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@warren.senate.gov: "This is the Trump administration. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous for the billionaires. Billionaires win and everybody else loses. And they laugh about it."

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Alexander Smirnov, 44, was sentenced to six years in prison in early January after pleading guilty in federal court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme, which was described by prosecutors as an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

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ICYMI — Least surprising news of the week: Trump wants to free the informant who lied to the FBI about Biden. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

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Law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, 600 attorneys in 11 offices, moved to file an amicus brief yesterday, objecting to the arrest, detention, potential deportation of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was apprehended on the street and is being held in an ICE facility. DWT stands strong on DEI, too

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"the agents lied to school staff that they had been authorized by the children's parents and caretakers to go to their schools." www.yahoo.com/news/homelan...

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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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Who could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act? ❌69M women who changed their name after marriage ❌21.3M Americans who don't readily have access to proof of citizenship documents ❌3.8M Americans who don't have proof of citizenship documents at all www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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“Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead” A senior exec who objected was “marched out of his office” and put on leave. @WashingtonPost.com scoops wapo.st/3RKSQQt

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(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today sent a letter to Avelo Airlines expressing his deep disappointment and asking a series of vital questions regarding the company’s decision to enter into a contract to operate charter flights for the U.S. . portal.ct.gov/ag/press-rel...

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"It was eight last week, 50 now," said Hayden Nguyen, the co-chair of SJP at ASU and a sophomore studying business policy and management. "We don't know where it's going to be next week, and we need to build a really strong movement." www.statepress.com/article/2025...

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after ~5 years at The Information, i've been laid off, alongside 2/3rds of our features team. i am devastated. if you're looking for an experienced investigative reporter with a knack for producing high impact features about tech and business, please reach out: [email protected] DMs open

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President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials Thursday to investigate two of his former first-term officials who publicly refuted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and criticized his chaotic administration from within.

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1. A #measles 🧵: #CDC reports that as of 4/10, there were 712 confirmed measles cases & 3 measles deaths in 25 states across the US to date this year. Many of them are linked to the West Texas outbreak, with individual states reporting: Texas, 541; New Mexico, 58; Kansas, 32; Oklahoma, 12.

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Voters are now rejecting Trump in huge numbers, sending his Disapproval rating to -12 points, about 10 points WORSE than Jimmy Carter numbers, and this only after 2 months in office. Popok dives in to the significance of these numbers the link below! 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4T...

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Nikkei getting crushed right now

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80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.

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small but significant thing I've noticed on Fox Business on days when market is tanking & Trump is president - they only show the Nasdaq ticker in the corner, not the Dow, to give people the impression the market isn't down as much as it actually is (the Dow is currently down more than 1,100 points)

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Just got an email from the University of Illinois (my employer) about "actions taken by federal immigration authorities that affect international students and scholars." Says "complacency is not a solution," adding that "international diversity is one of the things that makes Illinois so special."

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🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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NEWS: The House narrowly voted to approve the GOP budget blueprint by a vote of 216-214, which aims to make massive cuts to Medicaid and give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

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In a ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia said the men had presented enough evidence to pursue their lawsuit accusing Trump of defaming them in comments he made during the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

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BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts allows Trump to fire two independent agency heads. This comes after the administration signaled its intent to challenge a 90-year-old ruling that inhibits presidents from firing such officials. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

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Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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✅ DEI Job of the Day™ Walgreens Director, Inclusion "Embracing the Value of Diversity: Walgreens values the diverse backgrounds, experiences, knowledge, and skills of all employees" "Diversity and inclusion is at the center of everything we do." Apply here: jobs.walgreens.com/en/job/-/-/1...

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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued used underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

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Tammy Bruce,Spokesperson for the United States Department of State: ◾️China is a major enabler of Russia in the war ◾️China provides nearly 80% of the dual-use items Russia needs to sustain the war ◾️The USA is aware that Ukraine captured 2 Chinese soldiers fighting on Russia's side.It's "disturbing"

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Spread by strong winds in bone-dry conditions, South Korea's largest and deadliest wildfires have killed scores of people and charred thousands of hectares in the southeastern part of the country reut.rs/42okc3Y

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Drugmakers' stocks in Europe and India slipped after US President Donald Trump reiterated plans for a 'major' tariff on all pharmaceutical imports and as 'reciprocal' tariffs kicking in led to further carnage in global markets reut.rs/4j2kbd9

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Cantwell: "You're telling us in your testimony you want a tariff on semiconductors. I'm saying that the last administration and this organization here passed the CHIPS and Science Act so we could reshore semiconductors. You're not going to win the innovation economy by tariffing semiconductors."

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Welp www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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A win for press freedoms and the First Amendment!

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As a show of loyalty to the Kremlin, the Trump regime is opting to pull 10,000 US troops from Eastern Europe, specifically those currently stationed across Poland, Romania, and the Baltic, in an effort to weaken NATO defenses against Russia.

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This is an objectively pro crime, pro criminal administration.

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The New Civil Liberties Alliance sued the president, claiming that Trump’s decision to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give him the power to “usurp” Congress’s right to control tariffs or “upset the Constitution’s separation of powers.”

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Interesting op-ed about blue collar work as MAGA meme. The problem is that tariffs won’t create jobs quickly, if at all. An industrial policy and targeted investment (see: Biden) will , over time, create today’s version of blue collar jobs. Tariffs won’t. (gift link)

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Last week, ICE agents violently removed farmworker organizer and advocate Alfredo Juarez from his car while dropping his partner off at work. He was likely targeted because of his work for farmworkers’ basic rights, such as overtime pay & protections from extreme heat. www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...

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The cumulative number of confirmed dairy herds in the US that have been infected with #H5N1 #birdflu has hit 1,000, with #USDA confirming one new infection each in California and Nevada. 17 states have had confirmed infections since the outbreak was first recognized in March 2024.

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

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Iran's foreign minister said upcoming nuclear talks at the weekend will be conducted indirectly, contradicting President Donald Trump's assertion that they would be direct talks. www.newsweek.com/iran-nuclear...

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"Point-Blank": Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uut...

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spotted in the toronto star

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