164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
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“The commitment of some 700 troops from West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio combined means that in the coming days, the total number of National Guard troops in Washington will roughly double.”
Update from Campbell Robertson
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The world is not your oyster. No oyster is constantly trying to kill you.
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The Everglades detention camp has been in operation for nearly two months and it took a federal lawsuit to force the Trump admin to designate a court for people to be able to seek bond as required by law.
JUST IN: Trump administration designates the immigration court at Krome Detention Center near Miami to handle immigration matters stemming from Alligator Alcatraz. (Seems venue-wise to create another connection to SDFL.) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
AllAlcatrazKrome081625.PDF
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Seeing a lot of this sorta thing. When I pointed out the noticeable decline in violent crime in Baltimore, someone yelled at me that I was an idiot to say that Baltimore had no crime, which was not something I had said.
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
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The exact playlist from when i was at UVa... And i graduated in 1997.
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As federal authorities crack down on homeless encampments in D.C., revisit our reporting on the possessions people lose in sweeps — and how these losses can traumatize them, exacerbate health issues and undermine efforts to find housing.
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or…
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We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.
In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
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New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country
Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
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The International Rescue Committee asked Israel for permission just to send food to its own staffers.
The request was denied.
IRC is a well-respected, 80-year-old aid org. It was created at the behest of Albert Einstein to save Jewish refugees during WWII.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
