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“We’re already at the bottom,” Antonio said. “How much further down can we go?” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

Yesterday was Trump's 100th day in office. One thing is clear: The criminal legal system is worse off now than it was 100 days ago It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective: www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...

I went back to Twitter to verify this is real. My God.

WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.

Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

US Citizens living abroad being denied passport renewals www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr4h5cv/

Trump signed an executive order letting educators physically discipline kids—and this school principal’s response is perfect: “No. We’re not going to be doing that. It feels like a set up.” Because it is.

A large protest has started to grow at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee Wisconsin in response to the arrest of a judge in chambers by regime forces.

A terrifying warning from the CEO of a consumer products company about what is about to hit the economy from Trump’s tariffs.

Trans icon Miss Major was just denied entry on to a plane in Arkansas because her ID had an X gender marker on it.

We elected this man president 25 years ago and then Republican Supreme Court Justices stole our future

I led the DOJ working group that developed regulations for prisons and jails to combat sexual abuse as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) — a bill that, incidentally, passed Congress unanimously. I suspect this decision may be lawless; regardless, it is a travesty.

"The latest firings comes as dozens of courts around the country are already facing vacancies after the Trump administration laid off or received resignations from over 100 court staff, including over two dozen judges." thepublicsradio.org/npr/trump-fi...

This is a terrible terrible destructive decision. These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become. This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.

"With President Donald Trump’s second term approaching its 100-day mark, 40% of Americans approve of how he’s handling the job – a decline of 7 percentage points from February." pewrsr.ch/4jLDt6r

This is absolutely hilarious. Sander’s asks for one of those federal handouts she claims to loathe; and then her former boss who she’s sworn her undying devotion to tells her… “NO” 🤣 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful. Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.

OMG, ALL of this!!! Must watch

They are not part of normal discourse. BUT "Skew-T" diagrams that come from soundings w weather balloons are *irreplaceable* as guides to weather in general, dangerous weather in particular. Pilots use them for icing/clouds. Everyone else, for tornado/ derecho/ etc alerts. Now being cut. Insanity

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

"I pick up my copy of Viktor Frankl’s 'Man’s Search for Meaning.' I feel ashamed to compare my conditions in ICE detention with Nazi concentration camps, yet, some aspects of Frankl’s experience resonate ... " wapo.st/4czL2dT

Lot of people dunking on this clip, but Murkowski, asked for advice for people who are afraid to speak up, acknowledges that she shares that fear. But she then says it's "not right" that people are made to be afraid of retaliation for speaking up, and says it won't stop her from doing her job.

We @sddfund.bsky.social are proud to be part of the coalition of unions, lawyers, and pro-democracy groups litigating against DOGE We will continue advocating for workers delivering essential services to Americans nationwide

It tells you everything about this Administration that they think private universities need more oversight than cops.

Posting this for the umpteenth time.

Says a prayer just before going out and lying to everyone. Amazing. (🎥 White House Comms)

Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.

I guess it’s good to know that the next Democratic president can ship Trump and his cabinet off to a Central American prison without a trial and we won’t ever have to worry about them coming back.

Bravo

Harvard University just announced they will refuse to comply with Trump after he threatened to withhold their funding if they don’t dismantle their support for diversity. “No government should dictate what private universities can teach.”

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

This episode of The Daily incredibly enlightening. A small business owner—a veteran—who makes baby gear breaks down what tariffs are doing to her company, and how impossible it is to plot any alternative future with the chaos that Trump is causing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This raw sewage story feels like something 60 Minutes should really lean into before CBS pulls them off the air for good at the request of the Trump admin.

The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

A very, very good question.

The Democrats who seek to play ball with the would be dictator in the White House and his team are disqualified as leaders of the party. Now and always. Period. Those who are candidates again must be challenged and defeated. For the country’s sake. There can be no compromises with tyranny.

The commitment to dysfunction here is amazing.

If I were a Dem, I’d be holding a press conference rn about how Trump is thinking about giving people in Greenland $10k a year at the same time he’s inflicting a 145% tariff tax on Americans who buy goods from China.

when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

The new enforcement role for Social Security is raising fears that faulty data could result in people, including American citizens, mistakenly or improperly being placed on the list, upending their financial lives ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

We never had to doom scroll past midnight through posts about skyrocketing treasury yields, a collapsing bond market, and plunging stock futures when Joe Biden was president. The only reason they should have called him Sleepy Joe is because we were able to sleep at night.

4:00 pm PST TALE OF TWO MARKETS. Equities are showing surprising optimism and even recovery after historic selloffs. But the bond, CDS, and currency markets are flashing bright red and signaling elevated systemic stress. The divergence between asset classes has rarely been this stark

The Republican Party owns every part of the end of US dominance, should it come to pass. They are stealing your future, and your childrens' future, and they need to pay.

Just because.