators were later arrested outside the building in Lower Manhattan.

gothamist.com

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Emma Thornburg-Suresh @emmathescientist.bsky.social · May 31

Pure evil

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 31

Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 25

Rand Paul: "Somebody has to stand up and yell, 'the emperor has no clothes.' Everybody is falling in lockstep on this -- 'Pass the big beautiful bill. Don't question anything.' Well, conservatives do need to stand up ... if we don't stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going."

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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman @repbonnie.bsky.social · May 22

This budget is shameful and cruel. It takes from the most vulnerable to profit the most comfortable. It will make the rich even richer and the poor even poorer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 21

Angie Craig: "I have no idea why we think it's a good idea to repeal a tax on silencers when we are going to feed fewer children in our country as a result of this. It's a moral damn failure is what it is."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · May 11

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 11

Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."

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NiCole Buchanan, PhD. @drnicolebuchanan.bsky.social · May 9

#NSF had a 11am meeting. By 11:07, I received a message from our program officer stating, "the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired."

This attack on science, research and academic freedom is unconscionable!
www.savensf.com/take-action

Take Action | Save NSF

www.savensf.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · May 7

Jesus Christ…

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NPR @npr.org · May 6

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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NPR @npr.org · May 5

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NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.

Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

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NPR @npr.org · May 1

ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center

ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · May 1

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