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JUST IN: Abrego Garcia's lawyers cite Trump comments yesterday to indicate US can bring their client back to US and should. And Trump admin appears to have missed 5PM deadline to report to judge. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of terrorism anonymously.

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"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize lecture has an urgent message for contemporary readers.

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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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Hard to believe the hill the Justice Department wants to die on, we don’t want to comply with your order so we aren’t going to. Nothing like engaging in explicitly lawless behavior they don’t even pretend to regret.

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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Let’s make sure they all hear about it…👇 You know what to do. 😎✨

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NEW: A UK group called “Everyone Hates Elon” hosted an event in London yesterday for locals to take turns smashing a Tesla with a sledgehammer

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How is this not contemptuous behavior???

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"Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Trump's Psychological Vulnerability open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for punishment in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

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Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

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Every American citizen should be registered to vote automatically.

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Under new voting bill, if a married woman has a different name from the one on her birth certificate she cant vote. Dear Sisters, don’t take your husband’s name

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"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

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Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

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While the richest people in the world celebrate adding over $304 billion in a single day to their combined net worth because of Trump's chaotic tariffs, House Republicans just voted to gut $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from food assistance programs like SNAP.

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We opened a community survey to better understand how we can support individuals, organizations, & communities across the state. Get involved: • Take a brief online survey • Register for online listening sessions • Register for a local, in-person focus group www.commerce.wa.gov/community-en...

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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

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Just thinking about a crazy student who immigrated to America, matriculated at King’s College, and helped lead a revolution.

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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

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Erin is a wonderful journalist. Honest, thorough, smart. Highly recommended, especially for any Inland PNW folks!

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1. The Trump administration is about to release it's own anti-science "Cass Review," a sham review with pseudoscience that will be used to justify sweeping crackdowns on trans care in the United States. No experts are involved in its drafting. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Happy National Bookmobile Day! It was so exciting to get to find new books to read. The Westing Game, Dragonriders of Pern, stories of pirates & lasses in corsets & mysteries, & revenge! What was your favorite Book Fair, Bookmobile find? #bookmobileday #libraryweek

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Real life impact of federal cuts on firefighters in #Spokane. www.kxly.com/news/were-go...

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ICE appears to have deleted its X post making clear (if we needed more proof) that it believes its mission is to stop certain "IDEAS" from crossing the border. Here's a perma.cc link to the post: perma.cc/2FLY-4S6J

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BREAKING — All FDIC employees just received an email confirming DOGE presence at the agency. "The DOGE team has neither requested nor been granted access to sensitive bank information." We'll see how long that remains true. Text of email shared with me:

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