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This story is all over French TV right now, and, as they say in France, “Ca fait plaisir. C’est cool.” [It makes you feel good. It’s cool.]
Marine Le Pen stepped out of her limo today in the tiny village of Chateaudouble (population 470) in the...
by Mark Lippman
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 12:43 PM PDT
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Since Republicans can’t run general election campaigns on gutting the safety net of our senior citizens, on destroying Obamacare once and for all, or the barbaric “zero tolerance” policy that has torn apart thousands of families apart at the border,...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:24 PM PDT
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When incoming director L. Francis Cissna struck “nation of immigrants” from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) mission statement, he meant it. Under newly announced policy, officials now plan to use mistakes and missing information...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 10:59 AM PDT
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The drone footage of Trump and Sessions’ “migrant tent city” for children is stark enough. The Department of Homeland Security’s inability to provide anything resembling transparency as to where and who is detained in these places is frightening. The...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 08:43 AM PDT
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The Trump administration’s “temporary” prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the border isn’t just going to continue through the end of the year, it’s going to get even...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 08:57 AM PDT
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Wednesday, Sept. 12, marks 48 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 07:48 AM PDT
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The Trump administration is making its priorities clear, funneling money into ICE detention centers from other agencies’ budgets—including, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) highlighted Tuesday, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 05:51 AM PDT
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Numerous immigration judges blasted Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his remarks to dozens of new judges earlier this week, where he not only complained about immigration courts that show too much “sympathy” in decisions, but also claimed that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 01:22 PM PDT
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Confidential records of migrant children kidnapped from the arms of parents at the border—some as far back as a year ago—and sent to detention facilities in the Chicago area reveal kids “agonized over missing their parents and acted on their anguish by...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels heads the Beth Shir Shalom synagogue in Santa Monica—the little city where Trump aide and white-supremacist goon Stephen Miller grew up. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is upon us, and to mark it, Comess-Daniels gave a...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 09:06 AM PDT
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The past couple of weeks have seen a series of stories exposing some of the more fascistic powers our country has implemented—specifically, big banks’ ability to freeze the private assets of their customers, based on little to zero evidence of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 08:52 AM PDT
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The U.S. was among the nations singled out for human rights abuses in the first major speech from new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. The former Chilean president, herself a former political detainee under the brutal...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 09:16 AM PDT
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Tuesday, Sept. 11, marks 47 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 07:28 AM PDT
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, twenty GOP attorneys general are suing to again allow insurance...
by justiceputnam
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Throughout the past two years, resettlement agencies contracted by the federal government to help place newly-arrived refugees in their new homes and lives across the country have been forced to trim down their number of employees, shutter entire...
by Gabe Ortiz
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Last month, a detained asylum seeker named Ascension, prevented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from meeting with MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, penned a desperate letter begging to be reunited with his son, who was kidnapped from his...
by Gabe Ortiz
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Monday, Sept. 10, marks 46 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from...
by Gabe Ortiz
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new documentary, Active Measures, recounts Trump's long relationship...
by justiceputnam
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It was chance encounter with an old childhood friend. My family and I were at the Zuma beach north of LA, near where I grew up. I don't live there anymore, but I had taken my family out there ...
by smarcano
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He's still at it. Just this Tuesday the unindicted co-conspirator in the Oval Office was telling the Daily Caller "I don't like the idea of shutdowns," and "I don't see even myself or anybody else closing down the country right now," and then on...
by Joan McCarter
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