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Jim Santos

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Regis H.S..Williams College. BU School of Law. Politics. Human Rights. Civil Rights. Foreign Affairs. Democracy Defender. History. Philosophy. Music Lover. Art Lover. Avid Reader. Guitarist. Flamenco Lover. #SaveOurDemocracy #Resist #HumanRights #DSA

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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Orbán’s defeat holds lessons for US: ‘Autocrats may rise, but are not invincible’
Stunning loss of rightwing populist in Hungary carries symbolic significance for opponents of Donald Trump
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/04/2026
🔎 Newly unsealed search warrants confirm the sheriff who seized 650k ballots from California’s redistricting referendum relied on fraud claims pushed by anti-voting activists. Even more chilling? The script mirrored the one used in the FBI’s Fulton County raid — which came just one week earlier.
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Search warrants show California ballot seizure echoed Fulton County election raid
The newly unsealed warrants also raise questions about why law enforcement officers were able to seize ballots unchecked by either the courts or the officials responsible for protecting them.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Van Gogh studied Delacroix’s complementary pairs—yellow/violet, blue/orange—learning how contrast could ignite emotion. From theory and memory, he used his approach to build an emotional grammar of color to process and express feeling.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/04/2026
Trump officials deny threatening Church over Pope Leo’s criticisms ft.trib.al/UItzDWB
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Trump officials deny threatening Church over Pope Leo’s criticisms
Pope Leo XIV has become increasingly concerned over Washington’s military policies
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/04/2026
A magistrate judge will be able to review and consider releasing Jonathan Ross’s personnel files and materials that capture the hour surrounding Good’s shooting.
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Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
A magistrate judge will be able to review Jonathan Ross’s personnel files and materials that capture the hour surrounding Good’s shooting.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/04/2026
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed weakened rules governing the safe disposal of ash produced by burning coal. Those regulations were strengthened under the Biden administration as part of a wider crackdown on pollution from coal-fired power plants.
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Trump administration guts rules targeting toxic coal plant ash
The Environmental Protection Agency has gutted rules that target waste from burning coal. Those rules had been strengthened under the Biden administration as part of a wider crackdown on the pollution that contaminates groundwater and spreads toxins.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/04/2026
Read more: Sources aren’t safe when surveillance is for sale freedom.press/issues/sourc...
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Sources aren’t safe when surveillance is for sale
Congress must close the loophole that turns journalists’ and sources’ data into a storehouse for state spying
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/04/2026
If the government can buy a map of movements by journalists and suspected leakers, "confidential sources" can’t exist. Congress should pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act and close the data broker loophole once and for all. 🔗 freedom.press/issues/sourc...
FBI Director Kash Patel, who once promised to “come after” the media, testified before Congress in March that the FBI has resumed buying Americans’ data and location histories from data brokers.

Sipa USA/Samuel Corum via AP Images
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 09/04/2026
A NYC public school student’s arrest was part of a nationwide blitz of immigration authorities detaining migrants in courthouses in an effort to speed up deportations.
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A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date. ICE was waiting.
A NYC public school student’s arrest was part of a nationwide blitz of immigration authorities detaining migrants in courthouses in an effort to speed up deportations.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
Donald Trump says he has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran
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Donald Trump says he has agreed two-week ceasefire with Iran
US president says on social media he agreed to suspend attack for two weeks, subject to Iran opening the strait of Hormuz, ahead of self-imposed deadline
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Axios @axios.com · 07/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV denounced President Trump's threat to wipe out Iran's civilization today.
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Pope issues stiffest rebuke yet to Trump over war threats
"This threat against the entire people of Iran" is "truly unacceptable," the first U.S.-born pontiff said.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict as he once ‌again exhorted Iran to make a deal by his April 7 deadline. Follow our live page ➡️ reut.rs/4tCQTql
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Iran war live: Tehran rejects ceasefire deal as Trump's deadline to reopen Strait of Hormuz nears
A senior Iranian source told Reuters that Tehran had ‌rejected a proposal conveyed by intermediaries for a temporary ceasefire.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/04/2026
President Donald Trump's presidency has hit a breaking point, an analyst said on Monday.
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Trump's grip on reality said to be 'slipping fast' as economy 'wrecks': 'It's happening'
President Donald Trump's presidency has hit a breaking point, an analyst said on Monday. The New Republic's editor Michael Tomasky described how Trump's plummeting economy and rising prices of oil amid the Iran war have revealed how out of touch the president has been with Americans and their growin...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/04/2026
BREAKING: UCLA cruises past South Carolina 79-51 to win the NCAA women's basketball tournament for the first time.
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UCLA dominates South Carolina for first NCAA women’s basketball national championship
Gabriela Jaquez led all scorers with 21 points on the night as UCLA dominated South Carolina for the program's first women's basketball national championship.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/04/2026
Christian villages in southern Lebanon are spending Easter under siege, as the Lebanese Army pulls out of an area where Israel is battling Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militants. n.pr/4skdHKq
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'Not our war' say Christians under siege this Easter, as Israel invades south Lebanon
Christian villages in southern Lebanon are spending Easter under siege, as the Lebanese Army pulls out of an area where Israel is battling Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militants.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We're walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps They say the meek shall inherit the Earth - #ThePolice #music #song #art youtu.be/trX9gQssm9c?...
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Walking In Your Footsteps
YouTube video by The Police - Topic
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"Most of us have very little interaction—besides with the ants that we sometimes find in our cabinets—with other species. And that distinguishes us very clearly from our ancestors, who had to be very in tune with other species because they relied on them." - Kolbert #environment #climatechange
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"Both sides (of the conflict) have threatened and hit civilian targets like oil fields and desalination plants critical for drinking water, bringing warnings of possible war crimes." #humanrights #internationalhumantarianlaw #warcrimes
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Politico @politico.com · 05/04/2026
Wes Moore criticizes Trump for talking about Medicare cuts
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Wes Moore criticizes Trump for talking about Medicare cuts
"We don't want to be fighting foreign wars while you're taking away our health care," Maryland's governor said.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Death, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war
The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle East
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NPR @npr.org · 04/04/2026
The majority seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's argument on birthright citizenship, appearing ready to rule in favor of upholding automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil.
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Supreme Court majority seems inclined to rule against Trump on birthright citizenship
The majority seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's argument on birthright citizenship, appearing ready to rule in favor of upholding automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bullet The Blue Sky Across the field you see the sky Ripped open, See the rain through a gaping wound, Pounding on the women and Children Who run Into the arms Of America. #U2 #song #SkyMusic #MusicSky youtu.be/BWj2dGuNr1g?...
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U2- Bullet the Blue Sky (Official-Unofficial) Music Video
YouTube video by awesomenessk
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/04/2026
Hundreds of rural hospitals across the country are facing closures after years of funding problems. The issue was compounded last summer by the Trump administration's massive cuts to Medicaid whose reimbursements have long helped hospitals meet their bottom lines. to.pbs.org/4bZQ7fO
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A Nebraska hospital in peril shows how a Republican-led rural health fund is coming up short
It's a problem that millions of Americans in rural areas are awakening to as they realize there's no windfall coming for the vulnerable hospitals near their homes.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2026
People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, “We will ride.”
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In 1978, they stopped buses — and helped launch a disability rights movement
People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We will ride."
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#VanGogh #Art #painting #Beauty
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
""Deliberate attacks on essential services and civilian infrastructure can amount to war crimes. We are seeing energy, fuel, water and healthcare infrastructure damaged and destroyed,"" #internationallaw #warcrimes www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?
International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/03/2026
“I don't think the problem today is left versus right. It's truth versus lies. And we cannot give in to these lies.” Watch @jimacosta.bsky.social warn against Trump’s march toward a state-dominated media at a Friday hearing on the proposed WBD-Paramount deal, led by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Miller’s call for the Texas Legislature to pass a law granting public education funding only for the children of people “lawfully present in the United States” would fly in the face of a decades-old [SCOTUS] precedent, Plyler v Doe." #humanrights #civilrights #immigration ##childrensrights
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/03/2026
The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, accusing its top law enforcement agencies of withholding evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Minnesota sues Trump administration for evidence in Good, Pretti killings
It’s the latest and most drastic legal maneuver taken by state officials to try and gain access to federal evidence from Operation Metro Surge.
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JPK 🇩🇪 @jpk-art.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I have walked in the dark for so long that even the sun feels like a stranger, veiled in mist. The light has come, yet the fog remains. #nature #forest #Naturephotography #sun #fog #wander #mood
 A vertical, low-angle landscape photograph of a forest path during a hazy sunrise. Brilliant, soft golden light filters through tall, slender trees, creating ethereal sunbeams and a bright, glowing focal point in the center of the path. The immediate foreground is a blurred expanse of brown leaves and dark earth, focusing the eye on the illuminated trail. To the left, a tree trunk is covered in vibrant green moss, while others are draped in ivy. The atmosphere is mystical and serene, with the light creating a strong sense of depth and hope.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#MusicChallenge #24 A song with extended jazz harmony My Favorite Things #JohnColtrane #Jazz #JazzGreats #Song youtu.be/zH3JpqhpkXg?...
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John Coltrane "My Favorite Things" 1961 (Reelin' In The Years Archives)
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1) "Trump is systematically defunding the very spaces where excluded communities have found voice and agency. It is gutting the vehicles that engage communities across the country in examining contemporary upheavals." #art #Resist #Resistance #censorship
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Instead of paying ICE to harass passengers at airports, we could be using the money to hire more air traffic controllers to keep them safe.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1) "[SCOTUS] on Monday appeared ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and then received within five business days of, Election Day." #votersuppression #votingrights #elections #SCOTUS www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/cour...
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Court appears ready to overturn state law allowing for late-arriving mail-in ballots
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and then received within […]
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The SAVE Act is voter suppression—not security. It would purge millions, especially married women with name changes, low-income voters without passports, and more. Tell Your Senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!
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Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act
Contact Congress today!
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Sprawl (live) Come on down to the store You can buy some more, and More, and more, and more --->> #SonicYouth #song #art #noiserock #MusicSky #SkyMusic youtu.be/COM30dMHBVI?...
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The Sprawl | Sonic Youth | From The Basement
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Punchout At A Wedding Hypocrite, opportunist Don't infect me with your poison, A bully in a china shop When I turn 'round, you stay frozen to the spot The pointless snide remarks Of hammerheaded sharks The pot will call the kettle black -- #Radiohead #song #MusicSky youtu.be/aFh62bKhXYY?...
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11. A Punchup At A Wedding - Live (Radiohead - Hail to the thief)
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"As U.S. and Cuban officials negotiate over the future of the Communist-ruled and economically besieged Caribbean island, the Trump administration is seeking to push President Miguel Díaz-Canel from power [sic]." #USImperialism #Cuba #NoKings www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...
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Trump Administration Said to Tell Cuba That Its President Has to Go
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Bring on the prosecutions! www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
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Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino to retire from federal service, sources say
Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino​ was pulled away from a high-profile role leading immigration raids in major U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, earlier this year.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#art #painting #oilpainting #surrealism
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
No Kings. March 28th. Make a plan for where you'll be and bring your family and friends. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/03/2026
Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening humanitarian crisis on the island.
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Cuba electric grid collapses amid US oil blockade causing national blackout
Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening humanitarian crisis on the island.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 16/03/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments in April in two cases brought by immigrants hailing from Syria and Haiti after the Trump administration tried to end their temporary protections, reports @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social.
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US Supreme Court will hear case on end of legal protections for 350,000 Haitians • West Virginia Watch
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in April in two cases brought by immigrants after the Trump administration tried to end their temporary protections.
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Jim Santos @jms-esq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with [Cuba],” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office with Vice President JD Vance standing behind him. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”"
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