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  1. 🖋️ "Oppose Trump DC national guard deployment..."***

    *** Text SIGN PHQEJI

    📞 Call your Congressional Hotline: 1-202-224-3121 📞 Call the White House: 1-202-456-1111

    🙏 Please share n repost this resist.bot/petitions/phqeji. ** ... thanks! ** If not in Washington D.C. ... please share!

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  2. In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of "Diversion"

    www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/11/i...

    In rejecting Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche's bid to unseal the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcript, he called out the degree to which this request was an attempt at diversion.

    In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of "Diversion" - emptywheel

    In rejecting Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche's bid to unseal the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcript, he called out the degree to which this request was an attempt at diversion.

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  3. Let's not overlook these ICE raids near Pittsburgh. Agents barged into two Mexican restaurants Thursday and left a 'trail of destruction' and fear while committing crimes themselves. In addition to stealing food, removing equipment, and trashing supplies, ICE allegedly tried to crack safes!

    The restaurant posted on their social media platforms that federal agents "stormed our restaurant in a show of force that went far beyond anything reasonable or humane.

    Emiliano's: Agents left behind 'trail of destruction' | 16 people detained by ICE

    The restaurant posted on their social media platforms that federal agents "stormed our restaurant in a show of force that went far beyond anything reasonable or humane.

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  4. Recent reporting has exposed dozens of cases where US citizens, including children, cancer patients, and members of Native American and Latino communities, were unlawfully swept up in ICE raids and held for days or weeks without legal recourse. Some were physically assaulted or deported w/o consent.

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