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Kim

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Californian interested in culture, art, politics, human rights, immigrant rights, climate action, & ethics.💙🌻

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1h
From the racist psychopath who brought you, “They’re eating the pets.” VOTE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h
Guilfoyle specialized in abusing the staff around her. "'Guilfoyle was drinking at four in the morning, she called her security detail, Vasili, a grandfather, who was sleeping obviously, and did not respond. Next day, she demoted him.' Her alleged early morning request? To fetch more ice cubes."
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Kimberly Guilfoyle's Greek party life investigated by State Department
The State Department is officially investigating complaints into Kimberly Guilfoyle's allegedly 'tyrannical' leadership and lavish perks at the US Embassy in Athens, the Daily Mail can reveal.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6h
The thing you have to account for with stories like this is that the people who are loudest about needing more money for TV ads are the consultants who do media placement and therefore get rich when there's more money for TV ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Democrats spy a red-state opening. There may not be enough cash for it.
As the Senate map pushes into deep-red states, Democrats worry their money won’t reach far enough to make some of them legitimate battlegrounds.
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Erin McBride @raymonderinmcbride.bsky.social · 42m
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” There is a reason civilized societies don't do this kind of stuff. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p...
cnn.com
Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN Politics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
What a ridiculous answer.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
I don't believe that Americans won't work certain jobs, but the reality is that the domestic labor supply largely does NOT want to do backbreaking farm labor; and the wages required to fill the positions could be so high they'd bankrupt farms competing in a global market.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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🌈Passarinha nordestina♿ @gabrielapamonha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Ten days before the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, Meta suddenly disabled the adverts on the Facebook page of President and candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,” the MEP reports and laments". www.eunews.it/en/2026/10/0...
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Brazil: PD MEPs condemn Zuckerberg’s interference in the presidential elections
Meta, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, who controls Facebook and Instagram, is alleged to have favoured Bolsonaro and disadvantaged Lula in the run-up to the Brazilian elections
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h
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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 6h
i don't even know where to being parsing this. it sounds like the accusation is that MS is using the H1-B visa program to get more workers for less money -- and isn't that the GOP agenda? Or is it an insidious 'this company is giving your jobs to foreigners' accusation?
seattletimes.com
Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, Vance says
The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa.
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Kiripost @kiripost.bsky.social · 6h
President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.
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Microsoft Is Being Suspended From Program to Apply for Green Cards for H-1B Visa Workers, Vance Says
President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.
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CNN @cnn.com · 10h
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. cnn.it/4zgcsQc
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 8h
Just suck it up, #Texas !--Paxton "‘We have to suck it up’: Paxton privately suggests cutting fed benefit programs to reduce national deficit In leaked convo.. the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h
And we're not even 2 years in yet.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7h
If AI would let Amazon staff do 3 days a week instead of 5 days a week, what would happen is either (a) Amazon would instead have people work 5 days a week and pocket most of the extra efficiency for shareholders if its a profit center or (b) downsize 5 person teams to 3 person teams working 5 days
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 7h
Talarico gets the flu, and MAGA immediately goes full conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, Trump is covered in bruises, wearing a leg brace, falling asleep in meetings, and clearly in cognitive decline, and they haven't said a word. Bunch of weirdos.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h
Trump must be so disappointed after all those promises he made about ending it before he even got into office.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 8h
What happens if Matt Dunlap wins Jared Golden's seat? If Randy Villegas and Will Lawrence win? If MGP loses? Will the same grading on a curve apply?
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 8h
Funny to imagine the moment AOC makes a remark at a fundraiser to hype up supporters, and an entire factional architecture ramps up to set new goalposts such that Abdul has to win by 8 to actually "win." The last poll I saw showed him with the same spread as Jocelyn Benson, the Dem for governor.
slowboring.com
An honest framework for assessing electoral performance
Spot tomorrow’s post-election bullshit today
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7h
• ban private equity firms from owning hospitals • increase oversight of hospital mergers • end upcoding overpayments to Medicare Advantage • end prior authorization for routine/emergency treatment • ban “pay for delay” payments to generic manufacturers • reform PBMs • send opioid execs to prison
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South Carolina Senate Hopeful Runs on Health Care Populism - The American Prospect
An unusually detailed health care policy platform from Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, attacks Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and big hospital systems for putting profits over care.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans are now putting money into South Carolina's Senate race. They're up against Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who's been in the broken health system long enough to know what's wrong with it. Her health policy is unusually detailed and goes after Big Medicine. prospect.org/2026/10/08/s...
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South Carolina Senate Hopeful Runs on Health Care Populism - The American Prospect
An unusually detailed health care policy platform from Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, attacks Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and big hospital systems for putting profits over care.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7h
Great profile here by Zachary Groz of Hallie Shoffner, a farmer populist scaring the crap out of Tom Cotton in Arkansas. Cotton has spent $10 million already! Shoffner understands the problem with agricultural markets. prospect.org/2026/10/08/prairie-populist-crimson-red-arkansas-hallie-shoffner/
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A Prairie Populist in Crimson-Red Arkansas - The American Prospect
Farmer and Democrat Hallie Shoffner is taking on Big Ag in a long-shot Senate race against Republican Tom Cotton.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7h
Alejandro Betancourt is the key figure in the deal Venezuela made with the U.S. to give away a substantial chunk of its oil wealth. Betancourt's legal problems disappeared as the deal was being made. But Betancourt's rivalry with his longest-running hater, Thor Halvorssen, unlocks this strange tale:
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Crude Awakening - The American Prospect
A reviled ‘boligarch’ and his right-wing adversaries are engaged in a low-level war, but the only people who will feel the impact are the Venezuelan people.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 15h
Major ICE operation underway across California: ‘Go after anybody’ www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/infra...
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ICE to hit California hard before midterm elections: Sources
ICE leadership has told officers to arrest all illegal immigrants they encounter, regardless of whether an individual has a criminal history.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h
More context on that last bit: bsky.app/profile/purp...
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AILA @aila.org · 8h
"I indicated that I was a member of Congress, and I was here to provide oversight and to enter and to see this series of rooms...They said no, I was not allowed to enter," said Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Arizona. bit.ly/47a2ZxX
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DHS Is Using FEMA Buildings as Pop-up Immigration Courts, Denying Public Access
Congressman Greg Stanton says he was blocked from entering a makeshift immigration courtroom, raising concerns about public access to the proceedings.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
ICYMI, last night a federal court in Arizona ordered ICE to "facilitate the return" of an Egyptian man currently imprisoned incommunicado by the Equatoguinean government. Mr. Soliman was sent to Equatorial Guinea with no notice. ICE refused his request for a torture screening.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
So what's happening with the warehouses now? Well, ICE is now trying to offload most of them "at a steep discount." In other words, ICE effectively set millions of dollars on fire for a complete boondoggle. Reporting courtesy @projectsaltbox.com. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-puts-s...
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ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market
The properties were among 11 warehouses ICE bought for $1.07 billion to expand detention capacity. Seven are now being marketed for sale at a steep discount.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h
⚠️ Aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee covered up Israeli killings of nine Americans
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h
Source: www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
This is an individual ruling separate from the DVD vs. DHS class action. But attorneys in the case say they hope other immigration attorneys will use this as a model for filings for their clients who have already been subjected to third-country removal.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 23h
New California law raises farmworker minimum wage to $19.75 an hour. Should be more. These are the people who feed us. I support the farm workers. You should too. abc7.com/post/new-cal...
abc7.com
New California law raises farmworker minimum wage to $19.75 an hour
California farmworkers employed through the federal H-2A guest worker program, along with local employees performing the same work, will see a wage increase under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/10/2026
Trump Media ($DJT) is trading at $8.23, less than half its 52-week high of $17.47. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c...
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic National Committee sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
npr.org
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The ultimate NIMBY. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEWS: Congressional watchdog found again that the Trump administration illegally withheld funds for more programs last year. But still no action from GAO on any of these findings of impoundment. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/c...
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Congress’ Watchdog Finds Trump Illegally Withheld More Than $1 Billion in Federal Funds
The White House impounded funds from the EPA and HHS last year, the Government Accountability Office reports.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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