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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that you are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

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"Make them fight for all the illegal, abusive, authoritarian things they want to do. Don’t give it to them for free."

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Happy birthday to the author of the Declaration of Independence. Who knew we would be living under a new king George today?

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Elon: those protestors are all paid! Also Elon:

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Weird how the same party that insisted undocumented immigrants don't pay any taxes is now using the records of undocumented immigrants paying their taxes to find them. Of course they think it's great they won't be adding to our tax revenues anymore. Damn freeloaders, giving us money for nothing.

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America's founders rebelled against a king who imposed taxes against the people's will. So how did we get here again, with a D.C. dictator's destructive tariffs? 1 million marchers want Congress to do its job, end the tariffs and curb Trump's power. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Excellent piece by the great @willbunch.bsky.social. Mad king, indeed.

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Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

submitted 11 days ago • 319 comments

Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

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a propos of all these crank leftists complaining that there wasn't enough property damage yesterday, dusting off my essay about the civil rights movement (and how they won without burning down any walmarts) www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

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It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are. Allow me to try. Let’s begin with Adam Smith. In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.

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Here they are: 15 of the absolute best, most brilliant, most cutting, and most creative protest signs we spotted across the more than 1,300 demonstrations against the Trump regime on Saturday.

submitted 10 days ago • 170 comments

"Nazis used trains, ICE uses planes" is one of the most powerful statements I've seen.

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Woke: Going to college and maybe being a doctor or accountant or scientist or something America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

If Trump and Vance really want to revitalize domestic manufacturing as the foundation for a virtuous working class life, why are they strangling the creation of hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, the advanced manufacturing work of the future? newrepublic.com/article/1933...

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 14 days ago • 156 comments

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

submitted 14 days ago • 266 comments

🧵 Ten reasons authoritarian leaders deliberately crash their own economy while attempting full overthrow of democracy:

submitted 19 days ago • 92 comments

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

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This is extremely alarming — White House fires a career federal prosecutor because he (1) went after a politically connected businessman and (2) criticized Trump during a 2020 congressional bid. “White House fires a career prosecutor” is itself unprecedented. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 17 days ago • 90 comments

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

submitted 18 days ago • 245 comments

📣"The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime" 📣 📣THE ENTIRE TRUMP ERA COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE US TOOK WHITE COLLAR CRIME ANYWHERE NEAR AS SERIOUSLY AS IT DOES LOW LEVEL DRUG CRIME 📣

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If you’re thinking about inviting people to “debate” birthright citizenship, you should know this: (1) The leading antis haven’t produced any serious scholarship in support of their position, and no scholars with specific expertise in the relevant subject matter have said otherwise. (2) See (1).

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

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