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A Social Security official told Musk team that adding migrants to a database of dead people was illegal, not to mention cruel. Security guards then frog marched him out. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

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One thing that characterizes all dictators is a lack of fundamental humanity. Putin poison or defenestrates dissidents, throws Russians as cannon fodder in waves to die in Ukraine. Xi sends millions of Uighurs to concentration camps. Kim tortures, executes his own with glee. 1

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This….

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Reminder: Trump’s crypto coin is an obvious avenue for bribery, and everyone should be horrified — Good explanation 👇🏽 (And everyone who wanted Biden charged for bribery is silent 🤐 as Trump moves to free the informant who lied to the FBI about it)

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

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Abject cruelty! Afghans who fled here, many with our help, after our withdrawal in 2021, are being deported back by Trump to face Taliban rule. This is just disgusting! Shame on people supporting his man!

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A bill moving through the Florida legislature would mandate that the names of officers who kill or maim civilians could not be disclosed for a minimum of 72 hours following an incident -- and would empower the police department in charge to extend the confidentiality period indefinitely. /1

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The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

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This….

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The corrupt oligarchy looting America under the crooked Trump regime.

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A good article explaining the senseless destuction of one of the US's most critical research institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

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AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal—convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. He is lying, and he is manipulating the stock market too. At his best, he enriches himself, the billionaires who back him, and the members of Congress who trade with him. Not you. Not me. Not the people.

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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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Commerce Sec Lutnick promised Chinese jobs "screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones” would be moved here. Treasury Sec Bessent said American dream was not cheap "flatscreens" And yet here we are: first China tariff exemptions are for iPhones & flatscreens www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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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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I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

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This …..

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We are witnessing an outright theft attempt by 4 Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court An effort to disenfranchise voters in only certain counties-WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY or reside overseas The decision brings great dishonor to the Court. This blatant attempt at vote theft cannot stand

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It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

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It's striking how much Trumpists hate what's made the United States great: immigration, trade, medical and scientific research, the rule of law, an enlightened patriotism, a willingness and ability to correct past injustices. At the end of the day, Trumpism is Third Worldism.

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Spurred by ProPublica’s reporting, Democrats have introduced a measure designed to block a right-wing strategy to disallow ballots after they were cast. It’s being used to try to upend the results of a key state Supreme Court race. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

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WHOA. Trump will strip Temporary Protected Status from thousands of AFGHANS, at a time when the Taliban is fully in control of the country and carrying out total oppression. If any country deservers TPS, it's obviously Afghanistan! We're going to send women back there to be treated as property?

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Every American should shudder with fear.

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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

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Remember when Republican falsely claimed that the Biden Admin was not respected by world leaders…..

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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Donald Trump is illegally sending people to a prison in El Salvador; unilaterally withdrawing visas for students, sometimes for First Amendment-related reasons; and assigning the military “missions” on the border … among many other steps. If this framing leads to another chart, I’m going to go mad.

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The FBI has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.

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Just send your MAGA pro-tariff friends this entire week of @cato.org interviews curtesy of @cob.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/c...

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I thought these were the people who are fighting antisemitism on college campuses 🤔

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Deporting people over speech is one of the most profoundly anti-American things imaginable. Free speech is explicitly meant to protect political speech that people hate.

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I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

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“If President Trump's Executive Orders are allowed to stand, future presidents will face no constraint when they seek to retaliate against a different set of perceived foes. What for two centuries has been beyond the pale will become the new normal. Put simply, this could be any of us.”

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New data point foe the Elon body count www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’” 4/11/25 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

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This is worth a watch.

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Woman speaks the truth - get fired by Republicans.

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“I do not presume to understand current politics," Space Force Col. Susannah Meyers wrote, "but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.” She's been relieved of her command wapo.st/3Efcwcc

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