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This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 291 comments

Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

submitted 16 hours ago • 108 comments

💙 @noaa.gov 🌊

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

So, how many court orders does Trump have to ignore before Republicans in congress start giving a shit? www.axios.com/2025/04/15/w...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 14 hours ago • 142 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 20 hours ago • 475 comments

wild graph from @jacobbogage.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Seems like this would be a big deal for the Sincere Enemies of Anti-Semitism

submitted 19 hours ago • 50 comments

substack.com/@weissmann/n...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

"The Trump administration’s compliance with court orders started with foot-dragging, moved to semantic gymnastics and has now arrived at the cusp of outright defiance," @adamliptak.bsky.social writes www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Trump wants to kick citizens out of their homes – just bc they opened their doors to family. Parents, grandparents, & children — ALL will be kicked out their homes if they are part of a mixed-status family. This policy is hatred and cruelty towards immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

Please read the latest from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on Abrego Garcia. SCOTUS is not the victim of a defiant administration. They left Trump the wiggle room he needed. www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-st...

submitted 19 hours ago • 45 comments

"The CDC report undercuts claims by Kennedy and Trump, instead attributing the recent increase to better screening." @fenitn.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

They saw the iceberg, stayed on deck, and lit cigars to watch the ship sink the “others.” Woopsie.

submitted 20 hours ago • 147 comments

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

submitted 20 hours ago • 143 comments

Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

We are now at the point where the AP can write this as if its a simple background fact and it sparks no outrage: "Trump has made no secret of his plans to use the power of the federal government to target domestic political adversaries."

submitted 22 hours ago • 180 comments

It looks like the Trump regime is trying to hide ICE flights from the public tracker.

submitted 23 hours ago • 117 comments

A Palestinian student at Columbia University went into a Vermont immigration office hoping to begin the final step to becoming a US citizen. But instead of having an interview, Mohsen Mahdawi – who’s been in the United States for a decade – was taken away in handcuffs.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

You’d think that a president who claims to be revoking visas to stop political violence and stand up against antisemitism would have something to say when one of the most high profile Jewish elected officials in America is the target of an arson attack in his home on the first night of Passover.

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Outrageous. January 6 rioters caused $3 million of damage to our Capitol. We should not spend taxpayer dollars reimbursing them for the damage they caused. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

A day after Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, and Trump is again attacking Zelenskyy – sounding indistinguishable from a commentator on Russian state TV. And repeating the Kremlin lie that Ukraine started this war. Trump casts shame on himself and our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

submitted 1 day ago • 1904 comments

Today is the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and also the 160th anniversary of the most buried lede in the history of journalism. AP's dispatch from 1865:

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I think it's possible that Abrego Garcia will confess in El Salvador to some manufactured crime under duress, creating the pretext for keeping him there and buttressing the phony Trumpworld claim that this is El Salvador's decision. As a favor from one dictator to another.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie. ➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact. ➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie. ➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true. 🔄 Repeat

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Today the Trump administration is openly defying two court decisions (at least) — SCOTUS in the Abrego Garcia case and Judge McFadden (a Trump appointee) in the Associated Press case. There was a stay pending appeal in the AP case, but it ended yesterday. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It’s only a matter of time before Trump blames Poland for being invaded by the Nazis.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

A good summation.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There’s two reasons why: 1) they will never admit they were wrong 2) they’re not interested in doing things the proper way because they made a decision coming into this 2nd Trump presidency that laws and norms are for chumps and they won’t be bound by them

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

This just in from The AP, reflecting the fact that it prevailed over the Trump WH in court last week: "Our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today. We expect the White House to restore AP's participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order."

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

What was that about not cutting Medicaid? www.axios.com/2025/04/14/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.

submitted 2 days ago • 467 comments

Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, Dept determined that the admin had not produced any evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works. You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

NEW on @npr.org: A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have. More on the claims and the latest in DOGE access concerns:

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 3 days ago • 1042 comments

Previously, the arrests of pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses would’ve drawn instant attention from the DHS civil rights office’s First Amendment watchdogs, attorneys in the compliance branch said. That guardrail is gone. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

People missing the flip side of this: Of course Bukele will refuse to repatriate someone if he knows Trump doesn’t want him to.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments