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The party that did nothing but obstruct Obama’s legislative agenda and then whine about the “tyrannical” actions he took via executive order, is now smitten with a MAGA emperor god who is ruling almost entirely via executive order even though Republicans control both houses of congress.

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The Trump administration wants to send anyone it wants, including U.S. citizens, to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan. At Law Dork, I go through it all:

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One more thing about this: one obvious question is "why steal data from the NLRB." The stupidest possible answer -- the one most in line with not-very-bright guys letting things get out of hand -- is that Elon Musk personally hates the NLRB.

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Progressives should have already been flooding their local school boards to run for election. People have been trying to get people to do this for the past 25 years. And yet...

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If Jeff Bezos was actually a feminist instead of letting Katy Perry buy a ticket to space he'd use his vast financial resources to oppose the president who is stripping abortion rights and bodily autonomy from women across the country

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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Listening to a radio play about progressive politics in drama being resisted by the establishment. Most scenes are a man declaiming a position and a woman sympathetically echoing it back to him. No women have been allowed to talk to each other. This structural stuff should be caught by an editor

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DOGE officials engaged in a security breach from the National Labor Relations Board, likely taking data "on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets" unrelated to efficiency, and then tried to cover their tracks. If they are doing it here, no reason to assume they are not doing it elsewhere

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Time Running Out: devonellington.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/a... #Writing #WritingCommunity #authors #Freelance #Politics

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“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”

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I've yet to see any proof that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive. I've been told by the government via the same people who told me months ago to never trust the government. I also see Trump doing everything in his power to avoid bringing him back. Dude's dead. Prove me wrong.

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The nation’s universities must follow in the example of Harvard and MIT—and not Columbia.

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That would be nice. Or some nice rule 11 sanctions.

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Amen

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My parents say they have gotten AI-generated calls spoofing my sister's voice and claiming she is in trouble and needs money right away. I do not think unleashing more AI on seniors is a thing we ought to be doing.

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The thing that’s worth remembering, for Harvard especially but also for other schools following their lead, is that Trump would do this regardless. Complying with them doesn’t protect you, it just shows them where they can keep punching.

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AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.

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This!👇👇👇🤬🔥

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Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

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Trump told us the plan today: The Trump administration wants the prison in El Salvador — and, perhaps, others — to hold Americans. Importantly, Vance, Rubio, and Bondi did not appear surprised or upset by this news — in fact, it did not appear to be news to them at all. This is the plan. Law Dork:

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This.

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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

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Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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@jeff-merkley.bsky.social Senator Merkley - if @vanhollen.senate.gov goes down to the GOP concentration camp in El Salvador, I would like you to join him.

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Pay attention to how people treat the powerless. Someone who is mocking the disabled, or dismissing the rights of minorities, is never going to be a good leader.

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We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

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We’re sending the guy with 0 felony convictions to a horrible prison in El Salvador and keeping the guy with 34 to run the country? Insane.

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We need to give up the framing that they imprisoned a man in El Salvador “mistakenly.” Their actions prove this is intentional. Did they mean for this to be the trial run? Don’t know. But they’re running hard with it. That’s not a “mistake.” That’s fascism.

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periodic reminder that while USA is not signed on to the whole International Criminal Court project, El Salvador is

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Making a big deal about sending an all women team “to space” on Blue Origin, in full glam, while defunding programs that support women scientists and stripping DEIA from NASA…is something else. Science for me, but not for thee! #standupforscience

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The moment the orange convicted felon was sent back to our White House instead of to prison for his crimes is the moment democracy died in America. Both Hillary Clinton and VP Kamala Harris warned everyone that he would be a lawless tyrant and that has come true.

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At this point, Judge Xinis should order the immediate return under threat of contempt and let the Supreme Court tell the Administration otherwise.

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Columbia fumbled the ball big time. Cowardice gets you nowhere.

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It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

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Happy International Children’s Book Week at my library! This year, it feels a little more rebellious than it should. #BookSky #LibrarySky #TLSky #EduSky #GLAMs #skybrarians #publibs #kidlit #worldkidlit #JerseyRootsGlobalReach 📚🍎📜🌎

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Again, if the idea is that when someone in custody leaves the nation’s airspace there’s no way for a court to compel the state to return them—or exert any jurisdiction at all—then you’re simply saying whoever’s in power can fly people 100 miles offshore and push them out of helicopters into the sea.

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They are Nazis. Everyone who for them voted for Nazis. Never let them forget it. You can choose to not let them in your lives. You cannot "both sides" this.

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The 1920s were the "Roaring 20s"; I suspect this decade will be the "Ruined 20s."

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Democratic Party leaders. We need you to get on TV & social media to detail exactly what you’re doing to get Garcia back from El Salvador. You need to tell the truth about where we are in the authoritarian takeover of the U.S. Stop asking for donations until you show us you’re real leaders.

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As usual, he will do nothing, then ask for money. #ResignSchumer

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On 200k loss for our NEH DH Center, my refrain: 1) What do we need? 2) What do we have? 3) What must we prioritize? 4) What are we willing to give up? 5) When we are in the position to rebuild, what will we need to have? Minimal Computing #dh @roopikarisam.bsky.social + @elotroalex.bsky.social

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So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

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