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Snatching people off the street without due process is wrong. Bring Kilmar home. Stop violating people’s rights.

A federal judge in Vermont just questioned whether the Trump admin would instigate a "constitutional crisis" by not releasing Rumeysa Ozturk, the Turkish student at Tufts University, from immigration custody if he concluded her arrest was unlawful.

Dear universities and law firms, You can't "buy Trump off." If you do what he asks, he'll think he owns you and he'll demand more and more. You'll never be done with him. Appeasement is surrender. Resist. Sincerely, Mark

Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.” #HarvardUniversity

Americans pay into Social Security their entire working lives to live comfortably as seniors— But Elon Musk and Donald Trump don't care. Seniors are already seeing delays, and DOGE is teeing up more cuts to cripple the program. They're playing with YOUR money and YOUR future.

Trump is defying a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to return Abrego Garcia who was in the US legally, never committed a crime and was wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison. His next plan is to start deporting American-born citizens too. This is illegal, unconstitutional, & unconscionable.

(Bloomberg) - The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two things are both true: 1) Journalists are right that characterizing the legality of government actions is complicated and often doesn't have easy answers. 2) Major media outlets routinely set those concerns aside to minimize GOP lawlessness with flowery, subjective language like "flirting."

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

SAY HIS NAME OVER AND OVER. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

“We additionally asked Americans to describe Musk in one word, and while the word ‘smart’ was most frequently mentioned, the second most popular word to describe Musk was ‘evil.'" 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Measles kills approx 1 in 1000 people it infects. Two children have died from measles in TX. Simple statistics implies there have been > 2000 cases already. There is significant underreporting. These estimates are v likely inaccurate. The problem is much bigger. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Art of the deal

Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

There is no good reason for the Trump administration to deny Washington state this disaster relief. None. President Trump needs to stop playing politics and get this federal assistance out the door.

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l

JUST IN: CIA confirms that when it scanned Director Ratcliffe's phone for Signalgate messages, they were gone. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

We are way past impeachment time

"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

Also, let's be clear: Having a criminal record also doesn't mean you should be deported to a torture camp in another country and effectively sentenced to death. Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

To everyone who told me to “calm down” in 2016 - The sociopathic sexual predator business fraud felon you put back in the office he tried to steal just stood in the White House & said that he wants to send American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. So, fuck you.

Trump promised he’d be a dictator on “day one.” On day 84, he’s defying the Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia and floating the idea of deporting U.S. citizens to other torture prisons controlled by foreign dictators.

Friends, if you can’t make it to our town hall in ABQ in person tonight, we will also be live-streaming it to YouTube! Join us at 5:30pm MT to watch: youtube.com/@repstansbury

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

They are looking for fertile ground. It's our job to deny them.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

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Selma. The Trump administration pulled funding meant for Selma’s schools, along with $5 million in additional funding for a statewide reading program. www.al.com/educationlab...

“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

This is a pretty extraordinary thing -- not sure I've seen or heard of anything like this before. It's tomorrow/Tuesday morning -- noon eastern, 9am pacific: speakupforjustice.law

The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.

A reminder that while Democracy Docket was warning that Pam Bondi was an election denier who would do Trump's bidding, the Washington Post was giving her a literal thumbs up. Forget the legacy media, sign up for Democracy Docket today. newsletters.democracydocket.com/all-newsletters

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

rfk jr wants you dead

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.

Deporting America citizens to a foreign gulag seems…dictatory.

I have lived through unstable economic and political times before. Tariffs and isolationism are breeding grounds for fascism. We are at strong risk of repeating history.