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Most Americans Now Believe Billionaires Are A Threat To Democracy, New Data Shows
The fact that Forbes is reporting this is notable, no?
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Yes, but the important thing is that Forbes, home of lists like the 500 Richest Men in America, the magazine that pushes that you're failing at life if you don't have more money than god, is reporting this, they're the type to pretend that everyone loves the rich, so them reporting this is rather noteworthy
β² @libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com:George Niles Mekeel RN:
BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem β she was Native American.You read that right: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) β the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants β just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years.
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizonaβs Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix β but that didnβt stop ICE from trying to ship her βbackβ to a country she doesnβt even belong to.
Hereβs how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license β nothing violent, nothing serious.
Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: βSheβs not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.β
Her mom was stunned. βHow can you deport her?β she asked. βSheβs Native American!β
But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were βjust holding herβ for ICE. No one β not a single person β could explain how or why this was happening.
Jacoboβs family went into overdrive β calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove sheβs an American citizen.
And still, officials hesitated. Hours ticked by while ICE prepared to take her.
Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. β barely.
And whatβs ICEβs excuse? A βclerical error.β
Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriffβs Office casually dismissed it as βhuman error.β Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil.
βWeβll have some meetings about it,β Chance said. βThis is silly.β
Silly? This wasnβt βsilly.β This was an attempted deportation of a woman whose people are the original inhabitants of this land, by a government agency that has no idea whose land itβs even on.
Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country.
This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power β where βclerical errorsβ can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadnβt fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody β another name lost in a broken, brutal system.
Itβs time to abolish this corrupt and incompetent agency that canβt even tell the difference between an immigrant and an Indigenous citizen.
Because if ICE can come for Native Americans, they can come for anyone. "
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After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry βSelf-Regulationβ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
Itβs not hyperbole to say that after decades of hard work and lobbying, companies like AT&T have effectively destroyed whatever was left of federal U.S. consumer protection and corporate β¦Techdirt
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I suppose I should ask about hosting costs, since SpaceHost hadn't been billing me for a while due to whatever was going on behind the scenes.
Hey, we want to do this right.
First, weβre making sure whoever can be migrated has the opportunity to migrateβensure their communities continue.
Then weβre going to reveal pricing and invite more people over in a way thatβs sustainable to continued service.
What I can say confidently is that pricing will not rise, nor will you be back-billed. Stay tuned!
Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities - The American Prospect
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Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities
The rule, which went into effect this month, prohibits a wide range of activities, and activists fear the Trump administration will use the regulation to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.Kate Morrissey (The American Prospect)
Robert βThe Bobby Yagaβ McNees on MastodonβLook, this is completely normal. We hold all our meetings in the Situation Room when weβve reached PEDCON 1.β
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RFK Jr.βs FDA Is Now Also In Turmoil Over Corrupt Drug Regulator
While weβve talked quite a bit about the horror show that is RFK Jr.βs position as Secretary of HHS, most of the focus of those posts has been around what is happening at the CDC. And fβ¦Techdirt
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Trump Administration Still Trying To Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia To Anywhere But Where He Wants To Go
For all its talk about trimming down government spending, an untold amount of money has been blown just to keep one person from getting one over on the Trump administration. That man would be Kilmaβ¦Techdirt
β² @adolar@diaspora.psyco.fr:So it's official now...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians | Israel | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/novβ¦Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
βIf you want to shoot without restraint, you can,β Daniel, the commander of an #Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israelβs War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians.
The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDFβs routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
βIn basic training for the army, we all chanted βmeans, intent and abilityβ,β Capt Yotam Vilk, an armoured corps officer, says in reference to the official IDF training guidelines stipulating that a soldier can fire only if the target has the means, shows intent and has the ability to cause harm.
βThereβs no such thing as βmeans, intent and abilityβ in Gaza,β Vilk says. βNo soldier ever mentions βmeans, intent, and abilityβ. Itβs just: a suspicion of walking where itβs not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.β
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Today...
Ok, really, really tired, its bed time, but with that said, a little run down on today first.
Today I buried my husband. I mean that literally, I don't mean I outlived him, nor do I mean I attended his funeral.
Arlen who's the caretaker, grave digger and everything else at Bethlehem Cemetery in Tunnel Hill Illinois is older than me, older than my husband, heck, I think it was ten days or so he had a stent put in. Yeah, he's already up and working.
Any how, its not like the graves needed to be particularly large nor deep, cremain vaults aren't particularly large, so he dug the one for Vik's mom, and I dug the one for Vik, placed them in the graves, and covered up Vik while he took care of Betty.
So we drove 155 miles or so in an electric car, so charging stops in Mascoutah and Benton. Mascoutah didn't go well, the charge was real slow once I got it started after three or four tries, finally through the app. The one in Benton went weird, speed was good, but the dispenser's display was out, so I had to rely on the app, and its a little slow, so I was concerned I was stuck when the lock on the charge cable didn't release at first.
Then the burial, and then head back with a single stop in Mt Vernon at the WalMart where we had a little trouble with the Electrify America charger and its app, the latter glitching when it came to updating state of charger, and the dispenser being disagreeable about starting until I used the app.
There is now a GM Energy or whatever they're calling it across the street, so I'll prolly try that next time and see if'n it works well.
I picked up dinner at St Louis Bread Co (Panera to you heathens) before heading home, ate, surfed the web, and here we are, time for bed, but no sleeping in as I have chiro in the morning. And if'n it warms up enough, we'll try to get the tires on my Bolt to hold air so I can sell it.
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Health Canada recalls βlaughing gasβ sold without authorization - National | Globalnews.ca
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Health Canada recalls βlaughing gasβ sold without authorization
Health Canada is recalling nearly a dozen forms of nitrous oxide it says were sold for recreational consumption, which poses a safety risk.Ari Rabinovitch (Global News)
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ADHD medication recalled nationwide because users arenβt getting the full effect
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ADHD medication recalled nationwide because users arenβt getting the full effect
A popular ADHD medication is being recalled nationwide because its users wonβt be able to get the full effect.Emily Van de Riet (WTVY)
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ByHeart Recalls Baby Formula Amid Infant Botulism Risk | HuffPost Life
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ByHeart Baby Formula Is Recalled Amid A Massive Outbreak Of Infant Botulism
At least 15 babies in 12 statesΒ have been sickened in the outbreak since August, with more cases pending.AP (HuffPost)
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β² @mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com:Jen Sorensen on MastodonThis week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
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