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Opinion [re arrest of #MahmoudKhalil] Michelle Goldberg March 10, 2025

This article is about a bipartisan bill aiming to protect access to contraception and abortion at the federal level. Do you think federal protections are necessary, or should states decide? Can bipartisan efforts like this actually make progress on such a divisive issue? Curious what others think.

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By Michael Wilson, Michael Rothfeld and Ana Ley Published March 16, 2025 Updated March 17, 2025, 9:32 a.m. ET

“It’s kind of amazing how the Navy has held up with no losses, but the cost has been pretty enormous,” Clark said. “The estimates are the Navy has used up $1 billion-plus worth of interceptors to shoot down these drone and missile threats.”

follow-up story: https://apnews.com/article/education-department-disability-civil-rights-complaint-218a04f50bcf21cb02175e8565a3a287

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By Mark Satinoff March 6, 2025

In Newnan, Georgia, in 1899, pieces of Sam Hose’s heart, liver, and bones were sold after he was lynched; that same year, spectators at the lynching of Richard Coleman in Maysville, Kentucky, took flesh, teeth, fingers, and toes from his corpse.167 Spectacle lynchings were preserved in photographs that were made into postcards and distributed unashamedly through the mail.168

This came up in my health care forum.

A Los Angeles man was awarded $50 million from a jury Friday in his case against Starbucks after he suffered life-altering burns when a cup of scalding hot tea spilled into his lap in 2020.

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

The Trump administration has repeatedly conflated participation in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza with support for Hamas. It has also accused demonstrators of supporting “terrorists”.

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By Areeb Ullah Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT

The ACLU shared this and also texted out a link to take action by sending a message to the acting ICE director: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/free-mahmoud-khalil

By Syma Mohammed Published date: 14 March 2025 19:58 GMT

The Trump administration has not accused the activist of any criminal behavior but has said he is aligned with Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza and is designated as a terrorist organization by the US. It has invoked an obscure legal provision to try to deport him.

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It is an astonishing thing to watch a single man hamstring the United States economy. It is also astonishing to watch Republican senators try to convince the American people that a falling stock market and contracting economy is a good thing. “Our economy has been on a sugar high for a long time. It’s been distorted by excess government spending,” Montana Senator Tim Sheehy told Fox News Channel host Larry Kudlow today. “What we're seeing here from this administration and what you're gonna see from this Congress is re-disciplining to ensure that our economy is based on private investment and free-market growth, not public sector spending.”

Passengers on an American Airlines flight were evacuated on to the tarmac of an airport in Colorado as a fire broke out on the plane, sending smoke billowing into the air.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy on hostages, Adam Boehler, has been moved from dealing with the Israeli captives held by Hamas, according to senior sources in Washington. There has been no official announcement yet, and the decision could be reversed at the last moment.

Amid a growing number of legal and legislative efforts to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis, a coalition of nonprofit groups are calling on Congressional Democrats to “proactively and affirmatively reject” potential efforts aimed at shielding the fossil fuel industry from legal liability.

Reminder: There is no legitimate debate. These people are not interested in safety or science or womens sports, they're interested in maintaining a simplistic gender binary against reality.

DHS can't articulate a reason that Mahmoud Khalil, arrested and supposedly had his green card revoked for being involved with pro-Palestine prostest, for why he's been arrested other than the fact he organised protests.

"If I'm going down for genocide, you are too, kid."

Miami Beach mayor proposes ending O Cinema’s lease over showing Oscar winner ‘No Other Land,’ calling it antisemitic - WSVN 7News (2025-03-12)

A federal judge has blocked, for now, the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a former student at Columbia University who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, ostensibly for his involvement and leadership during student-led demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians.

By Stephanie Saul March 12, 2025 Updated 1:07 p.m. ET

Michael Sainato Wed 12 Mar 2025 09.26 EDT

Washington (Quds News Network)- Only 14 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter urging the release of Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-genocide Palestinian activist and U.S. green card holder. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detained him without charges for his activism at Columbia University.

This is how immigrants are being treated in Spokane. They were on their way to their court hearing and were closed in by two trucks. Unmarked vehicles. These are Customs Enforcement Agents (better known as ICE). The passengers knew their rights so they started recording and asked the agents for a warrant. The agents didn’t provide a warrant and demanded they get out of the car. When they didn’t get out of the car the agents proceeded to smash their windows and forcefully remove them by dragging them out of their car. This is a gruesome display of excessive force. This family was on their way to court and were terrified.

March 11, 2025 5:31 PM ET Elena Moore

Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders released the Medicare Dental, Hearing and Vision Expansion Act on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The bill would greatly expand enrollees' access to dental, vision, and hearing services through the traditional Medicare Program. A similar bill was also introduced in the House by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.

The Trump administration on Tuesday appeared to step up its clash with Maine's Democratic-led government over the state's support for transgender women who play on women's sports teams, as the University of Maine announced $100 million in its federal funding had been halted.

On the evening of January 19, 2025, the American Hindu Coalition — a pro–Donald Trump group whose stated mission is to “build a stronger America through Hindu Enlightenment Principles” — joined forces with several right-wing Latino organizations to host a joint Hindu-Latino inaugural ball in downtown Washington, DC. Among those who gathered in the ballroom of the swanky Mayflower Hotel, rubbing shoulders with Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei, was Rajiv Pandit, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) — a Washington, DC–based advocacy group that proudly professes to be the “largest and oldest education and advocacy organization and the pre-eminent voice for Hindu Americans.”

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The US government has approved a $295 million arms deal with Israel, authorising the sale of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and related equipment. The deal was fast-tracked through an emergency authorisation by the secretary of state, bypassing the standard Congressional review process.

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It's so obvious what's he doing. He will use this as pretext to shutoff StartLink.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market’s sell-off cut deeper on Monday as Wall Street questioned how much pain President Donald Trump will let the economy endure through tariffs and other policies in order to get what he wants.

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Nowhere is this discrepancy more apparent than at the Washington Post, a newspaper famed for opposing a prior Republican president with an expansive view of executive power. These days, however, even as Post reporters like Jeff Stein are busy breaking stories (e.g., 1/28/25, 2/8/25) about the Trump power grab, the paper’s higher-ups are careful not to offend the president or Musk. The Post is even, incredibly, calling on the Constitution-defying billionaire duo to push further.

At first blush, the story might seem to convey concern, but look closer: We see Musk matter-of-factly described as a “special government employee, which subjects him to less stringent rules on ethics and financial disclosures than other workers.”

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from The Forward [Jewish publication from #USA]