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Trump admin is set to impose fines of up to $998/day on migrants who fail to leave the US after receiving deportation orders, per Reuters. These are based on 1996 law & will be applied retroactively leading to fines exceeding $1M/person. WH: Penalties are designed to enforce immigration compliance

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

Stock market relief rally fails as Dow wipes out 1,400-point gain, turns lower.

“The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” - @mashagessen.bsky.social

Welcome @kamalaharris.com!

Insider trading much? Didn’t Martha Stewart go to prison for that? Just curious 🤔 Good morning all!

Reckless cruelty isn’t strength. Capitulation isn’t courage. Cultish allegiance isn’t patriotism. We used to know the difference.

China tariffs are now 104%. Forget inflation for a moment—American owned companies are going to go out of business. This is bonkers!!!

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 (𝟮𝟬𝟮-𝟮𝟮𝟰-𝟯𝟭𝟮𝟭) 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠 𝗧𝗢 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘 𝗡𝗢 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Okay, let me get this right ↙️    - Pissing off moms  - Ripping off consumers  - Taking away voting rights  - Undermining the judiciary   - Tanking the economy  - Gutting Medicaid and  - Blowing a $37T hole in the debt    That is the GOP's agenda this week??? Stellar job guys. 👏

The IRS has agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show, a fundamental change in how the tax collector uses its tightly regulated records. nyti.ms/3XQ9vWk

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

Not 100% sure how I feel about de-extinction, but it does seem off that we’re sparing no expense to bring back a species—when we can’t even take care of the environment for the ones still here.

Department of Government Efficiency bringing a massive line to the Social Security Administration office near you

Got nervous for a sec. 😰

Letterman for Pres!

“Take me to Los Angeles,” she said. So I took her to Los Angeles. Whaddayagonnado

Zelensky: We have their documents, even credit cards. They are citizens of China. I believe the United States of America needs to pay more attention to what is happening today. #standwithukraine

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

Pussy Riot came to NYC to tell us “ We see the rise of authoritarianism here and we want go call people to not be silent. We want ppl to remember not to give up”.

Nice turnout in cold and rainy Ballwin, Missouri...just a small fraction here and many more showed up since. ✊ #HandsOff #Protest #Resistance #HellNo #FightBack

I so wish the judge would respond: "Listen Assholes: I have jurisdiction over YOU. And if you don't do as I order, those guys in El Salvador won't be the only ones in jail. Now, hop to it."

#HandsOff protest in Ballwin/ St. Louis County, Missouri ✊ Great job, everyone! 🙏

Mass protests happening across the United States against the Trump regime. Here you have New York, Florida, DC, Ohio. All 50 states expected to have protests. #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @bugged-n-baffled.bsky.social @jennydee.bsky.social @simonwdc.bsky.social @jaymee513.bsky.social

Delaware!!!!

Back to the March It’s a beautiful day in the PNW for saving democracy #HandsOff

#HandsOff Washington DC

Absolutely incredible! Protesters are lining both sides of the street for blocks in the tiny little town of Geneva, Illinois! It's estimated that around 5000 people showed up for the Hands Off! protest. Let's go!!!!!

BREAKING: A Christian church in Georgia is looking to hire a drag queen as its next youth pastor because the last 9 youth pastors in a row all got busted for grooming and diddling the kids, and no drag queen in the county’s history has committed a single recorded crime.

Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense.

The Shining City on a Hill has turned into a steaming pile of shit.

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸 😕 www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

“Hands Off” Protests Against Trump and Musk Kick Off on Saturday Across All 50 States https://twp.ai/4imMIa

Nero golfs while America burns.

WOOWWW,,, the support on here has been incredible,!! Y’all made me tear up just reading some of the replies. 🙏🏾🫶🏾

Fort Collins y’all!!