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We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
sign.moveon.org
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.
April 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The SAVE Act is a poll tax.

Over 69 million women would have to get new IDs to vote under the SAVE Act—all of which, except military IDs, cost money.

As @mcclellan.house.gov explained, whether it’s $1,000 or 1¢, no one should have to pay to vote.
April 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/4QoxiIeq
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
March 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Securing your phone before entering the USA. 🧵
At CDC we travel around the globe to confront health threats and have never worried about returning home. Yet more researchers, including US Citizens, are having their phones searched at Customs.

security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...
Returning to the U.S.
security.ucop.edu
March 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"Now we’re seeing more and more people who are in detention who are green card holders"
Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders
A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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U.S. detention of European and Canadian tourists creates fear over traveling to America
World
Mar 21, 2025 6:41 PM EDT

www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
U.S. detention of European and Canadian tourists creates fear over traveling to America
Since President Donald Trump took office, there have been multiple incidents of tourists being stopped at U.S. border crossings and held for weeks at U.S. immigration detention facilities before being...
www.pbs.org
March 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#NowThatsCanadian

Dear Canadians,
US bound travelers are being asked to disclose their social media passwords. It should be fully expected that cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices in your possession will be subject to search and possible seizure. Good year for a Staycation.
Cheers
March 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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there is an irony, i will admit, in donald trump destroying the hospitality and hotel industries
If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.
March 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Remember when they kept telling us that this administration is only concerned about “illegal immigrants?”

Remember how mocked we were for calling it out for the lie that it is?

This is not only unjust, it is cruel and barbaric.
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"In recent weeks, the cemetery’s public website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members buried in the cemetery"

An unforgivable affront to American heroes.

taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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February 22, 2025
February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!
Trump: "If you notice, every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem. They execute drug dealers. And when you think about it, it's very humane, because every drug dealer on average they say kills at least 500 people ... I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it."
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…

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Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
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February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM