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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#WNY Good Trouble Makers are excited to host a virtual panel on running for office at 6:30pm this Wed 1/21! Join the conversation with Alison Brown, Jennifer Borgioli, and Stephen Cady, who have recently run for office in Western New York. Register at bit.ly/wny-panel and bring your questions!
Flyer for Western New York Good Trouble Makers Event | Panel Discussion on Running for Office | Photos of panelists Alison Brown, Jennifer Borgioli, and Stephen Cady | January 21st, 2026 at 6:30pm EST | QR code and link to register for the Zoom: https://bit.ly/wny-panel
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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · 10/01/2026
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
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2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
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Kathleen King @kkingdoc.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
@goodneighborswny.bsky.social Let's get rid of Nick Langworthy and get a congressman who is smart and works for our best interest, not his own. Join us for a Bipartisan Town Hall in Lockport on Dec. 16th. Of course Nick is invited! Register on Mobilize: mobilize.us/s/p9li4x
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NY 23rd District Bipartisan Discussion · Good Neighbors Getting it Done in Western New York
Bipartisan candidates for the 23rd Congressional District of New York will be guests of Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY to discuss the impact our current federal government is having on WNY and ...
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
We could have this right now. Many of us voted for this.
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trans rights are human rights. #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance #TransgenderAwarenessWeek
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Buffa-shave visibility brigade overpass protest happening TODAY! If you're concerned about the drastic cuts this Republican administration made to healthcare, join us and SPEAK UP! Three locations, 3:30-4:30PM Thurs Nov 20. RSVP at redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/bridg...
Bridges to Healthcare: November 20, 3:30-4:30pm. 101 Cherry St, 247 Cherry St & 630 Humboldt Pkwy in Buffalo NY. Signs provided! Bring flags & Balloons! wnybb.org
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social: Donald Trump put his surrender and humiliation in writing signing Epstein files bill youtu.be/vjgIwTu1rdM?...
MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Humiliated Trump signs his surrender
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Your legacy is the way you made people feel. Your words and actions and rhetoric. It’s how you’ll be remembered. It’s your lasting impact on others. We should be helpers in this world, not only because it’s right and good and just, but because it is the legacy we leave for others.
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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We will only be better when we finally do something about access to firearms. The Governor of Utah signed open carry on college campuses into law just this year.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The Russia investigation was never a hoax. The Epstein investigation was never a hoax.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
July 12, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 12, 2025
On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow o...
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 05/07/2025
Elbows Up for Canada in Buffalo, NY this morning; that's the Peace Bridge to Canada across the Niagara River. No Trump, no hate, no 51st state.
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 05/07/2025
Elbows up, y'all! Today, in over 25 locations across the longest open border in the world, we are choosing love, solidarity, and friendship over cruelty, grift, predatory petulance. #Never51 elbowsupforcanada.us
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Elbows Up for Canada - US
International events to show solidarity with our Canadian neighbors on July 5, 2025
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And let’s just talk about how much money we pay these people to do nothing but give tax cuts to the rich.
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Elbows Up for Canada! @elbowsupforcanada.us · 01/07/2025
In Western New York, we will rally to celebrate our Canadian friends and steadfast allies on July 5th—at Freedom Park at 11 am and at 8 pm at Terrapin Point in Niagara Falls.
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'Experience the buffalo that you know': Visit Buffalo Niagara launches 'Buffalo Loves Canada' campaign
Visit Buffalo Niagara, which promotes tourism in the Buffalo Niagara region, has announced the launch of its "Buffalo Loves Canada" campaign.
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Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a bold, hard-fought win. New Yorkers want leaders who challenge the status quo. I look forward to working with him to make our city more affordable, equitable, and just—for everyone who calls it home.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Rally against US bombing of #Iran, Monday, June 23, 4-6pm in Niagara Square, #Buffalo.
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The Elbows Up for Canada Rally at 8pm on July 5 at Terrapin Point in Niagara Falls, NY is also available to RSVP on Mobilize www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
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Elbows Up - Niagara Falls · Indivisible OneNYS
International Day of Action in Solidarity with Canada—Good Neighbors Getting It Done and Power to the People Western New York, will peacefully rally concerned members of the community to say, “We oppo...
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The Elbows Up for Canada Rally at 11am on July 5 at Freedom Park in Buffalo, NY is also available to RSVP on Mobilize www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
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Elbows Up - Buffalo · Indivisible OneNYS
International Day of Action in Solidarity with Canada—Good Neighbors Getting It Done and Power to the People Western New York, will peacefully rally concerned members of the community to say, “We oppo...
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sign up for Elbows Up for Canada Rally in Buffalo, NY, on July 5th!! redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/elbow... #Never51 #ElbowsUp #StandOnGuard
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Elbows Up for Canada Rally in Buffalo, NY!
July 5th Rally in solidarity with our Canadian neighbors Join the coalition of organizations from Skagway, Alaska to  Burlington, VT, as we line the longest undefended border in  the world ...
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
‪Sign up for the Elbows Up for Canada Rally in Niagara Falls, NY on July 5th!! redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/elbow... #Never51 #ElbowsUp #StandOnGuard
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Elbows Up for Canada Rally in Niagara Falls, NY!
July 5th Rally in solidarity with our Canadian neighbors Join the coalition of organizations from Skagway, Alaska to  Burlington, VT, as we line the longest undefended border in  the world ...
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The new Rainbow Cafe will open Sat June 21 from 1-4pm as a welcoming space for the LGBTQIA+ community and allies. The Cafe will be held at the UU Church of Amherst, 6320 Main St, Amherst NY. At 2pm, Guest Speaker Shateer “Tee” Douglas will speak on issues facing Trans Youth in the current climate.
Image of a flyer that reads:
The Rainbow Cafe at the U
Presents:
Shateer “Tee” Douglas
Speaking on issues for Transgender/Trans Youth in today’s
political climate.
Tee will touch on difficulties faced by individuals transitioning
or already transitioned in gaining acceptance in society and
what we can do to create warm, welcoming spaces where they
can socialize in comfort with each other and their allies.
Jun 21st 2-2:30
Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst, 6320 Main St, Williamsville
QR code to link for more info: https://uuamherst.org/wp2/rainbow-cafe/
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Good Neighbors turned out Friday to rally for Due Process for Yuriy Zinovyev and all others who have been unjustly detained. Ahead of the protest, we released our first podcast with organizers from Indivisible ADK/Saratoga who shared Yuriy's story: www.youtube.com/live/TZx5UoA...
Protesters spell out the letters of the words DUE PROCESS and hold other signs in front of 250 Delaware in Buffalo, where ICE has a field office.
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Due Process for Yuriy rally is also posted on mobilize. www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
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Due Process for Yuriy · Indivisible OneNYS
Urgent - Join us in protest Friday! Yuriy Zinovyev is one of thousands caught up in the ICE fever and entrapment scheme. A resident of Glen Falls, NY he has been in this country for over 28 years . ...
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Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY @goodneighborswny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rally in Buffalo Friday at 2pm to protest detentions without due process! We are showing up for Yuriy Zinovyev, a long-time resident of Glen Falls who was arrested by ICE during a routine immigration checkin and then taken to the Batavia Detention Center. redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/due-p...
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Due Process for Yuriy
Urgent - Join us in protest Friday!  Yuriy Zinovyev is one of thousands caught up in the ICE fever and entrapment scheme.  A resident of Glen Falls, NY he has been in this country for over 2...
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Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New York, I’m not here to play the game. I’m here to change it. I’m running to be your next Governor. youtu.be/SKt8PBSuIqw
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Delgado Launch Video
YouTube video by Antonio Delgado for New York
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY and Stand Up Lockport are holding a Save Our Healthcare Rally outside Rep. Claudia Tenney's Lockport office at 169 Niagara Street from 4-6pm on Wednesday May 28. Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Save Our Healthcare Rally - Lockport · Indivisible
Healthcare is under attack, so join your neighbors at the Save Our Healthcare Rally in front of Rep. Claudia Tenney’s Lockport office at 169 Niagara Street from 4:00-6:00pm on Wednesday, May 28th. S...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
May 20, 2025
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May 20, 2025
Today was a rough day for administration officials on Capitol Hill as Senate committees held hearings on the 2026 budget requests for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and ...
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY and Stand Up Lockport are holding a Save Our Healthcare Rally outside Rep. Claudia Tenney's Lockport office at 169 Niagara Street from 4-6pm on Wednesday May 28. Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Save Our Healthcare Rally - Lockport · Indivisible
Healthcare is under attack, so join your neighbors at the Save Our Healthcare Rally in front of Rep. Claudia Tenney’s Lockport office at 169 Niagara Street from 4:00-6:00pm on Wednesday, May 28th. S...
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Sherinda @sherinda.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I just signed up for WNY Troublemakers May 21 Meeting! Want to join me? redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/wny-t...
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WNY Troublemakers May 21 Meeting
Our working agenda for this virtual meeting is as follows: 1. Check-in and introductions 2. Open sharing of updates and ideas for action 3. Organizing by interest and area 4. Next steps
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"The Federal Reserve estimates that government-supported research from the NSF and other agencies has had a return on investment of 150% to 300%" theconversation.com/unprecedente...
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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life
The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
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Sherinda @sherinda.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Tomorrow, May 17, there will be a FIBER ARTS FESTIVAL in our little village in Dundee, NY. If you live anywhere near here, I hope you can stop by. It's not a political event, but hopefully some of our red neighbors will open their hearts, minds, and eyes to good things offered by blue neighbors.
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Erica M @buffgrl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Honoring the memories of those we lost three years ago today ❤️ #Buffalo
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A big part of the reason for the significant "inefficiency" in government is that the law builds in process and redundancies. It is easy to increase "efficiency" if you are not law-abiding, but the scare quotes are needed because legal compliance is not inefficient if it is part of the goal.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
BUFFALO, NY: Join us Monday May 5 at 5:30pm to demand the release of a group of UFW farm worker leaders who were targeted for arrest and detention in the Batavia ICE detention facility. An attack on any worker is an attack on the rights of every worker.
EMERGENCY RALLY
Tomorrow May 5, 2025
@ 5:30pm

4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020

Join the U.F.W. to demand the release of detained farm worker leaders being held at Buffalo Federal I.C.E. Detention Center

**In the event of rain**
Meet at 5:00 pm at the
Rochester Regional Parking Lot
8103 Oak Orchard Road, Batavia, NY 14020

Contact here with
any inquiries:
NY@ufw.orgPROTESTA DE EMERGENCIA
Mañana 5 de Mayo, 2025
@ 5:30pm

4250 Federal Dr, Batavia, NY 14020

Únase con la U.FW. para exigir la liberación de los líderes de trabajadores agrícolas detenidos en el Centro de Detención de I.C.E. Federal de Buffalo

**En el caso de lluvia**
Reunimos a las 5:00 pm en el estacionamiento de Rochester Regional
8103 Oak Orchard Road, Batavia, NY 14020

Contacte aca
con preguntas:
NY@ufw.org
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Last night's LETTERS filled me with hope. Have you read it yet? Team Trump's efforts for FULL SPECTRUM DOMINATION are vulnerable. Maine fights back and wins. AI Trump/Pope, wasteful military parade - so easy to mock. We Can We Must We Will win the fight against Trump & Trumpism. HOLD THE LINE.
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hdpalmer.bsky.social @hdpalmer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Rise of the surveillance state… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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Firewall @firewall451.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Join us for the May FIREWALL meeting. Saturday May 17th @9:00 am. Our guest speaker is Randy Hoak - Commissioner of Senior Services for Erie County.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 27/04/2025
It only takes 4 Republicans in the House, or 4 in the Senate to stop this.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just sat down on the Capitol Steps with my good friend @booker.senate.gov to have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America. And what we can all do to stop it. Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
April 26, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 26, 2025
Early yesterday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent three U.S.
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Calling all Western New Yorkers! Lt. Gov. @delgadoforny.bsky.social is coming to the City of Good Neighbors for a Community Town Hall at 6pm Thursday May 1st in Buffalo. Sign up at bit.ly/WNYTownHallAD and bring your questions. Please share widely! @standupwny.bsky.social @firewall451.bsky.social
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
…once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 18/04/2025
the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest
teenvogue.com
Radicalized White Men Like the FSU Shooter Are the Real Threat to Campuses—Not Student Protestors
"The alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter."
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
April 16, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 16, 2025
In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...
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Sara Metcalf @sarametcalf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado is coming to Western New York for a Community Town Hall at 6pm on Thursday May 1st at Miracle Mission Full Gospel, 406 Sycamore St. in Buffalo. RSVP here to attend: bit.ly/WNYTownHallAD
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
April 13, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 13, 2025
This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...
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