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After the mayor of Newark was arrested for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a DHS official is threatening to arrest three members of Congress who were also present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Loved this, “FREE” always tastes so good…

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“Congress has never passed a voter-suppression law like this before,” @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social , director of the @brennancenter.bsky.social voting-rights program, told Democracy Docket.

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🎯 🎯 🎯 graphic courtesy @pleightx.bsky.social

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I wonder what a free speech absolutist would say about this.

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Imagine.

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That way they can't call 911 and tell the dispatcher that the Alamo sized garrison of cops outside the door ain't doing shit.

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This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:

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Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration reut.rs/4kUZe5b

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(WaPo) - The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts .. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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In fairness Tulsi Gabbard was on the Signal chat so Russia didn’t have to go through the trouble.

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Make America the laughing stock of the world.

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It should be a major scandal that the Social Security Administration made it harder for parents to register their babies in Maine to punish the President's enemies www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

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Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s cuts via the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the IRS will have fewer employees and, therefore, less ability to enforce the tax code.

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People hate that "nobody is free until we all are free" is true. They long, deep in their souls, to have figured out the precise number and quality of the people who can be sacrificed in order to keep the rest of us safe. If you tell them no such number exists they hate you for it.

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Here we are my friends, we are very close, I hope everyone will repost Rebuild my family liiiiiiiiiiiiiife gofund.me/a625d5ba

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Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

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Say what you will about Trump but he’s doing exactly what he promised middle-class midwestern voters he would do: erase the military contributions of long-dead actors because The Golden Girls made jokes about him in the mid-1980s

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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Police in India's northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers and used bulldozers to tear down their temporary camps in a border area where they had protested for more than a year to demand better crop prices reut.rs/4hmMSQf

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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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so, a trans teacher is getting death threats because she’s being bullied by a sitting member of congress on Xitter and this has been happening for days and not a single mainstream news outlet has even covered it

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Important piece on how universities fought Orbán and can fight Trump today www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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It’s like the malign and the stupid are in a race every day.

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Then, they came for the federal agency overseeing PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 5calls.org/issue/instit...

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INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

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The Trump administration has just removed a federal ban on contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains. This is a result of Trump’s executive order to combat DEI.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

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A message to Texas politicians: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

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Exclusive: President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the US Federal Trade Commission, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies reut.rs/43T1UKg

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The head of Trump’s antisemitism taskforce retweeted a neo-Nazi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court will not stop Louisiana from trying to suffocate Jessie Hoffman to death tonight with nitrogen gas. Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would grant a stay of execution. Gorsuch, based on a religion claim, dissents and would also grant a stay.

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Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

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One of the truly useful things people could do right now is set up some lemonade stands in their communities [where it's warm enough], get a chair, print a ton of flyers and talk to every single person who walks by to share information about what's happening in your communities and in the country.

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Hey Chuck Schumer, if Trump is congratulating you then you’re doing it wrong!

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We didn't blame Democrats for the budget. We wouldn't have blamed the Democrats for a shut-down. We told them to hold the line. And yet, Schumer found a way for us to blame and lash out at the Democrats, ANYWAY. Despite his fellow Democrats. Right before special elections to flip the House, too.

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In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

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[hostage negotiation] CHUCK SCHUMER: [outside with bullhorn] YOU CAN SHOOT ALL OF THE HOSTAGES, JUST LET THEM GO AFTERWARDS

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BREAKING: The US Senate voted to advance a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce reut.rs/3Fv93GJ

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