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"Not everyone is backed by power of collective action, however. Four individuals this week, acting without institutional or political support, firmly defied authoritarian power plays—and it is their courage we want to underscore at the end of this inspired week." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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"Authoritarians like Trump feast on the perception of their power & grow under the ruse of inevitability of their reign. When people unite & say 'not today,' there is nothing sucking power out of authoritarians more—shriveling them quicker—than a united populace." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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"It’s Friday—congrats, we made it! While Trump continues to pour gas on his dumpster fire of an administration, I’m thrilled to bring you more great news today. I hope it gives you some relief and lifts your spirits, even if just for a moment." open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

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"During peace talks now, nothing has stopped. Putin hasn’t stopped. And that’s the first problem with any peace talks with him is that he can’t be trusted. You can’t make an agreement with him. He’s a liar. He’s a serial liar. He doesn’t abide by any agreements." open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

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1/2 "Trump's own belief that he could—and should—force the world to bow to his tariff levies revealed his conviction that he could tear up mutual agreements and impose his will. He predicted that other countries would come begging to him to lift the tariffs. Instead, ...

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"It’s another day of dealing with Trump’s chaos and madness, so I’m glad to have more great news for you today. I hope it gives you some relief, even if just for a moment." open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

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1/2 "If they can disappear them, they can disappear you. SAY THEIR NAMES. REMEMBER THEM. Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata...

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"Yunseo wasn’t undocumented. She wasn’t violent. She took the First Amendment seriously — until it kicked her in the teeth. She’s still in hiding. Still waiting. Because when you protest injustice in Trump’s America, they don’t just ignore you. They hunt you." open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

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1/2 "Trump’s second term is an embrace of the same predatory international relations theory that previously resulted in two world wars. This position will not make America safer or wealthier; instead, it will make the world a more dangerous place and put American troops at risk....

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1/2 "Over 156M Americans are inhaling toxic air today, not because we don’t know how to fix it, but because Repubs decided clean air is something only Dems care about....

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1/2 "The market is like someone caught in an abusive relationship — still in denial, seizing on every hint of decency as evidence that their partner is really changing their ways....

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"Under Trump, the [DOJ Civil Rights] Division is taking on a new focus: protecting Christians from discrimination.... This seems to be more about prioritizing one faith at the cost of others, approaching violation of the First Amendment...." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent. That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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Trump's Treason continues. When will we have justice? "The US drafted the [most recent] plan [for Ukaine] after envoy Steve Witkoff met for more than four hours last week with Putin.... Curiously, [Trump] felt obliged to write 'I have nothing to do with Russia...'." As if.... Trumpum delenda est

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"This US-backed plan echoes almost entirely the plan Russia presented to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort in exchange for helping Trump win. Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2014 & was looking for a way to grab land it wanted without continuing to fight." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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"In a rare public statement, the Prince of Darkness said that he could not attend the funeral himself because it conflicts with a Tesla board meeting." open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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1/2 "This isn’t just about influence — it’s about entrenchment. Once you’re in the FBI’s orbit, you don’t just cooperate — you become dependent....

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BREAKING: Hegseth downloaded Signal on his desktop at the Pentagon to circumvent the lack of cell service in a classified space. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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1/2 "In a desperate effort to justify the unjustifiable, the Trump administration continues to lie about it. They lie about what they’re doing. They lie about what it means. They lie about how democracy works....

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1/2 "In TN [and other states], lawmakers...are advancing a bill that would effectively shield pesticide companies from class action lawsuits....

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1/2 "Public lands already make $billions/yr for the US through tourism, but since the 70s, the right wing has come to see public ownership of lands as an affront to the idea individuals should be able to use resources they believe God has put there for them to use....

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1/2 "While news media and some investors may still be credulous enough to believe Trump’s boasts, harder-headed players will look at his U-turns and conclude that he runs away when confronted. Why would China be 'very nice' now that it knows that Trump can be rolled? ...

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"No one who voted for Hegseth and has stubbornly refused to denounce his predictable incompetence, buffoonery, and lack of candor should ever hold a top national security post—or, for that matter, be re-elected to their current jobs." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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1/2 "This work is not glamorous. It’s not relaxing. But it is rewarding. It’s rewarding to see mothers and daughters marching together, holding protest signs in front of city hall. It’s rewarding to hear women decades older than me say they finally have hope—

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1/2 "Bill Owens gave a dire warning about Trump’s control over the network and his fear that CBS and Paramount were likely gearing up to reach a settlement with Trump on his ridiculous lawsuit. The fact that Bill Owens could no longer work at 60 Minutes tells you just how bad it is now at CBS....

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1/2 "Trump’s goal is obvious. He wants to shut down negative stories on him from 60 Minutes. He wants to humiliate 60 Minutes executives, CBS executives, and Shari Redstone. Trump wants to use ...

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"If Trump really wanted to arrest the decline in America’s fertility rate...the best thing he could do is resign in concert with his entire administration. The crude chauvinism his presidency represents is a major impediment to the creation of healthy families." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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"It leaked out Trump is looking to replace Hegseth. The White House denied this—which means we can start the countdown for Hegseth’s departure." My take: no one halfway competent would take this job knowing Trump wants to use US military against US citizens here. open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

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1/2 "The question now becomes: will the new pope, whoever he might be, come from the Francis school of relative modernity and genuine kindness of spirit, or will he be the sort of retrograde, doctrinaire, hardliner asshole—'enforcing church doctrine...

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1/2 "This pattern should terrify every American, regardless of politics. Today it's a Salvadoran immigrant; tomorrow it could be anyone labeled a 'threat' without evidence or trial. By 'anyone,' I mean you. Yes, you, the person reading this right now who thinks, 'I'm a citizen, so I'm safe.'...

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"When our govt scrubs references to protest suppression from its own reports, we have to ask...is this about what comes next here at home? If we stop naming suppression abroad, what happens when we are in the streets? This isn’t just bureaucratic. It’s a warning." open.substack.com/pub/welivedi...

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"For a while after the election investors loved Trump... But in the face of one idiotic policy move after another, they’ve gradually fallen out, and now seem to be capitulating. I think they still haven’t faced up to how bad it is, but they’re figuring it out." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"ProPublica reported the administration is looking to replace the federal government’s $700 billion internal expense card program, known as SmartPay, with a contract awarded to the private company Ramp. Ramp is backed by investment firms tied to Trump and Musk." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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