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I’m a nerd trying to make sense of the world and help make it a better place. Gay dad, American, Hoosier, Goshenite, urbanist, liberal. Pronouns are he/him.
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It should horrify you that it took a major media organization publishing a full investigation into the forced disappearance of a Venezuelan man for DHS to admit where it sent him and what his current location is.

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

"Should President Trump deport Afghan allies back and the Taliban execute them, he will complete America’s betrayal of the values embodied in a generation of American combat veterans. So much for respecting the military. So much for making America great." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

This is a really bad situation and I’m not trying to minimize it but if you need to carry your passport with you, I’d highly recommend a passport card. They’re $65 and legally equivalent to a passport book. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

She had to move with her family to a safe house because Trump officials doxxed them on social media.

there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

cripes

he killed more people in three months than IDF, Hamas, and the Russian Army combined did in eighteen

The vibe that Dems are poll-tested cowards with no underlying principles will persist at least as long as they insist on maintaining that image themselves bsky.app/profile/murs...

this is the case with a lot of Trump policies “oh I’m cutting government spending” “well that sounds good to me” “he gutted all cancer research” “that’s terrible!” get the specifics in front of people and they tend to hate them

Dear Dems: Polling shows only *generalized* approval of Trump on immigration, but broad opposition to the lawless specifics. If you don't engage on Abrego Garcia and other illegal kidnappings, you only *help* Trump subsume all that under "keeping out illegals." newrepublic.com/article/1941...

BREAKING NYT: Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer. The info included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting Houthis. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

When you defy court orders and deny one man his Constitutional rights, you threaten them for ALL. Trump can post all he wants, but a federal judge said there's “no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or to any terrorist activity.” Trump needs to put up or shut up IN COURT.

Nearly half of people currently detained by ICE/CBP have no criminal charges, yet some are being held in conditions that would be unacceptable in high-security prisons. Admin has eliminated oversight bodies ensured health/safety requirements are met www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump’s EO to gut State Department: key outcome (1) should Democrats ever regain power, it would take Constitutional reform & years to rebuild basic services for US (2) moving US out of Africa is another gift for China: Trump loves & honors Putin, but he has truly been Making China Great Again.

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

🧵: Trump Administration violating court orders Someone must have already started a 🧵 documenting Trump administration violations of court orders, but I haven't found it. If you know of such 🧵, please let me know. If not, here's the start of one.

anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality

Trumpworld has always pushed this myth that 'leaks' and forty-sourced stories about his hour-to-hour TV habits were because of stealth libs and the deep state. Not, as is obvious, the clown car of gossipy attention-sucking backstabbers and ladder climbers the entire MAGA ecosystem needs to survive.

There used to be a word for folks who would break the price mechanism and then appoint a committee to coordinate economic activity, instead.

The startling thing about this is that 26% of Americans are *for* sending innocent people from other countries to hell prison in El Salvador for no reason other than they are in America and they don't like that

Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children. Burn in hell.