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“The worst thing for morale is sanctuary politicians’ constant smears against ICE including likening them to the gestapo, slave patrols, and secret police. This type of rhetoric is contributing to our officers facing coordinated campaigns of violence against them including a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them, 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats,” the DHS spokesperson said. “President Trump and Secretary Mullin will always stand with our ICE law enforcement officers.”
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Across social media, anti-sex work lobby groups like the Coalition Against Trafficking In Women and Demand Abolition repeated their points throughout the weekend meeting. At times, anti-sex work posts overwhelmed the Amnesty meeting hashtag, alongside posts from anti-abortion campaigners. An image of Amnesty's candle logo circulated, the candle wrapped in barbed wire replaced by an erect penis.
FREE MASKS AVAILABLE AT DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
CNN 8 MIN AGO ICE pausing most traffic stops following deadly shootings in Maine and Texas, source says By Priscilla Alvarez
Critiques such as Poindexter’s have gelled into a consensus over the past two years, repeated ad nauseam by starchy senators and governors with an eye toward running for president in 2028. Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to “win back the manosphere.” The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who “are engaging culturally in male spaces”—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean “manly men,” or perhaps “guy’s guys,” but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as “engaging culturally in male spaces.”
it’s a still from HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT: four young folks in a suburban parking lot in the 1980s. one in sunglasses and a muscle shirt has a beer. one with big hair in a zebra print top is making devil horns.
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News photographers are often responsible for photographing people who are at risk or who need to remain anonymous for their safety. Frank, whose work regularly involves documenting the lives of immigrant communities and other vulnerable populations, was particularly concerned about storage of his outtakes—images that are submitted to an editor but never published. Typically, a photo editor reviews those carefully to make sure vulnerable sources can't be identified by visual elements like street addresses and name tags. Would outtakes become part of an LLM's training set? Frank said he went directly to Journal management to ask some of these questions, and was told "we don't know." The Journal
cover of a bound course reader, hot pink with black plastic binding, and it reads, Political Science 397X The Politics of Sexual Acts Prof. Barbara Cruikshank Fall 1997 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS CAMPUS DESIGN AND COPY 401 STUDENT UNION 545-2271 The enclosed material has been reproduced with the permission of the copyright owner(s). Reproduction of this material is prohibited. copying: $8.00 production: $3.00 royalties: $14.00 TOTAL: $25.00
Music, objects, operating philosophies, design, food, language, spaces, and the patterns that bind them. Using the same lens to help companies sharpen vision, taste, and
Photos entered as evidence during the Prairieland’s trial showing various items, such as guns, Narcan, protective masks, decals, among others.
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P***hub Refuses to Protect Kids 7:29 AM (2 hours ago) Dear Friend, Pornography is not for kids. Everyone knows that. Even the porn industry agrees with that … or at least, they pretend to. But if you scratch the surface, it becomes abundantly clear that the pornography industry has zero intention of keeping their content away from kids. When Texas passed a law requiring pornography websites to verify that their users are 18+, what did the porn industry do? They challenged that law in court, seeking to get it overturned. And when they couldn’t get it overturned, what did they do? They threw a temper tantrum. They decided that they would leave the state of Texas entirely, rather than comply with a common-sense law aimed at protecting kids. The pornography industry has opposed common sense child protection efforts for years. And this is yet another attempt to squash efforts to protect children from harmful exposure to pornography. But we’re fighting back. With you at our side, we’re standing up to the porn industry with one clear message: “Don’t Mess With Our Kids!” Here’s what your support has accomplished so far: 👉 You allowed NCOSE to file the first U.S. lawsuit seeking to hold pornography companies accountable for violating age verification laws 👉 You helped defeat the pornography industry’s challenge to Texas’s age verification law, resulting in a Supreme Court victory that paves the way for similar laws all across the countries 👉 You convinced nearly all of Pornhub’s major business partners to cut ties, following scandals regarding Pornhub enabling and profiting from child sexual abuse material and other illegal and exploitative content Now, you have a unique opportunity to bring this fight to the next level. When you give today, your donation will be automatically DOUBLED by a generous matching grant. One gift. TWICE the impact. Donate now to protect children from pornography and all sexual exploitation! Gratefully, Haley McNamara, NCOSE
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New Jersey Senator Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed when he tried to enter Delaney Hall last month, and as my colleague Alex Nguyen reported, he was forced to directly call Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for admittance. Kim returned Saturday morning to try again-and this time, he made it inside. But even Kim wasn't able to find out much about the conditions there: "They refused to let me talk to any detainees," he told me as he exited Delaney Hall. "They told me that if I were to speak to any detainees, the oversight tour would immediately be cut off and stopped. This is impeding my ability to lawfully do the oversight that I'm legally allowed to do, and I told them 1 thought this was a deep breach of my responsibilities and what the American people are demanding." What he was able to see was disturbing.
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...the United States Post Office Department, Comstock began his length report of eight arrests in August 1875 with a dramatic greeting: “I have the pleasure of reporting,” the postal inspector wrote in his report, “that notwithstanding the best efforts of the Enemy to the contrary, I still live.” He probably did not need to elaborate...
In 2020, police violently broke up a protest by thousands of people in Lafayette Park across from the White House, using chemical agents, clubs and punches to send protesters fleeing; the protesters had gathered following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a week earlier. Later that day, President Donald Trump, after declaring himself "the president of law and order" and threatening to deploy the U.S. military in a speech, walked across the empty park to be photographed holding a Bible in front of St. John's Church, which had been damaged a night earlier.
In another case, a 22-year-old from Guatemala was walking to his job as a vegetable grocer in Sunset Park, Brooklyn when six officers approached him on the street. They pulled out some photos of men for him to identify. "You're Latino, you look like one of them. Do you know any of these guys?" the agent asked, according to court documents. When he said no, the officers asked him for identification and asked if he had papers. The 22-year-old gazed at their firearms and felt he had no choice but to respond, he said in filings. Then, they arrested him, too. In ICE's account of the arrest, agents were driving to arrest someone else when they "noticed a person matching the target's biographic information wearing a hooded jacket.
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In January 2026, the Trump administration directed the National Park Service to remove exhibits at the President's House in Philadelphia that presented details about the lives of people enslaved by the Washingtons, including Ms. Judge. Less than a month later, a federal court ordered the exhibits restored, finding that the removal "constitutes erasure, undermines public trust, and compromises the integrity of public memory."
I. The Demands of Suffragets—Principally That They Shall Fill Places of Both Men and Women 233 II. Is Woman's Vote Needed as an Educator?—Education Obtained by Suffrage Debasing 245 III. Is Woman Suffrage Needed as a Protection Against Man-Made Laws?—Man-Made Laws are for the Benefit of Woman 251 IV. Will Woman Suffrage Purify and Elevate Politics?—Results Have Been Degrading to Women 259 V. Futility and Impracticability of Suffrage—No Practical Reforms Accomplished 269 VI. Results of Woman Suffrage—Larger Expense, a Baser Average Vote, and Religious Bigotry 279 VII. Kinship of Suffrage to Socialism and Feminism Established 286 VIII. A Suggested Remedy—Less Feminism in the Schools and Greater Discipline and Efficiency of Pupils 293
In the early morning on the day the footage was filmed, a team of ICE agents surveilled an apartment complex in Woodburn, a city south of Portland and home to many agricultural workers. An officer identified in court as JB later testified that the agents had chosen that location in part based on data surfaced from an ICE mobile app called Elite, which was built by the tech firm Palantir. The agent said the app helps officers find areas where they might find "targets" to potentially detain. Agents decided to follow a white van leaving the apartment complex after running license plates and discovering the van's owner was potentially an immigrant in the US without authorization, JB said. The officer said in court they did not confirm whether the driver of the van was, in fact, the vehicle's owner, but that he felt it was suspicious the driver was making multiple stops for passengers: "You don't know if it's human trafficking or smuggling" Lawyers with Innovation Law Lab, an immigrant rights' non-profit that filed the class-action and represented one of the farm workers, said the van was simply carpooling to a job site.
SOLANA'S FAVORITE MOVIE is The Matrix. He was 13 when it came out, in 1999, and what resonated most, besides its philosophy, was its portrayal of
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This was all preventable. If anyone had made a different decision at any of the points along the line that we were talking about earlier, she wouldn't have been there. If there had been a doctor in the building, it would have been different. If there had been a protocol in place so that the whole courtroom wasn't just watching her in this incredibly vulnerable moment. And then to have this sensationalized, with her name in all the papers, the "bouncing baby," that's what haunts me. She should never have even been sitting there in the first place. Mayor Mamdani needs to appoint a task force to focus on criminal court arraignments across the city.
a photograph of a mass of people in an apparent megachurch, with the words superimposed: LET'S GIVE GOD A REASON TO SHOW AMERICA MERCY
a weathered white tomb against a cloudy sky in a New Orleans cemetery. a bronze plaque reads: HOMER ADOLPH PLESSY 1862-1925 ON JUNE 7 1892, HOMER ADOLPH PLESSY DEFIED LOUISIANA LAW THAT SEGREGATED RAILROAD TRAINS ON THE BASIS OF RACE. HE WAS ARRESTED AND BECAME THE DEFENDANT IN THE MAY 18, 1896 UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION OF PLESSY V. FERGUSON WHICH CONDONED *SEPARATE BUT EQUAL* FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. SPONSORED BY A NEW ORLEANS GROUP CALLED THE “COMITE DES CITOYENS," PLESSY'S CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MARKED ONE OF THE FIRST LEGAL CHALLENGES THE SEPARATION RACES IN THE SOUTH FOLLOWING THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. THOUGH HE LOST THE CASE IN 1896 THE COURT LATER UPHELD PLESSY'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ARGUMENTS IN 1954 BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION IN THE COMITE DES CITOYENS INCLUDED LOUIS ANDRE MARTINET, ATTORNEY AND PUBLISHER OF THE CRUSADER NEWSPAPER AND RODOLPHE DESDUNES WRITER FOR THE CRUSADER, WHO IS ENTOMBED IN ST LOUIS CEMETERY NO. II. LEAD ATTORNEYS IN THE CASE WERE JAMES WAUKER OF NEW ORLANS AND THE NOTED RECONSTRUCTION AUTHOR ALBION W TOURGEE OF NEW YORK
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David Rose. "Pentagon Papers" Trial. The Bombshell Evidence—Photographs Showing that White House Operatives Had Burglurized [sic] the Office of Ellsberg's Psychiatrist, April 27, 1973. Porous point pen, crayon, pastel, opaque white, and ink wash on illustration board. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (069.00.00) LC-DIG-ppmsca-51573 © Estate of David Rose Gift of David Rose
The time and mode by which these laws were enacted were extremely discreditable to American legislation. The final passage took place in the closing hours of the Forty-second Congress, on the third of March, 1873, when within a few hours, and when the house was in the wildest state of confusion, and numbers of the members were under the influence of ardent spirits, some two hundred and sixty acts were hired through without inquiry or consideration. In many instances even the titles of the bills voted upon were unknown to members. The signing by President Grant was performed in the same hurried, reckless manner. Hundreds of laws were thus signed by him without the slightest examination on his part as rapidly as, one after another, they could be handed him by an attendant. And thus were place upon our statues books a set of laws that should never have appeared there in the way they do. The personal wrongs that have been inflicted under them have not been few nor trivial.
"This is equivalent to a second civil war, Thompson said in an interview with MS Now. "We're going to have to get our act together. We're going to have to resist with every fiber in our body. We're going to have to take this system on at every election. Because it's not just members of Congress. It's state legislatures. It's city councils. It's school boards."
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“There is an ICE agent detaining your neighbors inside,” one demonstrator chanted to the crowd. “Your neighbor is currently being abducted.” At one point, an agent left the hospital in a sedan — speeding through a crowd of demonstrators trying to block the car. Later, at around 2 a.m., video from FreedomNewsTV showed the ICE agents dragging Okeke out of the hospital in handcuffs and thrusting him into a car, while NYPD officers cleared the way from the raucous crowd. An unnamed NYPD spokesperson said they’d arrested nine people over the course of the evening, charging eight with resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration while giving a ninth person a summons. Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who was outside the hospital until early Sunday morning said she witnessed what “appeared to be direct coordination between ICE and the NYPD, with officers cordoning off the ambulance bay to allow ICE to move the individual into their vehicles and leave.”
screenshot of a prosecutor's campaign website, a photo of him (a bland white guy in a blue suit and red tie) speaking to a guy in literal overalls and a cowboy hat) next to the text: When Your Kids Grow Up Will They Recognize Pinal County? As we look around our great nation, we see individuals funded by Soros becoming top prosecutors, resulting in the release of criminals, while law-abiding citizens are prosecuted unfairly. It is concerning that the "defund the police" movement is not only a trend in select cities such as San Francisco or Seattle, but is becoming more prevalent in Arizona. It has come to our attention that Governor Hobbs has associated herself with extremist groups like Living United for Change in Arizona, aiming to defund police departments and abolish our border patrol entirely. In light of these unsettling developments, it is crucial that we elect a proficient leader in Pinal County who will boldly confront our Governor and prioritize the safety of our citizens.
The assassin came horrifically close, as U.S. Secret Service Deputy Director Quinn’s declaration (“Quinn Decl.,” attached) explains. During the event, the assassin was able to run through a security checkpoint and open fire on a Secret Service agent, before he was apprehended. Quinn Decl. ¶¶ 6-7. While the Secret Service was able to be as effective as realistically possible that night, “as demonstrated by the prompt apprehension” of the assassin, they were nonetheless limited by the “inherent constraints” that come with available “off-site venues” that are outside the White House Complex, such as a hotel with more than a thousand rooms like the Washington Hilton. Id. ¶¶ 8-10. By contrast, having events at the White House Complex will allow for major improvements in safety, and significantly increase the ability of the Secret Service to protect the President and guests from threats. Id. ¶¶ 11-14.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION Case No. 2:26-cr-0139-ECM-KFP-1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, INC. Defendant. ) THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S MOTION TO ADDRESS THE GOVERNMENT’S MATERIALLY FALSE STATEMENTS AND TO ENFORCE RULES PROHIBITING FURTHER PREJUDICIAL EXTRAJUDICIAL STATEMENTS
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photo of a bound manuscript on a wood table; TRESCA MEMORIAL COMMITTEE / Who Killed Carlo Tresca? (a loan from the Harvard Law Library)
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Hampshire College To the Hampshire College Community: Seven years ago, the Hampshire community presented the College with a powerful mandate: to maintain independence and remain true to Hampshire's deepest-held values. Since then, we have all worked together toward those goals, facing daunting challenges with the ingenuity and resolve that define the best of what happens here. We left no stone unturned, no solution unexplored, and made many sacrifices along the way. Despite this herculean effort, the financial pressures on the College's operations have become increasingly complex, compounded by shifting external factors. As President Chrisler has shared regularly with our community and our regulatory agencies, we worked aggressively to increase enrollment, refinance existing debt, and realize new revenue via the sale of a portion of our land. We have long known that addressing these issues is essential to establishing a stable financial foundation, supporting long-term operations, and meeting regulatory requirements. We are faced with the clear, heartbreaking reality that progress on each of these three key factors has fallen far short of what we had hoped. As a result, the Board of Trustees voted to permanently close Hampshire College following the Fall 2026 semester. The rationale behind this painful vote reflects several realities. The College no longer has the resources to sustain full operations and meet our regulatory responsibilities. The inability to substantially grow enrollment would mean extraordinary cuts to our operating budgets to educate the student body we can reasonably anticipate. Additionally, the degree of short-term debt tied to our land assets means that even a favorable sale would not change our long-term financial trajectory given current enrollment.
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…estimated threat: the far left. Western governments must combat "antifa and far-left terror-ism," Ms. Jacobsen's prepared remarks asserted, casting the effort as an evolution in counterterrorism following the "global war on terror" Her prepared speech defined far-left terrorism to include threats from communists, Marx-ists, anarchists, anticapitalists and those with "eco-extremist" and "other self-identified antifas-cist ideologies." "It is important to recognize their actions as political terrorism rather than mere protest or crimi-… Continued on Page AI0
NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
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When we first spoke you explained that during the pandemic you had found a solution to getting videos made which you were very pleased with; I gather the current plan is an adaptation of that. The pandemic also left millions dead or with long-term disabilities; I would assume it must also have forced you to agree to exceptions to the publicity requirement for people dealing with physical or mental disability. I believe I ought to be able to claim this disability exception as a matter of course. If in fact the only issue confronted was that of getting videos made, if no serious thought was given to the implications of a global health crisis, nothing I can say is likely to change it. But the word "mandatory' is not an Open Sesame; I have said what I am capable of and am not able to do more.
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2h ago 12.10 CEST We are expecting to hear from JD Vance later today twice, first at a joint press conference with Viktor Orbán and then at a [strikethrough begins] pre election rally disguised as [strikethrough ends] Hungarian-American Friendship day.
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