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The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Musk has so much to say about German and French and British and Ukrainian and South African internal politics but never a word about China or Russia. Strange, right? 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/elon...

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Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

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Unbelievable in a democracy. The Secretary of State boasts in a press statement that the United States has deported alleged TdA gang members to El Salvador. And the State Department spokesperson refuses to say under what authority and if Alien Enemies Act used.⬇️

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The fact Trump created a special refugee/asylum status for (white) Afrikaners has been widely reported. This is the first reporting I've seen abt just how much we're doing/spending to essentially recruit Afrikaners to resettle in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

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After spending last three days in Wisconsin I’m more convinced than ever April 1 state Supreme Court election a referendum on whether Musk-Trump oligarchy will take over the states or if democracy still has a fighting chance. The stakes are that high www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

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No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it

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This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

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Goldberg: "Hegseth is promising that US warplanes are taking off in 30 minutes to bomb enemy targets that we know are protected by anti-aircraft batteries. If that's not the most sensitive information, the most secret info in the world, I simply don't know what the meaning of 'classified' is."

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It Is Lawyers Who Must Decide If American Democracy Will Survive. They Can’t Be On Both Sides of This Issue. Big Law (Like Paul Weiss and Skadden) May Cave Thinking They Can Have Both $$ & Law. Wrong. TRUMP WINS AND DEMOCRACY IS GONE. LAW IS GONE. FIGHT OR ALL GONE!! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

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Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.

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Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

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It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

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Susan Crawford is directly positioning herself as being in a race against Elon Musk, who is spending tens of millions to defeat her: “I want to talk about my opponent, Elon Musk.” badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

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The attack behind the current SignalGate news storm sounds nuts. I want our military to work harder to not kill random people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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ICYMI www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."

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“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

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March 28, 2025

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👇👇

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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

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Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

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I just spoke with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more. The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research. We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers. www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...

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NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts has granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from deporting any person to a country they are not a national of (so-called 'third country removals') without written notice and an opportunity to apply for protection from that country.

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10:50 a.m.: WisDems issue a press release saying Elon Musk "committed a blatant felony" in his post about his plans to "hand over two checks for a million dollars each" in Wisconsin on Sunday. Just over a half hour later, reports show Musk deleted the tweet.

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- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

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This is what happens when organizations have the money to fight back: Without warning, New Hampshire lawmakers tried to defund the NH library completely; within 90 minutes, Every Library was able to deploy defense. The amendment got killed 24 hours later. www.everylibrary.org/nhdefundingr...

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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Race is a human invention. Race is not a biological reality. #Anthropologist I have literally taught this to undergrads. americananthro.org/about/polici...

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University presidents take note Fortune 500 CEOs take note DC law firm partners take note Civil society leaders take note Congress take note Etc.

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Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election. Arrest him. Yes, even though he's really rich. Arrest him.

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One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen! So we can afford to give him and the richest people $7 trillion in tax cuts, but we “can’t afford” to rebuild homes after hurricanes?!?!?! How does this make YOUR life better?? We get screwed for them to get richer. It’s 🐎💩!!!!

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Secretary Rubio says international students are here to just “go to class.” In my class, they learn that all people in America, regardless of citizenship status, have free speech rights under the First Amendment. Mr. Rubio is welcome in my class anytime.

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"U.S. officials went door to door in Greenland’s capital of Nuuk looking for residents who wanted to greet the second lady, Jesper Steinmetz from Denmark’s TV 2 reported. But everywhere they went, they were rejected." "The unwelcoming response forced the second lady to change her plans."

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NEW: As the Trump administration ramps up arrests and heavily limits releases on bond, conditions at ICE’s Krome detention facility in Miami have deteriorated into that of a third world prison, with people forced to sleep on concrete floors jammed in like sardines in appalling conditions.

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Read Jenner & Block's lawsuit challenging Trump's unconstitutional assault on their firm.👇 Very glad to see Jenner fighting back. They're represented by Cooley, which is taking a risk here too. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A friend sends:

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American officials in Greenland went door-to-door to find people willing to be photographed with Usha Vance. No takers. Which is wise – who wants to look like a collaborator? nyheder.tv2.dk/live/2025-01...

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During the Red Scare, Arnold & Porter was one of the only firms to defend people accused of disloyalty. Their courage is a lesson for today. Here’s their story: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

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A Tufts graduate student from Turkey has been taken into ICE custody. She had co-authored an op-ed calling on the school to divest from companies with ties to Israel. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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Plus, Goldberg published now and did not wait for a future book deal

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Two unqualified-for-their-job freeloaders call Europe a freeloader. From Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic's story about their massive incompetent infodump.

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DeSantis acknowledged that efforts by his state and the White House to remove undocumented immigrants may have reduced the workforce for lower-wage jobs, but he pointed to young workers as potential replacements. Now a new bill aims to remove all work limits on 16- and 17-year old workers.

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