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In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Orders Release of Liam Ramos From Detention

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A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from an immigration detention facility outside San Antonio. Ramos, in the blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, who became another symbol of the cruelty of ICE agents, was detained by federal agents earlier this month in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood—an incident that […]

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Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions

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Veterans, people aging out of foster care, and parents of teenagers are just a few of the groups who will face dire consequences from new work requirements for people receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, on Sunday, February 1.  Expected to impact millions of Americans and cause around two million recipients to stop receiving […]

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Get Out of Our Cities: Another Nationwide Uprising Against ICE

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Many thousands of protestors across hundreds of demonstrations around the country on Friday once again took to their streets to tell President Donald Trump’s federal immigration agents a simple message: Get out of our towns and cities.  Friday’s nationwide mobilization is only the most recent in a string of demonstrations demanding justice for those targeted […]

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Students Walk Out Across the Country to Protest ICE

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Students at the University of Minnesota, united with hundreds of groups across the country, are imploring people, young and old, to join a general strike on Friday. No school, no work, no economic participation, all toward the goal of ceasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The strike comes after weeks of the Department of […]

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Don Lemon’s Arrest Escalates DOJ Crackdown on Black Journalists and Activists

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Don Lemon, the prominent journalist and former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents Thursday in Los Angeles on charges that he violated a law while reporting on a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this month.  The saga represents a startling, if not new, turn in the Trump administration’s attacks on […]

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What Women Said “Melania” Director Brett Ratner Did to Them

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In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent toward them.  Natasha Henstridge said he forced her to give him oral sex. Olivia Munn said that he masturbated in front of her, then lied to others that they’d had sex. […]

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Trump Is Still Posting About Arresting Obama and Prosecuting Election Workers

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Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers should be prosecuted, in both cases citing unsubstantiated claims.  Trump’s fixations on going after Obama and Georgia aren’t new, but they now come at a moment of […]

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Why the Next “No Kings” Could Be the Biggest One Yet

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Ezra Levin, the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the many groups behind the nationwide “No Kings” protests, describes himself as “a cynical political organizer.” But still, Monday night got to him.  That evening, just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Indivisible and other groups, which included the […]

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Some Conservatives Veer Off Party Line After DHS Agents Kill Another US Citizen

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It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to blame 37-year-old Alex Pretti for his own death after a federal immigration agent shot and killed him on Saturday in Minneapolis.  Pretti, an intensive-care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, is the second US citizen to be killed by federal immigration agents in less than […]

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Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

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The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.  “The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members […]

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Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE

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A breakfast restaurant, a bike shop, and a brewery: these are some of the hundreds of businesses across Minnesota closing their doors Friday as part of a general strike to push Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of the state. “There’s a time to stand up for things, and this is it,” Alison Kirwin, the owner […]

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ICE Detained a 5-Year-Old Minnesota Boy and Used Him As “Bait”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a 5-year-old on his way home from school on Tuesday and used him as “bait” to knock on his front door to see if anyone was home, according to school officials in Minnesota.  Liam Conejo Ramos, a preschooler, is one of at least four children from the Columbia Heights […]

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