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This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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@jreinermd.bsky.social #medsky www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

OK but only if you agree that I can take ownership of Starlink for nothing.

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This is obscene. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Trump Administration Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips From Tariff's. Leaving only ‘Only thing under tariff is this stupid t shirt’ T-shirts.

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It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

submitted 6 hours ago • 35 comments

oh shit this got me emotional. this is America!

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

This is very true!

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They all lie to get confirmed. FBI suspends analyst on Kash Patel's 'enemies list' — despite his 'no retribution' pledge www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2...

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even if we throw these people out of power the enduring legacy of Trump is that nobody can ever again trust the US government to keep a promise, and that will come back to bite us over and over again what a shameful thing this is

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Update: I just listened to the audio of this. Trump: “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court.” Reporter: And the lower court as well…? Trump: “Oh no, no. I’m not talking about the lower court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court.”

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🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

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HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mustn't disagree with Dear Leader... apnews.com/article/gree...

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Fuck this. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov WHERE ARE YOU???

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Now it’s up to us to stop the SAVE Act! Tell your senators here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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America Last, Putin First

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"Under the 4th Geneva Convention, occupying powers, as Israel is in Gaza, must ensure civilians have food & medicine & protect hospitals & health workers. The convention also prohibits forcible transfer of entire populations from occupied territories. 'These rules apply. They are universal'."

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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

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What if the insider trading the other day didn't come from Trump insiders or even CEOs to whom Bessent blabbed, but instead from RU and Chinese cut-outs benefitting from hacking into the Small WorldTariffFiesta Signal chat?

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First time I’ve covered courts in person since the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Obergefell in 2015. I wanted to see this one for myself. It was surreal. Frankly, I don’t think the judge or plaintiff counsel were ready for the govt’s abject stonewalling: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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NEW from judge in Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case: "For the reasons discussed during today’s status conference, the Court finds that the [Trump admin] have failed to comply with this Court’s Order..." Next hearing: Tuesday, April 15 at 4 pm storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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Casar: At the end of the day, this is about taking your hard-earned money and giving it to themselves—or funneling it to their friends. That’s all this is about.

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Stop saying “post covid”. People are confusing the end of the public health emergency with the end of the pandemic. The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now. If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.

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I wonder what the NRA would counsel one of their members to do if, say, they were a non-citizen but in the US legally and they were about to be apprehended for wrongthink without a valid warrant by masked agents of a gov't that's been sending people to black sites in El Salvador without due process.

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Loved this, “FREE” always tastes so good…

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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

He’s extremely stupid.

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Many thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com for featuring so much of @wired.com's DOGE reporting last night.

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Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.

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Good god! I had no idea how low tariffs between the US and China were just in January! Literally assumed China must have been holding a large tariff over the US that instigated this, but no...

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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A man is being held against the law in a foreign torture prison. DOJ wants to mull it over for a while.

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