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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.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
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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
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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.
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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…
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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
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You want to stand for something, @GovMikeDeWine? Want to be a real leader? Commit to rejecting any bills that limit incoming officials' authority
Breaking: Gov. Brian Kemp just said he will *not* call a special legislative session to redraw Georgia’s political boundaries or limit the powers of Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms. @ajc #gapol
ajc.com/politics/2026/11/bri…
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Yesterday was a big win for America’s health. The following doctors and nurses won their elections:
Senate
• Dr. Annie Andrews (MD, pediatrician) - South Carolina
• Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (MD, epidemiologist & former Detroit health director) - Michigan
Governor
• Dr. Amy Acton (MD, MPH, former Ohio health director) - won Ohio
House
• Dr. Richard Pan (MD, MPH, pediatrician) - California
• Dr. Adam Hamawy (MD, surgeon) - New Jersey
• Dr. John Cowan (MD, neurosurgeon) - Georgia
• Mitchell Berman (RN, ER nurse) - Wisconsin
• Kristina Knickerbocker (APRN-CNP, neuro-oncology nurse practitioner & Air Force veteran) - Ohio
Plus reelected nurses Lauren Underwood (IL) and Sheri Biggs (SC), and several physician incumbents who held their seats.
Health care professionals just got a much louder voice in our country. 🩺 🇺🇸
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ok good job now pass popular bills and dare trump to veto them. here’s a starter set (all poll at 85% or higher):
- require hospitals to fully disclose costs before providing care.
- require background checks for all gun sales, including private sales.
- ban financial companies from selling customers’ personal data.
- require an enforceable supreme court ethics code.
- ban members of congress from trading individual stocks.
- prohibit former members of congress from becoming lobbyists for five years.
- prevent hospitals from charging more than doctors’ offices for identical outpatient services.
- establish a voluntary program helping employers provide paid family and medical leave.
- require publicly distributed AI deepfakes to be labeled as AI-generated.
- cap prescription drug prices based on prices in other developed countries.
- prohibit hospital facility fees for outpatient clinic services and telehealth visits.
- require organizations spending on federal elections to disclose major donors and identify sponsors of online political ads.
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When you listen to James Talarico, you realize that last night's results were not just a rejection of Trump and Israel's Iran war, but also a rejection of a Democratic Party led by people like Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan:
"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign. Seeing what's happening in Gaza makes me sick to my stomach as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being"
This is his message, and he won in Texas!