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The word “Gulag” is an acronym for the Russian phrase Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration.

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Nobody from Target can explain why they thought ending DEI programs and cutting ties with Black businesses would have no impact on Black consumers spending money in their stores. They knew we'd stop. They simply underestimated the impact of us cutting them off. That's why it's still "no" for me.

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A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

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One thing you hear from staffers is that Congress can’t do its job anymore because electeds are poisonously addicted to social media - mainly reading about and defending themselves with alts.

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Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one. www.wired.com/story/fema-i...

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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

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"Whoever, under color of any law...willfully subjects any person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities on account of such person being an alien...if such acts include kidnapping...shall be...imprisoned for any term of years or for life...or...sentenced to death." -18USC§242

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Palestinian photog Fatima Hassouna killed in an Israeli air strike with nine family members 24 hours after the announcement that a documentary about her work in Gaza would premiere at Cannes. deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...

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MUST WATCH: U.S. Congressman Tom Burchett just proposed sending American citizens to El Salvador’s infamous prisons — where inmates are starved, tortured, and stripped naked for days. That’s a public declaration of state violence against citizens.

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We are at the point at which economic policy even on the left is being discussed in terms of the small group of workers who are men working in classic blue-collar jobs. Whilst the reality of modern America is...

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"Human beings in a mob What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a god? What's a god to a non-believer?"

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The U.S. is accelerating its transformation into the world’s largest immigration carceral state. What’s framed as detention is, in truth, a state-funded concentration system—where migrants are held in legal limbo, stripped of rights, and warehoused for profit with impunity.

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BREAKING UPDATE: Judge Amy Berman Jackson sets a hearing for 11a Friday (today) to decide whether CFPB officials violated the preliminary injunction w/ Thursday's RIF of most CFPB employees. A person w/ personal knowledge of the RIF must be present. Also: Relevant info re: RIF is to be filed by 10a.

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NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

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France finally acknowledged the debt they owe Haiti. This is just the beginning of something. I'm gonna republish the feed. This is important. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...

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Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

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The President of the United States is utterly out of control and possibly out of his mind, and only the Supreme Court of the United States can deliver the absolutely vicious permanent slapdown this moment requires. If that does not happen, the options for Americans appear to dwindle precipitously.

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ICYMI, this was today: 16- and 17-year olds in Newark voted in local school board elections. Why? City lowered voting age for school board races last month, to help teenagers get involved in matters that concern them AND develop habit of civic engagement. boltsmag.org/newark-teens...

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Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are: 20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services 24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs 26% of postal workers, 30% of the Dept. of Education That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.

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Sounds about right…👇 Doesn’t it?! 🤚

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NEW: A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

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We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.

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Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is a crime. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

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We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

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Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com What an absolute disgrace he has become. Beyond repulsive and shameful.

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BREAKING: A federal judge declared that Google's digital ad network is an illegal monopoly.

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As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Did you know there's a Native kids show on Netflix? Did you know its for everyone, cause most adults are at a preschool-level of familiarity with Indigenous people here? Did you know that show just got nominated for a Peabody?! 😍 Then go watch "Spirit Rangers" on Netflix NOW! 😊

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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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The Bukele government didn’t let US Senator Van Hollen in to see their mega prison, but here’s someone they did let in: an influencer and adventure youtuber who goes by Luisito Comunica

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Being human is the only requirement for human rights. There is no disability, diagnosis, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, criminal record, religion, country of origin, etc that disqualifies a person.

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I keep seeing Civil War fears on here. Who exactly is gonna be in this war cuz I know who won’t be. Y’all got it. All that fighting to have guns to protect your homes from a tyrannical government but now that the tyrannical government is here they’re too busy washing Teslas to fight.

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natalists: society must have more babies society: by offering financial support to families? natalists: no society: with affordable daycare? natalists: please stop

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A new curfew proposal would let Chicago police declare a curfew anytime, anywhere in the city. buff.ly/R3VhfPb

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Don’t let them fool you.

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WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Astronomers say they have found the strongest indication of life beyond our solar system, on a planet 124 light-years away called ‘K2-18b.’ While they have not declared the finding of life, they detected “potential biosignatures” that are typically produced by living organisms like marine algae.

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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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