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This is a hot mess of a policy proposal: Taxpayers who donate to voucher programs would get 100% of their money back when they file their taxes. That means the tax break for giving to voucher programs would dwarf tax incentives for giving to churches, hospitals, food banks & every other charity.

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Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽

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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

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ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

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Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:

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Photos show Mike Waltz checking Signal during yesterday’s cabinet meeting. Unreal. 📷:Reuters

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UPS said it expects to cut 20,000 jobs this year and close 73 buildings in the next two months, as the company reduces its business with Amazon and faces wider economic uncertainty.

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Katie Phang: And now that my time here at MSNBC comes to a close, I am taking that fight back to a familiar place… I hope you'll follow along with me as I continue to meet you where you are at places like Substack and YouTube with fellow truth tellers like MeidasTouch…

submitted 17 days ago • 1285 comments

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Again. They deported an American child with cancer AGAIN.

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I thought they were going to release the Epstein files? What happened to that whole thing?

submitted 20 days ago • 858 comments

Not even 100 days in—and a nonstop comedy of errors—except none of it’s funny. Some of this you probably didn’t know. And once you do, you’ll wish you didn’t. Part I

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Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent in my race, will reportedly not seek re-election. So it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself — I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.

submitted 20 days ago • 396 comments

A new day, a new horror. Ricardo Prada was detained by ICE, imprisoned in Texas & apparently deported. But no-one can find him. He has, literally, been disappeared. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell Law: “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing immigration law.”

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love this for us

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Incredible

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RIP government-funded research and the future advances they would have given us…

submitted 24 days ago • 169 comments

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"

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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

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The Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Dr. Lisa Anderson, who was born in Connecticut, which stated: “It is time for you to leave the United States." Anderson has been carrying her U.S. passport on her at all times since receiving the email and is seeking an immigration attorney.

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Translation "We're going to fuck elon and"... checks notes... "take credit for Biden's Infrastructure Bill and Chips and Sciences Act." Bravo

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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

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🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

submitted 28 days ago • 234 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 32 days ago • 2331 comments

A seamstress named Elsy Noemi Berrios was forcibly detained by masked agents who did not present a warrant. Elsy is about 52 years old & has an asylum case pending in court. Her teenage daughter filmed this terrifying scene. If they can do it to her, they can do it to you. Speak out now!

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Al Green says he’ll present articles of impeachment against Trump in next 30 days ca.yahoo.com/news/al-gree...

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The Justice Department has placed on administrative leave a government immigration lawyer who expressed frustration in court at not being able to answer key questions from a judge over a mistaken deportation case, according to two people familiar with the matter: cnn.it/4iPSKTA

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Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.

submitted 39 days ago • 2333 comments

We have a lot of good politicians.. but l have to tell you this guy has to be one of my favorites! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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I spent years telling Chris Murphy exactly what was happening; there are a ton of records. Do not fall for performative bullshit. They knew the Trump cohort plot the entire time. Demand action from them -- and repentance.

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Tonight @jysexton.bsky.social is interviewing me about my new book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP and our ongoing political crises -- during a tornado watch! This event will be livestreamed. Maybe you'll get to see my basement bunker! More info here: jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

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ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

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This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

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Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

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Duunnn, dunnn

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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

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