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Trump saluting Saudi generals.

🚨Trump’s “White Only” Welcome Wagon Rolls In Trump just rolled out the red carpet for white South African “refugees” fleeing… democracy? Meanwhile, actual refugees from war zones get the boot. This isn’t immigration policy, it’s apartheid nostalgia in a MAGA hat. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We strongly advise the public not to do this, it’s unsafe. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos of himself and his grandkids swimming in Rock Creek, a Washington waterway so contaminated with sewage runoff that swimming has been banned citywide for over 50 years.

"I think it should be controversial to NOT say anything" about Gaza I spoke to YouTube star and children's educator Ms. Rachel about her outspoken support for Palestinian kids in Gaza - and the bad-faith attacks on her in response. Full interview here: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Turns out that when you base essentially your entire case for becoming president on the idea that there's an ongoing invasion by murderous criminals and only mass deportations can solve the problem, your voters expect you to produce said criminals. Now they're just going after anyone they can.

i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions

NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.

So yesterday acting FEMA chief said he wouldn't personally want to eliminate FEMA but it was up to the President and Congress. Today he's gone. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

So many resources spent on kidnapping such ‘scary’ people.

I am so upset by this. What kind of country have we become? Why can't or won't anyone stop these terrorists?

Here’s @GovBillLee backing the @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE raids, peddling the line that they’re grabbing violent criminals — yet they provide no specifics to back it up, and we all know innocent people are being grabbed for no reason. www.instagram.com/reel/DJZOTz5...

I want to see every MSM reporter challenging every Republican they interview to justify this: "The total cost of her wheelchair was close to $6,000, of which nearly $3,500 was for tariffs alone."

The British Empire controlled a quarter of the land on Earth and subjugated a quarter of the world’s population. I wonder how many of the local languages the Brits were fluent in. 🤔

May 4, 1970: Kent State...4 dead in Ohio. .

55 years ago today Kent State jolted my awareness. Tell me when we were great?

I was 10 when this happened and remember it as a vague but impactful memory - a bit more so than MLK’s assignation and funeral but both two of my early memories of the horrors of the world, along with the reporting of the Vietnam war.

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

UPDATE: Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social and Brenna Frey—two former Skadden associates who resigned over the law firm’s response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers—are joining a new firm launched by Abbe Lowell, the high-profile criminal defense attorney who represented Hunter Biden.

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion.  Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

“A German judge has ruled it is a crime to ask, ‘Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust,’ while protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.”

About two-thirds of our country’s population would be dead if not for his last 100 days!

FEMA did not answer questions about specific projects canceled in Maryland. In a statement, the agency said BRIC “was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program.”

This is fucking vile.

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love this for us

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

The head of ‘60 Minutes’ resigns, saying he has lost the ability to make “independent decisions” about the show. deadline.com/2025/04/bill...

Beyond parody

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Rip Chief Pontiac, Odawa leader, died this day 1769. "They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, and crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved."

One of the world's worst polluters gets paid $10m even as its emissions rise. The Safeguard Mechanism is a mess and never, ever should have passed in its current pro-fossil form. Great @adammorton.bsky.social piece (looking forward to diving into the data later on.....)

Van Hollen: "I'm very glad that the killed of Rachel Morin has been convicted in a court of law. That is how we hold guilty people accountable ... I'm not sure why Abrego Garcia's rights should be denied based on an awful murder he had absolutely nothing to do with."

All facts

ICYMI — Maddow on the WSJ saying Vietnam is looking to let in Musk’s Internet company Starlink and Greenlight a $1.5 Billion Trump resort to get favorable tariff treatment. Almost like this was always the point. The Golden Age of Corruption.

With all the videos of police illegally entering people’s home using intimidation & force to detain & deport American if not worse. Black peoples have dealt with that for centuries. It’s police brutality. That is beyond unconstitutional. That is why Colin Kaepernick knelt.… Now do you f’n get it?

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

Hundreds of Jewish Americans and allies held a "Liberation Seder" in New York on Monday to mark the Passover holiday and demand an end to U.S. support for Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. (Photos by Amy Goodman)

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The kicker of Mahmoud Khalil's new letter from ICE detention: