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Why can’t Trump, Vance or Rubio simply say this? Why won’t they?

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The DOJ's latest Abrego filing (the wrongful Gulaging case) is just as ghastly as everyone is saying. But I see the broader situation a bit differently. The Bondi DOJ can claim that "facilitate" means whatever it wants. But the latest filing not only misstates the clear meaning Roberts' order ...

submitted 10 hours ago • 27 comments

That sounds like surrender, and exactly what Putin wants.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

submitted 17 hours ago • 265 comments

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

submitted 10 hours ago • 235 comments

There are the grand and ancient constitutional principles at stake, but the concrete practical reason you put things like levying taxes and major economic policy decisions in the legislature is even when they get it wrong (and they do!) it doesn't change day to day based on one man's erratic whims.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m grateful the Shapiro family is safe. It’s despicable for this to happen as the Jewish community is celebrating Passover. Political violence has no place in our country.

submitted 12 hours ago • 125 comments

Donald Trump betrayed working families by enacting one of the largest tax increases in history. In the process, he destroyed the stock market, and now he’s acting like chaos was always the plan. He does not know what he’s doing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 65 comments

New photos show that Governor Shapiro and his family were clearly attacked. Firebombing the home of a Jewish Governor on Passover smacks of violent antisemitic hatred. This is what happens when so many remain silent while vile, dehumanizing Jew hatred becomes commonplace. Silence is violence.

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 197 comments

No administration in American history, not Jackson w/ Indian removal, not Lincoln in Merryman, not FDR over the New Deal, not Truman in Youngstown, not Nixon over the tapes, not Bush with Guantanamo, has openly defied a court order like this, much less one unanimously endorsed by the Supreme Court.

submitted 12 hours ago • 77 comments

Grateful that @governor.pa.gov and his family are safe after an apparent act of arson at his residence. Acts of violence have no place in our politics. Those responsible should be held accountable.

submitted 13 hours ago • 184 comments

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

submitted 14 hours ago • 810 comments

I remember when the President of the United States saw it as his job to RESCUE Americans held illegally abroad. Now he muses about ways to SEND us there.

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 17 hours ago • 1032 comments

Remember, the Trump Adminstration made it a humanitarian priority to bring back Andrew Tate from Romania.

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

They figured out a way to rob Fort Knox.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The Breath Prayer appointed for Palm Sunday from Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley: Inhale - do not be afraid Exhale - liberation is coming 🕯️

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

The 30 permanent and 20 seasonal employees of Great Basin National Park serve 150,000 visitors a year, an industry which generates more than $10 million in visitor spending and is responsible for two-thirds of White Pine County's sales tax revenue. "Negative productivity" indeed.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Andrew Sullivan: “Once you grasp Trump as an elected monarch, his full rebuke to the very idea of America comes into clearer view. He is precisely — almost uncannily — what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king”

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Sanders: And Trump, very envious of sizes, he said Bernie has rallies of two or three thousand people, can’t compete with Trump…. he lied…

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“When Trump (and Musk) look out at this crowd… You are scaring the hell out of them. Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%.” — Bernie Sanders, speaking Saturday in LA to 36,000 people, largest crowd of his political career This is what Fighting Oligarchy looks like!

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

NEW: An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.

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As Passover begins, I am reposting my open letter to Elon Musk. I wrote it in response to his attacks on me and his suggestion that I suffer from “generational trauma.” It has been the most viral piece I have ever written and I continue to be moved by the positive feedback. Thanks and Happy Pesach!

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A very, very good question.

submitted 1 day ago • 148 comments

"Donald Trump’s erratic and foolish actions have turned the most desirable financial haven in the world into a whirlpool of risk. The safest way to conduct business now is to avoid the United States to the greatest extent possible."

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

International students make America stronger: "About 25 percent of billion-dollar startup companies in the US have a founder who" initially came here as one. And because they pay high dollar, they may enable universities to keep prices lower for in-state students. [Kayla Susalla, @cato.org]

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

submitted 1 day ago • 570 comments

Precise conversation I just had with an economist for tomorrow’s show. 4 years is plenty of time to build new alliances and supply chains. They will never trust us again.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

The real impact.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

Not sure of the paywall status with this but really enjoyed this piece in The New Yorker, assembling a practical guide to remaining fully American, even under Trump, w interviews from global dissident movements. Good stuff. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

🔥 FARMER: “This I-told-you-so, it’s I-wish-you-would’ve-listened… China is more prepared this time… they just canceled the 3 largest soybean contracts… Trump isn’t playing chess or checkers with China - they’re sitting in a corner playing with themselves.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIW56aF...

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

“The scientific community must take a strong and active stand against vaccine revisionism — the false narrative that there is insufficient evidence to support the safety and efficacy of vaccines.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

There is not a soul on earth who believes that President Bukele wouldn’t immediately release Abrego-Garcia if asked by the United States. President Bukele is coming to the United States this week; he can give Abrego-Garcia a ride on his plane!

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 1 day ago • 477 comments

would love to see a volume/time graph on these for the past week

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“.. On Friday, Status filed a notice in the New York Supreme Court asking the court not to seal a trove of documents set to be filed in election technology company Smartmatic’s closely watched lawsuit against Fox News.” @passantino.bsky.social @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...

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civicscience.com/rising-tarif...

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Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid

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www.latimes.com/environment/...

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