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Sworn declarations submitted overnight from #Venezuelans deported by #Trump to #ElSalvador prove innocent & legal #immigrants were sent to the Center for Terrorism forced labor detention facility. Here is one from a professional soccer player imprisoned in #CECOT […] [Original post on masto.ai]

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Sure, it's totally normal for the US to cover up indefensible and ongoing atrocities by Russia. "The Trump administration cut funding to Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which was compiling a database of alleged Russian war crimes, including the abduction of an estimated 35,000 […]

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🧵Via Katie Phang: 1/… The ACLU (repping the Venezuelan plaintiffs in the AEA case) has filed its Opposition to the Trump DOJ’s Motion to Vacate Judge Boasberg’s Temporary Restraining Order. The aclu making it clear what’s at stake here matters to more than just Venezuelans:

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"The CFPB was only thing standing between consumers and rampant fraud, but there are also hundreds of complaints about Tesla's financing scams so it's no surprise that Musk destroyed it." "A used car dealership put remote kill switches in the cars they sold. It shut off one car’s engine while […]

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‪Christopher Webb‬ ‪@cwebbonline.com‬ "State-sponsored kidnapping The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order. Holding people against their will through […]

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Khashoggi's Ghost‬ ‪@urocklive1.bsky.social‬ wrote: "This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this: "The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."" […]

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#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #Pentagon #DEI From AP.com: Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry https://www.aol.com/pentagon-restores-histories-navajo-code-010449556.html

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There are a lot of Canadians who don’t want to visit the US just now. But if you have to, I would strongly advise going by air, because US CBP is in the airport in Canada. So they can still arbitrarily refuse entry because you voted Liberal or your name is Nadia or whatever, but they can’t […]

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology #Abortion #Texas #GregAbbott #KenPaxton #GOPKillers #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts. El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT. #HumanRights #USpol

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#GiftArticle Over the weekend, the #Trump admin ignored a federal judge’s order not to deport a group of Venezuelan men, violating an instruction that could not have been plainer or more direct. #DOJ attys later justified the…actions w/contentions that many #legal experts said bordered on […]

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LA Times: "Facing unprecedented threats by the #Trump administration to slash medical and science research funding key to its operation as the nation’s premier public university system, the University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze as the university braces for the potential […]

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#GiftArticle by Eugene Robinson Obscured by the absurd theatricality of this #Trump presidency is a dangerous erosion of the principle upon which the nation was founded: the rule of #law. The genius of the #Constitution is its system of #ChecksAndBalances, w/ #ThreeEqualBranches of the […]

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This is beyond… #LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which says [#CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as […]

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Emails Reveal Top #IRS Lawyer Warned #Trump Firings Were a #Fraud on the Courts The Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its #MassFiring of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such […]

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Keep 'em coming Via Brad Moss: Again, to remind folks, Judge Lamberth was appointed by Reagan. He is a conservative's conservative. ‪Chris Geidner: NEWS: Judge Lamberth, who has been hearing a challenge over #trans individuals in prison facing transfers due to Trump’s anti-trans orders […]

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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth just deleted the history of the “Go For Broke” 442nd Infantry Regiment from the Army website as they eliminate any mention of race or gender. The 442nd was formed for Japanese-American heroes. They were awarded 21 Medals of Honor, 4,000 Purple Hearts and 4,000 […]

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This is great news not in the least for our American friends where the weather service is being sabotaged. Weather models are oddly enough always global - you can't predict the weather in Berlin a week ahead without also predicting the weather in Austin, Texas. ECMWF has excellent hurricane […]

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Live on MSNBC momentarily to discuss the ramifications of the demise of the Voice of America. https://www.msnbc.com/live

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The 1A program on ‘The Voice of America goes silent’ now online: https://the1a.org/segments/the-voice-of-america-goes-silent/

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(Reuters) - US lawmakers and rights advocates say the drive to dismantle government-funded news outlets, including VOA and RFA, is a major blow to Washington's hard-earned soft power globally at a time when Beijing is rushing to expand its sphere of influence […]

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The Last Days of Voice of America. https://www.cjr.org/first_person/last-days-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php

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Keep 'em coming Via Kyle Griffin: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under Communism during the Cold War — says it has sued the #Trump admin to block the termination of its federal grant.

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Important detail on Trump's attempt to strong-arm USIP: They're trumping up criminal investigation into the people who wouldn't willingly dismantle an independent organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Yet another #recall "Nestle says it is recalling a limited quantity of Lean Cuisine and Stouffers meals because they could contain “wood-like material,” according to a news release. The recall is for batches of Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli, Lean Cuisine Spinach Artichoke Ravioli […]

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Via Kyle Cheney: The #Trump administration continues to unload on Judge Boasberg in a new filing asking him to stay his order for more info on flights to El Salvador. They say they may invoke state secrets privilege to deny him information […]

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Keep ‘em coming … this was the armed break-in I posted about yesterday Via Emptywheel: US Institute for Peace is suing. In addition to all the other ultra vires claims, it includes a trespassing complaint […]

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Keep ‘em coming Via Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: Judge denies #Trump administration motion to dismiss #Khalil lawsuit, orders it transferred to New Jersey. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.638260/gov.uscourts.nysd.638260.78.0.pdf

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KYIV INDEPENDENT: 'I don't want us to be on Putin's menu' — Zelensky says negotiations must include Ukraine "We are an independent state. Without us, I think it's wrong to negotiate," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 18 […]

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"The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Yikes! This entire article. Just... yikes. ""If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. "If it continues like […]

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Keep ‘em coming Via Kyle Cheney: NEW: Judge Chutkan has blocked the #EPA from terminating grants for climate programs held by Citibank, saying the #Trump administration failed to abide by legal procedures and provided no evidence of impropriety […]

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@bedoyaftc.bsky.social is the kind of Obiwan person whom Trump might regret taking out the first time. xcancel.com/BedoyaFTC/st...

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Keep 'em coming Via Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: Judge Reyes has granted an injunction barring the military from enforcing #Trump's order banning #transgender people from serving. She is staying her order until Friday to give admin time to seek an emergency appeal. #LGBTQ […]

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