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Will talk your ear off about the maternal morbidity crisis in the US. Get into it. Gannett alum and ex-LATer.

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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I love that The Last Wave is teaching kids to swim and surf in Liberia. Too many kids are growing up to be fisherman who don’t know how to swim. buymeacoffee.com/thelastwavesurf
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The Last Wave is Kid's surf & swim programs in Robertsport, Liberia
The Last Wave is a surf school and community hub based in Robertsport, Liberia, built by local surfers for everyone. Surfing has long been more than a sport here, it’s a way to build confidence, disci
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Curry Corner in Minneapolis is temporarily closed to protect its workers, but has been passing out hot food to protesters for free. Donations will help the effort. gofund.me/20f441d83
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Donate to Help Curry Corner Through This Difficult Period, organized by Curry Corner
Due to ongoing safety concerns in Minneapolis, Curry Corner has made the… Curry Corner needs your support for Help Curry Corner Through This Difficult Period
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
CHICAGO!!! We’re out protesting at the Broadview Detention Center (1930 Beach St) where ICE is detaining and deporting our neighbors. We’ve scared them off once today. Come by and help us do it again.
A woman holds a sign that reads, “WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? RESIST ICE” in front of a nondescript building with an American flag on top.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/09/2025
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made myriad false and misleading claims as he fielded questions examining his seven-month tenure leading the nation’s health agencies at a contentious three-hour hearing. Here’s a closer look at the facts.
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FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by RFK Jr. during Senate hearing
Kennedy was answering a question from Sen. Maggie Hassan on whether COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of American lives.
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Don’t believe everything you hear about Chicago. A bunch of us were hanging out listening to Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo celebrate diversity and humanity at a beautiful free concert tonight.
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Barbara F. Walter @barbarafwalter.com · 13/08/2025
There's something that scares me more than political violence and you can read about it here:
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The Thing That Scares Me The Most
The thing that scares me most about America’s future isn’t the next election, the Supreme Court, or even the possibility of political violence although all of them scare me.
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WIRED @wired.com · 25/06/2025
Immigration detention isn’t supposed to be punitive, says Anthony Enriquez, vice president of advocacy at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. “But the conditions of confinement in detention are so brutal,” he says, “that people have attempted suicide while waiting for their day in court.”
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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/06/2025
When López Alvarado tried to tell the officers that she was due June 17, she said they responded, “‘OK, your baby is going to be born here, but you’re from Mexico, right?’ And I told them no.” trib.al/ljia9Xs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/06/2025
In 2023, Russell Vought detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest: “We want to be able to shut down the riots and not have the legal community or the defense community come in and say, ‘That’s an inappropriate use of what you’re trying to do." (Published Oct. 2024)
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“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/06/2025
Minnesota lawmaker killed on Saturday served with compassion, governor says reut.rs/43LMt6k
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Minnesota lawmaker killed on Saturday served with compassion, governor says
Melissa Hortman - the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday - was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as someone with "grace, compassion, and tirelessness."
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids
What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This. I wrote about this at Law Dork earlier on Sunday: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2025
Every Sunday, newspapers across the U.S. are full of listings for tech jobs. But many of them are being posted only as part of a requirement for getting permanent residency for foreign workers. By @alecmac.bsky.social
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The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has…
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Eliminating funds would lead to more than 143,000 additional people in the U.S. becoming infected with virus within 5 years, according to group
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HIV Testing and Outreach Falter as Trump Funding Cuts Sweep the South
JACKSON, Miss. — Storm clouds hung low above a community center in Jackson, where pastor Andre Devine invited people inside for lunch. Hoagies with smoked turkey and ham drew the crowd, but several…
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Long but worthwhile read. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
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The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 01/05/2025
I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2025
In a letter from February, Martin asked Musk to “utilize me and my staff” to protect the people and the work of DOGE. He vowed to take “any and all legal action against anyone” who impeded DOGE’s work. By @andykroll.bsky.social and @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Defending Jan. 6 Rioters, Investigating Democrats: How Ed Martin Is Weaponizing the DOJ for Trump
As interim U.S. attorney in D.C., Martin has fired career prosecutors, dropped Capitol riot cases and launched sweeping probes into Trump’s political enemies.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/05/2025
Undocumented mothers and their U.S. born children were deported. Attorneys for the families say federal immigration agents planned everything. "She was trying to get ahold of a phone to try to call her family and her attorney. But she wasn’t being allowed.”
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ICE Lied About Everything on Deported U.S. Citizen Kids, Lawyers Say
Attorneys for the families of the deported U.S. citizen children say federal immigration agents planned everything.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
RESISTANCE COMES IN MANY FORMS ✊🏼🖤
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’m alarmed by the number of states below herd immunity for measles.
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STAT @statnews.com · 16/04/2025
A small increase in the autism rate suggests diagnosis and access to care are improving, researchers say — and don't herald a crisis as the health secretary argues.
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RFK Jr. calls rising autism rate an ‘epidemic.’ Researchers call it a 'good sign'
A small increase in the autism rate suggests diagnosis and access to care are improving, researchers say — and don't herald a crisis as the health secretary argues.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/04/2025
Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war
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Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war
NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps * Timeline: Sudan’s two years of war and its devastating toll Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country’s civil war enters its third year. Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, hundreds of people were feared to have died in RSF attacks on refugee camps in the western Darfur region in the latest apparent atrocity of a war marked by its brutality and wide-scale humanitarian impact. Continue reading...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/04/2025
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/04/2025
Everyone needs to see the best moments from Bernie Sanders and AOC’s rally in front of 36,000 people today. Something big is happening in this country.
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Bernie BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN in BIGGEST RALLY Yet
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Jessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Sometimes programs will have an ambitious design and then get sloppy when it comes to implementation. That is not what Weisenfeld has seen with Preschool for All. “They did not cut corners,” she says. “They’re still pushing for high quality. They’re still pushing for equity. It’s impressive.”
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Portland’s Universal Pre-K Proposal Was Hailed as a ‘National Model.’ How’s the Rollout Going? - EdSurge News
Today, nearly halfway between its passage at the ballot box and its deadline to reach universality in 2030, Multnomah County’s Preschool for All ...
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I needed to see something like this today. Sometimes you just need the color purple.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Calling ICE a rogue agency doesn’t even quite get at how bad the problem is with them. … They are always pushing to the limits of what they are allowed to do and fudging around the edges without oversight,” Executive Director Emily Tucker was requoted in @julito77.bsky.social’s recent op-ed.
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Opinion | The deep roots of ICE’s disdain for civil liberties
For the last two decades, it has operated with little public scrutiny.
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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
It’s unbelievable that this administration’s bar for success is ‘avoiding a depression.’ They’re fine setting your retirement savings on fire and leaving millions of families to fend for themselves.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/04/2025
NEW: A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional. @richardawebster.bsky.social / @veritenews.org
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An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm…
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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2025
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service resigned after the Treasury Department and Homeland Security reached an agreement to share tax data from some immigrants living in the country without legal status. (via @wbur.org)
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'Federal government will be damaged': Former IRS official on plan to share immigrant data with ICE
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service resigned after the Treasury Department and Homeland Security reached an agreement to share tax data from some immigrants living in the country without l...
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 10/04/2025
Illinois schools chief pushes back against Trump administration’s anti-DEI push www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/1…
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Illinois challenges Trump administration order to identify DEI programs violating federal law
Illinois pushed back on the Trump administration’s request for districts to certify that they are not promoting DEI. In a letter, the state superintendent asked the administration to identify what DEI programs violate federal civil rights laws.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/04/2025
Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.
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New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds
A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/04/2025
Layoffs at the CDC gutted branches responsible for a slew of HIV prevention services, imperiling decades of progress.
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HIV prevention was making great strides. Then Trump’s budget axe fell
CDC layoffs and program cuts gutted branches responsible for a slew of HIV prevention services, imperiling decades of progress.
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Nicole M @nicoleonline.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Because I’m sometimes a deeply unserious person, I am fascinated by mushrooms while also being weird out by them too. I follow this account too closely🫣
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Learn to protest safely before protests get more dangerous.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/04/2025
ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses. It's the third highest monthly total on record.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/04/2025
"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me." Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know. Read it + share it with a friend:
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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
You love to see it: madison.com/news/state-r... www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
Wisconsin State Journal

BREAKING NEWS
Crawford wins, cementing 4-3 liberal majority on
Supreme Court
Backers painted Crawford's victory as a resounding defeat for President Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, who showered more than $20 million on her opponent.milwaukee journal sentinel

Susan Crawford beats Brad Schimel to win seat on
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Crawford's victory cements liberal control of the court until at least 2028 and marks a defeat for President Donald Trump and billionaire
Elon Musk.
ELECTIONS 9:23 p.m. CT April 1
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/04/2025
Democratic senator Cory Booker holds marathon speech to highlight ‘recklessness’ of Trump policies – US politics live
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Democratic senator Cory Booker holds marathon speech to highlight ‘recklessness’ of Trump policies – US politics live
New Jersey Democrat began talking on Monday night to highlight ‘a nation in crisis’ and was still going at 7.30am eastern time on Tuesday
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The stories shared by ICE Air flight attendants paint a different picture of deportations from the one presented to the public, especially under President Donald Trump. @mckenziefunk.com
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 01/04/2025
Alabama’s attorney general said he would charge abortion funds for helping people end their pregnancies in other states. On Monday, a federal judge said doing so would violate the U.S. Constitution. theappeal.org/alabama-cant...
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Alabama Can’t Prosecute People For Out-Of-State Abortions, Judge Rules
A federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people who get abortions in states where the procedure is legal.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours
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Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours
The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 27/03/2025
Video footage obtained by NBC News shows the moment Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested. Oztur is a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University with a valid student visa, her lawyer says.
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