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The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. (boltsmag.org)
 

Last July, North Carolina state Representative Carla Cunningham, a seven-term Democratic lawmaker from Mecklenburg County, startled party members when she stood on the state House floor and said “all cultures are not equal” and suggested immigrants “must assimilate” and “adapt to the culture of the country they wish to live in.”

Cunningham’s floor speech came after she cast the lone Democratic vote to override North Carolina Governor Josh Stein’s veto of a Republican-backed bill forcing local law enforcement agencies to work more closely with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The override succeeded thanks to her crossover vote....

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On paper, North Carolina Republicans are one seat short of a supermajority in the state House, but Cunningham and a small group of fellow Democrats have supplied votes to help them override Stein’s vetoes on immigration and other issues, including bills to expand gun rights and restrict LGBTQ+ rights. Several of these Democrats face challengers in the March 3 primaries.

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If Cunningham’s two challengers split the support of voters who are upset with the incumbent, it could help her get through with a plurality of the vote. (North Carolina primaries only head to a runoff if a candidate fails to top 30 percent of the vote.) The winner of the Democratic primary is likely to prevail in November as no Republican has filed to run.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260219131948/https://boltsmag.org/north-carolina-2026-primary-immigration-policy/

2 North American 4 you has been created in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Fusion kitchens are the best and maybe the only good thing to come out of colonialism

Well, there's also a pretty good music that jazz doesn't happen the way it did without putting European instruments in the hands of formerly enslaved Africans. Would be a lot cooler world if we could figure out how to evolve our art and culture without crimes against humanity, tho.

2 North American 4 you has been created in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

How do you get the energy drink and nutrition supplements to stay in the taco

Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you honestly believe we would be here right now if we hadn't let the Biden administration and moderate Dems bungle this issue? The only thing proposing that noxious piece of trash legislation did was allow the fascists to say "see? even the libs know migrants are a problem."

This lesser evil canard completely misunderstands politics and racism, it doesn't work like an inoculation where doing a little racism keeps us from going full racist down the road, it works like heavy metal poisoning where the shit just builds up in our systems.

Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Agreed til the final paragraph, but that 2024 bill was authoritarian trash that never should have been proposed in the first place

Gamergate - Wikipedia in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Yeah, the fact that Epstein was a fan of 4chan and hung out with moot makes everything about this moment make a lot more sense in retrospect

AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you needed a lawyer for some reason, would you refuse to hire a woman because you thought your jury might have misogynists on it?

AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (17 children)

Sounds pretty Presidential to me

Conservative lawmakers plan to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

“American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” Ogles said.

Fuck all the way off you fucking illiterate dipshit. The best parts of "American culture" are and always have been mocking evil puritanical shitheads like you who really just hate art in general and people you don't own.

DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Clearly the answer is to give even more funding to the people creating inhumane conditions and to ask them nicely to stop /s

Taylor Swift asks US government to block 'Swift Home' trademark in c/world@quokk.au
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's kinda shitty behavior, but one for profit entity screwing with another for profit entity over bullshit reasons doesn't even crack the top ten in terms of shitty behavior I saw in headlines scrolling my way here (source: lives under current US government)

Taylor Swift asks US government to block 'Swift Home' trademark in c/world@quokk.au
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they are definitely capitalising on her name and brand

How? By just using the word "swift"? I don't think copyright should cover something that generic, we'll end up licensing off the whole language.

El Paso Airport Closed After Military Shot Down Random Party Balloon: The Pentagon appeared to believe the balloon was a foreign drone in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Yeah, the Trump administration have always been fans of things that sounded better in the original German I guess

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ICE pursuit ends in multi-car crash in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood (sahanjournal.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260212130731/https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/st-paul-car-crash-ice-pursuit/

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next. (www.wired.com)
 

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. In many cases, these facilities, which are to be used by street-level agents and ICE attorneys, are located near elementary schools, medical offices, places of worship, and other sensitive locations.

Archived at https://archive.ph/BQfRW

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Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof (religionnews.com)
 

Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has twice told interviewers in recent weeks that priests in the archdiocese have been stopped by federal agents and asked to prove their immigration status — demands he said were “because of their color.”

Archived at https://archive.ph/JWsMC

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Judge denies Trump’s DOJ access to Michigan voters’ private information (www.mlive.com)
 

Archived at https://archive.ph/TKYsN

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ICE increasingly targeting Minnesota immigrants with active work permits (sahanjournal.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260212122937/https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-targets-immigrants-with-work-permits/

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El Paso Airport Closed After Military Shot Down Random Party Balloon: The Pentagon appeared to believe the balloon was a foreign drone (newrepublic.com)
 

Archived at https://archive.ph/zLJdz

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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza (www.thecity.nyc)
 

A judge’s order last summer mandated capacity restrictions and improved conditions at the federal building, which has been a focus of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in New York City. The order applied to any “person detained by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza,.”

But ICE has interpreted the order as applying to just one floor of the building, while conceding it has been detaining some immigrants on a separate floor.

The revelations emerged during a hearing over an ongoing lawsuit about conditions inside ICE’s holding areas inside 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants arrested around New York City are often taken before being shipped off to detention sites across the country.

Last summer, as ICE arrests surged, THE CITY and other outlets reported on the squalid and overcrowded conditions inside holding cells on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza.

Archived at https://archive.ph/6c8Gv

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Louisiana could spend $82 million more on prisons as inmate population grows (www.nola.com)
 

Archived at https://archive.ph/tGM1r

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Trump DOJ’s ‘weaponization’ group under pressure to deliver results, source says (www.nbcnews.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260211133615/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-dojs-weaponization-group-pressure-deliver-results-source-says-rcna257429

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Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility (chicago.suntimes.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260211133413/https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/09/cook-county-prosecutors-drop-charges-against-19-arrested-during-clergy-led-protest-broadview-ice-facility

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How Trump's ICE Is Locking Up Longtime Texans with Paths to Legal Status (www.texasobserver.org)
 

Archived at https://archive.ph/BMkX5

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