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The Salvadoran dictator Bukele is also Trump's business partner, and that fact is essential to understanding their relationship. Cf Bukele’s plan for Bitcoin City, which was going to be scaled back in order to receive loans from the IMF—and Trump admin’s plans to use gold reserves to buy Bitcoin

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Fascism: The ultimate cancel culture

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As Passover begins, I am reposting my open letter to Elon Musk. I wrote it in response to his attacks on me and his suggestion that I suffer from “generational trauma.” It has been the most viral piece I have ever written and I continue to be moved by the positive feedback. Thanks and Happy Pesach!

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If you have ever wondered how the leaders of America’s most powerful institutions would react if a would be despot sought to seize power in the US and strip away our most basic freedoms while destroying our economy, national security and institutions…now you know. They’ll roll over and play dead.

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I was shocked to hear that 90% of the immigrants deported to the El Salvador prison had no criminal record www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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guarantee they're going after foreign students because they're a fucking easy quota point, just like going after immigrants who have been keeping all their appointments with the government 'we're deporting criminals' was always a fucking lie

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FINAL TWO DAYS: Offer expires tomorrow midnight.

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Why is Trump Fighting so Hard to Keep an Innocent Man in an El Salvador Prison? & The Hate Crime that is the GOP Campaign to Erase Blacks and Women from History open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...

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The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

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The great Volodymyr Yermolenko and his UkraineWorld project are very worthy of support. Here we are launching my freedom book, underground, in Kharkiv last September. @ukraineworld.bsky.social ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...

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New in PN: Tom Suozzi on fighting MAGA in a district Trump won “They do these things to try to get people all excited, meanwhile they’re trying to cut Social Security and Medicaid and give tax cuts to the rich. The big issue is, how are the things they're doing going to affect people's lives?”

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NYT page one: @nytimes.com

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faintly called for people to get the measles vaccine — then turned around and falsely claimed the vaccine hasn’t been “safety tested” and its ability to protect “wanes very quickly.” Again, Kennedy is spreading dangerous…

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1/ The SSA was just moved to X for official updates—because DOGE teens slashed comms staff. Only 138,000 follow SSA on X. Meanwhile, 73 million rely on benefits. Most are seniors, not social media users. This isn’t modernization—it’s Muskification. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

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This is chilling. It is how you destroy America, but also how you destroy respect for religion in America. The wall separating church and state is designed to protect both, after all. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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"Voice of America showed me the kind of life that was possible if you were free to express yourself, use your mind and imagination, your talents and skills, and pursue your dreams." - Martina Navratilova declaration to a US federal court in support of one of the lawsuits against Kari Lake.

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Kash Patel committed perjury?

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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

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Harvard and Princeton announced that they are selling bonds, rather than kowtowing to Trump‘s blackmailing efforts. This is how you do it!👏👏

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american consumer sentiment drops to second lowest level since 1952 (pandemic was slightly worse) -university of michigan

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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The SAVE Act is a poll tax on women. Pass it on.

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An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

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I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

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I’m beside myself at the level of open, shameless corruption. If a Democrat pulled half of what’s happened since Jan 20th, the GOP would be foaming at the mouth and storming the Capitol—again. The double standard is outrageous. #Trump #GOP #Corruption

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My post on @writerunboxed.bsky.social today discusses how I took the advice of @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social at @taskforcebutler.bsky.social and made a small step toward defending democracy by forming a book group at my local library. writerunboxed.com/2025/04/11/d...

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Just a reminder, Christopher Rufo, the lead character used by Trump in his efforts to demolish the US system of research universities, is deep into white supremacy eugenics, like most of the staff that supports him. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

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Make no mistake, the _explicit_ targeting of Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs with DOJ investigations for angering the president (and nothing else) is a dangerous moment in the slide toward autocracy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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