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I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...

I know I’ve been busy with SCOTUS and such, but what the fuck is going on? I thought the city took care of this earlier this week?

Spontaneous massive resistance and protests are good. America is starting to really wake up it appears. We are all in the fight of our lives and it’s good to see people realizing it.

David Huerta, president of SEIU California, detained during L.A. ICE raids

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Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.

"I just want you to know that what you need to do is call your representatives and make sure that these cuts are stopped."

We’re up to at least 97 cases in which district courts have blocked Trump policies—from 73 different judges (appointed by seven different presidents) in 25 different district courts across 10 circuits. Today’s “One First” looks at what critics of these rulings are leaving out of their narratives:

I miss science

I was correct when I said the ICC warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant were just the beginning. Eventually a new ICC prosecutor will take up the office and they will pursue these indictments, which have an even stronger basis of prosecution than the issue of starvation as a weapon of war.

From @rhersher.bsky.social A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

NEW: The Trump admin tells a fed judge that it can conduct the legally required credible-fear interviews for ~7 deported men now sitting on a plane—reportedly in Djibouti on their way to South Sudan—right where they are, without returning them to the US. Order expected ~5:30 p.m. ET. HEARING THREAD:

“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...

The ICE detention center trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were officially dropped this afternoon during a hearing in which a federal judge scolded prosecutors for nearly 10 minutes. Story: newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ju...

REPORTER: Critics said a golden dome would be prohibitively expensive TRUMP: We can afford to do it. You know, we took in $5.1 trillion in the last four days in the Middle East (This is a lie, as we detailed today in Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fake...)

FACT CHECK: Habeas corpus is the centuries-old legal procedure that protects AGAINST unlawful imprisonment, and is a crucial part of our fundamental right to due process.

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

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Take a look — even this short clip is remarkable. The Trump administration claimed they didn't need a warrant to arrest Mahmoud Khalil because he wasn't cooperating & was gonna flee. They even called him a "flight risk." Who ya gonna believe? The government, or your own lying eyes:

Should remain the top story.

May 7th marks 25 years of Putin’s reign. Here is a collection of essays on what drives the Russian leader, how he transformed the country, and where he fits into the arc of Russian history.

How to Address Misinformation—Without Censorship time.com/7282640/how-...

Israeli military warns residents near Sanaa airport to leave the area reut.rs/3RQMzTC

Jon Voight pitched Donald Trump on a plan to “make Hollywood great again”—and by Sunday night, the president had declared a shock tariff on films made in "foreign lands," leaving studios reeling and the entertainment industry bracing for possible economic whiplash. www.status.news/p/donald-tru...

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

Meanwhile Columbia still hasn’t had its $400 million in funding restored. Feels like there might be a lesson here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason" Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ICE recently deported two families in Louisiana that included children who are U.S. citizens, one of whom was deported without their cancer medication. We're demanding their return home to Louisiana.

So what's next after today's May Day mobilizations? On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵

EdReports says that it has “always” checked for the science of reading in its reviews of instructional materials. But its track record in that area is uneven. Read @clpeak.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0... Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/QIxpB...

I see that Trump is fighting antisemitism again

In which @timothypmurphy.bsky.social rounds up the shambolic mistakes the Trump administration has made in the first 100 days. A great, but by no means definitive, list! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

US states sue to block Trump from dismantling AmeriCorps reut.rs/3ELe4uK

BREAKING: Federal judge in New Jersey will proceed with considering Mahmoud Khalil's habeas case, rejecting DOJ's arguments against jurisdiction. "This Court has habeas jurisdiction over this case. ... And as set out in this Opinion, that jurisdiction is intact. It has not been removed."

The Trump administration has announced that members of the federal armed forces will now be apprehending, searching, and detaining migrants who “trespass” on land newly designated as part of a “military installation” along the southern border. 1/7 abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...

My mom would’ve died in 2017 without Narcan. Trump and RFK Jr. want to leave families to bury their loved ones. This isn’t fighting opioids — if you voted Trump thinking he was going to save your family from this plague, they’re getting a death sentence instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h...

Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.

why is everything constantly so on the nose www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/d...

As Trump prepares to mark 100 disastrous days in office, Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar has introduced seven articles of impeachment against the president — laying out a slate of broad charges including committing "acts of tyranny." Tell Congress to impeach Trump here: bit.ly/44fpr8G #ImpeachTrump

The CDC has eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries and the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.

She’s in jail for writing an op-ed.

"I'm the new sheriff of DOGE, get it—" "Why is the post office closed?" "I fired the postal workers." "You fucking what? Wait a minute, are those the mail bags on your horse?" <backing away> "I am doing this to save humanity from the declining birth rate—" "Get his ass!"

‘Rufo had been there all along: "I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right."’ www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

China and Philippines display competing flags on disputed South China Sea sandbank

Congrats to everyone who made this happen! 😀⬆️🇺🇸 @fwdparty.bsky.social www.fox13now.com/news/politic...