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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Constituents were forcibly removed from a town hall meeting held by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday and officers used a stun gun on at least two of the men. Listen as they drag one of the men out and he says, "is this really happening?"

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In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.

submitted 17 hours ago • 93 comments

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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IMPORTANT. PLEASE SHARE. Musk's illegally deployed generators are pumping 16.7 tons of formaldehyde into a Memphis neighborhood long plagued by environmental racism, says @justinjpearson.bsky.social unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/elon...

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Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

!!!

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If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

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fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

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The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 20 hours ago • 1132 comments

Please welcome back to the stage… Pugsley Addams.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

I have really good news to announce to everyone. Because of our reporting and many readers contacting Planned Parenthood of Arizona, the organization will NOT over comply with Trump, and is restarting its trans adult care. Good work everyone.

submitted 20 hours ago • 101 comments

New favorite animal unlocked.

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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."

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New from me: I talk with the Jewish coalition that is forming to fight back against Trump's authoritarian attack on democratic rights, deportations, and repression of anti-war activists. @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org and others. truthout.org/articles/jew...

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High-stakes hearing today at 4PM ET: Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, deported to El Salvador and jailed in Bukele’s CECOT prison, gets first court review since Bukele vowed not to send him back. Case before Judge Paula Xinis in federal court. #Immigration #HumanRights, trump constitutional crisis

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David Remnick does a great job pushing Murphy on not abandoning trans people.

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Democratic Party leaders. We need you to get on TV & social media to detail exactly what you’re doing to get Garcia back from El Salvador. You need to tell the truth about where we are in the authoritarian takeover of the U.S. Stop asking for donations until you show us you’re real leaders.

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Days after a Louisiana judge ruled to allow the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to proceed, and just hours after ICE abducted Columbia student and green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi, thousands held an emergency Passover Seder outside the ICE headquarters in New York City last night.

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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Lobbyists desperate for more seasonal foreign worker visas held an event at Mar-a-Lago—noting the chance of meeting Trump in person—and a stay at Doral. Just days later the Trump administration raised the visa cap, and Trump’s own company took advantage of it, requesting its own foreign workers

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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"The evidence is now so strong that ME/CFS is a serious multisystem neuro-immune disease that it becomes intellectually embarrassing for anyone to continue to consider it to be a psychosomatic disorder." The Countess of Mar 💥

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This is the result I got when I did a Google search on Kilmar Abrego Garcia just now Those who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future

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“Over 60K people were detained under the state of emergency” implemented by Nayib Bukele. “Many arrests appear to have been based on the appearance or social background of the detainees,” & “human rights groups have documented that hundreds of people w/ no connection to gangs have been detained” 1/

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BREAKING: The United Mineworkers and United Steelworkers unions are suing the Trump admin over its decision to delay enforcement of a lifesaving new silica rule meant to curb the black lung epidemic in Appalachia. My exclusive for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Introduce articles of impeachment. Even if it won't make it to the floor. It's your duty to try, IMHO.

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AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.

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Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

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China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

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insane to repeat their self-propaganda like this, with nothing but a flimsy pair of single-quotes. i could call myself the world's hottest writer but they wouldn't put it in the headline bc it's not fucking true www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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MILLER: “A DOJ lawyer, who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing that this was a mistaken removal. It was not.” Astonishing stuff — DOJ conceded even to SCOTUS that the deportation was “administrative error.” Is Trump’s Solicitor General also a saboteur?

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"The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’"

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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

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How about make Albuterol and EpiPen over the counter and leave Ivermectin alone 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

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Targeting a number only further encourages the haphazard and arbitrary nature of the deportations taking place. Just grab people and make the number go up, due process or justifications be damned.

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Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

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“NY Academy of Family Physicians (NYSAFP), which represents nearly 6,000 physicians, residents & students in family medicine, is deeply concerned by the news of a proposal to ban face masks & coverings in public that is now being pushed for inclusion in the NYS Budget” www.nysafp.org/2025/03/27/f...

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

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