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Phyllis Jordan

@phylliswjordan.bsky.social
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Contributing editor at The 74, former Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, EdFund, FutureEd, Attendance Works and more

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss is a cancer on journalism.
To most people, El-Sayed's social media posts were likely innocuous. In fact, top politicians, including then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and mainstream news organizations, including CBS News itself, had pointed out at the time that the pandemic was killing more Americans than 9/11. But in Weiss' eyes, the news organization had apparently uncovered a scandal worthy of attention from a national news outlet.

Indeed, Status has learned that Weiss praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting Monday, signaling her support for the piece to the entire network. In fact, I’m told that Weiss even personally directed that the headline be tweaked to specifically mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Elsewhere inside CBS News, the story was not received so well. According to people familiar with the matter, many employees inside the David Ellison-owned newsroom viewed the story with disdain, believing it served as yet another blemish calling into question the organization's objectivity under new ownership.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA.
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2026
Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published Jan. 2026)
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
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Cathy Hope @gothope.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Medicaid is certainly in the headlines now as a well-loved cornerstone of America's health care system. "Nearly all adults (97%) say Medicaid is at least somewhat important for people in their local community, including about three in four (73%) who say it is “very important.” @kff.org
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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
At least three states are trying to repeal early grade suspension bans as districts say the practice is needed to control behavior, reach parents. @laurenwreports.bsky.social reports
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K-2 Suspensions Were Recently Banned in Nebraska. Now, Lawmakers Want to Go Back
At least three states are trying to repeal early grade suspension bans as districts say the practice is needed to control behavior, reach parents.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/02/2026
Bacon: "We have to stand up on our own two feet and use these authorities, because that's what the founders intended. I thought maybe we could back off because the Court ruled, but hearing the president right now saying he's gonna do a 10% global tariff means we gotta keep voting on this."
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Four interviews of a girl who says Trump sexually assaulted her when she was underage are gone -- missing from DOJ's release of the Epstein files. #ReleaseTheInterviews
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our new brief explores how states can draw down federal dollars to finance the administrative costs of Medicaid work reporting requirements. Don't be misled by the $200 million in HR 1 -- this will cost taxpayers WAY more. Much of the $ will go to large vendors. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/02/11/i...
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Implementing Costly Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Who Will Foot the Bill?
Introduction The budget reconciliation bill enacted in July 2025 (H.R. 1) includes two major changes to federal Medicaid law that will impose large implementation costs on most states. One mandates th...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/02/2026
In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC
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Phyllis Jordan @phylliswjordan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A technology designed to protect students by tracking license plates in school zones is now being used by ICE to find immigrants. @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/ice-...
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ICE Taps into School Security Cameras to Aid Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show.
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Phyllis Jordan @phylliswjordan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I've been editing op-eds for @The74million for the past year or so, and it never gets old. This piece that published today opened up my eyes to something I knew very little about. So glad this young man found his way to give us this compelling piece. www.the74million.org/article/how-...
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How I Found My Voice As a Man With Nonspeaking Autism
Austin: I am sharing my story because I am able to. I am one of the lucky few who have been freed from my prison of silence.
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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As L.A. reading scores rise, Roy Romer's tenure offers déjà vu — and a warning. @lrj417.bsky.social reports
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As L.A. Reading Scores Rise, Roy Romer’s Tenure Offers Déjà Vu — and a Warning
The district has taken a ‘top-down’ approach to teaching reading. Advocates hope leaders ‘stay the course.’
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2026
WELKER: What do you say to the allegation Trump is going to meddle in midterms & that's what he's doing in GA? JOHNSON: I find it comical a senator from GA is talking about schemes. GA was example A of that W: There are no Qs about 2020 that have not been answered J: That's your opinion W: Nope
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
This new file released appears to show Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick discussing visiting Epstein's island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he cut off ties around 2005 with Epstein after being revolted by him.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/01/2026
Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not. n.pr/4qM9zTj
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Alex Pretti shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis prompts DOJ civil rights probe
Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:
"Overt Act #23: With other co-conspirators standing nearby, defendants LEMON, [REDACTED], and FORT approached the pastor and largely surrounded him (to his front and both sides), stood in close proximity to the pastor in an attempt to oppress and intimidate him, and physically obstructed his freedom of movement while LEMON peppered him with questions to promote the operation's message."
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Phyllis Jordan @phylliswjordan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Mothers of Major Resistance: PTA Members Organize Minneapolis Relief Efforts #EduSky @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/moth...
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Mothers of Major Resistance: PTA Members Organize Minneapolis Relief Efforts
Fox called them ‘wine moms.’ But for longtime volunteers, rides to school for frightened kids was a natural first step. Then came food, diapers, rent.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/01/2026
The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela. n.pr/4r9YUlc
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Families of killed men file first U.S. federal lawsuit over drug boat strikes
The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela.
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Patricia Saenz-Armstrong @psaenz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Dear California, let us see you show up and give this guy the “welcome” he deserves. El Centro, they said? You know how to find it, don’t you? Riiiiight by the Mexican border.
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Feral cat lover @bah704.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup
The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US
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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
2/ "MPR News reached out to approximately 90 of Minnesota’s more than 300 public school districts this week to ask whether student attendance was being affected by the presence of federal enforcement officers throughout the state...."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ICE has been busting down doors and seizing people from their homes without signed judicial warrants. But it wasn’t some decision on the fly. It turns out, it was actual agency policy. A shocking memo, and what it means for this practice, in today’s write-up. Link in the replies.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
Voting for Trump — and regretting it
Sharif, the Madina Mall shop owner who fears she may have to return to the bad old days of having a boss, gave out an exasperated sigh. 

“Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump.

Sharif is not politically active, but in 2024, some campaigners came to her shop and told her that Trump would be good for business and against the LGBTQ agenda. 

“I was immediately hooked,” she said. She voted Republican for the first time.

Now, chagrined, she said, “I never thought the man I put in office would come for my family, make me financially struggle and cause me so much fear that I carry my passport when I go to the bathroom,” she said, pointing at the mall’s bathrooms.

“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/01/2026
ICE agents are now racially profiling and harassing *off duty police officers* in Minnesota and demanding their papers.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/01/2026
More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US attorney’s office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota US attorney’s office is bracing for a new wave of resignations
Prosecutors are alarmed by the administration's response to Renée Good's killing.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Community policing!
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 20/01/2026
An off-duty Brooklyn Park police officer was stopped by federal agents who demanded proof of her citizenship, the city’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said Tuesday. Video: Allison Kite/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Jesus fucking christ
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
US citizen says he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing half-dressed. He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.
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ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow
A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs.
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Phyllis Jordan @phylliswjordan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A great package from my colleagues at @the74.bsky.social: From Head Start to Civil Rights, 8 Ways Trump Reshaped Education in Just 1 Year www.the74million.org/article/from...
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From Head Start to Civil Rights, 8 Ways Trump Reshaped Education in Just 1 Year
‘The breadth and scope … was pretty astonishing': Experts predict more 2026 unraveling in areas from special education oversight to immigration.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Truly banana pants insane. Every time a federal law enforcement official shoots anyone it should be investigated fully (investigations dont nessacary mean they will be charged, that is why you investigate!). This is the bare minimum for a functioning society instead of a dictatorship
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 16/01/2026
Not enough money to lower your health care, food, or housing costs, but enough money for this?
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'Department of War' rebranding could cost as much as $125M, hundreds of millions more if it becomes legal name: CBO
The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost taxpayers anywhere from $10 million to $125 million to rebrand the Defense Department as the "Department of War."
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/01/2026
Last week I reported on the 35 people ICE has killed in the last year. www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-your-d... Today Washington Post reports that on January 3, ICE killed another person, by choking him to death in prison. You don’t reform this. You don’t fix this by training. You ABOLISH this fascism.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/01/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
See how this blatant corruption works? 👀
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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In a filing late last night, the DOJ alleged that they can't be compelled to release the Epstein files. Nothing says innocence like refusing to prove your innocence.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/01/2026
After the SpaceX rocket failed spectacularly, neither the FAA nor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sought to revoke or suspend Starship’s license to launch, a move that is permitted when “necessary to protect the public health and safety.”
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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If a Democratic president had done something like this, Fox and the GOP would have turned Adriana Camberos into a household name à la Willie Horton or, yes, Hunter Biden. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
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What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation
The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Why am I not surprised that he did and said nothing in response to a federal raid on one of his own WaPo reporters?
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Daily Beast stating that Jeff Bezos’ silence after an FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home has reportedly angered the newsroom. Below the text is a link preview image showing Jeff Bezos speaking, with a headline partially visible: ‘Washington Post Reporters Torch Bezos Over “Nausea…”
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thread: The Trump Admin tried to inappropriately withhold federal funds to 5 states with Democratic governors (including Minnesota) under block grants like TANF. While that was temporarily stopped through litigation, the Trump Admin is now threatening to withhold #Medicaid funding from MN (1/x)
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The mother of an 8-year-old autistic boy is preparing to take legal action against a New York school district after her son was allegedly placed in a "timeout" box at school. people.com/mother-plans...
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Mother Plans to Sue After School Allegedly Puts 8-Year-Old with Autism in Wooden 'Timeout' Box
Rhonda Garrow of New York is preparing to take legal action after learning that their 8-year-old, who has autism, was allegedly placed in a “timeout” box at school.
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Phyllis Jordan @phylliswjordan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Bellwether: Schools Need to Agree on Math Strategy to Boost Student Performance @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/bell...
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Bellwether: Schools Need to Agree on Math Strategy to Boost Student Performance
Senior partner says its new report, ‘How We Solve America’s Math Crisis’, shows that best practices are familiar, but rarely carried out consistently.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/01/2026
US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance. Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 15/01/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Over 100 clergy at Target HQ in Downtown Minneapolis demanding justice #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood 🎶 “We can stay here all day, we shall not be moved. We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved.” 🔗 Watch live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1ALf...
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