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The US Army’s Fort Bliss base in El Paso, Texas, has been chosen as a site to detain and house potentially thousands of migrants, and contracts have already been signed to start the construction of migrant facilities on the base, three defense officials told CNN

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

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The right-wing politicians who view Russia as an ally appear to be a disproportionately powerful minority out of step with most of the public they represent, Jonathan Mahler writes. “As radical as this particular agenda may seem, the broader phenomenon is one that the United States has seen before.”

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Two years after Elon Musk acquired the social platform, it’s fair to wonder if it’s even a business at all

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Betty Bowers has hit the nail on the head!

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RIP, hero. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 northpennnow.com/news/2025/ap...

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Incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

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The Justice Department asked a federal judge late Thursday to release a former FBI informant from prison pending appeal of his conviction on charges that he peddled misleading claims seized on by Trump allies to falsely accuse the Biden family of taking bribes.

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😬 what a gentleman

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Trump has broken through partisanship to make everyone unhappy

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Sanders: Elon Musk announced most of the people were paid organizers. Anybody here get paid to come today? Crowd: No

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BREAKING: Famed Economist Paul Krugman just told Ari Melber: "This Tariff pause is [still] a tariff rate that is higher overall than Smooth-Hawley. This is a bigger shock to the economy than any trade policy in any country’s history."

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We’re looking at you Marge 🤡

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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

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In case you missed it. Six Pussy Riot members came to NYC with an important message for us

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"The proposal....says it would target 'criminal illegal aliens' and would attempt to avoid legal challenges by designating part of the prison — which has drawn accusations of violence and overcrowding from human rights groups — AS AN AMERICAN TERRITORY." www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/u... Florida. MAGA wonderland.

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Everyone needs to see the best moments from Bernie Sanders and AOC’s rally in front of 36,000 people today. Something big is happening in this country.

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Trump’s tariffs are aimed at restoring US manufacturing in the name of national security. Instead, he’s alienating the allies he’d need in a potential war with China

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Oh this is VERY worrying

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Has anyone produced the contract by which El Salvador is holding folks for the US?

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From a republic to an autocracy. Star Spangled Banner: "And this be our motto--'In God [i.e., not in any one man and not even in any collective of human beings] is our trust.'" Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt yesterday: "Trust in President Trump. He knows what he's doing."

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Jayapal: How the hell are you gonna buy a house when the rent is already too damn high and Donald Trump is hiking up the prices of lumber and drywall..

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Abrego-Garcia’s lawyers have asked for expedited discovery from US officials with knowledge of the terms of any deal with El Salvador and of A-G’s whereabouts. Expect Judge Xinis to grant it over howling objection, and for 4th Cir to deny US emergency appeal.

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The UK Parliament has passed an emergency bill giving ministers control over British Steel, allowing them to direct staff and operations to keep production going.

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Bill Maher is dumber than you can ever imagine. I stopped paying attention when he became an anti-vaxxer.

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Elon Musk and President Trump are illegally and unconstitutionally cutting services that Americans rely on. While Republicans are cheering them on, my fellow Democrats and I are fighting back.

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El Salvadoran President Bukele is visiting the White House on Monday. What do you think the odds are that if the administration asked, in concurrence with the visit, for El Salvador to return Albrego Garcia that they would refuse? 10,000 to 1? Higher?

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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason. nyti.ms/42CtLMS

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Aspiring Nazi who wanted to overthrow the government. You'll rarely hear MAGA and Republicans talk about white supremacist terrorists. abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin...

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Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.

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Since ARKANSAS Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is who came to help push Gov. Lee’s voucher scam — let’s see how things are going with their program… 🤔 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

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In this case “moving fast and breaking things” is destroying the lives of every day Americans and this great country.

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When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.

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More lost American business; more lost American jobs.

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The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down. Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

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“They don’t view an honest discussion of policy as something they need to slow down and do.” We’re digging into the Trump team’s logic, or lack-there-of, with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.

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If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

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Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

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NYT page one: @nytimes.com

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Even doge admits Elon musk is cutting cancer research

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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

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Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app. Pure corruption.

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