Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech
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Senate GOP Whip Senator John Thune (SD), who is running to be the next Senate Republican leader, campaigns with #AZSen GOP candidate Kari Lake in Phoenix today.

A periodic reminder to be skeptical if someone tells you a simple narrative about how border crossings are up or down bc of X. Is their evidence merely correlative? What motivations may they have to push the narrative? Any factors they may be leaving out, intentionally or not?

'Art has civilizing aspects, allowing even the most savage and lost soul to let go of the mania inside and see the world through someone else's eyes.' — David Carr, 2015

Biden on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I learned long ago to listen to that lady'

'She rather be arrested for fighting for Palestine, I’d be the happiest daddy”

Lazaro, a father of student USC, expresses his support for his daughter activism in protesting against Israel’s genocide in Los Angeles.🇵🇸

The people who told you that the January 6 coup attempt were just peaceful tourists taking a stroll...

Are now telling you that the UT sit-in was a violent riot.

Nearly a year ago Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. This week on All Things Considered we look at the aftermath. I spent time in one immigrant community where locals told me 30% have fled.

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Pres Biden asked the DEA to review marijuana’s drug classification in October of ‘22

DOJ is still reviewing HHS recommendation that it be rescheduled from 1 to 3

Democratic lawmakers, including Leader Schumer, ask: what are you waiting for?

New letter: warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

This is not a winning stance in deep blue Maryland. Hogan's Senate bid should be viewed as nothing more than a vanity campaign.

🚨 NEW: As first reported by POLITICO, our latest poll with Global Strategy Group and BSPresearch shows strong voter support (82%) for paths to citizenship and legal status for long-settled undocumented communities; strong opposition to extremist Trump-era policies. static1.squarespace.com/static/5b60b23…

.Senator Dick Durbin sent a letter to both the Department of Justice and the DOJ Inspector General on Thursday requesting an investigation into the prosecutions of migrants from Muslim-majority countries: judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases…

DHS is already investigating the matter internally.

EARMARKS: Tom Cole announces that nonprofits will not be eligible for earmarks this year

Summer Lee's strategy to win her primary? Straddle the line between progressive and establishment, Katherine Swartz reports. She voted for Biden in Pennsylvania's primary despite her support for a ceasefire while other progressives have voted uncommitted. #PA12
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🚨UPDATE🚨: The pro-Palestine encampment at George Washington University GW University has grown larger in the evening, with many non-GW protesters joining the students. The pro-Israel counter protest is no longer at the Yard. The 7:00 PM curfew has long passed. What next? #Protest

Photos from today reporting on the AZ-MX border

Pablo Manríquez GENIOUS ARTWORK

Genocide remains unpopular with the youths, thank God.

SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “If the president ... orders someone to assassinate [a rival], is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?”

Trump attorney D. John Sauer: “It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.”

NEW: Senate Republicans are gearing up to protect the filibuster from Trump, if he pushes for its extinction.

Even top Trump allies in the Senate tell us they now want to keep the filibuster. w/ Stef Kight

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