Haaland, by contrast, is running in a blue state and has a strong shot at her state's governorship.
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James Powel,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
McBath had considered running in the crowded Democratic race for governor, but suspended her exploratory bid last year, pointing to her need to focus on her husband's health after complications from a recent cancer surgery.
Some compared him to El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele, who is widely popular throughout Latin America for jailing alleged gang members with no due process.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
The city has said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.
Adam’s been shuttled off to Earth along with the coveted Sword of Power in the aftermath of evil Skeletor (Jared Leto, having a great time in the part) and his horrid denizens taking over his home planet and imprisoning his parents.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime’s very recent and brutal crackdown on its own people — imprisoning and killing thousands of citizens for dissent — has not been met with the same outrage by these voices.
Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.
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Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
The outlet also reported that former employee Kelsi Carlisle, who is accused of pulling a child by the arm and pushing them face-down on a mat while restraining them with her body weight, faces two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
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Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
Trump’s interest in antitrust enforcement predictably has little to do with restraining corporate power and is largely consumed with leveraging regulatory threats to compel firms to support his political agenda.
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