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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Not an actual cat @amaltheabutterfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If people understood the amount of detailed work in that, it would be going for at least a few thousand. Hopefully you get more visibility.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.
nytimes.com
Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)
Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Exclusive from @propublica.org, details from inside USPS planning meetings that corroborate the whistleblower report warning of potential for mass disenfranchisement if mail voting regulations move forward for the midterms NEW: www.propublica.org/article/mail...
propublica.org
New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
finally read this piece I've had in a to-read tab for a while and when I tell y'all these two paragraphs gave me *whiplash* like, historical milkshake duck hammerandhope.org/article/robi...
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Thirty-two years after the publication of Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, the Rev. Jacob Gruber, a Methodist minister, stood trial for inciting the enslaved to mutiny with his sermon at a camp meeting in Maryland. More than 3,000 congregants, including about 400 Black people, most of them enslaved, gathered to listen to Gruber preach from Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” According to one witness, the minister denounced slavery as a “national sin” and called attention to “a great inconsistency in holding the Declaration of Independence in one hand and a bloody whip in the other, and the blood streaming from a negro’s back, literally cut to pieces.” At Gruber’s trial, one of his attorneys delivered a brilliant opening statement on freedom of speech and the Methodists’ obligation to oppose slavery. He also turned to the Declaration of Independence to criticize human bondage, which he argued had been imposed on the American people by the British “while we were yet in a state of colonial vassalage.” Slavery, the lawyer told the court, was “a blot on our national character, and every real lover of freedom, confidently hopes that it will be effectually, though it must be gradually, wiped away. … And until it shall be accomplished: until the time shall come when we can point without a blush, to the language held in the Declaration of Independence, every friend of humanity will seek to lighten the galling chain of slavery, and better, to the utmost of his power, the wretched condition of the slave.” Gruber was acquitted of all charges.screenshot of the next paragraph in the article, reading as follows:

The lawyer’s name was Roger B. Taney. He went on to become chief justice of the Supreme Court and the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). By then, he no longer envisioned slavery’s inevitable demise. On the contrary, his ruling legalized slavery everywhere and declared Black people had never been citizens of the U.S. and possessed no rights whatsoever. As evidence, he cited, among other things, the Declaration of Independence. According to Taney, “the men who framed this declaration were great men — high in literary acquirements, high in their sense of honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent with those on which they were acting. They perfectly understood the meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded from civilized Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery. They spoke and acted according to the then established doctrines and principles, and in the ordinary language of the day, and no one misunderstood them.”
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Stina Spirit Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
this article exploded my brain. menstrual blood as a non-invasive source for stem cells? fascinating. there is so much about women’s health that science has either entirely ignored or belittled to all of humanity’s detriment. www.npr.org/sections/hea...
npr.org
Painful Endometriosis Could Hold Clues To Tissue Regeneration, Scientist Says
MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.
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Geoffrey Golden @geoffreygolden.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You don’t have to be a UVW member to apply for this. (If you do join, it’ll helps us do more important work like this.)
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless.... No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Drop everything and read Annie's story. I've been looking forward to this since she started reporting on it. Among other things, I've started scrutinizing the cheese at grocery stores to make sure everything I buy is made from pasteurized milk!
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just want to point out that it is incredibly difficult to get two lawyers to agree on the text of anything, let alone 100+
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
DEMOCRATS WON!!!!!
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𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I know everything is shit. It's not good, it's mostly all bad. I am STILL going to enjoy this morning. I am STILL going to be happy. I am STILL going to listen to some of my favorite music. I will NOT be separated from simply joys. I WILL have hope. And I WILL fight to keep it.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
kenklippenstein.com
Exclusive: ICE Glasses
Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
theguardian.com
Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’
Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
commondreams.org
Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Elizabeth Banks
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.
mprnews.org
Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family's removal
The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.
nbcnews.com
Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health iss
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3
fda.gov
Outbreak Investigation of E. coli O157:H7: Raw Cheddar Cheese
RAW FARM-brand Raw Cheddar Cheese linked to ongoing outbreak. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA. read more here:
wired.com
John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job
A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 12/03/2026
The girls' school likely destroyed by an American missile had colorful murals *visible from space* as far back as 2018. By @pearswick.press & Ryan McNeil: www.reuters.com/investigatio...
reuters.com
Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence
An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along ...
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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Reminder that this wasn't just an accusation, this was captured on film
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026
WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK
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I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling
It became my ultimate distraction
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 12/03/2026
#withalttext
Photo of a glass entrance door to Seattle public library on a gray rainy day. A large white notice taped to the glass is the main focus. Reflections show a wet street, nearby buildings, and overcast sky outside, while warm hanging lights and tall interior windows are visible inside. Along the left edge of the doorway are smaller posted notices, including a Seattle Public Library sign and two yellow SAFE PLACE stickers.

The large sign reads:
“PURSUANT TO CITY OF SEATTLE POLICY, THIS PROPERTY SHALL NOT BE USED FOR CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT STAGING, OPERATIONS, OR PROCESSING.”
Below it: “City of Seattle”

A smaller sign on the left reads, in part:
“The Seattle Public Library”
“While on library property”
“No weapons, except as allowed under state law”
“No smoking or vaping, except as allowed under state law”
“No pets, service animals and miniature horses are allowed”

Two yellow stickers read:
“SAFE PLACE”
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The same company behind Alligator Alcatraz was just paid $313 million to build another one in Surprise, Arizona. I’m fighting to get the answers the community deserves.
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Parents of Gays held its first meeting in NYC #OnThisDay in 1973; over the following half century #PFLAG would become the largest #LGBTQ family ally organization in the US; this is me giving the opening keynote speech at the API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC (11.12.22) www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The money that could have given Americans universal healthcare here at home is being spent instead to murder schoolgirls overseas.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I'm getting questions about why there are trans characters in my Fantasy novel. There's a simple answer: trans people don't need to justify existing. Glad to clear that up!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/03/2026
BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems confirm Trump's NSA Director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse Idk what needs to happen for corporate Dems to be the opposition party—not fascism is OK party😐
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Anthony Sanders @ijsanders.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Well, I will not be buying Meta glasses. "You think that if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses”.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/03/2026
A new short film by Minneapolis filmmaker Yasmin Yassin follows two Somali American sisters running a social-media matchmaking business as they move through Lake Street, exploring friendship, femininity and the in-between world of first-generation Somali life.
mprnews.org
'For the girls': New film tells a coming-of-age story of Somali American women in Minneapolis
A new short film by Minneapolis filmmaker Yasmin Yassin follows two Somali American sisters running a social-media matchmaking business as they move through Lake Street, exploring friendship, feminini...
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons. Not having a college degree is not one of them. I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."
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WBUR @wbur.org · 05/03/2026
A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said.
wbur.org
Haitian man who had been living in Mass. dies in ICE custody after untreated toothache
U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren as well as U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent a letter on Thursday to the Trump administration demanding "a full investigation" into the man's death.
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Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking forward to checking out this advance copy of Melvin Ely's forthcoming book!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
nashvillebanner.com
ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."
reuters.com
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
No US or Israeli apology for, or even acknowledgment of, the murder of nearly 200 children. Nothing. "A missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide
A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...
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Midge @mmk007.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026
Justice for Dr. Linda Davis. ICE must be held accountable for the deadly chain of events and the cruel aftermath. Her memory lives on in every life she touched.
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