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Deborah C. retweeted
She got what she voted for....
Meet die-hard MAGAt and three-time Trump supporter Sandra Hafraoui, an administrative professional who spent years enthusiastically voting for aggressive mass deportations, completely confident her own front door was bulletproof. Her politics were beautifully simple: robust border walls, uncompromising immigration enforcement, and absolute faith that the MAGA machine would strictly target "the worst of the worst" while bypassing her comfortable American life.
That blind faith shattered on August 11 at Newark Liberty International Airport when ICE agents intercepted her Moroccan-born husband, Abdellatif, as the couple tried to board a flight for a Florida vacation. It turns out the federal immigration apparatus doesn't pause to check your spouse's voting record before enforcing an in absentia deportation order left behind by a fraudulent lawyer who was federally sentenced back in 2013 for scamming clients.
The exact system Sandra cheered on treated her husband precisely like the people she voted to expel. He was shipped across facilities from New Jersey to Arizona, subjected to sleep deprivation, and thrown into solitary confinement for 10 days for refusing a forced flight, leaving Sandra to scramble for a $15,000 bond until his eventual release on November 26 after 108 days of state-sponsored trauma.
The staggering hypocrisy is a masterclass in political myopia. Sandra openly admitted she supported these brutal policies under the assumption they would only happen to other families, only discovering the cruelty of the system once it directly ruined her life and drained her bank account.
Deborah C. retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
Deborah C. retweeted
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNN's Senior Data Analyst Harry Enten just HUMILIATED Donald Trump making clear that President Obama soars above him in terms of popularity with the American people. Retweet this to ensure every American sees Trump's worst nightmare come true.
Deborah C. retweeted
Trump and the GOP have been working hard to keep this video from being reposted on social media. Repost it, keep it alive. Too many people aren't paying attention to who Donald Trump is.
He's a liar, and by his own words, he must be held accountable.🤥
Deborah C. retweeted
THIS IS CODE RED !!
Trump’s politicized DOJ is now saying out loud that they may interfere in the election in a desperate, unprecedented, and completely unAmerican and anti-democratic attempt to keep Trump and MAGA in power.
Deborah C. retweeted
A 25-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint and forced into the back seat of a car.
Desperate for someone to notice, she locked eyes with two teenage boys in another vehicle and silently mouthed two words… “Help me.”
17-year-old Jamal Harris and 19-year-old Aaron Arias immediately called 911 and began following the car.
The driver realized they were behind him and started speeding up, slowing down and swerving through traffic trying to lose them. But Jamal and Aaron stayed with him, continuously updating police on where the car was going.
They knew if they lost sight of it, the woman could disappear.
Police eventually caught up, surrounded the vehicle and arrested the driver. The woman was finally safe, and later embraced the teenagers who had noticed her silent plea and refused to look away.
Jamal and Aaron were just out driving that day. But because they paid attention and kept following when it would have been easier to turn away, a kidnapped woman made it home safely.
These are the types of young people the internet should be talking about. 💙
Detroit voters, Mike Rogers has asked off duty police officers to flash their badges at precincts of his opponents. I ask that everyone take your cell phones and record for as long as you can. If you can upload real time, even better.
Deborah C. retweeted
In September 1994, a 23-year-old teacher named Erin Gruwell walked into Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach. What she found was a classroom of freshmen who had been placed in the lowest-track classes and labeled “at-risk.” Many could barely read at an elementary level. The administration warned her not to waste resources on students who probably would not graduate.
Her first day was a struggle. Some students ignored her, others walked out, and a few threw books. Erin started paying attention to what they were going through. One incident changed her approach. A student passed around a racist drawing. Erin stopped the lesson and asked how many had ever been shot at. Every hand went up. She asked how many had lost friends to violence. Every hand stayed raised.
She abandoned the standard curriculum and brought *The Diary of Anne Frank* into the classroom. She invited Holocaust survivors to speak. Then she gave each student a journal. No grades, no red marks. Just a place to write honestly about their lives. At first many pages stayed blank. Gradually they began to write about violence, loss, and survival. As they shared, the hostility in the room began to weaken.
The school would not fund field trips or better books. Erin took on three jobs and paid for them herself. By senior year all 150 students were on track to graduate. Their journals became a book, *The Freedom Writers Diary*, published in 1999. In 2007 the story became the film *Freedom Writers*.
Many of the students went on to college, some becoming the first in their families to do so. Erin founded the Freedom Writers Foundation to help other teachers use writing and storytelling. When she walked into that classroom she was a first-year teacher facing students the school had largely given up on. She gave them journals and refused to accept that being labeled “at-risk” meant they could not succeed.
Deborah C. retweeted
The MAGA cult members members they are suffering. These poor people continue to vote against their interest.. especially in West Virginia.
Deborah C. retweeted
The order to disrupt Starshield which allowed Russia to kill numerous civilians in Ukraine came directly from the White House. 🤬 Trump is a traitor and a Russian asset. reuters.com/world/europe/ord…
Deborah C. retweeted
He went into a North Carolina prison in 1976 and came out in 2020.
44 years. Ronnie Long was tried by an all-white jury in front of an all-white courtroom, convicted, and sentenced to two life terms.
The evidence that cleared him had been sitting in a police file the whole time.
Concord, North Carolina. He was 20, and he was accused of raping a white widow — the wife of a local textile executive.
The jury was all white. The judge ordered the jury pool assembled in a way that produced it. Long's lawyers objected and were overruled.
Here is what the state had, and did not disclose:
Forty-three fingerprints were lifted at the scene. None of them were his. The defence was not told.
A rape kit had been collected. Hair and other evidence had been gathered and sent for analysis. Reports existed. The defence was not told, and much of the material later could not be found.
The victim had initially failed to identify him, and the circumstances of the identification she eventually made were deeply questionable.
He was convicted in 1976 and spent the next four and a half decades filing. Appeal after appeal, denied. For decades, courts told him his claims were procedurally too late — which is to say, he was too slow to complain about evidence nobody had told him existed.
In August 2020 the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting as a full court, vacated his conviction and described the state's conduct as an extraordinary withholding of evidence. He walked out that month, aged 64.
North Carolina's governor pardoned him. He received the state's maximum wrongful-conviction payment — which is capped at $750,000. For forty-four years.
That is about seventeen thousand dollars a year.
He had been inside longer than the lawyers who finally freed him had been alive.
Deborah C. retweeted
This is what Voter Suppression looks like in 2026.
GOP-controlled election boards in North Carolina declined to put an early-voting site back on the campus of North Carolina A&T after students had one in 2024.
So these patriots marched nearly an hour in the heat to reach the polls on the first day of early voting. And they voted.
Make it harder and we’ll still show up.