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These holding facilities are typically used to detain people after they have been arrested but before they are transferred or released. In many cases, they consist of small concrete rooms with no beds and are designed to only be used for a few hours.
US immigration officials have been increasingly detaining people in small, secretive holding facilities for days or even weeks at a time in violation of federal policy, a Guardian investigation has found.
ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.

“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
www.theguardian.com
Men Who Seize Any Legal Opportunity To Dominate Others / To Be Bullies & Punks

Men Who Act In Such A Manner Due To Patriotism / Due To A Sense Of Right & Wrong ?
Political Corruption Now Openly Accepted As Normal ?

What Have We Become ?

#Citizens_United
SCOOP: Trump has raised about $1.9 billion from an array of corporate donors.

No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
Scoop: Trump's $2 billion fundraising binge
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
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Elon Verses The World ?
is that good.
$TSLA - BYD WIDENS LEAD OVER TESLA IN U.K. EV MARKET Chinese automaker BYD sold nearly seven times more cars than Tesla in the U.K. in October, according to new industry data. BYD’s year-to-date sales jumped over sixfold to 39,103 vehicles, while Tesla’s fell 4.5% to 35,455.
Are There Reasons Other Than Religious Superstition That Cause India & Pakistan To Be Enemies ?
Swing Voters Finally Catching Up To The Harsh Reality Of Electing Donald Trump ?
That is why China has been studying America’s own vulnerabilities and identifying chokepoints that it can exploit (call them trump cards).

Its export controls on rare earths clearly caught the Americans off guard and forced them to the table, allowing Xi to clinch a favorable deal with Trump.
Commentary: According to Chinese academics, economists, and retired military officers, the country's leaders are not losing any sleep over Donald Trump's America First agenda.
What Chinese leaders really think of Trump
The Chinese view is that we are entering a prolonged phase of counter-globalization.
ebx.sh
Instead, top Chinese academics and retired military leaders whom I spoke to in Beijing this week all agree that Xi’s international strategy has been vindicated and that an increasingly fractured multipolar world is working very much to China’s advantage.
Trump may have campaigned on the promise of squeezing America’s biggest geopolitical competitor, but that is not what has happened.
Commentary: According to Chinese academics, economists, and retired military officers, the country's leaders are not losing any sleep over Donald Trump's America First agenda.
What Chinese leaders really think of Trump
The Chinese view is that we are entering a prolonged phase of counter-globalization.
ebx.sh
It's Not Often I'm Speechless
HOSTIN: You don't believe in QAnon anymore? You've changed?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: No, I haven't changed. I was a victim just like you were of media lies and stuff you read on social media
And I Ask Myself

How Are Her Religious Beliefs Any Crazier Than Any Other ?
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Eat one large fishhook, shame on you.

Eat two large fishhooks, shame on me.

Eat three large fishhooks, shame on the fishhooks. Stop being so tasty.

Eat four large fishhooks and, look, this seems more of a "human-made" problem than an albatross issue, alright?

www.popsci.com/environment/...
Rare seabird saved after swallowing four large fishhooks
Veterinarians successfully removed the debris from the juvenile Salvin’s albatross.
www.popsci.com
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Americans are being deprived of food benefits, Republicans are refusing to reinstate subsidies that keep health care affordable, air travel in parts of the country may shut down…

...and Donald Trump is hosting Great Gatsby parties and funneling $300M into a ballroom.
For Years & Years The Status Quo Corporate Owned Oligarchs Have Waged War Against The Common Working Man

Thoughts Of A Mamdani Win Are Exciting
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New York City voters will choose their next mayor today, closing out an eventful campaign between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Here are seven stories to get you up to speed. https://cnn.it/4nBu8iS
Federal SNAP spending totaled $99.8 billion and benefits averaged $187.20 per participant per month.

The share of U.S. residents who received SNAP benefits in FY 2024 was 12.3 %. The share of residents who received SNAP benefits varied by State, ranging as high as 21.2 % to as low as 4.8 %.
And No @Bluesky Celebration Warnings ?
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies - The Boston Globe
The former vice president, a hard-charging conservative who was a leading advocate for the US invasion of Iraq, died at age 84.
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Remembering Dick

"Halliburton, which was once run by Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, was awarded at least $39.5bn in federal contracts related to the Iraq war over the past decade."

www.ft.com/content/7f43...
Contractors reap $138bn from Iraq war
www.ft.com
Because 20,000 Children Were Killed In The Name Of Ignorant Religious Superstitions It Is Obviously Not Only Justified But The Work Of God

And It Is Also Worth Noting These Ignorant Superstitions Are Religions Of Peace & Kindness
Palestinian children in Gaza City are returning to schools reopened during the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. At least 20,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.
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In 1989, Dick Cheney told a Washpost reporter this about his 5 deferments from military service, which might have put him into Vietnam combat:

"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service.... Had I been drafted, I would have been happy to serve."

www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
And Let Us Not Forget

"Halliburton, which was once run by Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, was awarded at least $39.5bn in federal contracts related to the Iraq war over the past decade."