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US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’
Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained’, the lawsuit alleges
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son in Minnesota
Representative says her son was let go once he showed ID as Trump ramps up operation targeting Somali population in Minneapolis
 Deportation thugs violently attacked a mother and her children , and injured them, without bothering to ask whether they were entitled to live in the US. It is inexcusable for them to do that to anyone. These thugs
the Guardian
‘Virality, rumors and lies’: US federal agencies mimic Trump on social media
Variety of agencies now deliberately provocative on social media, further inflaming discourse on serious issues
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 Some US government agencies' antisocial media accounts now post propaganda for hatred. The fascist leader must have handed them over to the Ministry of Truth.
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It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead | Arwa Mahdawi
The lines between advertising, public relations and journalism have become dangerously blurred
 *It's the media's job to hold power to account . This year, too many got into bed with it instead.* "Power" in this article refers to state power. However, "power" includes the power of businesses as well as the power of governments. Over recent decades, the major US media have become subsidiaries of megacorporations which mainly do other kinds of
The Lever
This Is How We End Citizens United
Colorado’s Attorney General joins Montana’s battle to use the Supreme Court’s own precedent to strip corporations of their personhood status.
 How each state can work around the "Citizens" United decision for elections in that state.
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Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that ...
 The wrecker's henchmen in the EPA decided to weaken the regulations on formaldehyde, a known carcinogen. The linear danger assumption is a good assumption because just one cell that becomes cancerous is enough to give a person cancer. Becoming cancerous requires a set of mutations, and each carcinogen molecule has a certain low
The Intercept
ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System
The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.
 A deportation prison in a rural area of Georgia is overloading the area's ambulance system. Some injured prisoners have to wait a long time to get to a hospital.
the Guardian
Lawyers accuse DoJ of political pressure in University of California antisemitism investigation
Attorneys who eventually quit tell LA Times they were pushed to conclude university system had violated law
 Lawyers who worked for the Justice Department said they were pressured by higher-ups to prosecute the University of California for discrimination against Jews, before they had a chance to study the facts of the case.
Impeach RFK Jr. and Defend Health Care
The United States is approaching a public health tipping point. Measles cases are rising, vaccination rates are falling, and public health experts ...
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 US citizens: call on your congressional officials to impeach RFK Jr and remove him from office , for supporting medical disinformation. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
Take Action: Protect Social Security offices!
New internal documents at the Social Security Administration reveal plans to shutter Social Security offices, and drive 15 million people away from...
 US citizens: write to Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano saying to keep Social Security offices open.
the Guardian
How are you? If you’re German, like me, you might struggle to answer | Carolin Würfel
Our cultural aversion to superficial answers leaves ‘Wie geht’s?’ sounding like a trick question. Perhaps it is time to let our guard down, s...
 The writer says that Germans find it very difficult to confront the German equivalent of being asked, "How are you?" I have always felt this way about it. There have always been problems in my life, which implied that "Fine" as an answer would have been false. To answer that way felt like lying. Nowadays I can say that "My lymphoma is still in remission," which is pleasant and true.