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This is exactly the kind of blow-by-blow that shows DOGE is doing far more than just advising. One of the former Tesla employees we found at DOJ (who's also at FBI) took aggressive steps to get a contract terminated, despite a court order. theintercept.com/2025/04/18/d...

You will never guess which guy the mainstream media told us for four years was to old

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

recent polling is just a total repudiation of the idea that full spectrum opposition to trump across every area was/is a bad idea

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

Then this case does not hold water? I hope she sues after her acquittal.

European MPs urge an end to "the policy of appeasement"& call for a united stance against Russia's terrorist regime. In a joint statement, the Chairs of 7 Foreign Affairs Committees said: "We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile;

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

The American tourism industry is sooooooo screwed.

Let’s start with the basics.

This funeral may be pivotal. The grass roots support for Ukraine is evident and it may sway Trump.

NEW: Court records show Martin violated a judge’s order, ghostwrote online attacks on a judge and engaged in what experts called professional misconduct. Such a track record might have derailed another lawyer’s career. Not so for this Trump prosecutor.

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "This whole thing has been so slap dash, so chaotic, so poorly conceived, without any clear objective...The only people who are happy about this are congressional Republicans and Mar-a-Lago club members who I can imagine are doing pretty well on stock tips."

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "The allure of this policy...is that corporate America would have to come to the White House hat in hand, begging for their carve out, their exception, being told to pay tribute and he would be able to dispense favors as a king which is what he likes to do."

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "Trump's hand-picked candidate to challenge me for that Senate seat in Georgia is executing magnificently-timed stock trades around these tariff announcements...It would not surprise me at all if the inside information is flying hot and heavy around Mar-a-Lago."

He's so full of shite.

Musk Goons Purged Living U.S. Citizens from Social Security

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

Thanks to @newrepublic.com for trusting and sharing my reporting

Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos Trump is fundamentally incapable of governing. That’s the theme that unites everything robertreich.substack.com/p/ineptitude...

Eggs are not down where I live, nor is gas.

Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

60 percent of Americans believe the country is ‘on the wrong track’ as trust in Supreme Court plummets

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VOICES | Littered with errors and inaccuracies, Doge’s savings are vastly overstated, writes James Moore. Elon Musk must hope he is better at finding efficiencies at Tesla than he has been for the United States

BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Pete Hegseth just said he will examine the promotion of “fat” people to leadership positions in the military and seek to stop them. There's a very fat orange man who's Commander in Chief. Can we start with him?

If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president. If you are not a member, please share with others who are.

Of course they want to help Russia www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The staff is knifing Pete every night now

Oh my GOD.

A few weeks ago, chemical lobbyists asked the Trump administration to shut down an EPA website showing the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities. The EPA just took it down.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

3 facts that should drive the news: 1) DOGE has committed, rather than found, fraud. 2) A bunch of antisemites are using a claim to police antisemitism to take over universities. 3) In spite of claims they're cracking down on China, Trump's FP & financial policies have vastly helped China.

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

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...