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According to the @AAUW.bsky.social: 🎓It takes women roughly 2 years longer than men to repay student loans, with the gender pay gap compounding payments for women over time 🎓With a mean student debt of $37,558, Black women owe more than any other group of women 19thnews.org/2025/04/wome...

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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NEW: @schumer.senate.gov asks for the biggest "receipt" that's missing from DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" -- a $318M claim posted without documentation. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the government from enforcing part of one of President Trump’s executive orders that directs agencies to withhold funds from cities and counties that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

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👀 Candace Owens: “I never thought I’d see a day where I would be rooting for a university over Trump… but if you think this attack on free speech is gonna stop with college campuses you’re out of your mind. So you better buck up and root for Harvard.”

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NEW: Court records show Martin violated a judge’s order, ghostwrote online attacks on a judge and engaged in what experts called professional misconduct. Such a track record might have derailed another lawyer’s career. Not so for this Trump prosecutor.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Hey you fabulous resisters! Our #TeslaTakedowns have CRASHED Tesla stock by 71%. But we have to BREAK that MFer. For those of you with a naughty streak, I've created these notes you can print, cut up, and tuck into windows of parked Teslas you pass. Place it facing into the car!

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

submitted 7 days ago • 405 comments

BREAKING WaPo: Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal — the commercially available messaging app — on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, illustrating the extent to which he has integrated use of unclassified communications into his work. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“I have spent my life making government work and getting results for people,” Andrew Cuomo says, listing his experience, including 11 years as governor. A woman yells out, “you resigned in disgrace!”

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Our town hall in Grand Island is in TWO days! It will feature Rep. Ro Khanna and NDP Chair @janekleeb.bsky.social as our co-hosts. Sign up to see a national figure in the heart of NE: www.mobilize.us/nebdems/even... See future town halls: nebraskademocrats.org/the-peoples-...

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Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 417 comments

Tuscaloosa, Alabama. May 1st. Are you ready for it? 👇 PS: Trump is scheduled to speak at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) on May 1st. #50501movement

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After meeting with Khalil today, his story reminds us that this betrayal and experience should have never happened. We have a moral obligation to stand with and unequivocally call out the injustices Mahmoud Khalil and too many others are suffering from at the hand of this administration.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Continuing a pattern of stonewalling, the Justice Department has defied a judge’s order to explain what the Trump administration has done, and plans to do, to seek the release of a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month, court papers show.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

The MacArthur Foundation isn’t complying in advance — it’s resisting in advance. This is the kind of courage and resolve we need to fight MAGA fascism.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Happening now: Denver Colorado is hitting the street strong 🔥 #50501movement #handsoff #denver #nokings #apirl19

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

submitted 11 days ago • 1256 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 11 days ago • 648 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 11 days ago • 694 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 15 days ago • 580 comments

Amazing that so many who voted for him do not understand how these regulations have saved many lives over the year. #MedicaidCutsKillUS

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American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.

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We’re winning in Court every day because the Constitution is on the side of Due Process. Of course Thomas and Alito continue to act like mob judges, so keep fighting for the Constitution everyone. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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“Richard Nixon understood that he was doing wrong and therefore hid it,” Larry Summers said. “President Trump is shouting it from the rooftops, seeking to normalize what was previously criminal. That kind of impunity is a much greater threat to democracy.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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"I write this letter as the sun rises, hoping that the suspension of my rights will raise alarm bells that yours are already in jeopardy."

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Anti-expert leadership reverses the considered, prudent policymaking that characterized most of the post-World War II era U.S. foreign policy, Jeremi Suri writes.

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(NYT) - The United States will abandon efforts to end the war in Ukraine if it proves impossible to broker meaningful progress in the next several days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed Paris on Friday .. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

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I will keep beating this drum until the tide turns: Obama's DNC speech got him rock-star attention, but the key reason he became a viable presidential primary candidate was his opposition to the Iraq War back when many elected Dems--especially Hillary Clinton--supported it.

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“The Buck Stops Here” < “I’m Not Involved” 🇺🇸 @rollingstone.com #Garcia www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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😮 HIDING ICE FLIGHTS: ICE charter flights by GlobalX have been removed from many flight trackers, and given the call sign TYSON --previously associated w/ Secret Service and a B52 bomber squadron. Tracked by tail number, here is TYSON41 which departed Texas en route to a destination South America:

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Sometimes you don't need a family office. You need a FAMILY office ... www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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Here is “the full version Mr. Abrego's time in the US, using court documents to explain the allegations of gang membership and what actually happened in his case.” h/t Aaron Reichlin-Melnik on Twitter

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NEW from @marcelias.bsky.social: "Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina. For the sake of our democracy, let us hope the courts once again prevent that from happening." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 15 days ago • 1660 comments

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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NOW: Normally a US president might consider this an act of war - refusing to return a wrongly imprisoned man. But since Trump sent him … it’s just another case of Trump insanity and authoritarianism. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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The Trump administration knows that bringing Abrego Garcia back to U.S. soil—and then arguing he should again be removed to El Salvador—is a case they might lose.

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So basically, only Christians people will be allowed to work for the government? If you have a Bible thumping co-worker shoving Republican Jesus down your throat everyday, and tell them to back off, you’re fired? MAGA Christians will weaponize this on their LGBTQ co-workers and whoever they hate…

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An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said.

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The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds district court order that the Trump administration "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was improperly sent to El Salvador. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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