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eljavierduran.bsky.social @eljavierduran.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It was an honor to welcome the Class of 2026 during this year’s University of Arizona commencement ceremony and deliver the Spanish welcome. 🎓 In my remarks, I invited graduates to carry forward four guiding principles: respeto, reciprocidad, responsabilidad y resiliencia.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2026
Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 25/02/2026
There is a lot of technology around the U.S.–Mexico border. But it turns out there’s even more tech in that area than many people know about — because it’s out of sight.
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Arizona reporters find hidden surveillance around U.S.-Mexico border, Tohono O'Odham Reservation
There is a lot of technology around the U.S.–Mexico border. But it turns out there’s even more tech in that area than many people know about — because it’s out of sight.
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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
If you are a journalist who would like to speak to someone from our team about this, please email media@nomoredeaths.org
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃, 𝐖𝐀: Elaine Miles, a Native American actor, says she was stopped by ICE while walking to a bus stop — agents dismissed her legally issued tribal ID as “fake,” refused to verify it, tried to take her phone, and only released her after she was detained. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Native American actor says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’
Elaine Miles of Northern Exposure was stopped by four masked men in Seattle while walking to bus stop
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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 01/12/2025
“This illegal raid on our humanitarian aid station perpetuates a cycle of violence by not allowing those making a very deadly crossing to receive appropriate medical care, rest, food, and water,” said No More Deaths aid worker Ary Tischler.
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Border Patrol raids No More Deaths aid camp, arrests three people
The raid is the first time NMD aid workers have witnessed agents breaking into constitutionally protected structures without a warrant—a significant escalation against humanitarian aid at the border.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani's win is "an incredible proof of concept of how to fight fascism," says @naomiaklein.bsky.social. "Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hierarchy. … The entire [Mamdani] campaign was a love letter to the diversity."
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/11/2025
Keeping America safe 💪🇺🇸
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Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing' Parents
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee is legally allowed to work in the United States.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani took New York City by storm last night, with over 50 percent of the vote — despite a torrent of corporate money for Andrew Cuomo. I was pleased to speak with the new mayor-elect just the other day about his vision for the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
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A Conversation with Zohran Mamdani
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Thank you @TimothySnyder.bsky.social for joining @AFT.org & @AAUP.org in calling on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to reject Trump's proposed compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom. snyder.substack.com/p/save-ameri...
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Save American Higher Education (video)
A petition that you can sign, which I read aloud
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NPR @npr.org · 28/08/2025
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
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With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/08/2025
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools. www.wired.com/story/purgat...
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This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 23/08/2025
An Arizona water agency is assessing a series of proposals by groups who say they can increase the state’s water supply.
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Water agency gets 6 proposals to increase Arizona's supply — including desalination
An Arizona water agency is assessing a series of proposals by groups who say they can increase the state’s water supply.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 23/08/2025
The program uses both city money and funding from local nonprofits — including the Primavera Foundation and Old Pueblo Community Services — to set up an outdoor facility in midtown Tucson where people can come to spend the night.
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Tucson to launch safe outdoor shelter facility to address homelessness
The program uses both city money and funding from local nonprofits — including the Primavera Foundation and Old Pueblo Community Services — to set up an outdoor facility in midtown Tucson where people...
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/08/2025
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/08/2025
"Hegseth is also making it clear that when he says 'we recognize our history,' the 'we' is white people recognizing their history in this country. No one else matters." @shalisemyoung.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth made clear whose history he celebrates
When he says “we recognize our history,” the “we” is white people recognizing their history in this country.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Reminder that Trump unleashing federal troops across D.C. isn't meant to address any actual concerns about crime. It's a show of force. It’s important to see this and L.A. as trial runs for a possible military occupation elsewhere in the United States.
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DC residents question troops’ focus on low-crime areas amid Trump takeover
Many federal agents have been seen standing around in tourist areas, with few spotted addressing violent crime
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2025
"A MAGA occupation of a left-leaning city." If you look closer at what's happening on the streets of LA and DC, you'll see this is more than just "fighting crime"—it's a politically partisan occupation. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports on what's happening in the streets of DC.
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eljavierduran.bsky.social @eljavierduran.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Governing through extortion and deception...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2025
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
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eljavierduran.bsky.social @eljavierduran.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23/07/2025
Does there exist an organized political force capable of resisting the dehumanization and repression that is spreading before our eyes? www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Watching The Trump Administration Violate Basic Human Rights with Impunity | Common Dreams
The Trump administration, animated by a White, Christian, ethno-nationalist vision, is currently threatening human rights in every conceivable way.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23/07/2025
The Disappearing Face of Authority www.commondreams.org/opinion/disa...
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The Disappearing Face of Authority | Common Dreams
When those who enforce the law hide their faces, democracy itself is under threat. But history shows people can—and have—pushed back.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 11/07/2025
To date, 64 grants have been terminated or stop-work ordered at the University of Arizona, according to an internal university website.
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University of Arizona loses nearly $60 million in federal funding for 64 grants
To date, 64 grants have been terminated or stop-work ordered at the University of Arizona, according to an internal university website.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
State Department employees are bracing for big cuts eviscerating what’s left of the government’s democracy and human rights work starting tomorrow, after the Supreme Court cleared the way www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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State Department employees brace for Friday layoffs
The Trump administration targets humanitarian, democracy, and conflict resolution bureaus.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/07/2025
“For those of us in the conflict prevention and stabilization space, those of us in the human rights space, and those of us in the mass atrocity prevention and accountability space, it ends the entire industry in the United States," one State Department employee told Mother Jones.
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State Department employees brace for Friday layoffs
The Trump administration targets humanitarian, democracy, and conflict resolution bureaus.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
With one week left for the Senate to pass his rescissions package, Trump singles out the anti-PBS, anti-NPR part of the package and says "any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement."
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/07/2025
Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police.
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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/07/2025
In June, we learned that army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
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'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/07/2025
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Further confirmation from ICE HSI officers that they have been told to stop investigating pedophiles, human traffickers, and drug smugglers. Officers have been told NOT to take new criminal cases so they can instead go round up more random migrants. Morale is plummeting, especially at HSI.
At ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division, which has long focused on cartels and major drug-trafficking operations, supervisors have waved agents off new cases so they have more time to make immigration-enforcement arrests, a veteran agent told me. “No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation,” the agent said. “It’s infuriating.” The longtime ICE employee is thinking about quitting rather than having to continue “arresting gardeners.”
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/07/2025
President Lula said Brazil can survive without trade with the US and will look to other partners to replace it, a sharp response to Donald Trump after the American leader threatened 50% tariffs on the South American nation
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Lula Tells Trump Brazil Can Survive Without US Trade
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil can survive without trade with the US and will look to other partners to replace it, a sharp response to Donald Trump after the American leader threatened 50% tariffs on the South American nation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2025
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 07/07/2025
Urge your senators to vote against clawing back public media funding. Here's how ➡️ protectmypublicmedia.org
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We’re going to class on…CLASS ACTIONS! In the wake of SCOTUS’ decision on nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases, the discussion over class actions has seen a revival. @stevevladeck.bsky.social joins me at 4 pm ET on Substack on how they'll be deployed substack.com/@katiephang
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Katie Phang | Substack
Truth-Teller | Independent Journalist and Legal Analyst | Trial Lawyer | Fighting for OUR Democracy | "Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“CoreCivic has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of running a humane facility. Now, the company flouts city approval to move forward with an ICE center based on false promises.” In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back
Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm loving this series I'm doing with @anacabrera.bsky.social, #TheProfessorIsIn where we step back from the news cycle to teach the economics you'll need to understand your world. Today: The national debt. What is it, how big is it, and how much should you worry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3g...
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Understanding the national debt. What is it, how big is it, and should you worry about it?
YouTube video by Justin Wolfers
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/07/2025
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border. wrd.cm/44sZoZT
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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/07/2025
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba
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Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2025
In solo dissents this term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the conservative majority of the Supreme Court of lawless bias. On the term’s last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias. On the term’s last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 05/07/2025
Despite overwhelming public opposition, the U.S. House passed a rescissions package that would eliminate already-approved funding for public radio. You can help protect KJZZ. Here's how → protectmypublicmedia.org
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 06/07/2025
Runners protesting ICE cover 15 miles through immigrant communities
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Runners protesting ICE cover 15 miles through immigrant communities
Runners, more than 1,500 in all, expressed a mix of outrage, heartache and defiance as they jogged in the hot sun for 15 miles through neighborhoods where raids have happened or that are important to immigrants,
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 04/07/2025
Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸
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'America' is a Death Cult
On the week's unending horrors and the transnational 'state of exception'
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2025
We asked 16 mayors from across the U.S. about President Trump, the challenges facing their cities, what keeps them up at night and more. See what they told us here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A collage of portraits showing 16 mayors. A headline reads: "One Issue That These Mayors Can All Agree On." Photos by Zack Wittman for The New York Times
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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"So there's an another, maybe better way to tell the story, one in which immigrants are not only vital to our economy but enrich and renew our society. " #Reading
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Wow. Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5...
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 30/06/2025
It’s the last day of Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, and Maricopa County Justice of the Peace Debrorah Ann Begay reflected on her uniquely Indigenous identity in a recent conversation with the nonprofit Advance Native Political Leadership.
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What it means to be two-spirit, according to this trailblazing Diné justice of the peace
It’s the last day of Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, and Maricopa County Justice of the Peace Debrorah Ann Begay reflected on her uniquely Indigenous identity in a recent conversat...
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/06/2025
“Is there any sign of life?” “Have we heard a heartbeat?” Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
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‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and…
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