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A DoorDash driver did not pose a threat when we was shot in the back by ICE goons. They then refused to render aid and so a local police officer had to intervene and find the bullet hole. The bullet is still in his back after a day & they didn't give him medication for the pain. Sadistic monsters.
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The Senate is back in session and could take up the SAVE Act again—the bill requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote in federal elections. It passed the House 218-213 in February, but faces a 60-vote threshold in a chamber split 53-47.
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“ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, who represents the district where the shooting occurred. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-sho...
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More than 106 lawmakers have now signed a discharge petition to force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II. The bill would let survivors, state attorneys general, and members of Congress sue the DOJ over withheld, redacted, or delayed records.
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Keep calling 202-224-3121 ☎️📞📱 Keep up the pressure: use @resist.bot and send faxes/emails in your own words or simply text ‘sign PKPGVG’ to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PK...
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He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature. Marshall Rawson — who won an upset victory in Florida’s District 10 Republican primary last month — attended the infamous Charlottesville rally, talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
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the thing about this article is that at every single paragraph, you're like "this cannot possibly get worse." and then you read the next paragraph
John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Jamie Raskin’s discharge petition would force a House floor vote on the NO CARTE BLANCHE Act, killing Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded settlement fund and ending the "Super Pardon" for him and his family. It’s stuck six Republican signatures short of the 218 it needs.
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Rep. Thomas Massie needs 218 signatures on a discharge petition to force a floor vote on H.R. 9694 over leadership’s objections. The bill would let state attorneys general, Epstein’s victims, and members of Congress sue the Justice Department when it withholds files the law already requires.
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Presidents have to file a form listing every stock they buy and sell. Trump's June form lists 1,051 trades. Worth up to $263 million. Warren and Garcia read every one of them. Thirty line up with what the government was about to do. They gave him until Friday.
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"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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Chandler, Arizona just became the latest city to drop Flock Safety’s license-plate cameras, joining Denver, Austin, and Cambridge in walking away over privacy concerns. There’s still no federal law governing how this surveillance data is collected, stored, or shared.
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The WaPo says Todd Blanche is right about DOJ independence. But there’s a critical difference between a president setting law enforcement priorities & a president deciding who gets investigated & prosecuted. Apparently, we need to talk about that difference. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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Delay is the name of the game for Todd Blanche in my lawsuit. But, my latest filing on the eve of a big in-person hearing tomorrow is designed to blast Blanche into compliance. I walk through the brief & explain why this Status Hearing is a huge inflection point. youtu.be/dbvQ1cW4XQ4?...
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Voters in four of Alabama’s seven congressional districts are casting votes again today in an unusual second primary as a consequence of the GOP’s 11th-hour gerrymander after the May primary had already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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One year in, the National Guard is still occupying DC, but the president's authoritarian takeover has had debatable results at best. The cost is real for communities in DC affected by increased federal presence — and for taxpayers across the U.S. who paid at least $223M in 2025 for this occupation.
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This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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NEW via Politico: Members of Trump's political team asked Ohio Republicans to NOT wage a public pressure campaign against GOP Rep. Max Miller, despite the serious domestic abuse allegations against him. tinyurl.com/4dw9pwwt
It's official. Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in his race in Ohio's 7th — missing all deadlines by which he could drop out in the wake of severe domestic abuse allegations.