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pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 12 hours ago • 450 comments

Trump 'realizes he'll get impeached again' after losing midterms: GOP pollster www.rawstory.com/trump-267176...

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Friedrich Merz says that he has always been ready to support the transfer of TAURUS missiles to Ukraine if the decision is coordinated with European partners. "So he [Putin] obviously interprets our willingness to talk to him not as a serious offer to make peace possible, but as weakness.

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

submitted 11 hours ago • 189 comments

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 67 comments

Just getting to this @nytimes.com article about what a jawdropping bullshit factory, failure and fraud DOGE is. Musk is an historic disgrace, and what they've done is an incredible national scandal. Gift link. READ IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Big scoop from John Hudson at the Washington Post on Rumeysa Ozturk and the State Department. Full Story: bit.ly/3G72SZM

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

This video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion. Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.

submitted 1 day ago • 303 comments

Fasten your seatbelts for another crazy week, under one man who has no plan or strategy, and is improvising all the decisions on his own. The Cboe Volatility Index, which tracks expectations for the size of stock swings over the next 30 days, just touched the highest level since March 2020.

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🚨 SOCIAL SECURITY RALLIES FOR TAX DAY 🚨 @socialsecurityworks.org is asking Americans to hold rallies in front of their local Social Security offices on Tuesday to say #HandsOff! Find an event near you - or sign up to host - at the link!

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Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

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I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

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A very good — and, perversely, enjoyable — read that describes how this week unfolded. 🎁 Gift Link: As Markets Sank and Soared, a New Fear Spread Across Wall Street www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

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NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Higher education required reading for today by Iveta Silova (Follow her at @isilova.bsky.social) theconversation.com/universities...

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🤡 China DIDN'T kiss Trump’s ass... Trump kissed China's ass ⬇️ Stephanie Ruhle stunned by HUGE new Trump RETREAT "It's kind of like saying we're going to impose 100 PLUS % tariffs on everything we buy from China, EXCEPT for what we actually buy from them" www.rawstory.com/trump-mindbl...

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Stop donating to these 4 Democrats. They voted yes on the SAVE Act, a blatant voter suppression act: 🖕Jared Golden 🖕Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 🖕Henry Cuellar 🖕Ed Case #VotingRights newrepublic.com/post/193868/...

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

"Eventually, the facts of his incompetence will overwhelm even the vast propaganda network that defends him. I just hope the economy doesn’t have to collapse for that to happen."

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“In the face of Trump’s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn – and Keir Starmer knows it” Tom Baldwin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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New at The Nerd Reich: Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping Peter Thiel's "Dark Enlightenment" guru gives President Elon Musk a "C-." Warning: This post contains graphic discussion of mass murder and violence. www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

"If Vice President JD Vance has his way,” one speaker said, “our whole electoral process may be recalibrating around this new pronatal biopolitics.”

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

New from me: It's very in vogue for tech bros to talk about "network states," where likeminded people get together to form their own alternative nations, often with crypto fueling the economy. The TheoBros are actually doing something like this now in Appalachia. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

🎉Congrats @annehdavidson.bsky.social on getting letters into TWO local papers this week re: impeachment- & Kevin Kiley's (CA-03 rep) failure to respond to requests for comment on it! Here's one: southtahoenow.com/04/09/2025/l... @operationanti-king.bsky.social

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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

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My investigation of the white Christian nationalists looking to establish a community in Tennessee continues.

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French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

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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

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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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