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Leigh Brownhill

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/06/2026
"While the term 'sportswashing' hasn’t often been applied to the United States, I think it very much should." @alexjn.bsky.social spoke with @julesboykoff.bsky.social, political scientist and former pro soccer player, on how Trump—like Putin before him—is the World Cup’s biggest winner.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 05/06/2026
This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.
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Alan Alda’s Solution to Eroding Trust in Science: More Improv
The “M*A*S*H” star’s program to help researchers overcome their communication challenges now draws thousands. We sat in on a class.
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Capitalism, Nature, Socialism @cnsjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Global Ecosocialist Network is pleased to announce that Daniel Tanuro will be speaking at their upcoming gathering on April 4th at 13:00 GMT (8:00am EDT)! Webinar link: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
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Capitalism, Nature, Socialism @cnsjournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
CNS has a Newsletter? ✨YES. ✨ We feature guest writers, calls for Special Issues, new books & talks from Editors, upcoming events, and much more! Sign up: cnsjournal.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... Newsletter archive: www.cnsjournal.org/newsletter/
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
NY Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
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New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam
AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/02/2026
For Trump, his remarks are fitting for a man caught bragging about sexual assault.
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We now know what Trump's "locker room banter" looks like
The locker room, in the mind of the president, is where misogyny is not only permitted but protected.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/02/2026
Aliya Rahman attended Trump's State of the Union address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar. She was arrested and ejected from the gallery for simply "standing up" in protest.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15/02/2026
"What they fear most is these mass movements leading eventually to some kind of accountability.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social discuss how Trump and Epstein’s elite circle fear mass movements that could bring them down. Watch the full episode: zeteo.com/p/naomi-klei...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 17/01/2026
Somalis are fighting back, from homemade sambusas for protesters to foot patrols on the lookout for ICE.
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Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis
Somali Minneapolis residents are fighting back with foot patrols on the lookout for ICE and homemade sambusas for protesters.
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.
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The Doors of Stone Town
In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/12/2025
The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Boston’s affordable housing policies, accusing the city of engaging in a “racialist theory of housing justice” that discriminates against white people.
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Trump's HUD accuses Boston of engaging in "redlining" against white people
More than 50 years ago, the Trump family faced a similar government challenge for refusing to rent to Black people.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/12/2025
As Trump escalates attacks on Somali community, ICE pulls over Ilhan Omar's son
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Ilhan Omar Says ICE Pulled Over Her Son in Minnesota, Asked For ID
President Trump has repeatedly targeted the Somali-born congresswoman amid a surge in immigration raids in the Twin Cities.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/12/2025
“The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late
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“The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official Judith Enck Discusses New Book
We speak with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. “Scientists have found micropla...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/12/2025
“We’ve been doing things wrong for a very long time, and now that we know we’re doing things wrong, we need to start fixing it.” There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
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Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/11/2025
“We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm."
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“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says th...
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) massacre in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan as they captured a key city there was so horrific, blood was visible from space!!!
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Blood visible from space in Sudan shows evidence of Darfur genocide: Analysts
Satellite images and verified videos paint a harrowing picture of door-to-door mass killings in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Many South African millennials and Gen Z are increasingly choosing “plant parenting” instead of having children. Some are “helicopter plant parents” who track watering schedules via apps and mark plant growth and milestones much like one might with children.
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Why South African millennials and Gen Z choose plants over parenthood
Explore the growing trend of plant parenting among South African millennials and Gen Z, as they turn to nurturing greenery for mental well-being and connection to nature in a fast-paced world.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 18/10/2025
Cats have no kings MagnaCata.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/10/2025
Teachers. Nurses. Mennonites. Marines. The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That’s exactly why the president’s allies are demonizing the organizers.
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They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.
The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
vampires
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2025
The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.
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The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can.
So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
China, US, Japan in a geopolitical race for control of key African rail routes in critical minerals fight that is unfolding in central-southern Africa. It’s a global race to secure critical minerals for the green energy transition. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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China, US, Japan race to control African rail routes in critical minerals fight
Infrastructure is no longer just about moving ore, it is about shaping global supply lines, one analyst notes.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2025
"Good stories are a way for people to feel something and connect issues to their real life." If pop stars can turn casual listeners into die-hard fans, why can’t activists turn concern into action? One musician says: let’s steal from the fan playbook.
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This rock bassist is remixing climate activism
For Adam Met of the band AJR, environmental action is more than a side gig.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2025
The deadly U.S. boat attack in the Caribbean is “bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing,” says historian Greg Grandin.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/09/2025
An advocate working with survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein says the renewed push for accountability is encouraging more women to come forward, including some not yet publicly identified. "Courage is contagious."
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“Courage Is Contagious”: Survivors Demand Epstein Files as More Women Come Forward
Jeffrey Epstein survivors rallied in front of Congress on Wednesday, detailing their experiences of abuse and calling for the release of all Epstein files. “We cannot heal without justice,” says one Epstein survivor, Chauntae Davies. “We cannot protect ...
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Capitalism, Nature, Socialism @cnsjournal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
CNS Journal now has a quarterly newsletter called EcoSocialist Review, devoted to promoting a more transformative, ecosocialist politics & lifting up the work of authors and activists around the globe. (Psst: Write for us!) Sign up for the newsletter here: tinyurl.com/yeymv5ez
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: 
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/08/2025
Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Voting Rights Act turns 60 today. I've studied VRA for 15 years. Most people don't realize just how much it transformed American democracy, ended Jim Crow & enfranchised millions of Americans Now it’s on life support. If it dies, American democracy dies with it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump.
“The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Trump’s Texas gerrymander would give Republicans nearly 80% of seats in state where he got 56% of vote This is direct result of John Roberts & conservative SCOTUS majority gutting Voting Rights Act & refusing to stop blatant partisan gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s Texas gerrymander Is supercharging a new war on democracy
Texas Republicans just unveiled a shocking plan to give their party five new House seats.
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Inae Oh @inaeoh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
They look like divorcees who wander America's dead malls. But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror. I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
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The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“We’re at real risk of normalizing political violence as a part of our democracy.” ICYMI, the Trump administration is shutting down prevention programs across the federal government—right as political violence in America has been surging www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Political violence is surging as Trump kills prevention efforts, a top security expert warns
Former DHS official William Braniff talks about building an innovative model for stopping terrorism—and how its loss may harm America.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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 is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. 

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. 

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. 

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
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Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide
Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
MAGA GOP continues to use, yes, a Hitler-esque rhetoric of dehumanization. When you smear opponents as insects and vermin, you breed disgust and contempt—and danger. Well known to violence experts, and I've long reported on how Trump mainstreamed it with the GOP 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump spread incitement of violence throughout the GOP
Republican leaders have embraced a sinister tactic honed by the ex-president.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My latest for @rollingstone.com “If fascism scares you the way it does me, figuring out how to break the centralized power of the fossil fuel industry is a key form of resistance,” @billmckibben.bsky.social Here Comes the Sun We’ve got our work cut out for us. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A very emotional read - but a crucial one
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/07/2025
I spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy... I sat on my couch and phoned up royalty, spoke to ambassadors, irritated a senior adviser at Blackstone, and left squeaky voicemails for what must constitute a considerable percentage of the world oligarchy.
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I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/07/2025
Democrats get stuck in a “stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ‘Well, climate’s not one of the top issues that voters care about,’ so then we don’t talk about it.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
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Sheldon Whitehouse: Democrats and activists "too polite" in fight against "malevolent" fossil fuel giants
The Rhode Island senator delivers his 300th "Time to Wake Up" climate speech.
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God @thegodshow.com · 13/06/2025
Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Well, we all are going to die.”
GOP senator Joni Ernst on concerns about people losing health care because of Trump’s budget
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/05/2025
Trump is pushing for an "Office of Remigration," In Europe, "remigration" has been called "soft-style ethnic cleansing."
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The worrying backstory of Trump’s proposed “Office of Remigration”
The State Department is reportedly creating an office for "remigration": a far-right policy that calls for what has been described as "soft-style ethnic cleansing."
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that, on a mass scale, would be a major threat to Trump. jacobin.com/2025/04/migr...
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ICE Sets Its Sights on Massachusetts Immigrant Workers
This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that...
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Veteran Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez rejects claims by Donald Trump and Elon Musk that Afrikaners face “genocide” in South Africa. Says Afrikaners are in fact “generally better off” today than under apartheid due to the country embracing democracy.
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As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez
We are not victims, there is no genocide. This rhetoric shows that the US administration doesn’t understand my thriving country, says Max du Preez, founding editor of the Vrye Weekblad newspaper
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/04/2025
Gotta correct the media again on something. The administration is not sending migrants to a mega prison in El Salvador. They’re sending human beings to a concentration camp.
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