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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/10/2025

Los Angeles is home to one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the U.S. Our reporter embedded with investigators and interviewed dozens of victims, experts, aid workers and officials to understand the crisis. nyti.ms/47GDB3I

A girl in high heels, pink satin shorts and a black and white top is walking along Figueroa Street at night. She is crossing a side street toward a car stopped at the corner. A headline reads: "Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.'s Figueroa Street?" Photo by Katy Grannan for The New York Times

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Amazing wirh that kind of witty banter they can canceled his show.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

France is stepping into the places the USA would traditionally fill but are left empty by the current administration. It would be pretty ironic if in 20 years French replaces English as the international language.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/05/2025

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. trib.al/XcrRiI8

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Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer

For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

💯 Shame. On. Them. Credit @pxmolina.bsky.social

MYSTERY SOLVED...

I COVER MY FACE BECAUSE I DOIN'T WANT MY MOM AND KIDS SEE WHAT I DO TO OTHER MOMS AND KIDS.

Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina
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Shows a gun carrying ICE agent with a covered face, shades and wearing a red cap.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/04/2025

When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

Late last month, three days after Abrego Garcia’s family filed its lawsuit over his deportation, government attorneys began discussing how to undo the mistake and bring him back. In their conversations, officials went so far as to float the idea of having the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador make a personal appeal to the country’s president for Abrego Garcia’s return. But first, the State Department’s legal team wanted more information from DHS about his alleged role in the MS-13 gang. The thin evidence supplied in response was met with skepticism from the State Department lawyers. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally when he was 16 years old, was one of 23 Salvadorans deported on March 15. But his name had not appeared on an internal list of 10 gang members sought by President Nayib Bukele.
Attorneys at DHS had other concerns. They were aware that, six years ago, a judge had granted Abrego Garcia protected status over fears that he could be targeted for violence should he be returned to El Salvador. That protection was still in effect and had been violated by the March 15 deportation. They wanted to know if U.S. diplomats could ask the Salvadoran government to keep him separated from Barrio 18 gang members who had threatened him in the past and might harm him.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

3. Conclusion
It is this Court's finding that Respondents' Response and testimony was replete with
conclusions, declarations, and accusations, by anything
meaningful in the record. Respondents have been unable to convince the Court by even a preponderance of the evidence, let alone clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence required, that Petitioners Sanchez Garcia and Sanchez Puentes are members of Tren de Aragua, and therefore has not shown this Court that they are properly designated "alien enemies" under the AEA pursuant the TdA Proclamation.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I have nothing against rich folks space tourism, but this has real Marie Antoinette overtones.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/03/2025

One political prediction in which I’m pretty confident is that by 2028 there will basically no one in Washington with a lower approval rating than this guy. Unique in his ability to incur a different kind of vitriol and scorn from just about every demographic. Pariah in waiting for four years.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Hope @4thepeace.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just another example of traitor and coward betraying our country and its brave fighting women and men

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 22/03/2025

I’d like to spend one weekend not thinking about law, lawyers, law firms, lawlessness, and their derivatives. Thanks.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

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Axios @axios.com · 22/03/2025

Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only "fraudsters" would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and that most people wouldn't mind if the government simply skipped a payment.

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Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says

More than 70 million Americans get a Social Security benefit every month, and for many, those checks are their only income.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hopefully they'll just lose them all.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So Steelers to go 7-9 next year. Congrats.

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

When counsel wants to file a surreply

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025

New in PN: Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk are not your friends "Amplifying the views of people who want to torch our democracy — and are actually doing so right now! — is an incredibly irresponsible exercise."

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Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk are not your friends

Gavin Newsom's new podcast demonstrates a failed way of engaging with MAGA extremists.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is one of the saddest capitulations I have ever seen. A law firm honored for its bravery has more than bent the knee and kissed the ring: it has paid the ransom demanded by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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Law Firm Bends in Face of Trump Demands

Paul, Weiss — one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign — said it resolved the conflict by agreeing to a range of commitments.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I think this was from Chapter 4 of Mein Kampf.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

No kidding. That's kinda legal research 101

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Keep Your Hands Off! Keep ‘em off of our Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, private data, libraries, schools, and personal rights. Find an event near you, or—if you are near D.C.—come join us, along with the rest of The Contrarian family! (Details to follow.)

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Keep Your Hands Off!

Save the Date! Join us on April 5th, 2025

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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

yeah I think she could win a general tbh

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Who is he going to hold in contempt? Trump? The US Government? How can he enforce the order?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

That's it? For KILLING YOUR CITIZENS??? Expell their diplomats and recall your ambassador.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yes. I was just thinking this is Nixon on steroids.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Our last two successful Presidents were 46 and 47 when they entered office. We need to look younger for 2028.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

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John Sheppard @jsheppar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is kind of like the Osama Bin Laden "strong horse" argument. To the extent you don't fight back, you cede the whole field to Trump. People want to see their leaders standing up for their principles.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What Krugman said

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

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