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Weeks after Orange Is the New Black referenced a toll-free hotline that helps immigrants in detention centers obtain legal counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly shut down the number. Freedom for Immigrants, the California organization that created the National Immigration Detention Hotline in 2013, says the number was nixed …

Bill McKibben is no stranger to getting arrested for protesting. Usually it’s when he’s protesting fossil fuel companies in response climate change, but on Thursday, the climate activist was arrested along with six others who refused to leave Rep. Elise Stefanik‘s (R-N.Y.) Glen Falls office in a protest of President …