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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 19h
“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.”
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 15h
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17h
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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70B06C26F00001137
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(11 months remain)
Unlinked Award
Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
Related Awards
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CONT_IDV_70Z02323ACGRC0001_7008
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 20, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 19, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 19, 2027
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$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
Potential Award Amount
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$0.00
Obligated Amount
$20,000,000.00
Current Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
Potential Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
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R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
The US today pulled out of Erbil Air Base in Iraq, ending Operation Inherent Resolve in the country after 12 years.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20h
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 16h
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rainy jorbo ☔️ @bookenj.bsky.social · 17h
mayors and city councils have near-unlimited power to make life miserable for anyone within their sphere of influence. university, corporation, federal government. doesn’t matter. if the mayor wants to fuck up your day, he will. i wish more municipalities were willing to exert that power for good
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 18h
how bad do you have to f*** up to be shown up by amy klobuchar?
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, a Pentago…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
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Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Enchanted Forest by Jackson Pollock, 1947 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
Meta pulled down Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and blocked his campaign from running political ads but allows paid ads calling for a military coup It also didn't take down any of the right-wing disinformation campaigns reported in August novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election
Meta briefly disabled ads on the Facebook page of Brazil’s leftwing president on Friday – just days before he faces a far-right challenger in national elections.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
Lyudmila Mila @mila1961b
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In Oleshky, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped 4 tons of food supplies at night. A photo from an Oleshky resident—she found a box in her garden in the morning. She says it was scary at night; drones were flying low. She woke up—her heart was pounding, hid against the wall. And in the morning, such a find: canned fish, canned meat, oil, sugar, grains.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: GOP Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins says he's "fine" with sending federal troops to the polls, and idea floated often by Trump officials. Problem with that is this is illegal and a form of voter intimidation.
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‘Fine with me’: GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins backs federal troops at polls
Rep. Mike Collins (R), the GOP candidate for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat, said he was “fine” with sending federal troops to the polls, though this is illegal.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/09/2026
Scientists discovered that diseased fruit flies lived longer when they were removed from Earth’s magnetic field, while healthy flies had shorter lifespans, in a first-of-its kind experiment with surprising results. www.404media.co/earth-magnet...
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An Invisible Force Has a Mysterious Effect on Aging, Scientists Discover in 'Startling' Breakthrough
Scientists discovered that diseased fruit flies lived longer when they were removed from Earth’s magnetic field, while healthy flies had shorter lifespans, in a first-of-its kind experiment with…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got $5 for it
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"teaching is about exchanging knowledge"
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lula in Brazil just banned online betting www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Brazil's Lula bans online betting, unveils debt relief plan as reelection race tightens
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday announced a ban on online betting operations in Latin ‌America's largest economy and unveiled a new debt relief program aimed at households, the ...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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National Highway System Map
This maps displays the National Highway System (NHS). The National Highway System consists of roadways important to the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think the United States should invade Cuba. This, to me, sounds like a bad idea. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
when ai is tied to that likeness, one attempts to make him look like he* is the government, or authority
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
United States Department of Justice is asking to intervene, on behalf of Musk, on the European Commission’s enforcement of its Digital Services Act on the X platform. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
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United States Files Request to Intervene in Case Brought by X Corp. and Elon Musk Seeking to Annul Decision by European Commission
The United States filed an application to intervene in the captioned cases, X Internet and X Holdings v. Commission, Case No. T-114/26 and Musk v. Commission, Case No. T-121/26, before the General Cou...
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A reminder that this is the guy who Netanyahu wants to convince people is a danger. The guy giving out free opera tickets.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I told you so. They’re going for legislative changes www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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PM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing laws
Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce just sued Hawaii over its new challenge to Citizens United. Hawaii’s law bars corporations and other organizations from spending to support or oppose state candidates. The Chamber says that violates the First Amendment.
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
7:20 PM: The Trump White House just denied CNN access to arrivals at the State Dinner for China’s leader, in defiance of court orders and in violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that -includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text -features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
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Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: A federal judge ordered the White House to immediately restore hard passes for POLITICO, CNN and MSNOW, saying President Trump's ban punished "routine" reporting and the WH provided zero evidence for its national security claims. w @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Judge restores White House access for POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the return of press credentials President Donald Trump had revoked.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say reut.rs/3TfIfl3
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AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according ​to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released Thursday.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Texas LG talked about private polling at a Texas fundraiser today. He specifically said 2 Texas state senators were in dead heat in GOP polling—both extraordinarily red districts. One district that voted for Trump by 20%, another for Trump by 25%. via quorumreport.com/quorum_repor...
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Pinky Herman @walkerbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DCCC about to go into OK-5 @purrtah.bsky.social www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p... (paywalled)
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when attempting to build/implement a mass surveillance system/s (digital eugenics, that ties to physical) not only set to verbal/physical likeness but also to wealth/class*, it would make sense to focus on transgendered as being an enemy or anomaly*. they seek a common, to breed "perfection".
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can’t they just turn off their own shit?
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
once again, his name/likeness is trademarked
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Wisconsin DNR repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil and gas spill in WI history on Aug. 25. Enbridge defied the requests, built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5 operations. [VIDEO]
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Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill - UNICORN RIOT
After the largest oil and gas spill in Wisconsin's history, Enbridge's defiance of legal requests raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations and it...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aalborg now has 241,000 m³ of hot water storage, the largest in Denmark, plus 150 MW of electric boilers and a 177 MW seawater heat pump. That's 217 MW of flexible demand, holding one to three winter days of heat. District heating in Denmark is becoming a critical flexibility resource.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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