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Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, Dept determined that the admin had not produced any evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel allows Judge McFadden's injunction in the Associated Press access case to go into effect. McFadden's stay of his order ended at midnight, and the D.C. Circuit panel only scheduled arguments (for 4/17) on DOJ's requests for an admin stay and a stay pending appeal.

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They didn't just expel people to El Salvador. They sent people to CECOT where they are imprisoned without trial or sentence and may never be released. They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process. Utterly despicable. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on everything from cancer rates in firefighters to mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis to outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump just posted a new rant claiming the tariff exceptions on electronics announced late Friday aren’t actually exceptions and they’ll still get hit with tariffs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 237 comments

Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

No intellectually honest person can say MeToo has gone too far. Even Bill Cosby is out of prison, and Weinstein‘s NY conviction was overturned. Cuomo is running for political office ffs! MeToo scared abusers so much they nipped it in the bud before there could be real change.

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I cannot confirm Prof. Franke's claim that this is happening tomorrow, but it wouldn't surprise me. Vichy on the Hudson, indeed.

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“[T]he Grace commission’s failure taught everyone serious about the budget, liberal or conservative, an important lesson: Anyone who proposes saving lots of taxpayer money by eliminating ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ should be ignored… they have no idea what they’re talking about.”

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I think Trump will be best remembered for his shredding of the US Constitution and his overall sabotage of the United States’ standing in the world. But the damage he’s so swiftly inflicted upon American leadership in science and to the American economy are definitely contenders.

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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.

submitted 11 hours ago • 219 comments

No administration in American history, not Jackson w/ Indian removal, not Lincoln in Merryman, not FDR over the New Deal, not Truman in Youngstown, not Nixon over the tapes, not Bush with Guantanamo, has openly defied a court order like this, much less one unanimously endorsed by the Supreme Court.

submitted 10 hours ago • 74 comments

“He and his White House didn’t even bother with the patina of reasonable suspicion of any actual crime. They just blurt out terms like ‘treason’ against the United States, which to President Trump can mean something as simple as: You hurt my feelings, therefore you must pay.”

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Here, courtesy the @aaup.bsky.social, is the glorious document in full:

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Restoration of Rule of Law will be illusory until then.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on everything from cancer rates in firefighters to mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis to outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

If you want POTUS to hear your case on exceptions to tariffs, you might want to pay him a million for dinner with him www.wired.com/story/people...

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

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Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 15 hours ago • 192 comments

I will venture to add a point that may be of relevance: the home of the Democratic Jewish governor of Pennsylvania...

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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.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2244 comments

Restoration of Rule of Law will be illusory until then.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

“[T]he Grace commission’s failure taught everyone serious about the budget, liberal or conservative, an important lesson: Anyone who proposes saving lots of taxpayer money by eliminating ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ should be ignored… they have no idea what they’re talking about.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I think Trump will be best remembered for his shredding of the US Constitution and his overall sabotage of the United States’ standing in the world. But the damage he’s so swiftly inflicted upon American leadership in science and to the American economy are definitely contenders.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

“He and his White House didn’t even bother with the patina of reasonable suspicion of any actual crime. They just blurt out terms like ‘treason’ against the United States, which to President Trump can mean something as simple as: You hurt my feelings, therefore you must pay.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Here, courtesy the @aaup.bsky.social, is the glorious document in full:

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“In a warning that holds true even after Trump’s retreat, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister and a former governor of the Bank of England, said: ‘The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday... While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality.’”

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The greatest trick Putin has managed has been to create the illusion that a country with a GDP less than that of Brazil is a major power.

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Thank you, @picardonhealth.bsky.social, for this reminder of a truly exceptional human being!

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Reality needs new scriptwriters.

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Sent to NOAA officials, indicating coming massive cuts.

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I follow contemporary Oregon Republican politics as part of my academic work, but it's a real race against time as to whether reading what they have to say will kill every single one of my brain cells before I finish using them to write my book.

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www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/p...

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Here, courtesy the @aaup.bsky.social, is the glorious document in full: actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

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#teslatakedown

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