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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

"The United States government made a promise over 13 years ago... Straightforward, a promise."

Despite keeping their end of the bargain, Dreamers are now being swept up in this administration's mass deportation campaign.

Watch Sen. @padilla.senate.gov’s remarks on the government's broken promise.

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This piece has been updated yet again with the figure Matt Meck saying he was involved with the proposed Trump "national emergency" executive order.

Meck is a board member of the election denial organization Fight Voter Fraud, & is apparently QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's "chief of staff."

That the removal of a corporate tax break which would have cost the state $550M survives in this final income tax proposal is great news for everyday people of our state. As more Washingtonians make use of popular programs, we must continue pressing the issue of taxing corporate and personal wealth.

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

9 people in front of a Starbucks store show off their union vote papers and celebrate.

FACT: Starbucks has spent unfathomable amounts on union-busting their own workers.

ANOTHER FACT: Baristas are cutting through the corporate BS and continuing to WIN!

Congratulations to workers at Colorado's 14th & Tomichi store - they just won their union!!! ✊🔥

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Cover of the "Intellectual Freedom Manual" by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, Eleventh Edition. The design features colorful, patterned triangles overlaying text snippets.

When facing a tough intellectual freedom issue, you don’t have time to wade through dense text to find the answers you need. Designed as a real-world reference, the new edition of OIF’s "Intellectual Freedom Manual" provides trusted, comprehensive guidance in plain language. https://bit.ly/46Jfn8i

One thing I learned while reporting this story was that even though sex trafficking dominates megaevent headlines, "there is no empirical data demonstrating an increase in sex trafficking" during major events.

What does increase dramatically during megaevents? Labor trafficking

Lol nice gyre dude. You widening that shit?

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In a separate letter, Governor Josh Shapiro wrote to the Attorney General of the United States and asked for a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli settler murder of Palestinian-American and Philadelphia-native Nasrallah Abu Siyam.

genuinely astonishing that epik is like, “i can excuse genocidal manifestos by mass shooters, but i draw the line at animal cruelty”

Free Press Condemns ICE Arrest of Colombian Journalist Seeking Political Asylum The Nashville reporter’s detention by federal immigration officials poses a grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read More

Tempe, Arizona, has a contract with Flock, a surveillance company that shares data with law enforcement, including ICE. Ending that contract is one candidate’s priority in next week’s city council election there.

The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.

aas.org/action-alert...

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.

wanna see the version of this that’s just a social media thread with picard posting earnest, detailed comments and the tamarians replying with gifs

🚨we have reached darmok and jalad at tanagra in the TNG rewatch

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

We don’t yet know if Estefany Rodríguez’s detention was in retaliation for her reporting but we certainly wouldn’t be surprised.

ICE abductions of noncitizen journalists take the reporters best equipped to cover immigration enforcement off the beat.

idk… the former head of the idaho freedom foundation is a ayahuasca guy now and all it led to is some very meandering blog posts about how accepting people as they are means it’s actually not bad to hire a guy who marched at unite the right to do comms for you

Feds Greenlight $2 Billion Renewable Project on Yakama Nation Sacred Site Along Columbia - Underscore Native News Opponents still have a chance to stop the project before it breaks ground next year.

The fed govt has approved an energy megaproject on a site sacred 2 Yakama Nation near the Columbia River. It’s been used by the Yakama people for centuries in ceremonies and for fishing and root gathering–rights the Yakama Nation were promised in treaties.

i would be available to trip sit a Supreme Court Justice or two

Here’s what GWOT vets said about the restrictive, woke rules of engagement they dealt with in Iraq

www.scribd.com/document/506...

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me