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Ah, so the American definition of Human Rights going forwards is going to be....whatever Trump says they are. Good luck America, you're going to need it.

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'They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason.' American Government 2025. And out (UK) Government wants to do deals with America? Europe is a lot closer. Just sayin'

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At Princeton University we are being clear about our continued commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination, in full compliance with law (as opposed to executive order) and consistent with our ethical responsibilities as educators for the entire nation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

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'I will end the war in 24 hours' When the going gets tough...Trump's team just gives up. Bullying people and institutions is easy. Real politics is hard. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

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If there was any argument about the value of something like the ECHR, the Trump admin’s contempt of its own courts is reminder of the value of a higher body. And no, I don’t think there’s anything special about the British that means we’re immune from fascism.

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I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

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Never, ever, vote for Reform UK

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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

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Trump killed US tourism.

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Defunding The Big Tech Police The Trump administration has ordered antitrust prosecutors to shut down their San Francisco field office as the president’s Silicon Valley allies seek to avoid regulation Who would have guessed www.levernews.com/defunding-th...

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An extraordinary statement, which effectively says that the authors of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US constitution aided and abetted terrorists.

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“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…” What kind of shady s**t is going on here?? www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Can the president fire the fed chair? No. The fact that this might happen anyway, despite it being inconsistent with legal precedent, is how you know that the rule of law is weakened to the point of being unable to hold up Democratic institutions. The uncertainty of the act occurring is damaging.

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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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Classic authoritarian tactics. Selective use of regulation to punish political and ideological opponents. “The Trump administration has threatened to stop international students from attending Harvard University as part of a growing pressure campaign…” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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🚨NEW: 4th Circuit unanimously rejects Trump request to halt proceedings in Mr. Abrego Garcia's case. Reagan appointee Wilkinson writes that the Trump admin's position is "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans ... still hold dear."

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Fourth circuit rebuffs, emphatically, administration’s attempt to appeal Xinis order in Abrego-Garcia case. Not unexpected, but really heartening. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

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We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We study this stuff at school & college. The judiciary's unique role in preventing the executive from riding roughshod over laws & populations. But I'm not sure we in the 'West' ever expected to live through its most urgent implementations. The thing you don't realise in class is how brave it is.

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This reads like a fire signal to alert the more oblivious members of the Supreme Court that we are on the precipice of everything falling apart.

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This is incredible stuff. Furious reaction from the Fourth Circuit

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The Associated Press is back in court today, fighting for press freedom. So are Voice of America journalists. 🔗 Details about both cases in this morning's edition of Reliable Sources: cnn.it/42gSNSB

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Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there. First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/

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Proud to be one of the 57%. Except instead of 'rather' I say 'must'.

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People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

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I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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Folsom, California is in a Republican county. It has a population of just 85,000. Last night, 30,000 came out to see AOC & Bernie, having waited in a line that stretched for 3 miles. Whatever your politics, at a time when they’re not running for anything, this says something.

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Interesting to read from the US an increasing number of serious critiques of Trump's tariff onslaught, generally around the lack of understanding of modern economies, lack of preparation, offending potential allies, and confused goals around the administration.

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Studying in Russia = Studying in America

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Good for Billy.

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How many Americans really, really don't understand how tariffs work?

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'How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance. Let's hope so....for the sake of America!

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Canadian Association of University Teachers recommends that academics travel to the US "only if essential and necessary", and to be careful about what information we have on our electronic devices, especially if you fit into a fairly wide set of categories. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

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"What Donald Trump is threatening is plain and simple coercion to try to get teachers and their students to speak differently." Harvard professor Andrew Crespo says removing a university's tax-exempt status is "unconstitutional" www.channel4.com/news/trumps-...

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