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Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

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What a mess

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Macron shook one hand.

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Katie Phang: And now that my time here at MSNBC comes to a close, I am taking that fight back to a familiar place… I hope you'll follow along with me as I continue to meet you where you are at places like Substack and YouTube with fellow truth tellers like MeidasTouch…

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🎀🎀

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You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

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“The voters we organize with are sounding the alarm,”said Our Rev leader Joseph Geevarghese. “If the party establishment sleepwalks through this crisis, they’ll be replaced by a new generation of leaders who aren’t afraid to take on the fight of our lives.” @commondreams.org: tinyurl.com/bdz8v33r

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They make it sound like there are millions of dead people getting Social Security checks. But it's just not true.

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This — the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest today of a sitting judge — against the backdrop that the President of the United States is, at this same moment, defying an April 10 Order of the Supreme Court of the United States

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The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month, granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the power to conduct warrantless searches of people’s homes based solely on suspicion that they are “alien enemies.”

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They’re arresting judges now

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A car bomb in Moscow has killed the Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Yaroslava Moskalik. Big target.

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(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

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European MPs urge an end to "the policy of appeasement"& call for a united stance against Russia's terrorist regime. In a joint statement, the Chairs of 7 Foreign Affairs Committees said: "We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile;

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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I think people need to get rid of the idea of a “return to normal” whatever that even means. The political and economic situation of the world with climate change getting worse is not going to be less chaotic

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The Stable Genius is forced to admit his beautiful tariffs – "tariff is my favorite word" – will be paid by American consumers: “You add that to the price of the product,” he says. Every dementia sufferer has lucid moments.

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This seems like a huge deal. F.B.I. Director Kash Patel said on Friday that agents had arrested a county judge in Milwaukee on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement.

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Government officials were quietly developing a plan to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia before Trump appointees muscled their way in and halted it, per the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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This may explain why the government sought, & Abrego's lawyers accepted, a stay of discovery. Judges don't like being lied to. As a corollary, lawyers try not to tell judges things that will be disproven by their own clients' documents in discovery. Someone decided it was time to stop digging.

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‘The Art of the Deal’.

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NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

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#FactsMatter.

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Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

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The true meaning of ‘We Are Stronger Together’. 💙

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I was a proud Union Firefighter and a charter member of our Union. Our job became much better because of it. It gives the union members a voice.. IAFF local 1637 Belmont,Mass 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇦🇫🇷🧐

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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Another U.S. citizen deported, this time a two-year-old child deported to Honduras. They put the child and her mother on a plane before any process could be followed.

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Cartoonist: Ed Wexler

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Im with Judge Hannah Dugan

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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

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Basketball is great, but whatever your party affiliation, you should be paying attention to this more than anything else

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We are here.

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Remember these words… “I will vote for you if you are brave…”

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Who would have ever thought that we would be taking China’s word over our own “leaders”. But that’s where we are.

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Let’s start with the basics.

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Each week, The Contrarian selects "Undaunted" individuals working to defend democracy This week's spotlight: Bill Owens; Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach, and Derek Wikstrom Acting without institutional or political support, these heroes firmly defied authoritarian power plays

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EMERGENCY ACTION Join us we’re actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse.