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I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

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Die in service to your employer sounds like the dystopian we were all warned about. Are we going to make traffic controllers start sleeping on cots and ensure they never touch grass again?

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Thank god someone is finally doing this, even if it’s Newsome.

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Come on California. Those are rookie numbers. You can do better.

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If you make under $14,000, the Republican budget will cost you $1,125 a year. If you make under $38,000, it will cost you $430. But if you make more than $650,000 a year, you'll get handed $43,500. Happy Tax Day.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

A federal judge has ruled that five government agencies must release billions in funding for climate and infrastructure projects paused under Trump. Judge Mary McElroy — a Trump appointee — issued the temporary injunction. It instructs the admin to release the funds while a lawsuit proceeds.

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If your reaction to seeing pics like these is revulsion, congrats. Seeing people treated like cattle, dehumanized & degraded, should make you shudder. Regimes want you to see fellow human beings as animals so you become numb to atrocities done in your name & with your money. Don’t let them succeed.

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The news your morning needed.

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Meet the Sakura, the best-selling electric car in Japan. It has driver assistance, auto-parking, fast charging, bi-directional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000. www.wired.com/review/revie...

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

The tariffs are juicing someone’s economy it’s just not ours.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3740 comments

“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

submitted 12 hours ago • 217 comments

What Judge Xinis is banking on is that the government does not want to spend two weeks in discovery. Two big things can happen: (1) They just make the call and get him back (2) They spend two weeks creating a public record of their own fuck ups and then get sanctioned

submitted 18 hours ago • 378 comments

Cops tazed a Black man and they manhandled this guy at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Town Hall in Cobb County, Georgia. Find these folks a good civil rights attorney and bury them in lawsuits. Unacceptable use of force and MAGA cheered. Vile.

submitted 15 hours ago • 315 comments

report with alt text community-led arrest preventions or de-arrests are incredibly effective. UK antifascists have done this to great success to protect refugees over the past 5 years. all about how quickly you can get people on the street to crowd the scene

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today. I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.

submitted 14 hours ago • 134 comments

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

🚨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 15 hours ago • 189 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 30 days ago • 1133 comments

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 15 hours ago • 146 comments

Very clear pic of the gleeful agent though. Noted.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 23 comments

Oh yikes. “Hong Kong Post said on Wednesday that it would suspend its postal service for items containing goods to the United States, for air mail from April 27, and said that Hong Kong residents should be prepared to pay "exorbitant and unreasonable fees".” www.yahoo.com/news/hong-ko...

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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.

submitted 20 hours ago • 274 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy. Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities. All with an average donation of $21. THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

submitted 22 hours ago • 1255 comments

Van Hollen has impressive diplomatic chops. His dad worked in foreign service & his mom was a CIA bureau chief. He grew up in the Middle East & has a foreign policy degree from Harvard. He’s going to be fine in El Salvador. Now which senators are going with him? www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

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 • 1127 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 19 hours ago • 1205 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 302 comments

Trump’s team decorated the Oval Office with tacky stick-on gold medallions from China because of course they did.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 19 hours ago • 191 comments

I TOLD YOU THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Juicing consumer spending numbers so they can pretend they’re not tanking the economy. Stop buying shit. You can’t out buy crazy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

If you want to know more about the dude (Dan Caldwell) who just got escorted out of the Pentagon because he pissed off Hegseth, he’s profiled here in a deep dive from Politico. He’s a fairly serious person surprisingly. Maybe that’s what doomed him in this regime. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

submitted 20 hours ago • 1036 comments

So now we’re saying that people can be imprisoned for future crimes? I swear I saw this movie and it didn’t end well for anyone.

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"If Ukraine’s story is to be told accurately and powerfully, it must be told by those who live it. But they can’t do it alone," writes Kyiv Independent's CEO Daryna Shevchenko in her recent op-ed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

Either the U.S. government is able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

submitted 1 day ago • 1608 comments

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion Now he’s down to $150 billion And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services This clown will cut $58 billion Maybe

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I suppose we all better learn how to grow tomatoes in a pot by the window cause whew.

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Vermont mud season update: I took a walk today without my muck boots. It’s finally happening. The dirt roads are drying out.

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Alarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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😮 HIDING ICE FLIGHTS: ICE charter flights by GlobalX have been removed from many flight trackers, and given the call sign TYSON --previously associated w/ Secret Service and a B52 bomber squadron. Tracked by tail number, here is TYSON41 which departed Texas en route to a destination South America:

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Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks. austinkocher.substack.com/p/trump-is-q...

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If you want to know what the stock market is doing this week, it’s basically traumatized and just kind of puttering around waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sounds familiar.

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The cacophony of frogs mating and proliferating right now on my pond is low-key alarming. Like a horror movie left on in the background.

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This is your periodic reminder that DOGE is still staging a coup. And now they have your data. Pretty much all of it. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ap...

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As a writer, I find some of my best work is when I try to write about something I don’t know much about. Because first I have to learn it. And I bring a lot of questions to my research that readers will also have. The process of writing is the final step of solidifying that learning within myself.

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