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"Democracy Dies When Billionaire Weasels Own Newspapers." - Borowitz

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Elon Musk has lost about $1 Billion a day since Trump took office, per Ari Melber on MSNBC Se chingo.

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Is "60 Minutes" on life support? Powerful piece by Marvin Kalb.

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Apr 17: Jerome “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!” Apr 22: Trump says he never intended to fire Powell. “The press runs away with things,” he said.

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Francis taught his followers “to open our hearts to the cry of the poor.” - Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, the Archbishop of Mexico

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#BeHuman Pope Francis Rest in Peace

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Today, President Trump told the U.S. Supreme Court to fuck off. Now it’s up to us. The future is in our hands. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Trump today, when asked if US citizens can be sent to prisons in El Salvador: “I don’t know what the law is…” but he’s willing to do it.

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The self-described “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele, met today with President Trump, the world’s most incompetent dictator. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

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"I'm very flexible. I don't change my mind, but I'm very flexible." - President Trump when asked about possible exemptions to his wide-ranging tariffs policy.

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In Oct. experts said there would be no post-pandemic recession. The odds now? 60%, says Trump ally Jaime Dimon of JP Morgan and former Obama adviser Larry Summers.

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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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Trump’s pre-legacy legacy.

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NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

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Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

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“I told you so…” - Kamala Harris. Yes, you did.

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“I told you so…” - Kamala Harris. Yes, you did.

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“Liberation Day” apparently liberated us from what the Economist Magazine in October called the “Envy of The World.”

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Trump’s 145 percent tariffs on China could put droves of US soybean farmers out of business. The head of the American Soybean Association says he doesn’t regret voting for Trump but “sure hopes” the president knows what he’s doing. - BBC News, April 11, 2025

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Now comes the moment of truth. Will Trump obey the law?

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To Trump, up is down, wrong is right, and black is white, or should be.

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Oh, I get it now. When you lose you win. A loss is a profit. A tariff is not a tax. A lie is not a lie. Got it!

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Translation: Trump is likely getting calls from corporate agribusiness leaders who understand the inevitable consequences of the president's cruel and inane mass deportation policy.

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This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

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Small victories in the face of Trump's deluge of destruction.

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RFK Jr. is killing our children.

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Coming to an authoritarian leader near you.

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NEW: A Russian-American woman who spent more than a year imprisoned in Russia over allegations of financially supporting Ukraine’s military returned to the U.S. Thursday night after a prisoner exchange.

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My latest for @azmirror.com "If the response to [Trump's] agenda by a growing and diverse contingent of Americans in the past few weeks is any indication, including by people who voted for him in November, Trump will not erase us."

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Did President Trump commit insider-trading this morning by telling people to buy stocks two hours before he announced his tariff pause and the stock market skyrocketed? Asking for a friend. time.com/7276234/trum...

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Someone brought a Greenland flag to the Milwaukee #HandsOff protest. The flag-waving hero is seen right at the start of this footage.🫡 🇬🇱🙌🇬🇱🙌🇬🇱

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What are you listening to this morning? Tune in to the latest episode of the Vanguardia America #podcast to hear Mona Alvarado Frazier chat with @jamesegarcia.bsky.social about her critically acclaimed #YAnovel, A BRIDGE HOME!

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OPINION | Never let a drunk, racist uncle, or Donald Trump, take over the microphone. Or your country. via @jamesegarcia.bsky.social

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OPINION | It’s one thing to be the most powerful man on earth, but quite another to expect that a critical mass of this country’s 330 million citizens are willing to abet their own demise. via @jamesegarcia.bsky.social

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Trump says he "paused" his tarriffs because "people were getting yippie." Oh, not because Wallstreet was screaming in your ear?

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Trump said world leaders were “kissing my ass” over his tariff chaos, so he paused most of them for 90 days. In other words, he was winning so he quit. Make sense? Of course not, because it’s total bullshit. The truth? Trump folded like a cheap deck of cards.

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Breaking: Trump pauses most “reciprocal tariffs” because he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing from one day to the next.

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Trump said, “The United States is going to take off like a rocket ship.” Have we taken off yet?

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The stock markets around the world are caving. Thank President Trump. Experts say his tariffs could trigger a “global recession.”

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A second child had died of measles in Texas. Anti-vax activist/HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. now says people should get vaccinated. One child too late.

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