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I’m so sick of hearing that Dems don’t have a clear message. I watched the Harris rallies and made notes on her message. From affordable housing to childcare to a stable business environment and reproductive freedom, the message wasn’t the problem. Unfortunately for all of us, it was lack-o-penis.

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I would add it’s so incredibly hard to get in this kind of legal trouble when you’re an affluent white man with very powerful friends…. Trump had to work to get here.

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Seriously.

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“Are you worried?” That is always the first question. “Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”

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Sign of the day…

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As someone whose son and tuition dollars went to MIT this is very, very welcome news. I hope more higher education institutions take the same stands.

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Happy Easter. Started the day with a sunrise service at Valley Forge Park.

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Your Members of Congress must hear from you. Demand that they speak out against Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court, push for an end to the lawless abductions and move to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home immediately. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/constit...

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Charitable groups “have a chance here to stand together on some very important bedrock principles, and do so with linked arms, in a way that allows them to serve every community in America and ensure a strong republic for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I thought this must be a joke, but it's just more disfunction and chaos. Same old same old.

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Imagine where our economy, retirement savings, and standing in the world would be—if a few of you had only voted for the experienced, intelligent prosecutor and public servant, instead of the incoherent, cognitively-addled Russian asset with 34 felonies? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

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In an unusual overnight order, most of the justices voted to halt several illegal deportations. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the A.A.R.P. order. Though neither has explained why yet, the order says that a statement from Alito will come soon.

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I’d hope that an air attack during a ceasefire would at least cause some indignation in the US, but then I realized how dumb I sound

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In a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce in the world - doctors, nurses, dentists, plumbers, welders, electricians, etc. Young people should not have to go deeply into debt to get the education they and our nation need. We must make public colleges tuition free.

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I would say they were tone deaf, but that gives them too much credit. They knew what they were doing.

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Lewisburg, PA is small but mighty! #HandsOff @50501movement.bsky.social

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Thank you Pete!!

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An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

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Have you seen the amazing video of the elephants circling up around their young at the San Diego zoo during the earthquake earlier this week? THAT NEEDS TO BE US RIGHT NOW with our Constitution, due process, rule of law, & human rights. Not on my watch - not on yours. Call your reps ☎️202-224-3121

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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

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Imagine thinking that the world has forgotten about you, and finding out that millions of Americans care about you. Meeting your senator telling you we want you home with your family. To find out that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to release you from this jail. Kilmar we do care. You are not alone.

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Nayib Bukele is certainly not "the coolest dictator in the world", as he calls himself. Shit-for-brains Bukele says he does not "have the power to return him [Abrego Garcia] to the United States." Low IQ Trump says he can't make El Salvador return Abrego Garcia. They are both lying.

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@vanhollen.senate.gov has met Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man who the Trump regime wrongly deported to the Salvadorian gulag. The senator posted an image of himself with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador a day after being denied access to the prison where the detainee is being unlawfully held.

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Its sad and disturbing and psychotic, that this current administration cant see brining KILMAR back as a win.. They are doing this because they cant admit they were wrong. JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THEY HAVE DONE IN LESS THAN 100 DAYS

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We have 2 significant advantages over Germans in the 1930's: 1. We fully understand the cost of their underreaction and complicity 2. We have communication systems that hadn't been dreamed up yet & see in real time what's happening to Kilmar, Rumeysa, Mohsen. We can't squander these advantages.

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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April 17, 2025

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Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

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He is a brave and honorable man. I wish he was our President!

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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's a complete betrayal. I mean, the focus more on Greenland than the cost of groceries. Of course, if you listen to Trump, he discovered the word groceries. He keeps literally acting like he's rediscovered a word. That's how out of touch he is." [email protected]

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"Memo to the C-suite..." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/b...

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THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT.

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“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” the court said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Unemployment up. Stock market down. Mortgage rates up. Consumer confidence at worst levels since the Great Depression. Are we great again yet?

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to lobby for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose deportation has gripped the U.S. He isn't the only lawmaker with such a trip in mind.

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statenews.com/article/2025...

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This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

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Trump’s plan to gut the VA will leave thousands of veterans without access to the health care they need, and will devastate an entire workforce. I was proud to join nurses in San Diego to stand up for our veterans.

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I'm always proud to be a partner in this work with Senator Van Hollen. Today especially.

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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