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Julie K.

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Can the “Power of Baseball” get me through the next four years? Let’s go Nats.

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Politico @politico.com · 29/09/2026
Newsom signs laws targeting ICE with shock glove ban, detention center tax
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Newsom signs laws targeting ICE with shock glove ban, detention center tax
Democrats rushed to outlaw shock devices after reports that ICE planned to purchase gloves for officers.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
State, university officials tout opening of new quantum research center marylandmatters.org/2026/09/23/s... Go Big Red. Congrats to all involved. #UMD
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State, university officials tout opening of new quantum research center - Maryland Matters
State officials, University of Maryland leaders and quantum research representatives celebrated the opening of the Microsoft Quantum Research Center in the university’s Discovery District Tuesday.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NYT screen grab. This is Wilber’s wife. More than 20 people have been shot in their cars since September. Wilber was delivering food. Austin neighbors showed up to demonstrate their outrage last night. #Wilber #Austin #ICE
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w.... #StephenMiller is the mastermind behind this nightmare. #deportation #immigrantrights
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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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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-fed... Good reporting by @washingtonsun.bsky.social
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Neighbors Are Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at a D.C. School
Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2... So Trump and Vought spent $6.7. Billion in taxpayer money to blindly decimate the ranks of federal employees. IRS, FEMA, AID — all of government and the world as a whole is poorer for this self-inflicted catastrophe. #OMB
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Trump administration’s DRP cost $6.7B last year, watchdog estimates | Federal News Network
Without a clear picture of how much agencies spend on paid administrative leave, GAO said it’s impossible to tell if “cost savings” goals are being met.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Frequent traveler to Ukraine and former head of Google, Eric Schmidt, sounds a warning about the hard winter ahead and the need to help Ukraine ASAP to counter Putin’s latest onslaught. #Ukraine
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Opinion | Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming
Russia is shifting its strategy to erase Kyiv’s battlefield advantages.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 08/09/2026
WIN: A federal appeals court blocked the IRS from disclosing a massive amount of taxpayers data to ICE. The Trump-Vance admin’s dangerous data sharing policies violate the privacy rights of millions of Americans. The court has affirmed - yet again - that this behavior is unlawful.
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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The number of people without criminal records arrested by ICE in Maine has jumped 161% through July, compared with all of 2025. (via Maine Public) www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/03/s...
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Maine has seen the nation's 3rd-highest jump in ICE arrests of people with no criminal records
The data show a 161% spike in Maine ICE arrests of people without criminal records through July 2026.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/ice-pl... ICE has money to burn thanks to the human doormats in Congress who turned on the funding spigot for this authoritarian government. #ICE
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
wamu.org/story/26/09/... Palantir abets. ICE and puts our health data at risk. #ICE
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D.C. area nurses join nationwide protests over sharing of health data with Palantir
Registered nurses in D.C. and other cities nationwide protested the company Palantir last week, arguing the firm's technology is helping ICE track down immigrants using Medicaid records. Court filings...
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says
An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Wow: the federal government is paying MAGA influencers on X and other social media to post pro-regime propaganda. Actual paid crisis actors. Incredible reporting here. wapo.st/4x0p3pf
Screenshot of two posts by Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe on X. Lamothe reports that the Pentagon has secretly placed several conservative military veterans with large online followings into undisclosed government roles while they publicly amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints. He says some have civilian positions that could influence policy and names Rob Maness, Kurt Schlichter, and Thomas Anderson, who posts online as “Cynical Publius.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/08/2026
At 7:26 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blasted off from the Florida coastline and sailed toward the stars. Astronomers will use data collected by the $4.3 billion telescope to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth to Chart the Stars
Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Live at noon ET today, or watch later at your convenience: Jim Swift on what he saw Friday in Springfield, Ohio, where Haitians are being targeted by ICE. The ACLU's Sarah Mehta on the Trump administration's appalling third country deportations. www.youtube.com/live/BdquHy1...
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The Trump Admin Found a Way to Make Mass Deportation Even Crueler
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w... Stephen Miller’s horror show and America’s shame is detailed here. Cruelty and lies by our government. #ICE
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/08/2026
The governor of Wyoming voiced concern this week about “aggressive” and “irregular” conduct by election monitors sent by the Justice Department during the state’s primary election. A local elections official also voiced concerns about the monitors.
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Wyoming governor decries ‘aggressive’ behavior of federal election monitors
The Justice Department sent observers during the state’s primary election this month. A local official said the activities exceeded their authority.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can’t upload this story of corruption within the DeSantis administration. @jimdefede.bsky.social is the reporter with @cbsnews.com Miami. The state’s current AG and then Chief of Staff had his hands all over the illegal use of $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes. #FloridaGOP
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wall Street Loved Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh. Not Anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o... Catherine Rampell shows receipts on this “B Team.”
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Opinion | Wall Street Loved Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh. Not Anymore.
We are approaching a credibility crisis with Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh leading our economy.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.wired.com/story/rising... @wired.com makes the obvious connection between climate change/glacier melting and the Nepal/China catastrophe. Didn’t read this in the popular press. Tsk. Tsk.
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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood
Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. U.S. officials are concerned that Putin, squeezed in Ukraine and under pressure at home, could launch an assault ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale land incursion, likely on a Baltic nation ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A.I. Is Becoming So Powerful, It’s Stumping Those Trying to Contain It www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/t...
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Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails
Irregular, an Israeli start-up, worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to assess the security of their A.I. models. It made a mistake. Then the tests went off the rails.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now (Gift Article)
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/08/2026
Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade ft.trib.al/PViWHCo
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Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade
Prime Minister says Donald Trump miscalculated by escalating his tariffs attack on the country
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“.. You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa. @financialtimes.com #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 www.ft.com/content/e3b5...
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.wired.com/story/flock-.... Great investigative reporting and a must read. Police departments are salivating to use this latest technology for urban surveillance and fishing expeditions. #Flock #ACLU
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 19/08/2026
ICE has detained a minor league baseball coach in the San Diego Padres’ organization, the club confirmed this week. www.notus.org/immigration/ice-san-d…
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ICE Holding San Diego Padres Coach at El Paso Detention Center
Immigration agents took custody of the Venezuelan national at an airport Sunday.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/08/2026
President Donald Trump's decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea does not just slight a longtime ally but raises broader concerns about the security interests of the United States in Asia and elsewhere.
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Trump's slight of South Korea in favor of the North raises broader US security concerns
President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea does not just slight a longtime ally.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.wired.com/story/the-pa... The United States of America is becoming a police state. George Orwell couldn’t imagine this. #ICE
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/08/2026
News Analysis: The Senate adjourned on Saturday, allowing senators to leave Washington without any concrete steps toward passing the voting restriction bill President Trump has demanded for months and that he suggested needs to be in place for the GOP to win the midterms.
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Senate Bows to Reality, Leaving Trump’s Voting Bill Undone
The summer exit confirmed what had been apparent for weeks: that Republicans lacked the votes to pass the voting restrictions the president has made a top priority.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/07/2026
“The nation’s crisis in maternity care and newborn health is concentrated in the countryside—and federal policy is about to make that crisis significantly worse,” Keith Humphreys argues:
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Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse
Care will be in shorter supply, travel distances will stretch farther, and high-risk situations will more likely result in tragedy.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
JUST IN: The Senate Judiciary Committee has POSTPONED its hearing tomorrow on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be the Attorney General.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Five alarm fire here.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the First Circuit denied the DOJ’s request to allow USPS to move forward with enacting Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. The ruling, which applies to 23 blue states and D.C., comes after a lower court blocked part of the order from being implemented.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026
An investigation by The New York Times found that President Trump’s push to quickly get a new Air Force One led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features that potentially left the president and others who travel with him vulnerable. Our reporter Eric Lipton explains. nyti.ms/4pF8OM1
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b.... One researcher was 2 years in to a study of wildfire smoke’s effect on lungs and heart. This presidency should go up in smoke too.
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can you post a gift article of your WIRED story on reading comprehension? Thanks for writing!
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Mark Zuckerman @markzuckerman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Eight straight starts allowing zero or one run by Foster Griffin, a Nationals/Expos franchise record.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Who says politics can’t be fun? You’ll be singing along after a couple of listens 🎼🎤🪇 Si, Si Si! #Talarico
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
And who could forget George Will’s erudite smack-down in this week’s WaPo.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I visited the small town of Marfa, TX. A local mariachi band greeted us with a song they wrote for our campaign! Our Frontera Tour has been full of special moments — but this was a highlight. 🎶
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Unusual for the Secret Service to be so un-Secret.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/07/2026
Recent deaths — in Houston and Biddeford, Maine — are among at least 17 shootings of motorists by federal immigration officers since the beginning of President Trump’s term nearly 18 months ago, a Washington Post analysis shows.
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DHS has shot at least 17 motorists during immigration operations since 2025
These incidents have become more frequent as the Trump administration ramped up enforcement, a Washington Post analysis found.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Chuck Borges is as good as they come. Integrity personified. A whistleblower who insisted on protecting your data. Support his state senate campaign at: Chuck4md.com
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Chuck Borges for Maryland State Senate
Chuck Borges is a U.S. Navy veteran and community advocate running for Congress. Learn more about his background, values, and commitment to service.
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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One minute of your attention, please. This hearing is happening right now. #Blanche #DOJ
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fascinating. I didn’t realize the Bureau of Prisons offered a premium concierge upgrade when a high profile inmate gets stressed out
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Another person has died in ICE custody. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was a 45-year-old from Venezuela. His cause of death is pending; he's suspected of dying from a heart attack.
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Venezuelan detainee dies in ICE custody during transfer in Georgia
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments. Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout their st...
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