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As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

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A federal judge ordered Trump to bring back a U.S. resident unlawfully deported to a Salvadorian prison. Weeks later, he's still there—and Trump has doubled down. The Contrarian’s Publisher @normeisen.bsky.social on the stakes & what the courts can do

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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“We’re under attack by a bunch of people who’ve never had dirt underneath their fingernails. People who have never swung a tool. People who know as much about the meaning of public service as they do about who’s in their Signal group chat.” Sam Forstag - USFS Smokejumper

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"For most people, refusing to be complicit in evil will be the hardest test they are ever given."

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You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

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There was a 32% drop in the number cars crossing into the U.S from Canada in March of this year compared to March of 2024. Forbes said that a decline of 30% in Canadian visitors would cost the U.S. economy $6 billion in losses...

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The erasing continues. Erase them and disappear them. They're definitely coming after women's rights -- voting, right to work, right to own a biz, right to have a checking account, right to body autonomy, you name it. They're telegraphing the whole play with these moves.

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Read more: cnn.it/43TU3ML

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"The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Donald Trump has openly ignored a lawful Supreme Court order. He is trying to dismantle the checks and balances that safeguard our democracy. The House of Representatives should initiate impeachment proceedings at once.

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State Department closing office aimed at countering foreign disinformation - Reuters Once again a gift to Putin

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

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This is an absolute must read opinion from Judge Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit - a very conservative judge - in the Abrego Garcia case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planning to axe Direct File, which lets nearly 2 million Illinoisans file their taxes for free. They’re literally taking money out of the pockets of working families and making sure it goes to the large tax prep companies.

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We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held. We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Elizabeth Warren on CNBC explains why Trump illegally firing Jerome Powell would wreck the economy and take the US down a fast track toward dictatorship

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Unemployment up. Stock market down. Mortgage rates up. Consumer confidence at worst levels since the Great Depression. Are we great again yet?

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IRS Direct File gave people a simple and FREE way to file their taxes. Now, Trump wants to get rid of it and allow tax preparation corporations to continue to rip taxpayers off with predatory fees. So much for cutting costs for the American people. apnews.com/article/irs-...

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Michigan evangelical church worship pastor, William Johnson, has pled guilty to placing a hidden camera in his church bathroom that recorded both nude adults & children. www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/c...

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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This GOP motherfucker can go for a vile photo op at CECOT but Dem @vanhollen.senate.gov can't even get a phone call with Garcia? GTFOH

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Not. A Drag. Queen. Nor transgender He was a spokesman for Ron DeSantis patch.com/florida/brad...

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Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said authorities in El Salvador had denied him access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man mistakenly deported and being held in a notorious prison in the country.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Tesla allegedly rigging their odometers to avoid paying for warranty claims--a CLASSIC kind of scam from that rotten company--is a felony in like every state www.eschatonblog.com/2025/04/crim...

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Dem’s project 2029 part 6

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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Dem’s project 2029 part 4

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The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns, has been shut down.

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I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

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Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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This is some seriously fucked up shit.

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All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

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I don't care how many junior staffs Hegseth or others throw under the bus. Hegseth HIMSELF was on the Signal group chat. He used his fingers to enter the sensitive military info into the chat. He bears 100% full responsibility for that -- no matter how many scapegoats he finds.

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Last time I visited Edesia Nutrition in North Kingstown, the factory was booming, turning out peanut paste to save the lives of malnourished children around the world. Now the factory floor is nearly empty. Kids are starving—we need the administration to restore funding for emergency food aid now.

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All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

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This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

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Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Van Hollen says he was NOT able to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia during his visit to El Salvador He also was not permitted to speak with Abrego Garcia by phone

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Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

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