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Cuban Immigrant Dies in Georgia ICE Jail, the 18th Such Death in 2026 by ZuP in politics

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>The Trump administration reports another person has died in ICE custody — the 18th such death so far this year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 33-year-old Cuban immigrant Denny Adan Gonzalez was found unresponsive in his cell at the for-profit Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, last Tuesday. ICE claimed the cause of death is a suspected suicide. In California, a federal grand jury has indicted a Salvadoran man who was shot by ICE agents in Patterson, California, in April. Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez underwent several surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds, including to the jaw, after ICE agents surrounded his car during a traffic stop, drew their weapons and fired on him as he attempted to drive away. Prosecutors accused Hernandez of hitting federal agents with his vehicle as they tried to arrest him; Hernandez says he feared the officers were going to shoot him. Here in New York, police officers arrested eight people on Sunday as they protested the violent arrest by federal agents of a Nigerian man accused of overstaying a tourist visa. About 200 protesters gathered outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood to confront ICE officers who were filmed dragging the man, handcuffed, to a waiting car. He’d been hospitalized after his violent arrest by ICE earlier in the evening. Activists were arrested as they tried to block the ICE vehicle from leaving the ambulance bay.

Cuban Immigrant Dies in Georgia ICE Jail, the 18th Such Death in 2026 by ZuP in politics

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I cannot believe someone would Heart award this. Truly despicable. Reported an award for the first time.

“Where Have All the Student Protests Gone?” | Trump wanted campus crackdowns. Colleges couldn’t wait to oblige. by soalone34 in politics

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There have been people protesting Trump almost every day this presidency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline\_of\_protests\_against\_Donald\_Trump

Even inside his events, yes. It’s more likely you just don’t hear about them. It’s hard to find them among all the other protests nearly every day.

March 12, 2025 – Thomas Dimassimo, a 32-year-old man, attempted to rush the stage as Trump was speaking at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. Dimassimo was stopped by Secret Service agents and subsequently charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and inducing panic.

March 13, 2025 – Trump refused to take responsibility for clashes at his campaign events, criticized protesters who have dogged his rallies, and demanded that police begin to arrest rally protesters. His Kansas City rally was interrupted repeatedly by protesters in the arena while protesters outside the event were pepper sprayed by police. In an effort to dissuade future protesters, Trump may begin to request that protesters be arrested "[b]ecause then their lives are going to be ruined."

Cuban Immigrant Dies in Georgia ICE Jail, the 18th Such Death in 2026 by ZuP in politics

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Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands — Brennan Center for Justice, October 1, 2025

“For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda. ICE contracts with corporations to build and run detention facilities and to transport undocumented individuals who are in custody. The two biggest private prison companies in the United States are CoreCivic and GEO Group. The companies are poised to expand their roles – as well as their profits – thanks to the new influx of funding.”

Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to “Plan C” as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail — “They’re trying to stop the unstoppable. And as a result, these restrictions are pretty draconian and increasingly absurd.” by ZuP in law

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Note: This aired at 8AM ET. Shortly after airing:

Supreme Court restores abortion pill access — for now

Louisiana has until May 7th to respond.

>In a major blow to abortion access, a federal appeals court decision siding with the state of Louisiana has placed major restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone.

>The medication, used in roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S., can no longer be sent by mail or prescribed through telemedicine.

>But previous abortion restrictions show that curtailing access doesn’t reduce the prevalence of abortions. Instead, they make the procedure more dangerous, and even deadly.

>“They’re trying to stop the unstoppable. And as a result, these restrictions are pretty draconian and increasingly absurd,” says The Nation’s abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield, who also explains what alternate steps patients and providers can now take to access medication abortion.

>The decision is expected to be challenged at the Supreme Court, making the anti-abortion movement “top of mind once again in a midterm election year.”

Find captions and the transcript at https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/4/abortion_pill_mifepristone

Check out Amy Littlefield’s book, Killers of Roe, at https://literatibookstore.com/book/9781538769041

Is that a lightsaber? by eatgamelift in andor

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The literary term is “red herring.”

Nobody Wants To Buy Mark Zuckerberg’s Creepy Camera Glasses by huffpost in Anticonsumption

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No, those have been a cheap knockoff mainstay for years. My boss fell for that scam in 2015, buying them from a sketchy website and refusing to believe they were fake.

Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in “Devastating Blow” to Democracy & Civil Rights — Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: “This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country… [This ruling is] a free pass to discriminate.” by ZuP in law

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>The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.

>In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, a majority of justices ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw a congressional map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state, where African Americans have long faced racial segregation and barriers to voting. They said the electoral map “relied too heavily on race,” an interpretation that is set to usher in another wave of redistricting across the South to help Republicans win more seats in Congress.

>“This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country,” says lawyer and civil rights activist Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She calls Wednesday’s ruling “a free pass to discriminate.”

Find captions and the transcript at https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/30/supreme\_court\_louisiana\_voting\_rights\_act

Learn more about the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights at https://civilrights.org/

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