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The National Weather Service warned of 'generational' floods in the US South and Midwest as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, whipping up tornadoes and killing two people reut.rs/4lgBtog

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Big news: on a bipartisan basis the Senate just voted to reject Trump's tariffs on Canada. The House has to vote on it next, where it's less likely to pass, but the cracks are starting to form. Trump is losing support from Republicans on his costly trade war.

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Trump just announced tariffs so wide-reaching, they now cover a sub-Antarctic island group populated mostly by penguins and a Norwegian Arctic archipelago best known for its polar bears.

submitted 23 hours ago • 210 comments

Big Law firms and partners have choices about whether to capitulate or to stand tall. History is watching.

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I’m no economist, but…

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We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia. Very normal administration we have here.

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“National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa and Europe…[with] instances of sensitive information being discussed.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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No tariffs on Russia. Huh?

submitted 23 hours ago • 651 comments

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

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Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Whoa, I’m actually learning something from Booker’s speech. If I’m hearing him right, the GOP is planning to use Enron/Arthur Andersen accounting techniques to lie about the fiscal consequences of their tax cuts.

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If you’re in Wisconsin, vote today for Susan Crawford. There are also two special elections in Florida’s 1st and 6th districts. Let’s show Elon our country isn’t for sale.

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Cory Booker. That’s the post. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Cory Booker has now been speaking for over 8 hours. He (at this moment) is talking about universities and scientists who are fearful of this Administration. He is impassioned and insistent but looking tired. He's not reading "Green Eggs and Ham". He's making outraged, but logical, arguments. 💙💙💙

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“Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred from running for public office for five years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

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BREAKING: Senator Cory Booker Begins Surprise Filibuster To Take on Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Mainstream media isn't covering it. I am. Watch it and learn more: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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If you support invading Canada or Greenland, you are a horrible person without a shred of morality or intelligence.

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Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

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Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day.

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Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.

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Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.

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People keep talking about the security implications of the Hegseth leak. The other issue is they are likely illegally using Signal to bypass mandatory government record keeping. That should be equally as terrifying.

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Milkweed is the sole food source for monarch caterpillars, and female monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed plants. Monarch butterfly populations have been declining for decades. Easiest entry to help is plant some in your yard.

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Wooooooboyyyyyy!!! Democratic House Rep. Melanie Stansbury went off about Republicans discussing efficiency standards for walk-in refrigerators. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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🚨NEW: Donald Trump links targeting of law firms to election denialism. When asked about corporate clients pressuring law firms to capitulate to his demands, he responded: “Law firms have to behave themselves… having to do with the elections and other things, they behaved very badly, very wrongly.”

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Congress should subpoena Hegseth’s phone records to make sure he hasn’t included Putin in his chat groups.

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US consumer confidence plunged to the lowest level in more than four years in March, with households fearing a recession in the future and higher inflation because of tariffs reut.rs/4l12zj5

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Perfect fit

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But her emails…

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Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the United States attacked Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, the White House said, following a first-hand account by The Atlantic reut.rs/4j22NVw

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This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.

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Senator Jon Ossoff unofficially launches a re-election campaign with a rally in East Atlanta. “Atlanta, this is not a drill, Atlanta, this is not a bad dream,” Ossoff declared. “As citizens, this is the test of our lifetime. So tell me, Atlanta, are you ready?” share.newsbreak.com/c8f1yf67

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Exclusive: Days before Republicans took the helm of the US SEC, five commissioners of the agency held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk. Four of them voted yes, three sources said. The fifth — Republican Mark Uyeda, now the acting head of the SEC — voted no reut.rs/41Vae9Y

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This is really proof that if you show people what is good, they will come around

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The self-styled free speech people constantly threatening to imprison people for speaking.

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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

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US President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration reut.rs/4iOkNCC

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Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a top adviser to US President Donald Trump, was issued a summons in connection with the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against him, a court filing showed reut.rs/4hnCjfT

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This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

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This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

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Exclusive: President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the US Federal Trade Commission, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies reut.rs/43T1UKg

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The eventual fate of the GOP

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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

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These are bold and wild allegations from the FBI, which is moving to criminalize organizations like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA. In a court filing, Citibank disclosed that it had been directed by the FBI to freeze the bank accounts of these groups.

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@mikelevin.org and @maddow.msnbc.com nice segment tonight! thank you for accountability Rachel, hoping to see you at Levin's town hall!

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