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Canadian detained by ICE for 6 months says he's an 'indefinite' prisoner, has no idea when he'll get out

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -9.7176932

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Comey Indictment Called ‘New Low’ for White House ‘At War with First Amendment’
By Julia Conley
April 29, 2026

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(Common Dreams) As the corporate media joins the White House in a new round of accusations against critics of President Donald Trump in the wake of an attempted attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week—with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche blaming anti-Trump “rhetoric” for the violence at the event—the administration on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment of longtime Trump foe James Comey in what legal experts called a transparent attack on the First Amendment.

At a press conference held by Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, the officials made the case—without presenting specific evidence—that a federal grand jury in North Carolina had indicted former FBI chief Comey because he’d “knowingly and willfully [made] a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon” Trump in May 2025 in a photo he posted on Instagram.

The picture showed seashells grouped together in a pattern, reading, “86 47.”

Trump is the 47th president of the United States, and the slang term “86” means “to get rid of,” originating in the 1930s. According to Merriam-Webster, the term began being used as a verb in the 1950s when restaurants and bars used it to mean refusing service to a customer or throwing them out of an establishment. That use of the term is still the most common, according to the dictionary, which wrote: “Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of ‘to kill.’ We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.”

Comey quickly deleted his post last May, which he said he had shared after finding the seashells in the arrangement during a walk on a beach. The former FBI director said he deleted that post after realizing “some folks associate those numbers with violence,” and said he opposes violence “of any kind.”

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/jame ... instagram

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Samuel Alito’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... g-data-doj

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