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We’ve talked about Operation Whirlwind before, but the mission keeps expanding, now it’s targeting scientific journals. This week, Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for D.C., sent an unprecedented letter to CHEST, a medical journal focused on respiratory science, questioning their editorial policies

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Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

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👀 sounds about right

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Trump is claiming they sent the letter (on official letterhead) by mistake, blames Harvard for not realizing it🎪 🤡

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Trump to reclassify many federal workers, making them easier to fire reut.rs/42Q96G5

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So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

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FSU STUDENT: "I’m gonna call on Governor Desantis, Trump… this stuff keeps going on. Prayers don't do much. we need to make some gun reforms."

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A very short clip from earlier in the week explaining how the vague ruling from SCOTUS created the situation we’re seeing this morning - ICE handing detainees notices of removal to CECOT in English saying you will be disappeared to El Salvador immediately.

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This is some sick shit

submitted 19 hours ago • 5282 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1003 comments

True facts are true

submitted 18 hours ago • 734 comments

Time to give Palantir the Tesla and Target treatment. Make it shameful to work there. Organize rallies at their offices.

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As someone who experienced threats and harassment from armed extremists for over a decade, I have empathy for anyone who feels afraid of retaliation for free speech. But at the end of the day, we all must make a choice: back down or double down.

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"Deescalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy." - Margaret Killjoy

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This seems bad 😬

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How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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Damn the cynics, and there were plenty of them on our side. This is how you do it, and how everyone needs to keep doing it. Instead of cynicism, passivity and cowardice.

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

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Goldman Sachs has just put out a warning about a full US-China financial decoupling which would wipe out $2.5 trillion. US investors might be forced to sell $800 billion in Chinese stocks, while China could liquidate $1.7 trillion in US assets, including Treasuries and equities. Boom.

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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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Extremely good interview from @metrauxjulia.bsky.social. "He’s the antithesis of creativity. I’ve never seen his book of collected poems. Who are you to tell us that we can’t write poetry?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Republican Senator Murkowski on threat of Trump retaliation: 'We are all afraid' reut.rs/4ipHD2x

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We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held. We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

submitted 2 days ago • 283 comments

Well, there it is. Bye bye DEI. youtu.be/y4qsKzzYca0?...

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The "us" that's supposedly getting "rich" is the government. By taxing Americans. He's bragging about how much money he's taking out of our pockets.

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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship case in a couple of weeks. They have declined to lift the stay that keeps him from enforcing his executive order at least until the day of the hearing www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

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1/ I think it's good that Murkowski is speaking out about the fear of retaliation that she and other MOC fear. Like everything else, the more people who do that, the harder it becomes to intimidate people and pick them off one-by-one.

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So stuff that would be used to criminalize teens in the downtown after 8pm is compromised to … cops can set curfews arbitrarily for groups larger than 20, WHICH WILL ABSOLUTELY be used to silence youth protest & give cops another excuse to feed the media when they commit violence against them? wtf.

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I'm glad this asshole is taking the mask off now so we can stop pretending he has any chance in 2028.

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Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is a US Citizen. His mom showed up to court house with his birth certificate AND his ss card but he is still being detained.

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We hope you guys find this interesting. ‘Guy,’ meaning “person,” comes from Guy Fawkes. Boom.

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"Unusual Machines said: “We have no reason to believe that Don Jr. breached his non-disclosure agreement...” "Dominari did not respond to a request for comment on whether it imposed any such conditions on Trump Jr or Eric Trump..." www.ft.com/content/1d9e...

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Take the minute to listen to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. "... because retaliation is real." #SheShed #Voices4Victory #MomSky

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“Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic” But, of course that happened 😡 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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The Administration is doubling down on its attacks on health care, trying to eliminate work to support rural hospitals, treat substance abuse, prevent heart disease and diabetes, and more. We will fight this budget in Congress. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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If Trump can disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? Either everyone has due process — or no one does.

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We need a think tank to come up with conspiracy theories that will get these nut jobs supporting democratic ideas. There’s no other way to reach them.

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🚨 SCOOP: Trump Treasury Department official in March asked the IRS to review a decision to audit My Pillow guy Mike Lindell -- "a high profile friend of the president" -- per sources and emails I've obtained. Follows admin threat to strip Harvard of tax-exempt status. Story tk.

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THREE EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. It’s in our Constitution and at the very heart of our democracy. Article 3 establishes the judicial branch. It’s the job of judges to determine if the actions of the Administration violate our laws. Full. Stop. That’s how our democracy works.

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A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.

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Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.

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If they’re arguing that Harvard hasn’t done enough “in the public interest” to deserve tax exempt status, wait until they get a look at evangelical megachurches!

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A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

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