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Actor, playwright, theatre lover, nature enthusiast, and knowledge monger, living in obscurity. I subscribe to the Tao of I Think You Should Leave. Always down to eat a sheet cake. https://newplayexchange.org/users/69223/caitlin-strom-martin
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Despite a Supreme Court order directing the US to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia The Trump administration apparently refuses to take any action When does the judge order Secretary of State Marco Rubio into court to explain why he won’t obey How long before he’s held in contempt

Oh. We’re so, so fucked. Beyond fucked. Incredibly fucked.

It's going to be his financial Covid. Only totally self-inflected and it will take longer to recover from.

Disappearing Federal Data: I'm sure one of many examples, but FEMA removed coastal erosion prediction maps that had become widely used by planners, public works offices, insurance cos., real estate, etc. whatsupnewp.com/2025/04/fema...

The capitulating law firms are still capitulating, and it's truly appalling. (Although another is fighting back.) Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/i/161242375/...

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

WOW. They grabbed her off the street even while the State Department itself said that she had done nothing wrong.

He's a vindictive moron. His cabinet is full of toads. Congress are cowards. We're so fucked.

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

NYT: “.. When life turns scary, people take refuge in American government bonds. .. Yet turmoil in bond markets last week revealed the extent to which President Trump has shaken faith in that basic proposition..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

Gov. Shapiro says he and his family "woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police" early Sunday morning. The fire caused significant damage, but fortunately, no one was injured.

Yesterday they refused to answer two of the three questions ordered. Today's refuses to address, in any way, all three. None of this has anything to do with the order. This is open defiance of a district court backed by a unanimous three-judge circuit ruling and a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

The economy is cratering, the White House has fractured the country’s longest-standing global alliances, and foreign nations are marking the end of American dominance. And Donald Trump is focused on slandering his first-term enemies.

What if there was an opposition party that just said "If you give us a majority in congress we'll remove these freaks and criminals from power"

Pathetic.

HASSETT: If you look at the latest jobs report, it was way, way above even what I expected TAPPER: You know the jobs data was from before the "liberation day"

a bunch a people recommended the book "mexican gothic" by silvia moreno-garcia to me and here is my review so far: this goes hard as hell

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

Enjoy. 😎✨

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

I cannot overstate how despicable the Mahmoud Khalil case is The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police

What’s the statute of limitations on market manipulation and insider trading? Asking for 75 million friends!

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

This right here 🔥 “If there was market manipulation, it is a crime. Someone needs to go to jail… I want the documents. I want the Signal chats too, because I don’t trust them — that they weren’t sharing all this information across their Signal chats.” – @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

Jackie Cardenas, married mother of 2, beloved waitress for 13 years at the Molino Rojo Café, was deported to Honduras in 10.5 hours: www.expressnews.com/columnist/el... Archive link b/c article is paywalled: archive.is/H26L7 There's no due process in a deportation process that fast.

#SMDH

#KilmarAbregoGarcia

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

The government has nothing on Mahmoud Khalil except “thought crimes,” according to a DHS document obtained by AP. These are the “ideas” from the recent DHS tweet.

There is not a soul on earth who believes that President Bukele wouldn’t immediately release Abrego-Garcia if asked by the United States. President Bukele is coming to the United States this week; he can give Abrego-Garcia a ride on his plane!

NEWS: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia call for their client to be brought back to Maryland — and for the government to be held in contempt for its failure to comply with the court's orders in the case. They also ask for discovery into the gov't's actions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

I am proud to join my colleagues in filing an amicus brief standing up to Trump’s unconstitutional and un-American attack on birthright citizenship. Let me be clear: If you’re born on U.S. soil, you are a U.S. citizen. That’s not just common sense—it’s the Constitution.

Here's an updated look at all Trump's 2nd-term tariffs, accounting for today's exemption for phones & computers The overall US tariff rate is now 25%, down from 29% pre-exemption but still 10x what it was before Trump took office (1/3)