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Asif William Rahman’s lawyers thought they had a deal. Now Trump’s prosecutors are asking for a super harsh sentence.
The post Feds Seek “Unprecedented” Sentence Boost for CIA Leaker, Leaning on His Use of Signal appeared first on The Intercept.
LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.
The post LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE appeared first on The Intercept.
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The post The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Launches Rapid Response Fund for Journalists Covering California Protests appeared first on The Intercept.
In an email that DHS later walked back, the Homeland Security secretary asked the Pentagon to “direct the military on the ground in Los Angeles to arrest rioters.”
The post Kristi Noem Told Us She Asked for Soldiers to Arrest Protesters — Then She Backtracked appeared first on The Intercept.
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It’s National Iced Tea Day! Or, as I say, ice tea. Like Ice-T. Actor, musician, author, and enthusiastic television spokesperson for CarShield. Ice-T is an interesting dude. Not just because he released a tune called “Cop Killer,” and then became the longest-running male series actor in history for playing a police detective on Law &Continue reading Smirnoff Ice Pick (1975)
A small Irish hip-hop act is exposing the reach of the Israeli lobby—one canceled gig at a time.
The post Kneecap vs. the Israel Lobby: How a Rebel Band Shook Britain appeared first on MintPress News.
“There were beheaded children, burned bodies, a sea of mangled civilians.” Gaza surgeon Dr. Tahir reveals what Western media won’t: the full horror of Israel’s war.
The post “Israel Is the Rabid Dog of American Empire”: Gaza War Surgeon Exposes the Truth appeared first on MintPress News.
“The Pentagon significantly escalated the federal response to the immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles on Monday, mobilizing a battalion of 700 Marines and doubling the number of California National Guard troops in what officials described as a limited mission to protect federal property and agents, even as President Trump described the situation as ‘very well under control.’”
— New York Times
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We all know the protests in LA are turning violent. Even our SWAT teams are scared they might get hit with a STOP FASCISM banner.
A new carveout could redirect billions in funding for rural broadband construction to Elon Musk’s satellite company.
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
Can the works of the Mechanic Muse be put to genuinely human uses?
In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot. Some of history’s worst atrocities can be attributed to certain people trying to control other people’s movements, whether by capturing them, herding them into prison camps (concentration camps, strategic hamlets, model villages), enslaving and transporting them, or warehousing them in besieged countries or regions while barricading the borders of anyplace to which they might want to flee, often... Read more
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
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I stopped writing when I no longer recognized my world. What a profound betrayal to rifle through your everyday belongings—your thoughts, your days, your life—only to find that nothing quite fits.
So, what changed?
Fair question. Should I make you a list? I love a good list, but rarely finish one. I can’t possibly finish a list of this magnitude, which is more like a to-don’t (at least not all at once) list. But I owe you something. An assay. Let me give it a try.
In the past five years, my family and I have crushed that Holmes and Rahe stress scale:
Touring again. Guest appearances in Stockholm and Uppsala. Visiting our beautiful capital city, yours truly, of course, takes the opportunity to spend some time with my daughter who lives there. [Picture taken twenty-four years ago at our summer residence in the Karlskrona archipelago.]