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Trump calls on divided GOP to pass SAVE America Act ‘at the expense of everything else’ Trump suggested the SAVE America Act includes a number of provisions that are not in the proposal.

If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital.

A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said Wednesday.

If you are a Texas voter, you need to read this👇

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Follow the money. And IIRC, Epstein accused his friend Trump of laundering money for the Russians when he bought the estate Epstein wanted in Florida.

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

Live updates: Trump indicates Iran decision within days and says Board of Peace will be ‘looking over’ UN | CNN Politics President Donald Trump urged Iran to reach a deal through diplomacy and alluded to potential military action if talks fail as he made remarks at the first meeting of his Board of Peace. Follow for liv...

Trump announces he's transferring $10 bn from the US Treasury to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control in his personal capacity. There is no congressional appropriation for this, but Trump doesn't care. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Once again, they are telling us that, ackshully, we don't care about the bad ones, because what's bad is that they're immigrants.

$413,000 per bed. Insanity.

While they cut health care, food assistance, etc.

NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

Missouri volunteers say they were harassed by paid GOP canvassers. It’s likely the same group accused of forging signatures in Utah “They were like, ‘Actually, no. We’re here to stop you from getting signatures.’”

New reporting by Democracy Docket suggests that Patriot Grassroots’ canvassers also crossed a line in Missouri, where volunteers gathering signatures to put a GOP-backed gerrymander to a statewide vote said they were harassed by out-of-state paid agitators.
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I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

☎️Daily Action Call, Tuesday, February 17th, Keep ICE Out of Our DMV Data and OPPOSE Save America Act☎️ 🔹MOC👇🏼 https://docs.google.com/.../1He3zd8rNqyB5nSX.../edit? 🔹Governor Kay Ivey👇🏼 https://governor.alabama.gov/contact/ 📚BACKGROUND https://5calls.org/issue/ice-dmv-data-flock-surveillance/ 👉🏻ICE’s toolkit for identifying and intimidating protesters includes a vast array of technologies, many of which remain shrouded in secrecy. 👉🏻Flock Safety and Motorola Solutions and others operate cameras across the country that can be used to track vehicles’ location histories and identify their owners 👉🏻Many states provide ICE with unrestricted access to their DMV data through Nlets, a data-sharing network for law enforcement agencies across the U.S. This allows ICE agents to gather information on individuals in the field using only license plates without obtaining a judicial warrant. 👉🏻The result: ICE can determine who protesters are, where they live, where they’ve been, and who they associate with. 👉🏻Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington have already restricted ICE from accessing their DMV data 📱Senators/Representatives/Secretary of State/Governor Ivey: 1️⃣Hi, I’m a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______. I'm calling to demand [Name] work to curtail ICE’s direct access to our DMV data unless they provide a judicial warrant for a criminal investigation. We should join states like New York and Illinois in preventing our personal information from being used to target residents participating in First Amendment-protected protests. ‼️𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀 𝐀𝐂𝐓, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋‼️ 📱SENATORS: 2️⃣𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 👇🏼 https://5calls.org/issue/save-act-voter-suppression/

1/3📢Feb 17 Daily Action☎️
KEEP🧊OUT OF DMV DATA🛑
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𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓
😡𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋
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VOTE NO!
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FBI will not provide the BCA access to evidence gathered from Pretti shooting, BCA says Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

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🧊Many children & adolescents (not just those directly experiencing immigration enforcement) are suffering physical & emotional trauma associated w ICE/CBP interventions
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So Epstein ordered industrial style loads of sulfuric acid -
No typos

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father) Dear Ms Bondi,

This, from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, is really perfect. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

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Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

#ICYMI: Our Rx Inspector tool allows you to use information from your prescription label to locate the factory where a generic drug was made and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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