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"The Dayton Board of Education voted to take a $50 million risk...the superintendent and board members believe it’s a thinly veiled attempt to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion, and refused to sign it."

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It's getting very hard to avoid the conclusion that a major problem with the Democratic Party right now is that its consultancy and other agenda-defining members more or less agree with Republicans on immigration

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Imagine the government is actively disappearing people, making cracks into open mics about doing it to US citizens, and thinking "No, we gotta stay focused on the Eggs Thing because a Frank Luntz focus group in Altoona in Nov. 2024 said the Eggs Thing."

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Ryan makes a really important point here that immigration is one of those issues, like crime, where Republicans have been able to effectively create an illusion of a crisis, which is really hard to debunk given the vast right-wing media machine.

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We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.

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David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025

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"Until someone, be it progressives or centrists, can build a media apparatus to counter right-wing agitprop and make a case for humane immigration policy, this cycle is likely going to repeat. Presidents Obama and Biden attempted to address immigration through policy appeasement."

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The National Emergencies Act poses additional dangers in Trump’s hands, allowing 150 statutory powers: authority to waive minimum comment periods for proposed regulations, seize citizens’ assets without due process, and most alarming of all, shut down or take over private communications systems."

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Yep, in general there's way less consciousness than there should be in the West of the continuity of Israel's behavior pre-67, whether it be the martial law over 48ers or the Absentee Property confiscations or the destruction of the depopulated villages, and the post-67 occupation.

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Politicians suddenly realizing “checks” and “balances” are verbs.

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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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Every serious person loves the sunk cost fallacy until the left criticizes Democrats.

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as we keep getting reports like this, it's still unclear how many Americans are affected because DHS has not provided numbers on citizens detained by immigration authorities and isn't answering Congressional inquiries about them www.propublica.org/article/more...

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A scathing rebuke to the trump administration* from an ultra-conservative judge. (original image reposted with alt text)

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A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

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It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

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No shade to real Marxism or those who rightly identify the current regime as fascist, but increasingly the more precise description may be Stalinist bureaucratic dictatorship.

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Several House Republicans were granted access but they’re blocking a Senate Democrat.

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Mahdawi has gone through all the legal channels and was about to become a citizen when he was arrested. He was a completely peaceful activist that literally gave a TV interview denouncing antisemitism. Even so, only 28% of House Dems are signing this letter because he wore a Keffiyeh.

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NEW — The Trump State Department is using the same language Columbia used to smear & punish the school's Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace groups (for a protest Mohsen Mahdawi condemned an antisemitic disruptor at) to now justify deporting him. Read on —>

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I think historians will likely remember the last two+ decades as one period- a continuation of the immediate post-9/11 years, which seem to have constituted our modern politics.

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A fundraiser has been launched to help pay for the legal expenses of the philosophy major taken by ICE earlier this week, and the Columbia Department of Philosophy has issued a statement about the situation and calling for the university to help him.

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(True, not every work of art or science aims at capture--some are mislabeled works of philosophy.)

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Against both art and science, the goal of philosophy is not to capture things through images and words but to release things from images and words. Philosophy is a universal solvent for idées fixes.

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the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

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Let’s be clear - they’re not just deleting DEI policies and code words, they’re deleting actual people of color and women. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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i don’t want to belabor the point but it is worth noting that Biden’s underlying assumptions about the US political system were completely, categorically wrong and are likely what motivated his Administration’s “high road, consensus-oriented approach to Trump

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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In 2020, LAPD cops got caught throwing random people onto gang lists just to pad their numbers. abcnews.go.com/US/lapd-offi...

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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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a very big deal if it passes. this is what would enable an exponential increase in detention, tent camps, upgrade to mass surveillance technologies, etc

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It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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"That law, which takes effect in June, also requires performance reviews for tenured professors and what’s termed 'intellectual diversity' on certain controversial topics including electoral politics, abortion and marriage."

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While this statement is not in and if itself admissible to court, it can be used as a basis for further discovery!

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Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

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No, the cruelty is not the point. State terror is enabled by sadism, but its point is always the same one it explicitly projects onto "terrorists": to intimidate civilians into political submission.

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There's not just a direct line from Clinton to Obama to Biden and a direct line from Reagan to the Bushes to Trump. It's the same shoelace.

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Just the laziest shit

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