by Sharon Zhang | Mar 23, 2026 | cuba, Cuba embargo, Donald Trump, embargo, Ilhan Omar, News, Sanctions
The U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week. “We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed…
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by Sharon Zhang | Feb 28, 2026 | Donald Trump, ICE, Ilhan Omar, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News
Capitol Police brutalized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minnesota) guest to the State of the Union address, Aliya Rahman, so badly that she needed to seek care at the hospital afterward — all because Rahman stood up in protest during President Donald Trump’s speech. As Trump made heinous remarks about Somalis on Tuesday night, Rahman silently stood up in protest, she told Democracy Now!
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by Amy Goodman | Feb 25, 2026 | Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Donald Trump, Ilhan Omar, Interview, Minneapolis, protest, Rep. Ilhan Omar, State of the Union
We speak with Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, who attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Rahman was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent several hours in jail following what she describes as an aggressive arrest by Capitol Police — all for silently challenging Trump during the speech. “There are only two things you can do at the State…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 29, 2026 | Donald Trump, ICE, Ilhan Omar, Minnesota, News, Somalia
President Donald Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) just hours before she was assaulted on Tuesday evening, with the president mocking her and relishing in violence against Somalis at a campaign rally. As Omar spoke during a town hall on Trump’s militarized raid of Minnesota, a man suddenly lunged at her and sprayed her with an unknown substance in a syringe. Video of the attack…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 27, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Donald Trump, ICE, Ilhan Omar, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Tom Homan
Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) has said that the Trump administration is grasping at straws after President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is launching an investigation into the oft-targeted Democratic lawmaker, in the wake of the horrific Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti this weekend. In a post on Truth Social Monday, Trump said that the DOJ and Congress are…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 12, 2026 | Department of Homeland Security, Ilhan Omar, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kristi Noem, News, Renee Nicole Good
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued an order to once again limit congressional visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, just a day after an immigration agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. In a memo, Noem directed ICE to bar congressional visits to ICE detention centers unless they request the visit seven days in advance.
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