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President Donald Trump cited an obviously doctored image of tattoos on the hand of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia to justify the administration’s decision to abduct and deport the father of two. Trump made the argument on Monday during an interview...
by Oliver Willis
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on Wed Apr 30, 2025 at 08:30 AM PDT
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I occasionally transcribe important short statements, two minutes or less. I rarely transcribe what are for me, longer communications. I must consider them extremely valuable. An example is when Gabriel Sterling debunked Trump's claims of outcome...
by Dem
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on Sun Apr 20, 2025 at 05:13 AM PDT
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After being challenged by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the Trump administration is in a panicked, full-court press to defend their abduction of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
by Oliver Willis
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on Thu Apr 17, 2025 at 08:30 AM PDT
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After arriving in El Salvador Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland was denied his request to speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and is currently being kept in the notoriously...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 16, 2025 at 04:10 PM PDT
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Democratic lawmakers are preparing to travel to El Salvador with the goal of securing the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was abducted by the Trump administration and ...
by Oliver Willis
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on Tue Apr 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM PDT
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By 1675, many American Indians were aware of the European invasion of the Americas. European trade goods—metal artifacts, glass beads, cloth, and guns—were already having an impact on Native ...
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Apr 15, 2025 at 07:15 AM PDT
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Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland called for the replacement of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer following his support for the GOP spending bill that advances President Donald Trump’s ...
by Oliver Willis
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on Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Introduction The Democratic Party faces a critical juncture. The elected representatives are failing to uphold their oaths to "protect and defend the Constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic." Their response to the current threats to democracy...
by 40ford
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on Mon Mar 10, 2025 at 03:39 PM PDT
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Maryland and Virginia are warning travelers who may have been exposed to a measles patient returning from traveling abroad.� If you were in Washington Dulles Airport Terminal A or the baggage claim ...
by strawbale
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on Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 03:21 PM PDT
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The Poor Prole's Almanac: Restoration Agroecology https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/ hat tip MT Spriggs Port Huron, MI is planting trees to provide free fruit for residents under new pilot “Edible Parks” program...
by gmoke
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on Tue Mar 04, 2025 at 02:53 PM PST
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Tonight’s selections from Velocity Girl’s debut album, 1993’s Copacetic . A remixed version of the album was released last year and blows away the original. Much like the alternate mix of the ...
by Al Dorado
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on Thu Mar 06, 2025 at 09:01 PM PST
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DailyKos has at least 2500 groups of all kinds, active & otherwise. After 12+ years, the original larger edition of this local-etc groups index is no longer reviseable, due to time&tech-changes and the sheer mass of links. So, this edition is a copy of...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 03:00 PM PST
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You probably weren't expecting this. The Quakers have filed a lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security over the change in being able to go into places of worship by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and arrest those suspected of being...
by Bill Addis
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on Sat Feb 01, 2025 at 05:36 AM PST
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Happy new now! Welcome to our First Felon’s second go-round! Don’t look now, but he’s commenced a spree of partial (so far) Constitution crumpling; today the 14th Amendment, tomorrow, God knows. (Not to wax ironic, but how’s THAT for law and order?)...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Fri Jan 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM PST
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Yakima, Washington Yakama woman creates a 'call to action' video on crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women A small forest near Toppenish was created to heal and nourish the land and those ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jan 11, 2025 at 04:25 PM PST
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In her first big speech since conceding the election to Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to students at the Maryland Corps service year program on Tuesday. “I do believe that public service is a noble calling,” Harris told a group of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 17, 2024 at 02:11 PM PST
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Martin O’Malley is Commissioner of Social Security under President Biden, a two term Governor of Maryland, two term Mayor of Baltimore and has never been indicted. He also ran for President in 2016 whose campaign froze solid in Iowa during the winter...
by howardpark
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on Mon Nov 25, 2024 at 10:46 AM PST
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Amid the horrors of Tuesday's election, there was one bright spot: Seven states passed ballot measures to expand or enshrine the right to an abortion: Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York. Abortion-rights ballot measures...
by Emily Singer
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on Wed Nov 06, 2024 at 08:01 AM PST
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Angela Alsobrooks won a U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday to become the first Black candidate to be elected senator in Maryland, as the Democrat prevailed in a blue state against popular Republican ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Nov 05, 2024 at 06:44 PM PST
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To the redoubtable Ben Cardin (D-MD), happy retirement! And, while we’re at it, a belated happy 81st birthday! (All the more since it fell a month before Election Day, let’s pray it’s boded well!) A brief, timely flashback. In 2011, on receiving the...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Mon Nov 04, 2024 at 10:57 AM PST
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