In the days before the #Trump admin deported hundreds of #Venezuelan immigrants to #CECOT, a notorious prison in #ElSalvador, the president of that country demanded something: the return of 9 MS13 gang leaders in US custody. Secy of #State #MarcoRubio, in a March 13 phone call with Salvadoran President Nayib #Bukele, promised the request would be fulfilled….But there was one obstacle: Some of the MS-13 members Bukele wanted were “#informants” under the #protection of the US govt, Rubio told him.
We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
No Kings in super red Arizona with a turn out of almost 1000 for our corner! Here are some of my fav photos of the day.
"Two of Trump's three wives were immigrants — proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs even Americans are not willing to do."
Mehdi Hasan is absolutely on fire at #NoKings!
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Fascism, Utah, ICE
Denver Gazette: Utah violinist’s deportation drama officially over
https://www.denvergazette.com/2025/10/09/utah-violinists-deportation-drama-officially-over/
“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists. https://trib.al/JrW3vOA
TOI: Breaking: US warns that Hamas plans an “imminent attack” on Palestinian civilians, stresses it would violate the ceasefire.
6. Speaking of stupid things with predictable results. Buying $20B of Argentinian pesos is the height of economic stupidity. Stable exchange rates and low inflation is not really what Argentina is known for. But Stupid's gonna keep stupiding. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/trump-argentina-bailout-bessent.html
When you hear or read anything from Trump and his apparatchiks, you shouldn't merely suspect that it might not be true.
You should assume that it's a lie.
Example(s):
https://newrepublic.com/article/201957/trump-chicago-secret-police-shot-woman-damning-info
Read more about the dogs keeping Ukraine safe and helping Nastia overcome her fears at the link in bio.
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson
“you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing.
If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed,
and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
-- John Pfaff
In Mississippi, thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration today in Corinth, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Tupelo.
Here's what you need to know about today's rallies.
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