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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All www.aclu.org/news/nationa... via @aclu.org

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Kidnapping people off the street, flying them to a foreign country and paying to have them locked up in a brutal prison is not just outrageous. It's criminal. Criminal on many levels. Criminal in ways from which it cannot possibly be argued the president has immunity for his behavior.

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A plea. Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?” It’s bigger. It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures. “Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis It’s bigger.

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The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

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Spoke to the wonderful JESSE TYLER FERGUSON about Here We Are & all things Sondheim! thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

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Judge Boasberg’s opinion in JGG v. Trump (4/16/25) is a masterpiece of judicial reasoning. He explains exactly why our legal system couldn’t survive tolerating willful defiance of clear judicial orders — even if those orders are ultimately overturned on appeal. The Supreme Court will have to agree.

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The "immigration is a great issue for Republicans" argument ignores several facts: a.) It wasn't first time around for Trump, b.) Dems (Obama) have a much tougher record than Trump, c.) What Trump is doing is wrong in profound ways, d.) If his next move is sending US citizens to...

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Help us legally challenge President Trump's unlawful & unconstitutional exercise of power to terminate Senior Executive Service Members such as Mary Comans, the former Chief Financial Officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We need your support! gofund.me/3d277c98

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The pressure on Schumer appears to be working. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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If you're not watching this hearing, I highly recommend it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuFy...

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Rising number of statements from congressional Democrats to Kilmar Abrego Garcia case Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL): “This is government-funded kidnapping, plain and simple. No one is safe in Trump’s America; let that sink in”

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The total gutting of the IRS will have one main consequence: a surge in tax evasion by the wealthy Working-class and middle-class individuals don't evade a lot, because they can't High-income individuals do, because they can & because an industry helps them do it

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By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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If only our media would not reward lies by repeating them and framing calling them out as partisan both-sides criticism

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Essential reading and no punches pulled from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social. The US gets uglier and less like the US every day.

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"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China."

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DC bar members pls be sure you are voting against Pam Bondi’s brother Brad and FOR Diane Seltzer starting Tues 4/15!!

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I’ve been focused on the patterns and see a very troubling trend - strong indications that Trump and Musk are building a centralized surveillance state and compiling detailed dossiers on all of us

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Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

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I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

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If you're an Audible member, check out the audiobooks of my Meg Langslow series. Many of them are on sale for $3.99. No idea how long it will last, so strike now!

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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We are way past impeachment time

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They should be more concerned

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I worked at Skadden Arps when I was getting my PhD. 1984-86. Proof reader and paralegal. It was a great experience. (And good pay.) Glimpse of a world I would never have— but also did not want. A friend of who mine still works there recommends this piece. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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If you missed it yesterday, this one is worth setting aside some time for.

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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.

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It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

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I'm glad Xinis is taking a hard line on this but it's intolerable that Abrego Garcia should have to spend even another minute in that prison and that so many others are still being unlawfully detained and disappeared.

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This

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Goldman Sachs: tariffs might have underappreciated inflation risk, "if US import demand shifts away from China toward countries with higher production costs but lower US tariff rates, the impact on prices of imported goods will be larger than implied by the increase in the effective tariff rate."

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If you read one thing today read this new essay from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: "State Terror: A Brief Guide For Americans" Previous generations of Americans fought Soviet and Nazi terror. Trump's team has decided to emulate it. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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Congressional Democrats could send a criminal referral to DOJ and the 50 states for this and other DOGE activity. There needs to be a greater understanding that these guys are breaking laws and will some day be held accountable.

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Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Hear, hear! @djrothkopf.bsky.social is right, watch this segment of an interview with Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student from Columbia U, who was taken into custody by ICE, this morning.

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Just don't risk it. Don't go.

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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Every American should know that the Chamber of Commerce and American Bankers Association literally teamed up with the Trump administration on Monday to end the CFPB rule limiting big credit card providers to an $8 late fee. Today, in light of the agreement, the rule was vacated.

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The SEER Act would strengthen transparency and ethics requirements for Special Government Employees. This will help ensure that the work of SGEs serves the American people, and not personal financial interests. We commend @warren.senate.gov leadership on this.

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More of this, please! www.offmessage.net/p/exclusive-...

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Alex Haley - The Power of Our Roots. Powerful. Teach the children. #Annapolis

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A+ reporting by the Harvard Crimson: The most pain from Trump’s Harvard funding cuts will fall on hospitals: Mass General Dana Farber CANCER Institute Boston CHILDREN’s Hosp. What a pointless disgrace. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Some Dems in Congress do not understand the assignment: object loudly and run out the clock.

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Mark your calendar for the #SmithsonianCraftShow April 24-27. I’ll be there Wed eve & Friday. Put some beautiful art & #ContemporaryCraft into your life in the beautiful space of the National Building Museum. #DC #DCArts #design smithsonianinstitution.ticketspice.com/2025-smithso...

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And Wesleyan. And Georgetown Law. And Cornell. This is how you win.

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Great column from @jenrubin.bsky.social at The Contrarian. Anyone telling you America’s big problem right now is “polarization” is gaslighting you. Words matter. Use them with thought and care. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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An excellent column by @crampell.bsky.social this morning on the value of higher ed to this country that Trump refuses to see or acknowledge. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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