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For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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AWFUL. A family pleaded with ICE to deport their ill father so he could get out of detention. They even offered to pay for plane tickets. But ICE kept him jailed for two months after he accepted removal, his health deteriorating daily. He died hours after he was finally deported.
Ayaz Ahmed, 61, had no criminal record and had several diagnosed chronic health conditions when his children say he was detained, deported, and died mysteriously over the summer. abc7chicago.com/post/donald-…
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A good illustration of how a conservative goal remains the erasure of all LGBTQ+ people, & of the existence of same-sex relationships, from public life & public recognition.
It did not take long for @RobSandIA to betray his campaign promise that he won’t do culture war stuff. This is his new chief of staff.
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"Not because I like data centers." bit.ly/48fM4un
everyone in CBUS--everyone!! please call Ferguson's office and give him hell: 614-466-3735 (sample script: Hi I'm __ a constituent of Rep Fergeson and this sort of rule change is low, inappropriate, and I'm very disappointed in him)
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Hot take: Sherrod Brown for Majority Leader.
Experienced enough to do the job well, yet still represents the spirit of the Blue Tsunami. Good relationships on the left and center. Understands the populism of the moment and the mechanics of the Senate. A perfect mix of new & old
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It’s pretty incredible to have the notes from last Tuesday for an open book test today and fail spectacularly.
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???
1. He illegally started a war.
2.He has sunk like 70 boats in the Caribbean and Pacific...and I legitimately don't even know how many extrajudicial killings that amounts to.
3. He kidnapped the sitting president of a country.
4. He blew up a school full of children.
jfc
They gave the promotion boards instructions over the phone so as not to leave a paper trail. Boards were instructed to pull anyone who enforced a covid mandate, and anyone who was involved in the Afghan pullout.
Hegseth also went after anyone who had even attended or spoken at a diversity event in their careers.
There go all your minority officers.
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Not to take anything from you, but FWIW I raised over $2.1 million for 3,300 candidates nationally with only ~50,000 followers, no podcast, no instagram & no TikTok stream. #HumbleBrag
Blue26.org
A not-at-all humble brag about the work @votesaveamerica and our @CrookedMedia audience did this cycle:
1) Raised over $4.5 million for more than 100 candidates and grassroots orgs
2) Got 20,000 volunteers to engage in our new relational organizing program
3) We asked our listeners to run for office. 2,850 (!) raised their hands. 41 filed across 11 states. 25 won their primaries or ran unopposed. 3 just won seats in the NC legislature: @Winn4NC, Jessica Bichler, and Jess Rivera
4) Invested EARLY in races like @SarahforIowa, @ZachDemboKY, @SeanAMcCann, and @DonDavisNC - all winners
5) At least 25 of our House targets won, including the Dems running against our Crooked Dozen Rs: @Mendoza4AZ, @Villegas_CA22, @MannyRutinel, @BohannanIowa, @WeWillMi, @RebeccaForNJ07, @CaitforNewYork, @bpforcongress, @PaigeGCognetti, @JanelleStelson, @bobbypulido425, @RebeccaforWI, and @JamieAgerNC
Proud of @__Shaniqua_ and our VSA team, our volunteers, and our audience for supporting such a smart, winning strategy that reflected the full breadth of the political spectrum on the left.
You guys rock.
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This was how Mississippi eliminated poor folks with no credit cards from the voter rolls.
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This might sound boring to some, but understand that having a supermajority meant Ohio Republican legislators haven't had to compromise with anyone for 16 years
Ohio lawmakers from both parties are talking up bipartisan collaboration after Democrats won the governor’s office and partially broke the GOP’s legislative supermajority cleveland.com/open/2026/11/o…
also objectively the R admin started acting with OBVIOUS cruelty and violence--wars and locking up people who clearly are not harming the US
NEW: Catholic voters backed Democrats for Congress on Tuesday, 50 percent to 49 percent, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.
Two years earlier, the same poll found Catholics favoring Republicans 59 to 39.
The 21-point swing came in the first midterm since a son of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV, and after a year in which the White House continually attacked him. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nbc-…
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WCVB: 'Philanthropist, former Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca backs $15M long COVID research effort'
"It’s really hard to watch if one of your children is sick and one of your friends is sick," Pagliuca said. "And so this really needs to be done."
wcvb.com/article/former-celt…
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At the Akron Beacon Journal, journalists are attempting to withhold bylines to protest the DeeperDive AI audience engagement tool that the company is now testing. axios.com/local/cleveland/20…
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Home boy is in big trouble .
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Jared Kushner bought the land in Albania from a drug trafficker linked to money laundering and a criminal network accused of human trafficking.
@grok, start with true false
Another fact to blow your mind: the last black senator, sent by Mississippi, Blanche Bruce was post-civil war, born a slave in 1841. bioguide.congress.gov/search…
hadn't really hit me that some of the voters who just sent a Black man to the Senate from Mississippi remember having to pay poll taxes. American history is so short. Historic. So so so so so happy for them.
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