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English/Rhetoric Ph.D.: Rhetoric, Black Studies, & Critical Theory. "With fear for our Democracy, I dissent." Justice Sotomayor 👉Resist Fascism👈
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Grateful to my friend and MD colleague @ChrisVanHollen for traveling to El Salvador to try to check on Abrego Garcia’s condition. We will not let up the pressure on the self-proclaimed dictator of El Salvador or the aspiring dictator here. We will continue the fight to bring Abrego Garcia home.

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cut www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

Missouri senator wants to stop absentee ballots being tossed out for improper signatures (LISTEN) www.missourinet.com/2025/04/18/m...

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Don't miss our daily coverage of the Democracy Movement. Today's features include protests in Maryland and at a Salvadoran consulate in support of Kilmar Abrego García + plans for a second economic boycott Stay informed and stay involved by visiting mobilize.us

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)

First episode is NOW AVAILABLE!!! We take a look at I Love Lucy, Season 1, Episodes 1-17 in this first episode highlighting one of the most formidable comedians in TV history. Comment below and let us know how you enjoyed Braless Watch today!

Check us out! We can be found on Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Amazon Music. Apple users are up next as we get ourselves established. Enjoy!! Here's a link to our trailer: open.spotify.com/show/379o2P1...

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while he was holding a knife died after being removed from life support, his family said.

Keep fucking around Donald. You underestimated America. We were literally built for this shit. You will find out.

A Florida high school teacher’s community is rallying behind her after the school district chose not to renew her teaching contract because she called a student by their preferred name without parental permission. cnn.it/42bzhH6

This has to be the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard of.

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"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus."—Turkish proverb

Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for his misogynistic views, has been accused of raping two women and threatening one of them with a gun, in a claim filed in Britain. nyti.ms/4lsaJkO

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

“It’s like, what if we took this digital community that exists, and what if we made it in real life?” Meet the "TheoBros" who are building community offline.

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...

Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:

Our top story: “Many of these technologies are eroding that reasonable expectation of privacy that people have, and [are] kind of leading to this police surveillance state, where the government ends up having … information about people without having to get a warrant.”

The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.

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Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the facility is engaging in unsanitary practices similar to those that led it to temporarily shut down just three years ago, sparking a nationwide formula shortage.

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A DHS spokesperson defended Trump’s gutting of the agency’s civil rights office, saying of the fired staffers: “rather than supporting law enforcement efforts, they often functioned as internal adversaries to slow down operations.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

“The Trump administration’s attempt to deny due process is especially galling because the man who leads it has benefited from—some might say exploited—his own right to due process so extensively and so recently,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in the Atlantic Daily:

Since there's a lot of discussion about #treasuries, bonds, and yields, I'm going to give a quick thread on what they are. ##EconSky

Burning the library of Alexandria to own the libs. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

The Supreme Court paused a lower-court court order that reinstated thousands of probationary federal workers fired by the Trump administration earlier this year.

NEW at SCOTUS: lawyers for Abredo Garcia, the Maryland man the government sent to the El Salvador prison by mistake, file a follow-up "sur-reply" arguing the govt can surely bring him back and that statements from the DOJ lawyer who has now been put on leave cannot be disavowed.

In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

One of two things is happening. They don’t understand what’s happening. They want it to happen. Pick your poison

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has officially announced that he is running for Senate. So here's everything you need to know about him—if you care about reality. Let's start with the fact that he had to take literal ethics classes after he was indicted for securities fraud. (1/5)

The President of the United States seems oddly focused on me. Shouldn't he be focused on the economy he's crashing?

The president has demanded an explanation from Beijing and accused it of aligning itself with Russia in the war. www.ft.com/content/930c...

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big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"