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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2025

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me." Do they think we are dumb?

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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.

He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.

This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo’s own actions and statements.
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“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him.”

An American citizen named Jose in Arizona was detained by immigration officials for 10 days. His family later provided officials with his birth certificat

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2025

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

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Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Dr Emily Pfefer @drempfefer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Elon doesn’t understand what social insurance means or mechanics of social security law. As is common, he’s expressing strong views, to the possible detriment of millions, and he doesn’t even know what he is actually saying. Even Rogan seems a speechless at the nonsense here. x.com/moreperfectu...

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More Perfect Union on X: "BREAKING: Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" in an interview with Joe Rogan. https://t.co/gCrDPLM15u" / X

BREAKING: Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" in an interview with Joe Rogan. https://t.co/gCrDPLM15u

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Dr Emily Pfefer @drempfefer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This song describes the shameful (and globally terrifying) treatment of Zelenskyy better than any news article could. youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...

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"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance

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Dr Emily Pfefer @drempfefer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

American friends - this is what I paid for a dozen eggs today in the UK. £2.70 = $3.39 currently. The shelf isn’t bare - many more cartons under the cardboard. Meanwhile, the orange one has spent his first weeks in office devaluing America instead of American eggs. :/

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/02/2025

Why is the right so determined to undermine and dismiss D.E.I.? “It is because these widely varied efforts represent a commitment to integration, to opposing bigotry and racism, to offering an invitation to belong,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes.

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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/02/2025

NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

III.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary
Restraining Order, ECF No. 5, is GRANTED. It is further
ORDERED that Defendants' Motion to Dismiss, ECF No. 21, is DENIED. It is further
ORDERED that Defendants are enjoined from implementing, giving effect to, or
reinstating under a different name the directives in OMB Memorandum M-25-13 with respect to
the disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants must provide written notice of the court's temporary
restraining order to all agencies to which OMB Memorandum M-25-13 was addressed. The
written notice shall instruct those agencies that they may not take any steps to implement, give
effect to, or reinstate under a different name the directives in OMB Memorandum M-25-13 with
respect to the disbursement of Federal Funds under all open awards. It shall also instruct those
agencies to release any disbursements on open awards that were paused due to OMB Memorandum
M-25-13;

FOOTNOTE:
Defendants also request that the court convert this proceeding into one for a preliminary injunction (rather than a TRO). Oral Argument, Nat'l Council of Nonprofits, No. 25-CV-239 (D.D.C. Feb. 3, 2025). Given that this case was filed less than a week ago, concerns weighty legal issues that require careful consideration, and involves a constantly shifting factual landscape, the court declines Defendants' request. The parties will be given an opportunity to fully brief and argue Plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction on a schedule of their choosing.

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Dr Emily Pfefer @drempfefer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What in the ACLU? Not exactly unprecedented and clearly wrong then and wrong now (see: England’s historic deportation of “convicts” to Australia, some of which for union organizing, see Tolpuddle Martyrs).

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 02/02/2025

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk Says DOGE Is ‘Rapidly Shutting Down’ Treasury Payments

Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

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