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Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):

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Breaking News: The Trump administration abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,000 visas held by international students.

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Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

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Dugan, the judge recently arrested by the FBI on allegations of helping an undocumented immigrant avoid ICE arrest, is also a former executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

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hey @slotkin.senate.gov, I’m sure the citizens of majority-Black Detroit that voted overwhelmingly for you and without whom you likely wouldn’t have won your race would like you to be verrry specific on what you mean by “woke”

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“he used his personal phone number to join Sleeper .com, a fantasy football and sports betting site, using the username PeteHegseth. Less than two weeks later, a phone number associated with his wife, Jennifer, also joined the site. She was included in one of the two Signal chats about the strikes”😂

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Trump's admin has dropped, withdrawn, or halted investigations into OVER 100 CORPORATIONS including: - JPMorgan - Bank of America - Coinbase - Gemini - Robinhood - Space X It's the best time to be a corporate criminal, and the absolute worst time to be a consumer.

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🚨🚨🚨🚨

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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

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This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

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Breaking news from the kindness front.

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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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Wow! California is now the 4th largest economy in the world, surpassing Japan! abc7news.com/post/califor...

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JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"'What I’ve seen with Hegseth – never in my life have I ever seen this,' the former senior official said of the regular presence of the secretary’s wife..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...

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Amazing that 200k people will come to one place for the NFL Draft but won’t do it to save our neighbors, democracy, constitution, safety, livelihoods, sanity, etc. Further proof of how we arrived at this point.

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Sixth in the line of succession, everybody

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Trump executive order seeking to impose proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration. Big victory for our clients DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Sen. Schumer and Cong. Jeffries. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

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Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports

submitted 23 hours ago • 825 comments

Wrong. Anyone who doesn’t already know the word should learn it and will!

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

If only LOL!

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Happy birthday to @barbrastreisand.bsky.social, whose 1973 fundraiser kept our co-founder Daniel Ellsberg’s legal fight alive long enough for him to win. She kept Dan out of jail for leaking the Pentagon Papers; now we’re continuing his fight to defend whistleblowers.

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Ah Christ. The cybertruck he was in crashed and caught on fire: www.tmz.com/2025/04/24/a...

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When we push back we get results

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Our cover this week.

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On today’s solemn anniversary, I join Armenians in California, all around the United States and around the world in remembering the 1.5 million men, women, and children who were systematically targeted in a campaign of mass murder, rape, and brutalization by the Ottoman Empire.

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Today, we remember the 1.5 million Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide and the countless lives forever changed. We honor their memory and reaffirm our commitment to justice for the 120,000 Armenians forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh just two years ago.

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

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“Many professors contacted said the proposed compact was vital to ensure they are protected from a White House that has cut research funding, revoked visas of international students and tried to direct curriculum at some institutions.”

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“Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge”

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This is really really scary and bad www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Mahmoud Khalil Rümeysa Öztürk Mohsen Mahdawi Alireza Doroudi Kseniia Petrova Kilmar Ábrego García Andry José Hernández Romero + 100s More Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized. Don’t forget their names & don’t look away. Keep fighting until justice is served & every abuse of power is held to account.

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Must-read.

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Say. This.

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The cutbacks could be devastating in Oregon. The chipmaker is the state's largest employer and makes Oregon's most valuable product.

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Yup.

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Today marks Yom HaShoah — the day of remembrance for the six million Jewish lives who were murdered during the Holocaust. It’s our responsibility together to fight the rise of antisemitism, bigotry, and hatred wherever it is found. Never again means never again.

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I've said it for months, but I'll say it again. They want to bring Jim Crow back, but nationally this time. If you have brown skin you'll be included. People should read up on it, because it's even worse than you think.

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They tried to frame family detention families as SUMMER CAMPS for migrants Now they are trying to spin PRISONS IN EL SALVADOR as some type of manufacturing plant that "the media doesn't want you to see" Sharing this @reuters.com clip so we can all witness these horrible conditions

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This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

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“We have reached out to all three and never heard back,” said Pamala Buzick Kim, co-founder of Stay in LA, a grassroots campaign aimed at spurring local production. www.latimes.com/entertainme...

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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

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

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But women are too emotional? LOL.

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