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Bondi on Garcia: "That's up for El Salvador if they want to return him. That's not up to us."

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Hadn’t known about (or had known and forgotten about) the Nazi’s mass deportation of Polish Jews in 1938. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_ex...

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Free science journalism idea. The Direwolf people posted their research as a pre-print, which means it hasn't undergone peer review yet. Pre-prints are supposed to faciliate open peer review. Gather some qualified experts and have them peer review it and publish their responses. 🧪 #SciComm

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This is to the shame of our country

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In the wake of the ongoing disasters with funding streams, I'm seeing lots of folks suggest that scientists turn to social media crowdfunding to fund their research. For about a decade I held the record for the social media crowdfunded project that got the most funding. I received about $9,000.

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Imagine your own congressman screwing you over just to “own the libs.” Speaker Johnson: Working overtime to hand more cash to billionaires and big corporations — you know, the ones really struggling. He’s up for reelection along with the rest of the House. Stand up. Vote him out.

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“I believe there are more good Americans than those who support Donald Trump” @meeks.house.gov says Republicans are starting to “feel the pressure” from nationwide protests and people should continue to make their voices heard.

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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

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I have seen a few questions regarding Democracy Docket: 1. It does not sell subscriber or member information or email addresses. 2. It is not part of Substack or ActBlue. It is fearlessly independent, unapologetically pro-democracy. Subscribe now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/all-newsletters

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Trump is not done attacking our elections. He and his supporters plot every day to undermine the right to vote. They are constantly looking for opportunities to exploit weaknesses in the election system. This is their top priority. The question for us is whether it is ours as well.

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Area Man Claims To Be Strongest Leader in World But Can’t Ask El Salvador a Favor

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These two ❤️

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The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

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NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.

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Ro Khanna at the Fight Oligarchy Tour in LA: “You had the richest guy in the world spend $250 million to put Donald Trump back into the WH. Then Trump hands him the keys to slash Medicaid, gut public education, and rip food stamps away from families.”

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As health and environmental concerns about PFAs, or “forever chemicals,” mount nationally, states are beginning to legislate against them. Now, the chemical and consumer products industries are mounting a counterattack, deploying lawyers and lobbyists.

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On campuses nationwide, many students are saying that the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on antisemitism have caused a chilling effect on speech and political activity. By @elenamoore.bsky.social

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The chickens haven't really come home to roost yet (everything is about to double in price, tourists will no longer come to the U.S., much worse unintended consequences we don't have the imagination to conceive of) and people fucking hate this shit, generally loathe what's going on. Go on offense.

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Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”

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The path toward denaturalizing citizens goes hand-in-hand with undermining birthright citizenship. This is authoritarianism. If legal scholars care about the rule of law, we should not give support under any circumstances these flagrant abuses of human rights. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“I feel like something is happening generally in America…Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.” 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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Just spoke to @wbur.org about the Justice Department's defiant, disturbing response today to the Supreme Court's order in the Abrego Garcia case—listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

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This breaks me — because I can see my wife and daughter living through this. I don’t trust DHS, and you shouldn’t either because it could happen to anyone. They’re on a mission, and it feels lawless as hell.

submitted 2 days ago • 677 comments

isn’t that their job

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Why was there a spike in trade volume right before Trump announced his tariff pause? In a normal world, there would be a fear of breaking the law. And we'd have a bipartisan push for answers.

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Whatever it takes I guess

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It’s hard to think of anything he’s done in his second term that’s not impeachable.

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When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.

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youtu.be/UnlRrxXv-v8?...

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How Citizens United led us from Democracy to Oligarchy

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This is how oligarchy works.

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WATCH LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders in LA

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Strange how once-potential and high-rated 2024 Dem presidential candidates like Newsom and Whitmer are going out of their way to tank their 2028 prospects and undermine what made them so appealing to so many last year: their willingness to take on Trump and MAGA.

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Zeteo warned about Project Esther six months ago. As with Project 2025, everything that was promised by the far right is coming to pass. zeteo.com/p/project-es...

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would love to see a volume/time graph on these for the past week

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