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If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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It's funny and horrible that they are mistakenly sending this to citizens, but read it. It's an appalling letter to be sending in our name to people who are here legally.

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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

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I actually don’t think this is the main reason. A huge chunk of the country has been convinced to completely distrust legitimate press, and they’re operating on the vain hope that bending over backwards to cover Trump charitably might reverse that. Because if they can’t they’re not viable.

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Here we go again. Massive tax cuts to the wealthy, well off and well connected. And who pays the price? Pregnant women on Medicaid, children who rely on SNAP to eat. STOP THIS. #HandsOffOurMedicaid #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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The world really is stuck with a rotting head of lettuce

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Since there are no real signs of tariff effects in the March inflation data it mainly serves to illustrate what could have been--inflation trends going into the global trade war were benign and orderly and could have facilitated a sequence of rate cuts that continued the soft landing 💔

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Good headline. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 4 days ago • 495 comments

T shirt time

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This was three months ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 847 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

Oh dear God. Where were the adults?

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Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

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Recap: Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Today Republicans passed legislation that paves the way for massive tax cuts to the wealthy and crippling cuts to Medicaid. Half the benefits would go to the top 5%. It would increase our debt by trillions of dollars. They must be stopped.

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The fact that they aren’t slowing down to fix things they’ve broken speaks volumes. Musk hasn’t been cowed in the least despite everything. We’re being ruled by narcissistic sociopaths.

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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

submitted 5 days ago • 607 comments

Starting to doubt this Administration’s commitment to free speech

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The Supreme Court says Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported by mistake and must be returned to the U.S. But let’s be honest—why would the above-the-law convicted felon in the White House suddenly start obeying court orders? The real win is when Kilmar is home. Safe. Free. apnews.com/article/supr...

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There's a lot of ink spilled on how Democrats should win back low-info voters (particularly young men) with rightward shifts when "stop being weak and pathetic" is the better tack. The reason AOC gets respect from low-info voters is that she doesn't let people walk all over her the way Schumer does.

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If we weren't getting 16 levels of insanity out of Washington, this attempt to steal an election in North Carolina would be front-page news. It is today at @theprospect.bsky.social, from @gurleygg.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

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This is a joke, right? I can't make myself click.

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Amy Klobuchar demanding to speak at the massive Hands Off Rally in Saint Paul and then spending the next week confirming Trump appointees is amazing. Just tremendous contempt for her constituents.

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I’ve seen tone-deaf, but not this level of tone-deaf. $SCHW

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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 6 days ago • 1938 comments

Nobody should have been sent there, period. Not the ones with no record, not the ones with a record. Nobody.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The entire press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches that contain information the Trump administration finds inconvenient or unflattering (Oliver Darcy/Status) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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Every senator and member of Congress should immediately and voluntarily disclose any stock, bond, or similar trades they have made in the last ten days.

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Military pilot Jo Ellis said she had to hire private armed security for her family because of the false claims, which went viral on social media. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

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“Art of the deal!” I say while ordering delivery after intentionally burning dinner.

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