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Jennie 🇺🇸&🇨🇦

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Old lady, lifelong Democrat, volunteer in an animal shelter, New England Conservatory grad in voice, retired public school music teacher, dual citizen

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18h
🪪 NEW HAMPSHIRE: Can you use your student ID to vote in the midterms? Mostly no. A judge refused to block the state’s student ID ban for November. But if you have no other way to prove your identity, election officials can still consider your student ID as evidence: demdock.com/4j6WHWZ
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Trump is told by a right-wing correspondent that "in Maricopa County, Arizona, the vendor sent out thousands of ballots in a so-called 'error' before early voting even started" and then he repeats this allegation as fact
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2026
I can't believe I have to say this: Richard Nixon was corrupt and Congress was right to force him out. But, according to Trump's DOJ and a GOP congressman, Nixon was subject to a Deep State coup. Nonsense. This is just Trump trying to rewrite the past to obscure his corruption today. Link below ⬇️
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...
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Terror in the Backyard:
ICE’s Shadow Surge in Vermont
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail voting by executive order. But it greenlit his administration’s use of a flawed immigration database to help states purge voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/10/2026
This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will take place at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena rather than at the famous arts venue. Officials provided no official reason for the change, but it comes amid a legal battle over adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/10/2026
New at Strength In Numbers this morning: Despite claims from some pundits and Republican strategists of biased and "fake" polling data, the polls and fundamentals basically agree on the blue wave: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
BREAM: DOJ plans to send 1k monitors to polls. Sen. Baldwin says 'our democracy depends on ppl being able to have their voices heard, but that's at risk as Trump weighs sending in armed agents.' How do you answer? BLANCHE: She should be saying 'thank God. Thank God we have a govt ready to show up'
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
By focusing on "core" inflation, which exludes food and energy, the Trump Admin and most media are ignoring the fact that the top drivers of economic distress for average Americans are food and energy prices. Including food and gas, inflation in Sept was 3.6% -- much higher than wage growth.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…" religionnews.com/2026/09/30/a...
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As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
Trump weaponized his administration to chase 2020 election lies — hiring election deniers to find evidence. And despite wasting enormous federal resources to prove his conspiracies, the effort has come up empty: demdock.com/4hCWvw9
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What's so vexing about the NY Times is that some of its coverage is vitally important, such as this piece about Trump trying to cut a business deal with Russia to benefit the Trump family's cronies and reward Putin for his murders in Ukraine.
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If like 10 years ago you could develop a list of the most obviously impeachable acts a President could commit, Trump would have hit every one this term.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The President of the United States said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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The President's decline is in a freefall
At 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline. The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should bother casting a ballot at all: demdock.com/4rTwVrB
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 02/10/2026
We agree. Now remember that yourself, Secretary Mullin, and apply that same standard to your fellow Christian nationalists who routinely invoke scripture to justify government policy.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The presumptions of good faith and of regularity are made up court creations that fly in the face of commonsense and the structure of the Constitution. It should be a priority for Democrats and progressives to undo both. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Court upholds Tennessee’s GOP gerrymander, saying lawmakers deserve ‘presumption of good faith’
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gerrymandered map adopted by Tennessee Republicans that eliminated what was the state’s one Black-majority congressional district, based in Memphis.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump's economy in two headlines.
CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. 

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will...
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Democracy Defenders Action @democracydefendersaction.org · 01/10/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable before Trump took over. Since then, Trump and his handpicked board have driven away donors and audiences, gutted staff, drained reserves, and piled on debt—while claiming they inherited a failing institution. The record says otherwise.
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/10/2026
“I fought two wars that we lost 18 people. One was Venezuela, and the Venezuela one is incredible.” Even the pentagon’s fudged numbers - they are reclassifying service deaths as not combat related - says 19.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
Trump administration accused of pushing ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote president
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Trump administration accused of pushing ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote president
House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for Trump’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/10/2026
“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."
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Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case
The judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 30/09/2026
President Trump wants to send armed ICE agents to polling places just before the 2026 midterms. It's voter intimidation – and breaks a 150-year-old law to do it. We're suing to stop it.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026
In most states, people with Medicaid coverage will have to prove they're working, volunteering or studying, starting Jan. 1. But Montana is starting that early, and it's sowing confusion and anxiety. n.pr/3VXrvzM
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Montana starts enforcing Medicaid work requirements on Oct 1. Patients are confused
In most states, people with Medicaid coverage will have to prove they're working, volunteering or studying, starting Jan. 1. But Montana is starting that early, and it's sowing confusion and anxiety.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 30/09/2026
You see, Trump is joking about how hundreds of migrants fall from the giant new border wall each year, but "only" dozens of them actually die. Freaking hilarious, right?
These numbers come from Scripps Mercy Hospital and UC San Diego Medical Center. Together, the two Hillcrest hospitals provide trauma services for a 30-mile stretch of the border from the Pacific Ocean to Tecate.

In 2023, these two facilities collectively recorded 629 falls from the 30-foot steel structure severe enough to result in a hospital stay. So far in 2024, the total number of severe falls is up to 993, though that number is incomplete. UC San Diego data covers January through September while the total provided by Scripps runs through August.

Each facility, then, has averaged two border fall admissions per day, about double the caseload observed in 2021, when the number of falls spiked significantly.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 30/09/2026
You don’t get to “make the rules” for the rest of us because you believe your God gave you the authority. Pastors don’t direct politicians. Churches don’t govern citizens. And your Bible is not our Constitution. That’s why we separate church and state.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca · 30/09/2026
I recently went into the woods hoping for a respite in hearing from/about these guys. Came across two squirrels talking about Donald. Bastards.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep. They are likely to obtain convictions as well, but in the past these charges primarily result in small fines (and then almost certain deportation should ICE pursue it). Here's a representative sample of outcomes from previous federal prosecutions. The most common outcome is a sub-$500 fine.
A table showing name, immigration status, nationality, election(s), and notes.

Here are some examples in the chart: 
- Rosemarie Angelika Harris, Lawful Permanent Resident, Germany, 2016, Pled guilty and was fined $75.
- Isac Dakuyo,	Lawful Permanent Resident,	Burkina Faso,	2016,	Charges dropped after completing a pretrial diversion program.
- Hyo Suk George	Lawful Permanent Resident	South Korea	2008, 2010, 2016	Registered to vote after a town council member suggested she do so. Pled guilty and was fined $100.
- Merious Jean	Lawful Permanent Resident	Haiti	2016	 Pled guilty and was fined $125.
- Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles	Lawful Permanent Resident	Mexico	2012, 2016	Sentence to 2 years probation and $1,200 fine
- Nebi Ademi	Lawful Permanent Resident	Macedonia	2016	Pled guilty and was fined $443.
- Jean Gobeil	Lawful Permanent Resident	Canada	2012	Given 90-day suspended sentence
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 30/09/2026
Community colleges in California will be required to offer abortion medication through campus health centers starting in 2029, under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday. cal.news/4z7bA03 📸 Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, AP
An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 26, 2024. Photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, AP Photo
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