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Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.” #HarvardUniversity

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I spoke to Axios about the administration's defiance of the Supreme Court's unanimous order to facilitate Mr. Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. www.axios.com/2025/04/15/t...

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Exactly.

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Jeffries: "So many of these people are crooks, liars, and frauds, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is of course exhibit A ... we do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock. Period. Full stop."

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A MORAL CRISIS “The rule of law is being trampled. Innocent people are being disappeared. Court orders are being ignored. If you claim to love this country—if you believe in the Constitution, due process, order, and justice—this must be your line in the sand.” Take 3 minutes. This is important.

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NEW: We already broke the ICE tip line! The “Good Trouble” segment for the Daily Beans podcast today was to flood the ICE tip line with reports about Elon. Well done everyone! See the next post in this thread for what happened when I managed to get through 1/

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”

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Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.

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Exclusive: The Trump administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live. The data is normally protected from dissemination.

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The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.

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ICE’s new deputy director, Madison Sheahan, previously used Louisiana’s fish & wildlife agency to help round up unhoused people and put them in a New Orleans warehouse: theappeal.org/ice-deputy-d...

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Exclusive: A key architect of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash foreign aid has left the State Department after less than three months on the job, according to U.S. officials

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The Trump administration’s retreat from white-collar criminal enforcement leaves some accused executives relieved and defense lawyers bracing for a slowdown

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Many Canadians are giving up their U.S. vacation homes, selling properties they have owned for decades in popular snowbird spots like Florida and Arizona

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Many people imagine that "de-extincting" animals risks a Jurassic Park-style meltdown that puts humans in danger, but the real threat is the other way around: It’s the harm we do to the animals www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Most people have an inkling that animals have it bad on factory farms and slaughterhouses, but most have no idea that arguably the biggest welfare problem is invisible -- it's the animals' genes: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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In research published yesterday, scientists monitored what anti-anxiety drugs did to salmon as they migrated from a river out to the Baltic Sea. The results are fascinating. @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

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Even I am taken aback by how quickly Colossal Biosciences' new wolves (which are neither dire wolves nor "de-extincted") led to this cynical, scientifically and morally vacuous invocation of de-extinction technology by our rulers www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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A new Supreme Court case — Kennedy v. Braidwood Management — is the latest push by right-wing activists to chip away at the ACA. This time, they’re targeting the part of the law that guarantees coverage for preventive care like cancer screenings and HIV prevention meds.

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The Supreme Court case that seeks to make everyone’s health insurance worse, explained www.vox.com/scotus/40763...

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Listen to Linda McMahon, wife of wrestling's Vince, hired by Trump to preside over the destruction of the Dept. of Education, confuse AI with “A1”. She knows nothing about education. How incurious do you have to be, to be this clueless? youtu.be/6QL0c5BbCR4

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Israeli airstrikes destroyed part of a hospital in Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to local health officials.

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The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of the Ahli Arab Hospital, a mainstay of Gaza’s decimated health care system, on Sunday. A child being treated for a head injury died because of the rushed evacuation, according to the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, which oversees the medical center.

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The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Video shows Palestinian schoolchildren running in fear as Israeli military vehicles storm Al-Fawar refugee camp near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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Russian strike hits the Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least 21 people as crowds gathered for Sunday church services

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The world’s cartoonists on this week’s events 🎨

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@rcdewinter.bsky.social @janekleeb.bsky.social @nebraskasower.bsky.social @maxsdad.bsky.social Donald Trump overplayed his hand. Now EU and non-EU countries he is bullying can break him (and America’s ability to borrow to finance its tax-cuts-for-the-rich deficits). Here’s how.

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The Constitution is clear that Trump cannot serve a third term in office. But do he and his allies care about that? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The lawsuit accuses the administration of exploiting Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to “coerce universities into undermining free speech and academic inquiry in service of the government’s political or policy preferences.”

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Can Trump diplomacy stop Iran building the bomb? The regime is too fortified for a military assault to knock out its nuclear facilities, the war professor Lawrence Freedman writes. Should America have kept Obama’s deal all along?

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Musk’s DOGE has fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly regulated Tesla. newrepublic.com/post/193850/...

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Canadian conservative Pierre Poilievre went viral with a Trumpian anti-elite media playbook. But now, it’s starting to backfire.

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Trump's new director of federal prison system led a troubled state agency

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Blood test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge

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@rileywilson.bsky.social

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Trump in the crosshairs for suspected insider trading after tariffs stop

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Donald Trump's trade tariffs on South-East Asia have caused economic turmoil, positioning Xi Jinping as the more reliable economic partner in the region, argues Sholto Byrnes

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Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’

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Lady Gaga proves she's music's greatest kook in campy Coachella thriller

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The privatised water system is a stitch-up. Shareholders have received £78bn over the last 35 years, much of which has been siphoned off overseas, while bills have ballooned, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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Palestinians could be seen walking through the streets, each carrying at least one bag, while others had carts piled with belongings. People either pulled the carts themselves or used motorbikes and donkeys.

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Vox: Trump’s “madman” negotiating schtick is backfiring on America. Foreign businesses and governments have had it with his narcissistic chaos. America isn’t worth the hassle.

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Class with a capital “K” (Actually 3 capital “K”s) Maximalism! @rcdewinter.bsky.social

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🔴 LATEST | Trump envoy suggests dividing up Ukraine like post-war Berlin as four injured by drones

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A $1 billion cut to the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to remove dependable protein sources for food banks in Arkansas, where one in five people lacked access to adequate food in 2023 — the nation’s highest rate.

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