David Wright
@WrightUps
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journalist, husband, father of daughters, concerned citizen, human being 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪 *9f1b4ffd
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Joined November 2008
The secret policemen who killed Alex Pretti identified as CBP agent Jesus “Jesse” Ochoa and Customs and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez, both of south Texas, per @propublica
https://t.co/dmwxrPH3Ct
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The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer...
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Gun Activists Bridle at Suggestion That Pistol Justified Killing https://t.co/IsV0znahAU via @NYTimes
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The National Rifle Association and others have argued citizens need guns to fend off government. The killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who carried a pistol, set off debate.
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A VA nurse. A responsible gun owner. Respectful, not cynical. Someone who clearly believed in the rights and responsibilities of freedom.
This is the ''Domestic Terrorist'', the ''Monster'', the danger to 8 highly armed men................. If you dont feel fucking rage, you should.
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This is the man the secret police shot dead in the street today in Minneapolis
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Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’
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Pope Leo XIV to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See: “It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be
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"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate." - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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ICE corporate partners: •Dell $18.8 million contract •UPS $90,500 contract •FedEx $1 million contract •Motorola $15.6 million contract •AT&T $83 million contract •LexisNexis $21 million contract •Home Depot & Lowe’s per:
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My Canadian grandparents always used words like ‘cheque’ & ‘colour’. They’d sit on the Chesterfield, which always had antimacassers. Yet Carney’s British spellings are now somehow un-Canadian? NYT/Canadian Linguists Rise Up Against the Letter ‘S’ https://t.co/KQ1ZOzeFFG
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Some words spelled the British way are emerging in Canadian government documents. A group of language experts say the changes undermine Canada’s identity.
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From @WSJopinion: The political cycle of using government to punish opponents is taking the country into dark corners that will result in less freedom, and less free speech, for all sides
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The right gives the left a dose of cancel culture and regulatory abuse.
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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner weighs in on the @jimmykimmel firing - not impressed by the leadership of his successor @RobertIger in this case!
Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the
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Private beach? Westerly residents push back on restrictions imposed for decades at one of the jewels of RI’s coastline https://t.co/4al5CCFdpS
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Before the Ocean State’s Constitution gets around to mentioning freedom of the press, freedom of speech or the right to bear arms, it enshrines the concept of “shore privileges.” “The people shall...
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Can @DavidMoralesRI (who turns 27 later this month) use @ZohranKMamdani's playbook to spring into City Hall? He'd face an uphill climb (and Brett Smiley isn't Andrew Cuomo), but Morales says he's about doing the work
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Rhode Island said goodbye today to “the nicest judge in the world.” In his eulogy, @bostoncatholic Archbishop Henning imagined how God will judge @Frankcaprio_ ’s life’s work… https://t.co/LwF16e804k
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Rhode Island said goodbye today to “the nicest judge in the world.” In his eulogy, @bostoncatholic Archbishop Henning imagined how God will judge @Frankcaprio_ ’s life’s work… https://t.co/LwF16e804k
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Backlash at Brown over Trump deal
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University officials placated the Trump administration. Now they have to win over skeptics on campus.
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The story behind the Pawtucket miracle recently accepted by @Pontifex (and, no, it has nothing to do with baseball)… Via @rhodeislandpbs & @ThePublicsRadio
https://t.co/BulrxbJSIt
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Although the G7 countries don’t currently recognize Palestine, that would change in September with France, Britain, and Canada
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