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@auntkass.bsky.social
Aunt, Great Aunt, Great Great Aunt. Retired CASA volunteer. Feminist (a really old one!)
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this may come as a huge shock to some of you, be sure you are seated before you read on: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...
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About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.
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Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...
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ICYMI, more ICE deaths. 'Luis Sandoval (48 years-old) ...died while in the custody of (ICE) at the Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center Oct. 23...staff found Sandoval with a ligature around his neck' www.ice.gov/news/release... @radleybalko.bsky.social @nikkimcr.bsky.social
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Among all the appalling things this US administration does, imprisoning thousands of children must rank at the very top. Many of the children they put in prison camps are unaccompanied and appear before courts with no lawyer to represent them. Some are as young as two years old—and all alone.
SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...
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Replying to @gillianbrockell.com
New video from Yasmany Moreno. This man says the trip lasted 28 hours, shackled the whole time, AND that they were shackled 6/7 hours before the plane even left. (I have heard similar many times.) FWIW, he also gives v different number for the new TCNs: 40 Cubans, inc. 7 women, & two Venezuelans.
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Replying to @gillianbrockell.com
The plane that expelled these people flew within 200 miles of Equatorial Guinea at about 10pm Arizona time last night. At that point, there were only crew, ICE agents and GEO Group guards onboard, nothing stopping them from going to EG to get Ahmed Soliman. ICE continues to defy court order.
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The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.
NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Swamp-dwelling MAGA creature Vivek's disgusting campaign ad is a new low, even for him. Sadly, it's not surprising coming from Ramasmarmy.(See, I just replaced the "w" with an "m", then added an "r" after the "a" & there it is) Dumocrats are SO much better than Rapepublicans! shorturl.at/KTVVr
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🧊 THEY LIED TO THE COURT ‼️ The Eastern 767 (N703KW) flight to Equatorial Guinea that ICE claimed in court was canceled – in order to avoid returning a wrongfully deported man – just landed in Malabo 👀
BREAKING: Officials in the Ahmed Soliman case tell the court the government can’t return him to the US on the ICE flight I reported was scheduled to land there tomorrow because it has been canceled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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My reporting is Exhibit A again tonight.
MAJOR UPDATE: Shortly after this published, I obtained another document confirming this will be a removal flight only. If carried out, it would be the largest third-country removal to Africa so far: 25 people to Eq. Guinea, 30 to Burundi + 100 to Central African Rep. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...
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Israeli authorities detained humanitarian volunteers and American rabbis who were peacefully helping Palestinian farmers harvest their olives in the West Bank.
Jewish tradition calls on us to pursue justice. Today, American rabbis and advocates lived out those values by helping Palestinian farmers harvest their olives. Israeli authorities detained them, including congressional candidate @bradlander.bsky.social. 1/3
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El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"
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“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
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