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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

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the eldest victim of colorado terror attack against a group of israel supporters: an 88 year old holocaust refugee her friend saying “her life wasn’t easy, but she is just a bright light.”

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#ElSalvador | URGENT 📣 Ruth is likely the victim of short-term enforced disappearance. As of now, neither her family nor her legal team has been able to confirm her whereabouts or the detention center where she is being held.

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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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If US media wrote about the US the way they would write about any other country

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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"Striking comments" "brash move" "fraught new phase" "significant escalation" "constitutionally dicey" "ugly power struggle" The #BrokenPost brings a thesaurus to a coup. Pam Bondi’s striking comments on arresting judges www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Pam Bondi’s striking comments on arresting judgesAmid criticisms that the administration is intimidating judges, Bondi didn’t exactly downplay the idea that this was part of a larger crusade against the judiciary.

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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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Never diminish the larger meaning and emotional uplift of sports, particularly in dark times. A truly symbolic victory over one of the best teams in the world, one of the greatest nights ever at the Emirates. I’m floating above the clouds. #Arsenal #COYG