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Retired civil servant. Human rights activist

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 7h
Cruel, sadistic, and predictable from the partisan hacks on the Roberts Court.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 6h
The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay, site of the offshore war court where a defendant may not go free even if his death-penalty jury were to declare him not-guilty. My latest dispatch here. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/158987/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free
Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/09/2026
That story linked here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Since I recorded this interview about the Kennedy Center with Susan Davis, we've learned that the Trump Administration refused to do repairs on the roof, then cited the hazard they created as a reason to justify its closure.
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Don Beyer on What's Next for the Kennedy Center
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
A federal judge ruled that the Trump admin violated her order prohibiting overcrowding at ICE's Baltimore holding room — the very facility I've been sounding the alarm on after we saw this terrible footage last year. The judge is right to threaten contempt — the abuses must end.
‘Spectacular failure’: Baltimore ICE facility violated overcrowding order, judge finds
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“In the weeks and months after the war began, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers spoke in favor of Trump’s decision and called the war 'long overdue.' In April, he said the war had left Iran 'absolutely a toothless wonder'...” www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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GOP Senate candidate who praised the Iran war now campaigns against the pain it caused | CNN Politics
In 2024, then-Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood on camera in a zippered vest in a large grocery store
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Why is so much untraceable dark money flooding elections? Because the Supreme Court demolished campaign finance laws. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration’s proposed census changes will undoubtedly face legal challenges, with narrow prospects of surviving them. The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship. bit.ly/4y6x1yl
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Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law
The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Juvenile crime is on the decline in Tennessee, but officials plan to spend millions on two new youth prisons. “The argument that’s made is that [juvenile crime is] worse than ever,” said one advocate, but “the data doesn’t back that up.” with @wpln.bsky.social
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 28/09/2026
Ohio ICE detentions of Haitians have more than doubled after Trump ended protected status ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Ohio ICE detentions of Haitians have more than doubled after Trump ended protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Nearly 75 Haitians living in Ohio have been detained at one of four Ohio detention facilities that contract with ICE since President Trump took away their protected status on July 27 —  a 142.3%…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A woman leaving the facility 'dropped to her knees. She did the sign of the cross in extreme relief. As if coming out of a nightmare,' he said... “May we never become so accustomed to suffering that we stop seeing the humanity of those experiencing it.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Amid whistleblower claims, advocates ask lawmakers to visit ICE office in Miramar
Community leaders demand Florida lawmakers investigate Miramar ICE facility amid whistleblower allegations of severe overcrowding and filthy facilities
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The basic fact remains about the Trump Administration was asked by @annabower.bsky.social: who is in charge of DOGE? Since DOGE we have lived in unrelenting attack on the Congressional power of the purse. Ask: if Russ Vought is “pocketing” 810 million dollars of money, where is that money going?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 25/09/2026
Yesterday, I visited East Potomac Park and saw the golfers, cyclists, runners, and families who enjoy this treasured space. I also saw the Trump Administration tearing apart East Potomac while refusing to tell the public what it is doing, what it has done, or what it plans to do next.
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Beyer Condemns Trump’s Illegal, Secretive Assault on East Potomac Park Following Site Tour
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, must quit or be fired for misconduct in the Broadview 6 case. In Trump’s immigration crackdown, ”law enforcement“ is led by criminals.
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Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case (Gift Article)
The prosecutor said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had intervened and overruled her in the case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
The Trump admin admitted it made a mistake in illegally deporting this man TWICE, but — like it initially did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — it's defying a court order & refuses to bring him back. This federal judge is right to hold the admin in contempt. There must be a penalty for flouting the law.
X Post from @kyledcheney: JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Trump's ICE is disappearing thousands of people in their system, hiding their locations from loved ones & lawyers, & preventing them from exercising their constitutional rights.   This is the lawlessness Republicans keep writing blank checks for. Not another dime! apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: The Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin over the weekend was taken to a hospital late Monday after experiencing paralysis on the left side of his body, according to his lawyer.
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Man shot and detained by ICE is hospitalized for partial paralysis, lawyer says
Wilber Garcés Pérez has been transferred to a hospital after his condition worsened, according to his attorney. He was shot and wounded by an ICE officer in Texas.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Only by observing what Fox ignores do the contours of Trump’s second term — the dangerous incompetence, blatant corruption and cratering popularity — snap into focus." I wrote about the negative space in Fox News coverage. www.ms.now/opinion/fox-...
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Opinion | Fox News stars are going to new lengths to avoid bad news for Trump
Among the stories that have largely gone missing: the Iran war and the president’s cratering poll numbers.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 22/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: A joint venture of SK2 LLC and Rudiarius won a $655M contract today to expand detention sites at what ICE calls the "Mega Hub DC": Aguadilla, Broadview, Guantánamo Bay, Huntsville, Oakdale, St. Thomas and Honolulu. SK2, by the way, was ICE's property broker for the warehouse scheme.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Trump’s delusions need to be challenged—relentlessly and repeatedly—by the press. … If not, the press’s access to the West Wing won’t be worth the paper its inevitable judicial victory will be printed on."
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 22/09/2026
ICE grabbed a Kentucky State basketball player at the airport because she missed a student visa deadline while recovering from back surgery. She's been shuffled through four facilities and is now sitting in Texas. Kidnapping with a badge, and it's happening every single day.
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New ICE horrors come to light
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Immigration and Customs Enforcement never sleeps.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Prime Minister Netanyahu's lies about @mayor.nyc.gov don't change the fact that Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal who has blocked justice for Americans killed on his watch. If there's anyone who should be shamed & ashamed, it's him. He's lucky he was even allowed into our country.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026
President Trump berated a CNN reporter, days after barring the network from the White House. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me,” he said. Kaitlan Collins, CNN’s White House correspondent, responded, “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”
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Trump berates CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after ban: ‘You shouldn’t be covering me’
The terse interaction came during the president’s visit to the United Nations.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not just weird; it’s delusional. HE. IS. PSYCHOTIC. If your grandpa said things like this, you’d take him in for a full neuropsychiatric workup. And it’s time the media starts interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists to talk about it. DO. YOUR. JOBS.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, who's running for Senate, says the Iran war "needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end." A messaging pivot: Hinson voted NO six times on House resolutions directing Trump to end the Iran war — including as recently as last week.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
given recent behavior by Trump's ICE agents... www.nbcboston.com/video/multim...
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Protesters demand Boston Dynamics deny ICE their robot dogs
Immigration and Customs Enforcement could soon deploy four-legged robots made by Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics, a move that is raising concerns among some activists about surveillance, control a...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Proud that we were one of the organizations which brought this lawsuit!
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 21/09/2026
You might ask “what good is a fundamental right if it can’t be enforced?” — but for ICE, I suspect that glaring paradox is the entire point.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump says his name should go on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because he's "saving" it. Internal documents show he's doing all he can, short of tearing the building down, to destroy this great American arts institution. We WILL save the Kennedy Center.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Austin American Statesman editorial board on the latest ICE shooting: "ICE agents are empowered to remove people who are not in the country legally. That is not a license to shoot them." www.statesman.com/opinion/edit...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2026
Last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba, where seven or eight of them remain.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social
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