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Media strategist and comms guy.

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ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

When six-year-old Joseph Rodriguez got sick, his mother had to bring him along to her regular check-in at a California ICE office.

There, last week, he was immediately detained and quickly deported—all without his hearing aids.

09.03.2026 20:44 👍 268 🔁 154 💬 14 📌 19

This is nonsense.

In 1976, studies showed that less than 40% of jobs in America paid enough to support a family of four on their own.

09.03.2026 18:12 👍 1665 🔁 315 💬 145 📌 14
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Senate Democrats Block D.H.S. Funding Again Over Enforcement Guardrails For the third time, a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed as Democrats refused to support the money without new restrictions on federal immigration agents.

Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked for a third time a spending bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, insisting that they would not approve the measure without new curbs on immigration enforcement even amid President Trump’s war in Iran.

05.03.2026 19:55 👍 209 🔁 37 💬 13 📌 5

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 👍 14936 🔁 2682 💬 312 📌 123
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Investigation finds ‘secretly’ added chemicals of unknown safety in US food supply | CNN Over 100 chemicals of unknown safety were secretly added to foods and supplements without notifying the public or the FDA, a new investigation found.

You know these are the same people that told us cigarettes were safer 60 years.

Chemicals of unknown safety added to US food supply without FDA or public knowledge | CNN share.google/KaAlZEaoPntm...

04.03.2026 11:05 👍 485 🔁 222 💬 21 📌 8

Nobel Peace Prize...

04.03.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

04.03.2026 19:28 👍 5424 🔁 1983 💬 193 📌 88
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Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

Amazing hire for @nytimes.com (and a world-class fumble for the Post) - @yjtorbati.bsky.social is everything a journalist should be. So thrilled to keep reading her work www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...

04.03.2026 14:22 👍 172 🔁 26 💬 7 📌 0
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They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

04.03.2026 03:50 👍 15704 🔁 5223 💬 451 📌 176
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We’re about to take back Texas.

Join us: jamestalarico.com

04.03.2026 12:02 👍 3474 🔁 550 💬 224 📌 55
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Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

03.03.2026 18:48 👍 13165 🔁 3560 💬 614 📌 173

Democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was unavailable to comment.

04.03.2026 17:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

"When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran..."
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

03.03.2026 02:32 👍 1559 🔁 820 💬 108 📌 112
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A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom Going … Going … Almost Gone Take advantage of the special pre-sale...

A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

02.03.2026 19:59 👍 592 🔁 120 💬 13 📌 4
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Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it.

02.03.2026 17:04 👍 10665 🔁 2784 💬 894 📌 207
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“Our country was very nearly under threat”

Same lies, new war.
He thinks we are all idiots.

02.03.2026 18:24 👍 4481 🔁 1139 💬 787 📌 184
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

01.03.2026 15:06 👍 19461 🔁 6095 💬 1669 📌 479
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These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

01.03.2026 17:01 👍 10864 🔁 3557 💬 247 📌 104

The Ellisons are probably looking at CBS's viewership cratering and thinking, yes, yes, we should put Ben Shapiro in charge of CNN now

27.02.2026 16:16 👍 834 🔁 116 💬 54 📌 6
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It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

27.02.2026 16:47 👍 19113 🔁 5829 💬 588 📌 272

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 👍 19224 🔁 4336 💬 1075 📌 169
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Might start using some replies for marketing…

27.02.2026 20:52 👍 80 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Analysis | If the right-wing Ellisons are allowed to purchase CNN, they could order Jake Tapper to obsessively focus on Biden's age, or demand that Van Jones to say Trump truly became president today, or allow Scott Jennings to brazenly tell baldfaced lies on a nightly basis.

27.02.2026 00:15 👍 984 🔁 181 💬 34 📌 12
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In the Trump Era, Celebrating Black History Month Feels Radical Again After putting on their very best performances of solidarity every Black History Month, this year corporate marketers have seemed at a loss for words.

Capitalism exists to follow power, not buck it. That’s amply demonstrated by all the brands that embraced Black History Month only when it was convenient:
https://bit.ly/4l3zhAW

26.02.2026 23:14 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
The Devil Wind Murders-Book cover available everywhere.

The Devil Wind Murders-Book cover available everywhere.

I wrote a mystery at 50. It's a comedy. I wrote it for people who need a good laugh at aging. ❤️ You know who you are. #booksky #comedy #mystery

www.amazon.com/Devil-Wind-M...

26.02.2026 02:42 👍 603 🔁 109 💬 28 📌 1

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

25.02.2026 20:48 👍 12650 🔁 6095 💬 56 📌 331
Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

24.02.2026 15:41 👍 1107 🔁 400 💬 23 📌 19
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

24.02.2026 12:38 👍 15622 🔁 2744 💬 0 📌 1
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They're talking about @radiofreetom.bsky.social like he's Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

24.02.2026 17:19 👍 1492 🔁 179 💬 156 📌 48
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks.

But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

24.02.2026 18:15 👍 214 🔁 122 💬 13 📌 2