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Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.

Stop taking this administration at its word

🧵 Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa. Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID #OnYourSide VC pslspokane

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...

The veteran in question was an immigrant who served two tours of duty in Vietnam before he became an American citizen. I’m not sure Martin read the fine print on this one.

This part

Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

A convicted criminal who has had endless trials wants to make it so he can imprison or kill anyone he wants without a trial.

ICE would post up outside the manger to disappear Mary to a foreign torture prison after snatching the baby Jesus and holding him in a private, for-profit tender-age detention facility.

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

Literally every single day, United States leadership in scientific research is being tossed in the trash like rotting food and all that power is being ceded to Europe, China, and any other country with a leader that has a brain.

One problem. The Biden administration never banned gas water heaters. More bad performance art from Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

“Art of the Deal" means "Americans pay more while the UK gets a discount.” Such winning.

Trump is lying. India and Pakistan both say the United States wasn’t involved in negotiating the ceasefire.

And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

I’m incredibly concerned by the events of the past 24 hours that have dangerously escalated the military confrontation between India and Pakistan. 🧵1/4

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.

We are not under invasion. There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights. Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Members of Congress assaulted by ICE as Mayor of Newark attempted to protect them and was arrested

Donald Trump, convicted of 34 felonies, was given immunity by the Supreme Court — and then his stolen classified docs and Jan 6th insurrection cases disappeared. If truly "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" then he'd be in prison right now instead of the White House.

NEWS: Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested for writing an op-ed criticizing her school leaders' response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, has been released from ICE detention. The judge had stated 'there is no evidence' for the Trump regime to detain her.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW unless you have the money to bribe the guy with the sharpie into giving you a pardon of course

Newsom: This is serious. And what happened yesterday was not very serious—and that was this so-called deal with the UK that actually hurts American automobile manufacturers. Don’t take my word for it—GM and others came out with a statement

Folks, this wasn't a protest. It was elected officials trying to do oversight of a PRIVATE ICE PRISON. The ICE Gestapo apparently went for the Mayor after receiving a phone call.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has requested everyone use the name Pope Leo XIV when addressing him. No one seems to have a problem with using the name he’s chosen despite it not being his birth name. Seems like a courtesy we might extend to everyone if they request it.

When Trump took office, there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, hostages were being released, and aid was getting into Gaza. Now, none of that is true. The blockage of aid is causing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Israel is readying a long-term occupation of the Strip.

Word is Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking records and testimony from journalists. Please be mindful of how you communicate use secure formats, follow established guidance, and above all, protect your identity at all costs.

When JD Vance tried to claim Catholic teaching justifies MAGA policies, Pope Francis responded that Vance needs to meditate more on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In this exchange, @mattpolprof.bsky.social is very good on Catholicism and MAGA cruelty: newrepublic.com/article/1950...

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs? We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to fire Judge Karen Ortiz, who became a symbol of resistance after speaking out against a Trump administration directive that ordered the agency to pause discrimination investigations.

Trump just fired the first Black person to serve as the Librarian of Congress. She has been in that position since 2016 and is the first professional librarian to hold the position since 1974.

I cannot emphasize enough how alarming it is the president does not understand how bad these supply chain shortages will hurt the overall US economy for the short and long-term as a result of his economic policies and his administration's approach to international trade.

“In an oft-cited study, as many as 66.5% of people who file for bankruptcy blame medical bills as the primary cause. As many as 550,000 people file for bankruptcy each year for this reason.” Health care should not be a for-profit enterprise. Moms for Medicaid #MomSky

Maybe if our president wasn’t a convicted criminal who repeatedly vowed to get revenge on his political opponents…

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

Kamala Harris holds an Economics degree…

They’re the same picture

SCOOP: CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.

“But … seriously? A pope who adhered to Christ’s teachings AND the Church’s longtime policies on immigration, EVEN WHEN MISTER PRESIDENT TRUMP DISAGREED? HOW VERY DARE THEY!”

That means empty shelves, an economic slowdown, and layoffs, actually.

The new Pope retweeted this calling Trump’s first term immigration policies as an abandonment of American values.

Wyden: "We have the CBO, which is really the gold standard of objectivity, saying that 100% of the cost savings in the Republican proposal come from terminating coverage, cutting benefits like home care, or reducing payments to providers. I don't think that's a prescription for much good in America"