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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 6h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

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Leslie 📢 @lesliepear.bsky.social · 2d

When a picture says a thousand words…

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 2d

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Because it is illegal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 2d

Rachel Is Absolutely 💯 Correct !

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is the only way

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid," JD Vance. We checked.

By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday: They appear to range from 24 to 35.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

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RNS @rns.org · 3d

“Among those deported were four women and a 72-year-old man who had lived in the United States for nearly 50 years,” said Iranian-born Pastor Ara Torosian in a Facebook post after the flight, in an account attributed to an anonymous witness on the flight.

Deportation flight to Iran included Christians at risk

(RNS) — The deportees, who include other minorities, may face harsh penalties for their religious beliefs upon return to the Islamic Republic.

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RNS @rns.org · 3d

Every Friday for the past 19 years, a group of Catholics has prayed the rosary outside an ICE detention facility in Illinois, having largely cordial interactions with the agents. But ICE’s demeanor began to change earlier this year, then shifted dramatically roughly two months ago.

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RNS @rns.org · 2d

When the procession arrived to distribute Communion, the response from ICE was an “unequivocal no, with no reason or justification,” Michael Okinczyc-Cruz said. “They denied our invitation to bring Christ into the detention center.”
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ICE turned away the body of Christ. Catholics must keep showing up anyway.

(RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion.

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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 3d

This is not about saving democracy. It is about protecting our people. On October 18, we rise. Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other. Because our communities deserve more than fear, silence, and billion-dollar bailouts for the powerful.

No Thrones. #NoKings

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) posted .. a potential [health insurance] premium increase, sent to him by a constituent, from $307 per month to $964 per month.

“.. The post has 6.5 million views.”

@axios.com
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