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Radical is pretty universally a great unintended compliment. They mean “reckless” but the root of the word “radical” is “root.” Radicals look for solutions to the root problem. The REAL problem, under all the symptoms. Go ahead, call me a Radical. It just means I see what you can’t.

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Congress is back from recess after the weekend. Will anyone file articles of impeachment for expelling a U.S. citizen who is 4 years old and also has cancer.

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Back from Rome and Melania couldn’t get away fast enough. Separate motorcades.

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Reading Shel Silverstein with the kiddos.

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Great. Trump is renting on his platform about how we don't have time for due process and we don't need it because he knows who the criminals are I remember a number people who told many of us that we were overreacting to his authoritarian language in the campaign. I hope they are all waking up now

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“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff

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NEW AP-NORC Poll: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating: Disapprove: 59% Approve: 39% This is the first poll of his second term showing Trump’s approval falling below 40%.

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“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff

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In Dupont Circle…

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📢📢RAPID RESPONSE CRASH COURSE👇 DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR DO NOT COMPLY RECORD EVERYTHING GET TAG NUMBERS BADGE NUMBERS IF SOMEONE IS BEING TAKEN DO NOT STAND BY. DO YOUR PART! KNOW YOUR PEEPS. PROTECT YOUR PEEPS🚨🚨

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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Wow. That's not the account I read in the AP artiucle. Thanks for clearing that up.

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Massachusetts leaders @markey.senate.gov, @pressley.house.gov and @repmcgovern.bsky.social visited Rümeysa Öztürk in detention. What they saw was denial of medical care and unsafe conditions - Rümeysa's detention is cruel and unconstitutional, and she must come home. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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Columbia University suppressed @karenattiah.bsky.social’s course on Race and the Media. So she’s taking it directly to the public, online. “In a moment of profound crisis, we cannot wait for elite permission or institutional approval to share knowledge and create learning communities.”

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In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race— Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment. Would y’all sign up?

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months

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"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

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fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.

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Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

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Surely Trump’s FDA will put and end to this, oh wait they’re evicerating it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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At least 1,000 people are marching in downtown St. Louis to protest Trump, ICE, Elon Musk and federal cuts to research funding.

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Frank Strong's annual guide is in the works.

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Elon is firing 1500 CFPB workers and shifting their priorities away from enforcement, supervision and consumer protection… … while building his own digital payment system and giving himself access to competitors’ data. In an oligarchy, the criminals get to fire the cops.

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Breaking: Senator Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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‘For America's Survival, His Supporters Must Be Ostracized’ johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...

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This is a photo of the good senator and his constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He prevailed against two authoritarian regimes to connect. I hope against hope that Mr. Garcia is flying home for Easter. (All the people who speculated he was already dead should not have. And here he is.)

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i hope other elected dems are taking note - this is where the bar is now. get out there and do something. put your own ass on the line for us.

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THIS is leadership. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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They want to eliminate Head Start.

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Real quick as I'm losing steam: dismantling CFPB puts consumers in a worse position than they were in 2008. The consumer protection laws were still being enforced by the Fed and other agencies, just not particularly well. Now the signal is they won't be enforced at all.

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Mack Trucks will lay off between 250 and 350 workers at its Lehigh Valley Operations center outside Allentown over the next three months, due to economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, a company spokesperson said Thursday.

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Trump signed multiple executive orders today targeting environmental protections. One order removes safeguards for a vast marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument had

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The U.S. was nearing the end of the HIV epidemic. Trump and RFK Jr. just destroyed that future - slashing prevention, defunding care, halting research, and targeting the poor, queer, trans, and Black communities most at risk. This is going to kill people. This is autogenocide.

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This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

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Trump says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students Weaponizing government agencies to force compliance to a dictator is exactly what happens in Russia. So now we have IRS, DHS, DOJ, etc involved in attacking Harvard

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Chicago man sent to El Salvadoran prison, family learns from Kristi Noem video on TV In that moment, YD discovered Jaimes-Rincon had been deported to the maximum security prison by the United States without his family’s knowledge and without due process.

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Let’s talk about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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