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“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government posted their home address to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

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Note the shift in messaging from "90 deals in 90 days" to "we have 18 proposals on paper"

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Gotta love Tim Walz

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Revered producer at 60 Minutes resigns rather than cede editorial independence to corporate execs bowing to Trump. Three career prosecutors resign rather than abdicate ethical duties in subservience to Trump. Principled stands amid dangerous and darkening clouds. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/n...

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what? "...startling free speech advocates who hoped that the billionaire would be their champion" i mean, what?? (the world has not yet invented the emoji to express the character and intensity of my reaction to that characterization) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Meiselas: I think you once made a statement saying that Donald Trump is almost like a Charlie Sheen of politics… Jon Cryer: To be clear, as many issues as Charlie has faced, I do think he’d be a better president…

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Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.

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Thank you @warnock.senate.gov for standing with @firedbutfighting.bsky.social ! 💜💙 My niece and her colleagues were wrongly terminated from a job that protects our health, research and science. 🔬 Like them I'm fired up and pissed off ! 😡

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My blood is boiling. This is appalling. Andry, the makeup artist deported to Trump’s foreign prison in El Salvador - without due process and under false pretenses - hasn’t been heard from in weeks. Members of Congress who went to El Salvador asked for proof that he’s alive. This is a crisis.

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Target foot traffic down for 11th straight week after caving on DEI Costco, which defied calls to end DEI, notches 16th straight week of foot-traffic gains. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 174 comments

Thought experiment: What if one of the 1600 arrested J6 rioters had been an undocumented resident?

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

He is selling access to the President. Not via campaign donations, but direct payments to Trump himself.

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"The psychological effects of Trump’s action and its exacerbation of moral injury will likely be more veteran suicides, confrontations with the police, and the destruction of military families." At least they won't be executed like our Afghan allies will.

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries

submitted 17 hours ago • 201 comments

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

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Well, 60 Minutes bit the dust. When this is all over, we’ll remember who the collaborators were and who stood up to defend democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.

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“We cannot talk about poverty in this country without talking about race.” Need more comrades to understand this.

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Mountains of shame on Shari Redstone and everyone else involved here trying to settle such a ridiculous and baseless legal action. They’re so poor, all they have is money and they will eventually pay the price for their grotesque behavior.

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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For shame Sheri Redstone. How much fucking money do you need that you are willing to destroy one of the pillars of accountability journalism and the country along with it. #save60minutes

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Arkansas voted Trump by a 31 point margin and made his press secretary their governor, but even Arkansas can’t rely on basic federal services from the MAGA regime

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🚨BREAKING: In a BIG win for North Carolina voters, the 4th Circuit has blocked North Carolina from beginning the state court ordered cure process in the contested state Supreme Court election. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/edDvHvq3cxM

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NEW: A delegation of four House Democrats has traveled to El Salvador to push for the release of Kilmar Ábrego García. The official trip, including Representatives Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida, and Robert Garcia of California, comes after…

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WATCH: "I think we are in a moment where Jesus is a victim of identity theft. I don't know what Bible folks are reading—attacking the poor in the name of the faith," says Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock.

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John McCain was an American hero. John McCain was also my best friend. Because of my best friend John McCain, I always stand up for soldiers like John McCain because John McCain John McCain John McCain. Here’s why I voted to confirm Pete Hegseth. by Lindsey Graham

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Two things about this New York Times lead: 1. Use of the word “tizzy” is insulting and trivializing at a time when people have rational concerns about Trump’s intimidation. 2. Why would anyone believe what the Trump regime says? NYT lacks the seriousness required in this crisis.

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BREAKING: Trump caved, again. Donald Trump said during a White House news conference that high tariffs on goods from China will “come down substantially,” adding: “I’m not going to say: ‘Oh, I’m going to play hardball with China,’… We’re going to be very nice.”

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New in PN: Resistance is not futile "Suddenly — signaled by resistance from the nation’s most elite universities — the weaknesses of the nascent Trump authoritarianism, and the potential for resilience within our nation in the face of his lawless assaults, are coming into focus."

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Where is Rumeysa Ozturk? Brian Hauss on Tuft Student's Case.. we continue our exhaustive coverage of the disappeared open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.

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NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

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if they can do this to a student on a foreign visa, a Venezuelan, a legal resident from El Salvador, they can do this to anyone. And that should be frightful, horrifying to every single American. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Markets seem to be slowly discovering what close Trump watchers have known for years. Better late than never. Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

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NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

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Elected and appointed officials in America are actually questioning the merits of Due Process. Just needs pointing out where we are. Shocking.

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In a move to change cultural attitudes about childbearing, the Trump administration may soon start bestowing mothers of six or more children a special medal. Here's a not-so-fun fact: This idea was popularized in Nazi Germany.

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I put the #pol tag if you want to filter, so don't come at me for this #pol content - this is a fascinating moment in online education full stop.

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Trump now invoking the widely recognized “following the law is too much work” exception to due process. Courts usually HIGHLY sympathetic to this argument. 🙄

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Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

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#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

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You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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