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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

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Counterpoint: CVH has always been awesome and to the extent “nobody heard of” him that’s attributable to people having a badly malformed template of what they want “good” politicians to sound like—namely, confusing qualities like “diligent”, “smart”, “serious”, and “competent” with “milquetoast.”

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Hands Off! was the biggest day of civic protest in years, and we want No Kings Day on June 14 to be even bigger — with more people in more places driving even more defiance of Trump’s fascist agenda.

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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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April 27, 2025

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My latest in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Grateful to @jaywillis.net for investigating ANOTHER children’s book slandered by the Supreme Court to find that—surprise, surprise—Neil Gorsuch is lying about what’s in it. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...

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Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.

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It is not the least bit an exaggeration that anybody else who did this would already be sitting in pre-trial detention.

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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

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Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?

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Visited Toulouse two years ago. It was pretty nice

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#LegalEthics Tidbit: If the Attorney General orders a DOJ lawyer to lie in court, should he refuse the order? NYC Bar Opinion 2025 addresses situations where a government lawyer is asked to lie or engage in other unethical conduct by a political appointee or … (cont.) lnkd.in/e875V58G #law #lawsky

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One way to understand the Trump administration in its second term as explicit class warfare by an alliance of billionaires and gentry against knowledge workers and professionals or the Professional-managerial class. For Trump's war on PMC to work, he has to not destroy his allies while fighting it.

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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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this is how you get mass elder homelessness

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Historians will have the simple clarity of referring to Trump's second term as "the Resegregation," since that's the single through-line of it all.

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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

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www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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DOGE is, in the truest sense, a completely rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government

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Fed source to me re: this news: “ten alarm fire”

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Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

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UFW union members are among those detained while traveling home from work yesterday. We are providing them and their families with support. 1/

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the whole purpose of the moral panic about bathrooms is to enforce gender conformity on cis women. I’ve posted about this before but I’ve talked to multiple cis women who’ve had this happen.

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Reasons to become a monthly donor to www.baltimoreabortionfund.org

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NEW: Trans people centered themselves in a trans case before a very not trans court. Not only was Chase Strangio arguing Wednesday, but a trans plaintiff was in the courtroom, as were many other trans lawyers, journalists, and observers. "Trans people were not hidden Wednesday, and that matters."

submitted 168 days ago • 25 comments

important, infuriating reporting

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Major rally for trans rights slated to occur outside the Supreme Court on December 4th as the ACLU argues to protect trans rights before the Court. More: act.aclu.org/a/trans-rall...

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