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The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Putin and his accomplices in the abduction of Ukrainian children. This is a global case – and it must have global consequences. Everyone who commits crimes against children must truly feel that this is wrong. Today, we have new sanctions against those who abduct children and try to normalize it. And the pressure on Russia must not ease. Sanctions work. And the world has power. Please use it right. From an address to the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children (3/3).
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🚨Long before Epstein, there was McMartin preschool, in Manhattan Beach California. Many Children testified to underground tunnels and satanic ritual abuse, and sexual abuse and torture beneath the preschool, and years later, archaeological digs revealed structures consistent with what they described. As more truths come to light today, many are realizing these stories weren’t false… just inconvenient. Good God, what world are we living in y’all??💔
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🚨BREAKING: DHS is trafficking twin FIVE-YEAR-OLDS and refusing to release them because they “lack property and assets.” Twin five year olds have been detained at the Dilley detention center for EIGHT MONTHS. An immigration judge denied them bond because of “a lack of property” and “a lack of assets.” And no, this wasn’t based on their family. This decision was made separately, for each child, as an individual. So, the U.S. government is now arguing that FIVE YEAR OLDS are too poor to be free. Which tends to be the case for most 5 year olds. And, as a result, DHS is continuing to hold these children, after already imprisoning them for eight months, in a for-profit concentration camp. That is child trafficking. So now, because the government has decided that kindergartners must meet a wealth requirement to not be trafficked, a GoFundMe has been started so these FIVE YEAR OLDS can acquire “assets” and buy their freedom from U.S. custody. And this is all by design… The Trump administration dismantled long-standing child detention protections, including moving to override the Flores Settlement, which limited how long children could be held and required their release to family whenever possible. Those safeguards were replaced with policies that allow children to be detained for months and denied bond, all to make CoreCivic more money. This is what happens when human rights are replaced with profit margins. (GoFundMe link is in the comments.)
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At Liam’s school, three other kids have been taken by ICE. A U.S. citizen child with a brain tumor was deported away from her Texas doctors. Austin college student Any Lopez Belloza was deported by “mistake” and still can't come home. Trump's chaos and cruelty has to end. – at San Antonio, TX
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The five-year-old boy detained by ICE is sick, vomiting, no longer eating, and crying for his mom. Texas Dem’s are calling for his release, as they should. This is cruel, inhumane, and an absolute moral failure. My heart is with him.
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Laura Kane retweeted
🚨NEW: ICE arrested a 58-year-old McDonald’s worker outside Minneapolis. His teenage son brought his dad’s life-saving heart medication to the detention center. Agents laughed at him, according to witnesses. This isn’t public safety. It’s cruelty, aimed, as always, at the poor.
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First they came for Stephen Colbert. Now they are coming for Jimmy Kimmel. If you think it'll stop here, you are fooling yourself. RETWEET if you stand with Kimmel and Colbert!
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Insight from CIPE experts is featured in a new super election series by @diplocourier:
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Great to meet with representatives & friends from @CIPEglobal and @USChamber to discuss @Kurdistan’s economic priorities, especially agriculture, a strong private sector & entrepreneurship. We look forward to welcoming the Chamber’s ‘farm to fork’ delegation to Kurdistan in June
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"The best policy that we can pursue is a policy of competition. Creating more investors, more pressure and more eyes on what Ukraine is doing, and pushing the country forward in a positive direction to engage more with the EU." -@eric_hontz, @CIPEglobal #UkraineBusinessInitiative
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Jailed a year ago today, @washingtonpost journalist @VKaraMurza will never stop speaking the truth and speaking out for freedom and democracy in Russia. #FreeKaraMurza
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.@CIPEglobal hears from women in business that they need quality family care; access to finance & markets; training & leadership opportunities; and safe digital transformation - Connie Gonzalez, Deputy Director, Center for Women's Economic Empowerment @CIPEWomen
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Love to see it!
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Laura Kane retweeted
Most in new poll say social media platforms have obligation to curtail hate speech trib.al/jhzlmMv
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Love, forever more. 💕
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Laura Kane retweeted
People moves: The Center for International Private Enterprise (@CIPEglobal) has hired Laura Kane as its chief communications officer. Details here: prweek.com/article/1805904/c…
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And, the winner of the National Press Club Spelling Bee is Amy Wang from the Washington Post.
Good to see old Friends and meet New ones at the National Press Club Spelling Bee, Politicians v Press.