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Peter J Carroll
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Chicago, Maine, Shanghai, Taipei, here, and there. aka 柯必德 So many bots--I hope they're bots...
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May 2025)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I saw this Portland Press Herald article on the Portland Press Herald app and thought you’d be interested.

HOW DONALD TRUMP HANDED MAINE SENATOR A POLITICAL WIN OVER ICE
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January 30, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Collins votes to advance ICE funding as Platner, Mills push back - Maine Beacon share.google/EO3DmNVnA1Rl...
Collins votes to advance ICE funding as Platner, Mills push back - Maine Beacon
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins voted today to advance a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would continue fully funding ICE without new reforms or accountability. The Senate rejected the measu...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
No one is paying attention, what harm could there be in indulging him?
January 28, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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This is deeply tragic — and beautiful.

"We rollerbladed and had sleepovers, excitedly dragging our sleeping bags across the street … Lawn sprinklers in summers became portals to different realms and time periods; we ran through the strands of water with towels tied around our necks as capes."
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The Right’s Minneapolis Outrage Machine. Episode: shows.acast.com/whatnext-tbd... . Media: sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/696... .

The administration’s justification for their actions in Minneapolis owe a lot to the right-wing i... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.

The Right’s Minneapolis Outrage Machine | What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
The creation of a Minneapolis online to justify the administration’s actions.
shows.acast.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Susan Collins is a major financial supporter of the fake think tank that operates the disinformation outlet overseen by the guy below: tinyurl.com/ymrbbvpm

Why does she funnel so much money to such awful folks? Why does the Maine press look the other way? #MEpolitics
7 people just died in a tragic plane crash in Bangor last night. Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson when he finds out the victims may have been immigrant attorneys:
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Minneapolis : «Ils tuent en toute impunité». C'est la une de Libération lundi.

Le meurtre d’Alex Pretti, abattu samedi par des agents de la police aux frontières alors qu’il était immobilisé au sol, ravive la colère aux Etats-Unis. Récit de notre envoyé spécial sur la scène du meurtre.
January 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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A Minneapolis, la police de l’immigration fait une nouvelle victime et attise la colère
A Minneapolis, la police de l’immigration fait une nouvelle victime et attise la colère
Alex Pretti, un infirmier de 37 ans, a été tué lors d’une altercation entre des agents de la Border Patrol et des habitants de la ville du Minnesota. Les démocrates menacent désormais de bloquer le budget du département de la sécurité intérieure, quitte à déclencher un nouveau shutdown.
www.lemonde.fr
January 25, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Using John Gast's 1872 painting "American Progress," which celebrates the animating force of Manifest Destiny, to recruit? Yikes! www.dw.com/en/how-are-i...
How are ICE agents recruited, and who are they?
Donald Trump's second presidential term has seen a rapid rise in the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But who are these people, and where is the US government finding them?
www.dw.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM