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Meg O'Connor

@megoconnor.bsky.social
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Writer. Most recently I covered cops and prosecutors for @theappeal.org. Huge fan of hiking and baking 🍪 megoconnor.com

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Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The kindest, funniest, most incredible human being on the planet proposed to me under the Northern Lights this week 💖💖💖
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation. It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Update: A former (as of recently) judge and his wife have been arrested in New Mexico, also on charges that they aided immigrants, though circumstances are very different. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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Former judge, wife arrested in Las Cruces on federal charges
LAS CRUCES — Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy, were arrested by FBI agents Thursday afternoon on federal charges of tampering with evidence.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...
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Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'
A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Clarification: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, as per a letter from the National PREA Resource Center exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Scoop: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, according to a letter from the Center, exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...
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Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center
A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
UDPATE: At Mahdawi's hearing this morning, the judge granted a 90-day extension of the TRO while they wait for the government to respond. They'll return to court next week to argue for his release
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 18/04/2025
the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest
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Radicalized White Men Like the FSU Shooter Are the Real Threat to Campuses—Not Student Protestors
"The alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
You know what else is up by a huge percentage? Illegal but state-sanctioned assault, battery, kidnappings, forced imprisonment, torture, and violations of due process.
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Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Democrats and universities paved the way for Trump's deportations. Now, local prosecutors are threatening students and faculty members with decades in prison for speaking out against genocide.
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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 17/04/2025
As the Trump admin fights to deport students who support Palestinians, dozens more face extreme charges in local courts. In just five jurisdictions, prosecutors have filed 187 charges against 66 protesters—including alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.
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Here’s Where Pro-Palestine Protesters Face the Harshest Charges
Prosecutors have filed or are considering filing 187 charges against 66 pro-Palestine, anti-Israel campus protesters from Gaza encampments.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/04/2025
“At the time the list was released, Braveboy said that untrustworthy officers risk ‘the integrity of cases brought to the justice system.’ And yet, the United States Department of Justice is basing the extraordinary rendition of a Maryland resident solely on the credibility of just such an officer.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
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Video shows ICE agents shatter car window during Massachusetts arrest: attorney
Federal immigration agents are accused of shattering a car window in Massachusetts while detaining a Guatemalan man on Monday in a caught-on-camera incident – despite his attorney saying they had t…
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/04/2025
Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
excuse me "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse" that’s more of a timeline than a euphemism
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/04/2025
An Israeli colleague of detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi pushes back on Sec. Rubio’s antisemitism claim. Our latest report shows how a Palestinian student committed to peace became an ICE target. Read @akelalacy.bsky.social full story: interc.pt/3RjDoL6
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Rubio Says Detained Palestinian Stoked Antisemitism. Mahdawi’s Israeli Colleague Says the Opposite.
Mohsen Mahdawi’s Israeli colleague undermines Marco Rubio’s antisemitism case to detain and deport the Columbia University student.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After being told by the Supreme Court to bring Abrego Garcia home, and that it was illegal to send him and others to a foreign gulag without due process, the Trump administration this weekend sent 10 more people to the Salvadoran gulag without process.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 16/04/2025
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14/04/2025
The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.
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Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
MORE NEWS: Mahdawi's lawyers filed a habeas petition this morning challenging his arrest and detention under the same INA provision used to deport Mahmoud Khalil. More TK
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The New Yorker has an investigative piece about people dying of malnutrition and dehydration in jails. I appreciate the author for not sugarcoating it: "hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Not even the state could find evidence against Ozturk. They disappeared her regardless.
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Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
thanks PPD, finally got my FOIA request back
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A shameful act by this Chicago prosecutor, done to protect a Chicago police/Guantanamo Bay torturer and keep someone locked up whom he likely tortured into making a false confession.
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Prosecutor pushes to exclude ex-Gitmo detainee’s torture allegations against former Chicago detective
A Cook County assistant state’s attorney says the cop’s alleged coercion behind a Chicago murder confession has little to do with “enhanced interrogation” at Guantánamo.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/04/2025
The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.” The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.
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Trump refuses to bring back those wrongly detained in El Salvador. You could be next.
Will the Supreme Court allow permanent disappearances?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
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Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted
What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Ms. Miller wrote in an email. She added in a separate message, “This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature.”
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Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their Pronouns
Some Trump administration officials have declined to answer questions from several journalists on the basis of their email signatures.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation
Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/04/2025
even if he's released on Friday he will have spent a month in arguably the worst jail in the US over an allegation for which the government has not even submitted its paperwork.
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Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"One ASU student remains in detention, and has been locked up for about 10 days." azluminaria.org/2025/04/08/a...
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At least 50 ASU students have now had visas revoked, lawyer says - AZ Luminaria
The number of international students at Arizona State University who have had their visas revoked is now at least 50, according to an attorney representing the students. Last week, Arizona Luminaria r...
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
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Austin Sanders @austinsanders.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The secret police misconduct file known as the G file could be coming to a town near you, whether you want it or not.
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Texas Law Would Make Law Enforcement Misconduct Records More Secretive
New law would create “G file” for all state law enforcement agencies
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There's so much going on right now that it's hard to know where to focus, but please take a moment to read this @mikehalltexas.bsky.social story about an 18-year-old Venezuelan who was in Texas legally who ICE seized, and who is now in a Salvadoran megaprison. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, has said it is not aware of any prisoners having ever been released from the complex. Inmates, who are not allowed visitors, are kept in overcrowded cells that are lit around the clock, and they are let out for thirty minutes a day."
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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is an endemic problem, by the way. Geo Group and CoreCivic regularly deny folks in detention their meds. I witnessed this practiced systematically at Krome for the 5 years I used to visit and communicate with guys there
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Ari Odzer @ariodzernbc6.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The police at Florida Atlantic University are the first in the nation to partner with ICE. That means they can interrogate and detain students they suspect of being undocumented. Here’s our @nbcmiami.com report. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...
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Florida Atlantic University's police is partnering with ICE
The Florida Atlantic University Police Department might be the first college campus police agency to partner with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division.  F...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (1/2):

“It is unconscionable that Rümeysa Öztürk—a young woman pursuing her education, exercising her First Amendment rights, and contributing to her community—remains detained by DHS. Her ongoing incarceration is not only a blatant violation of her constitutional rights to due process and free speech, but it is now an egregious denial of her fundamental right to medical care. Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (2/2):

“According to her lawyer, Rümeysa has not received her required asthma medications and has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in custody. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

“As her representatives in Congress, we demand DHS immediately provide Rümeysa with access to the health care she needs, and absent compelling evidence justifying her detention and the revocation of her status, we call for Ozturk’s release and the restoration of her visa. Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk, and DHS must move with urgency.”
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"I was sitting with my family and suddenly a missile targeted us. ... Innocent women and children were killed. Separated heads and different body parts were everywhere. It is something beyond logic and beyond imagination."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/04/2025
The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows.
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Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved”
Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/04/2025
One of the most prolific and notorious rapists in American history may have operated unchecked because of police corruption. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social reports on the case of Sean Williams.
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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/04/2025
ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan
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ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan
We speak with New York Immigration Coalition President Murad Awawdeh about a mother and three children who were swept up in an ICE raid not far from the home of Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan in...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 03/04/2025
It's unclear who the students are or why their visas were revoked, but they face deportation under Trump's crackdown on student speech via @jwashing.bsky.social/@azluminaria.bsky.social
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Eight international students at ASU have had their visas revoked • Arizona Mirror
Amid nationwide deportation crackdown, eight ASU students may be forced to leave the U.S. because they had their visas revoked.
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Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
if you really want to have babies you can't, if you don't want to have babies you have to have babies, love this government
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 03/04/2025
🎥 NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Trump and Germany Are Using the Same Playbook to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Activism @jeremyscahill.com interviews a leading German lawyer fighting his country’s criminalization of pro-Palestine speech www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-dona...
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VIDEO: Donald Trump and Germany Are Using the Same Playbook to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Activism
Listen now | A leading German lawyer fighting his country’s criminalization of pro-Palestine speech digs deep into Germany’s pro-Israel laws and how the US is embracing its tactics
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/04/2025
WashPo [Apr 3] -- Lovely profile of 18-yr old VA athlete Eliza Munshi , who has never been through a male puberty & wanted to use her last HS year playing sports. Banned from girls' track, she now competes on the boys' team. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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A trans girl was banned from her track team. Now she’s competing with the boys.
After President Donald Trump banned transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports, a Virginia high-schooler joined the boys’ team.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 02/04/2025
Elon Musk by himself spent more in Wisconsin’s election this spring than the total spending in any judicial race in U.S. history prior to 2023. boltsmag.org/wiscons...
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Liberals Defend Wisconsin Supreme Court, Beating Back Elon Musk
Susan Crawford won after a record-breaking election that seals liberals’ majority for several years as important cases loom on abortion, labor, and election law.
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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 01/04/2025
Breaking news from @elizabethweill.bsky.social: Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced plans this morning to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. theappeal.org/pam-bondi-lu...
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Trump’s DOJ Seeks Death Penalty Against Luigi Mangione
Attorney General Pam Bondi called the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “an act of political violence.”
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