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  "In a letter Samuel wrote before his death, an excerpt of which was shared with The Times, he talked about his mother's detention. He said her being taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement made him feel like he'd hit 'one last wall." 'To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,' Samuel wrote. 'I can't handle anymore injustices in this world.'" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-09-29/his-mom-was-detained-b...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117363274404078615 “At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said ‘executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring,’ her lawyers said in a federal court filing.” They said Pike ‘has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat,’ and that curtains to the death chamber ‘have gone down twice.” The conservative justices of the Supreme Court are torturing a human being to death.

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  “The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahead-rare-execution-lone-woman-tennessee-death-row-says-peace-rcna600279

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  Abolish the death penalty.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117327858266313191 “USCIS did not review his case. In summarily denying his green card application, it rubber-stamped a predetermined determination to deport him. But here is the truth they do not understand: Pastor Molis is not just a number to meet a quota.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117295657235175295 #HispanicHeritageMonth: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court ✨ "I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.”

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  Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

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  “Marshall has been among the majority of Republicans who have spent months blocking even the most modest reforms for ICE. Only now as ICE’s operations arrive at his front door can he begin to see what mayhem and tragedy this agency has wrought—and how that might cost him on Election Day.” https://newrepublic.com/post/215814/maga-senator-changes-tune-ice-midterms?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social

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  “The Imagination Library is encouraging the public to give directly to their local Imagination Library Partner on Dolly Parton Day, or help establish a new program in their community” 📚 https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/dolly-parton-day-how-to-celebrate/4148404/?amp=1

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117333014987464265 “Dolly often called these local Imagination Library Partners the ‘true heroes’ of her program. They raise funds, build community support and work tirelessly to ensure children from birth to age five in their communities can receive a free, high-quality book mailed directly to their home each month” 📚 https://www.dollyparton.com/news/the-dollywood-foundation-announces-give-like-dolly-day-on-september-25-encouraging-the-world-to-make-a-differ...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117333031522506946 “Dolly founded the Imagination Library in 1995 in honor of her father, who could not read or write. What began in her home county in East Tennessee has grown into the largest early childhood book-gifting program in the world …” 📚

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  On this inaugural Dolly Parton Day, one of her best-ever live performances 🦋

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117334441442379938 When I saw Dolly do this I knew she was about to EAT

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117329012796637599 #HispanicHeritageMonth: Sonia Manzano, 15-time Emmy-winning actor and writer. For over 30 years, Manzano portrayed Maria on “Sesame Street” and was one of the first Hispanic characters on national television ✨

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117334671886194097 “Manzano says that sometimes her mere presence makes strangers and passersby cry. ‘It's an effect that I have on people. When they see me, I'm a catalyst, and all of a sudden they're thrown back onto their mothers' milky laps at four in the afternoon, watching letters and numbers.” https://www.wbur.org/npr/442916706/i-met-a-girl-named-maria #HispanicHeritageMonth

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  Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

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  Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

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  “Many of them have ‘come the right way,’ only to realize we’ve changed the rules or are just ignoring our own laws.” “Moreover, they are happy to dehumanize a man with their bullet still lodged in his back. When asked about his condition in the hospital, ICE told a reporter, ‘The illegal alien’s condition is stable.’” https://baptistnews.com/article/when-you-vote-remember-wilber-rafael-garces-perez/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117343388849977228 “Go to the polls with Wilber and the millions like him in mind. Vote against anyone who supports this state-sponsored, racialized terror. Vote to send an unequivocal message that you’re not OK with this.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117343393671296647 “Vote as if it is a prayer that we’ll somehow find the compassionate humanity to treat the stranger as Jesus himself. Vote like your neighbors’ lives depend upon it, because they so clearly do.”

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  “All U.S. ticket sales will be donated to The Dollywood Foundation to support its flagship program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library” 📚 https://variety.com/2026/film/news/dolly-parton-9-to-5-theaters-charity-death-1236875525/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117343666460657832 “Since it was founded in 1995, Parton’s Imagination Library has donated more than 300 million books to children around the world, and each month it sends out 3 million books directly to kids’ homes. Children who are enrolled receive one book per month from birth to age five, at no cost to families” 📚

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  We are all so lucky to have been born at a certain moment in time and thus graced with the presence of Dolly Rebecca Parton 🦋

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117344060166772133 I mean can you imagine being born during a time of, oh I don’t know, The Black Death perhaps, but also DOLLY PARTON HAD NOT YET EXISTED. Let those fleas just take me already.

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  “We still have so many questions,” said Lorenzo Salgado, one of Salgado Araujo’s sons. “What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity, while my brother and I stand before cameras, showing our faces, proudly saying our first and last name?” https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-09-22/sons-mothers-of-people-killed-by-ice-agents-demand-answers-we-still-have-so-many-questions

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  Why is the GOP’s top political donor so obsessed with children’s genitalia? https://popular.info/p/the-lie-dominating-musks-2026-political

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  #HispanicHeritageMonth: Sylvia Mendez, retired nurse and civil rights pioneer. When she was eight, she was barred from a “whites” only school and ordered to a “Mexican school” next to a cow pasture. Her parents sued. That lawsuit helped bring about the end of school segregation in California.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117293226257223221 "The deportees said the beatings and subsequent arrests were intended to stop them from telling the outside world about the deteriorating conditions and growing violence inside the hotel, which has become a de facto prison for 29 men and women from different countries."

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  "Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely, according to witnesses and lawyers." This is all intentional. The regime knows its deporting people to danger. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/africa/us-deportation-hotel-equatorial-guinea.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFE.U11I.pF_DcqwIfbii&smid...

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  “The family of a woman who died after she could not get an abortion in Texas is suing doctors and state officials including Attorney General Ken Paxton. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.” https://19thnews.org/2026/09/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ken-paxton-tierra-walker/