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Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead. Resegregation comes to Harvard.

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Another Financial Times fun factoid from hell: Container bookings from China to the United States are nosediving #EconSky

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NEW:Trump’s DC attorney nominee Ed Martin is apologizing, saying he didn’t know about the alleged Nazi sympathizer views of a Capitol rioter he repeatedly praised. But audio saved by CNN’s KFile shows Martin discussed those views on his podcast — undercutting his claims. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

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Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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um www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

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“The most effective thing that Trump has done is made us question whether or not these institutions—including the rule of law—have value.” Katie Phang is stepping up to defend our most fundamental democratic rights, because they do have value. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced.

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It seems to me that at a certain point, the foundation of public health under capitalism is eugenics. Cost-benefit analyses will always be made and some group will always be left behind in the name of minimizing discomfort for the majority—and disruption of the economy.

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New: A federal judge in Boston ordered the Trump administration to turn over the names of any migrants flown recently from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay to El Salvador so he could determine whether they were deported in violation of a court order he issued. www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

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(CNN) — He wasn’t joking. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

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NEW VIDEO: A three-judge panel in a North Carolina court blocked a Republican scheme to gain power over the state’s election board — the agency charged with running elections and enforcing campaign finance laws. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/b91PmDsvX3Y

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This is why we cannot leave education and voting rights to the states.

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According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

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We only need 3 to WIN. 💙💙💙 We can concentrate our fund raising and easily win the House. Let’s beat the oligarchs

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Sen. Jon Ossoff has signaled support for impeaching Trump. On Trump's meme coin last week: “When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him, there is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense."

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(1/5) 📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers. 🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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My suggestion for White House lawn signs.

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MAGAts are in the FO phase #FAFO And we tried to warn them 🤦🏽‍♂️

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😰😱😭 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjhFsjy6/

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If you wonder why men obsessed with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

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#ResistanceRoots Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was born on this day in 1923 in Indiantown, Fla. Tiger Jumper was the first and so far only female chairperson of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and co-founder of the tribe’s first newspaper. As a nurse, she brought healthcare to tribal communities. /1

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apple.news/Ao0L72x-yRVy... Hey, Pam Bondi, how about releasing the #Epstein files now?

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Germany arrests 2 alleged Russian spies accused of scouting U.S. military facilities for sabotage - CBS News

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You can’t “deport” US citizens. This is something far more sinister.

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I cant fiqure out why all the active veteran groups aren't pressuring their GOP Senators to remove the incompete unqualified SEC DEF. Thought these groups had more influence!!

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Sit and Talk - State Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan arrested for chasing ICE and “friends” out of a state court house in part because they didn’t have a case in court, and didn’t have a judicial warrant for an alien in court on a different case - youtu.be/I6oxcEMltog?...

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I knew I shouldn’t watch Rachel before bed but it’s her last Friday. Masked men with no ID in plain clothes are abducting people without cause. They put them in an unmarked van. When will a court say definitively you can’t use the Alien Enemies Act? Thank you @raskin.house.gov

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To everyone shouting “no one is above the law” referring to that Milwaukee judge: We have a criminal in the White House. A guy who’s proven to be utterly lawless. And you’re perfectly fine with that. So take your “no one is above the law” bullshit and shove it up your ass.

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Crimes against humanity! I am sickened to my core! This must be stopped!

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I recently re-read the Declaration of Independence and noticed these very things. It really was a “holy crap” moment.

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Yes, they arrested a judge.

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A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.

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THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

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Christ this shit again

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Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

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Ayanna Pressley Sez "HANDS OFF our bodies #HandsOffMySocialSecurity HANDS Off our constitution. HANDS OFF our Democracy."

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🚨🚨 Heads up, y’all. There’s an important special election coming up April 29. Denise Slipy Is running for Minnesota State Senate, District 6. Slipy will work for the People and be their voice. It’s time for change, Minnesota! Donate, Support, Vote Democrat Denise Slipy MN State Senate, District 6

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My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was exactly my answer

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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Where’s @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social ? Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident of NY—your constituent. You weren’t part of the delegation that showed up—so what are you doing to make this right and to stop innocent people from being snatched off NY streets w/out due process?

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Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.

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Masked men without identification abducting members of the population and throwing them into unmarked vans for non crimes This is fascism in practice and deed.

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Drs. Makary and Bhattacharya hitched their wagon to this guy. They have to nod as their boss worried about testosterone levels in teenage boys. I hope RFK makes sure they stand by his side this way often s he riffs about the world. 🧵

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If the producer of "60 Minutes" wanted to stand up for the First Amendment, he would have, instead of quitting because the Trump Administration was trying to quash the show's First Amendment rights, ran a segment on how the authoritarian Trump administration was trying to illegally censor the show.

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