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Possum @possumpunksta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ah, yes. The annual Hell that is a Gulf full of hot water and vibrio. Seriously, stay out of that water right now. We want you to keep your limbs.
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Bo 🇨🇦 @borasca0107.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My goodness... It's the US, right? 👇 substack.com/@resistfight...
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Women Inside Louisiana ICE Detention Say They Were Beaten, Denied Medical Care and Cut Off From Their Children
Watch now | In a smuggled video from GEO Group’s Louisiana ICE prison, detained women document beatings, medical neglect, family separation, coerced labor and threats to silence them.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/11/2025
Each of the 86 Corporate Dems who voted to "condemn socialism" & was in Congress when Biden used taxpayer money to bailout banks, supported Biden using taxpayer money to bailout banks. They believe in socialism for the wealthy but rugged individualism for working class. MLK called them hypocrites.
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mags. @artbymags.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
every business in new orleans needs to have this or something similar prominently displayed to push back against the impending ICE/CBP onslaught and be ready to get their undocumented workers/patrons into that area if they hear the whistles or see ICE/CBP nearby. #nolasky
flyer with a stop sign on it that says:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS:
STOP - NO ICE ENTRY
Private Property - Entry Restricted by Law
In this business without a judicial warrant signed by a judge

This is a private business - 
You are not permitted to enter non-public areas.
You may not search the premises or question employees without proper legal authorization.
Any personas on this property have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
An ICE administration warrant - Form I-200 or I-205 - does not authorize entry into private areas.

In compliance with the Constitution of the United States of America, 4th amendment and the Immigrant Worker Protection Act AB 450.
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Infrogmation @infrogmation.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
ICE in New Orleans. Passing on this graphic seen on social media. #ICE #NewOrleans
Text and images.  Top text "HELLO ICE" between art showing 2 ice cubes.  Below text "NOLA isn't here for your bull$%it".

Artwork depicting someone in Klan hood. Text "We know what martial law looks like, and it looks like this. We remember the Danger Bridge". 

Artwork showing a security fence topped barbed wire. Text: "We didn't survive Katrina just to watch you kidnap our neighbors."

Artwork of a high-heel fetish boot. Text: "The only boots we lick are pleasers".

Artwork depicting a smiling stick figure. Text: "Quit your job. You can do it at literally any moment."

Bottom text: "God won't forgive you and neither will we".
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Charm City Couillon @diabsoule.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Those motherfuckers. ICE raids are occurring in New Orleans now too
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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I feel like ICE doesn’t understand how many lightly employed pissed off community organizers we have in New Orleans
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Jordan Hirsch @mrjordanhirsch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
When ICE gets to New Orleans
An African American man with a giant whistle on his head, putting his fingers in his mouth and blowing (he's a New Orleans Saints superfan who goes by Whistle Monsta who whistles at remarkably high volume).
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
ICE to descend on New Orleans for 2-month crackdown that aims to arrest 5,000 people across Louisiana & Mississippi. The latest in a series of immigration crackdowns, it could set up a collision with officials in liberal New Orleans who have long resisted federal sweeps. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say
Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
as ice descends on new orleans, i’m revisiting this mardi gras memory
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#NewOrleans #NOLA "How to Report ICE" zine is up! (You can find a link to all the zines plus an assembly how-to in my bio.) drive.google.com/file/d/1K6Vv...
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New-Orleans-SALUTE-zine-11-17.pdf
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
These are hate symbols. They have been used to represent the genocide of Jews and the lynching of Black people. Displaying them signals to white supremacists that violence is acceptable and that they will be protected if they commit it!
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It's not just using the National Guard against People of Color It's gerrymandering in Texas-depriving them of representation It's ordering the Smithsonian to erase slavery from US history It's attacking birthright citizenship And it's all a reflection of Trump's warped, racist view of America
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Unclepatrick @unclepatrick2.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/08/2025
BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...
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I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos
On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Las Vegas reporting an 11% decrease in tourism revenue is only the beginning for the United States, Trump did this and more places across the US will degrade at an alarming phase the longer the regime is in power. #3E
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ LUSH In response to Executive Orders targeting DEI, LUSH has renamed three of its bestselling bath bombs: diversity, equity and inclusion. "We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion are essential in building justice and belonging in the workplace — and beyond."
LUSH bath bombs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/07/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under…
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well “I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
HOLY SH*T Did you hear about this? Lawrence County, Tennessee is doing away with **excused absences** in schools. Chronically ill students are going to face obstacles to grade promotion and even truancy charges. These people are EVIL. #ProtectOurKids
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Tennessee is Risking Children’s Health for Cash
How Lawrence County, TN is using their school system to groom children into a system that prioritizes attendance over personal health
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Cutting the wildly successful SIDS prevention program because it’s “wasteful” while funding a PERSONAL presidential plane renovation—a plane he intends to keep after office—is beyond corrupt and egregious. These fuckers don’t care about anyone but themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
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What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”
RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because they’re “too woke”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Protester: America was our ally for so long. We relied on America so much. Now it's an embarrassment.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
FEMA will send $608 million to states to construct temporary immigrant detention centers, like Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz.” Meanwhile, Trump is preparing to cut $1 billion in grants that help communities prep for disaster response. Cruelty is always the priority.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
People keep coming up with strange justifications for this: he is just a run of the mill eugenicist who thinks the ‘unfit’ (which includes all these classes) should be out of sight and out of mind in institutions. There is no interest in bettering their lives or caring for them—just the opposite.
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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order."The cruelty he has perpetrated upon immigrants has now moved to some of our most vulnerable citizens. #ResistFascism
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2025
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Possum @possumpunksta.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Oh, yes. My university is accredited by Bigotry 6.” www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
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Gov. Jeff Landry says Louisiana will join 6 states creating a new anti-DEI college accreditor
“This task force will ensure Louisiana’s public universities move away from DEI-driven mandates and toward a system rooted in merit-based achievement,” the governor said.
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Laura Bridgewater @knit1write2.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Jesus wept
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Please remember when you vote that Republicans could have stopped this.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Next up: A multistate group is suing over the Trump admin's recent changes to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) requirements to dramatically cut back on services that states could provide without verifying immigration status.
INTRODUCTION
For nearly three decades, and across five Presidential Administrations, the federal
government followed a clear and consistent understanding of what the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) required. States needed to verify a person's lawful status before allowing them to access certain federal programs- Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, for example. But federal agencies consistently informed States that PRWORA did not require them to check papers before allowing individuals
to access other, vital community programs-many of which have always been open to all. The
hungry have never needed to produce government identification to enter a soup kitchen or food
bank; parents have never needed to produce their children's citizenship or immigration records before enrolling them in Head Start; those suffering from substance abuse disorders have never needed to bring their passports to a rehabilitation clinic; people facing homelessness or domestic violence have never needed proof of immigration status to walk into a shelter.
These rules- set forth in clear, authoritative agency pronouncements unchanged for decades— shaped the way social services programs in every State operated. And they set the terms of the bargain under which States accepted billions of dollars of federal funding each year.Less than two weeks ago, the Administration upended this stable equilibrium. In

swift succession, four agencies explicitly repudiated the understanding of PRWORA that had
governed since its inception.
The Department of Justice (DOJ revoked exemptions that had been in place since
the very day after PRWORA was enacted, suddenly demanding that States screen individuals for
lawful status before allowing them to access domestic violence shelters, senior nutrition programs,
crisis counseling centers, soup kitchens, and myriad other services.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overturned its settled views
since 1998 and identified 13 new programs, from Title X to Head Start to the Health Center
Program, that it newly deemed subject to PRWORA's requirements.
And the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Labor (DOL)
reversed their prior understandings of PRORA to place a bevy of education and workforce
training programs within the statute's ambit.Chaos has predictably followed. Almost overnight, States and their subgrantees
faced the threat of enforcement if they could not dramatically restructure crucial components of their social safety nets to comply with Defendants' new dictates. The new rules put the States' community programs to the impossible choice between shutting their doors or risking an
immediate cutoff in federal funding. Many programs cannot realistically conduct verification at
the door, such as 24/7 crisis hotlines, emergency services for individuals suffering an overdose,
and homeless shelters. Even if some programs could implement such verification with time and
resources, vulnerable people lack government identification when accessing these services for myriad reasons- some may be undocumented immigrants, but many others are U.S. Citizens or permanent residents. For the first time, millions of people are facing a new demand before they
can access the Nation's most essential programs: "show me your papers."
This is not America, and it is not the law. Congress enacted PRWORA pursuant to
the Constitution's Spending Clause. To impose conditions using that power, Congress must speak
"unambiguously" and place officials on "fair notice" of what the law requires. Arlington Cent. Sch.
Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291, 296, 304 (2006). It is farcical to suggest that, for 29 years, PRWORA has "unambiguously" meant the opposite of what every federal agency has said
it does.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
First up: A large group of organizations are suing HHS and HUD over new restrictions on programs addressing sexual assault, domestic violence, and homelessness.
1. Plaintiffs in this case are nonprofit organizations that receive federal grants to
serve some of the most vulnerable members of our society-victims of domestic violence and
sexual assault, and individuals and families who are homeless. Congress has created a range of
grant programs to support those populations, including by securing new housing for domestic
violence victims who cannot safely remain at home, by helping prevent sexual assault and
domestic violence from occurring in the first place, and by assisting unhoused individuals and
families to obtain housing and stay in it long-term. Congress has tasked the Departments of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) with
administering many of those programs.
2. In recent weeks, the Departments have thrown a wrench in this life-saving work.
Rather than faithfully carrying out the programs Congress created, the Departments are now
forcing grantees to agree to various new conditions and certify compliance with various
requirements. These new restrictions have no grounding in the relevant statutes and do not aim to
better effectuate the programs' purposes. Instead, they seek to advance the Administration's
wholly unrelated ideological goals— including to end "diversity, equity, inclusion, and
accessibility," deny transgender people's identities, and cut off access to abortion resources and
referrals. Worse yet, the Departments have imposed these requirements in a manner expressly
designed to expose grantees to civil and criminal liability under the False Claims Act.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is a confession that the Gabbard nonsense wanting to arrest Obama was done purely as a distraction from Epstein. He’s admitting it right here. He wants a former president arrested to take the heat of him on Epstein. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 21/07/2025
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Marines are ending their mission to Los Angeles. It follows half of the California National Guard that was sent to L.A. being released. And after six weeks, what did they do? The Marines spent the last month standing around a few buildings. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marines...
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The Marines are ending their Los Angeles mission
The Pentagon said that the hundreds of Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment will start packing up and leaving L.A.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Keep in mind that although the military mission in Los Angeles has been cut down significantly, ~2,000 National Guard soldiers are still under Task Force 51 authority, and still accompanying ICE/CBP/DHS on raids in the city and county but also far outside of L.A. taskandpurpose.com/news/marines...
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The Marines are ending their Los Angeles mission
The Pentagon said that the hundreds of Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment will start packing up and leaving L.A.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
To recap: 700 Marines were ordered to rush to L.A. on June 9. They had to stop and spend four days doing nonlethal training. They arrived June 13, briefly detained an Army vet who wandered onto a federal campus on his way to the VA, and then outside of that have just hung around, pulling guard.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New Editorial from Bloomberg about NIH funding [Gift link] nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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NIH Budget Cuts Are a Setback for American Science
As a declaration of national priorities, the White House’s blueprint sends a troubling signal.
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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 22/07/2025
Colbert claps back.. 🤣 #SheShed
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I was recently asked why I wouldn’t want the Ten Commandments in my classroom since they’re about being a “good person.” The first commandment tells kids that if they’re not Christian, what they believe is wrong. That’s Christian Nationalism, and it’s the exact opposite of being a good person.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.
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Jeffery Zavadil @jefzav.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Abolish ICE and prosecute agents who commit crimes.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is the number that keeps me up at night
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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