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Ed Martin appeared on Russian state television some 150 times. Gladly contributing to Russian propaganda efforts should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

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The Easter potato hunt because we are running out of eggs. Sounds like something right out of the Soviet Union in 1951.

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Martin’s hits on Russian television are another warning about his lack of prudence and his political extremism - and he apparently gambled that his appalling comments might be forgotten once RT America shut down, a deceptiveness that should alarm the Senate. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Ed Martin’s appearances on Russian state television should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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ICE wants to deport a BYU PhD student for the crime of organizing a church fishing trip 6 years ago, where he himself did not fish but the other attendees caught too many. How is this reality???

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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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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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

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If Trump admin wanted to encourage debate in Congress, the branch that appropriates $, & review exec branch programs, fine. I firmly believe these programs, when administered w/bare minimum, are a net good for US interests — but have the debate. Sudden cut off w/no chance to plan is CRUEL AND EVIL.

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277 Ukrainian POWs returned home! This was coordinated by the UAE

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Sorry for the late-night update. Musk’s staffers are reaching out to leaders of nonprofit organizations, demanding to assign DOGE team members to any institute or agency receiving federal funds.

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A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.

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Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

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If authoritarian rule lasts a decade, Harvard has bigger problems.

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In Trump's America, if you look foreign or are foreign, you can get caught in a dragnet intended to generate high numbers, high profits, and viral moments that juxtapose cruel, beautiful people with cruel, ugly policies. My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/america-sh...

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No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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A whistleblower from the National Labor Relations Board found a threatening note taped to his door, including pictures of him walking his dog that looked like they were taken by a drone, after he spoke out internally against a DOGE data raid that included highly sensitive information about workers.

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In the United States, we are governed by a Constitution. Basic to the Constitution is habeas corpus, the notion that the government cannot seize your body without a legal justification for doing so. If that does not hold, then nothing else does. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terr...

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The Authoritarian Playbook: DOGE, Surveillance, and the Collapse of Democracy open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

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Well, El Salvador let Kristi Noem film a commercial inside the dang prison so maybe she could go there and escort him out.

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I keep thinking about how people like Rubio are why the Holocaust happened. Not everyone is a committed ideologue; many are morally bankrupt, ambition-seeking sycophants who care more about their advancement than any principle. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-democr...

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Why are Senate Democrats voting for a single appointee put forward by this Administration when it is operating in open contempt of the Constitution?

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The correct penalty for entering the country illegally is to be sent back to your home country, not to be sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp forever.

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Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?

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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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@50501movement.bsky.social People are asking about April 19th in Washington DC -- there doesn't seem to be anything planned for the National Mall. What's going on?

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EMERGENCY MASS MOBILIZATION TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS 📅 Saturday, April 12 ⏰ 5 pm 📍 Times Square, 43rd St. & 7th Ave. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. We must stand up and stand together for Mahmoud Khalil, for free speech, for immigrants, for students, for each other.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Veterans are standing up and the anniversary of D-Day is going to mark the beginning of the end of fascism in America.

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If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

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Trump to end protected status for Afghans and Cameroonians

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New from me at Cato: Trump's penalty orders have taken a scary new turn, selecting targets for having taken a stand on behalf of the integrity of the U.S. election system, and ordering the Dept. of Justice to investigate an evidently innocent man, Chris Krebs. /1 www.cato.org/blog/new-rev...

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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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