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Part of why elections in the US are so secure is because they’re run by 10,000 local jurisdictions like mine. Trying to rig an election is like trying to rob every bank in America at the same time To rig American elections, you need to federalize them. The President’s new EO is doing just that.

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Labor friends in Washington state tell me that ICE “violently” detained farmworker activist Lelo Juarez today. They’re looking for immediate support. More info at this link, and below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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Rural hospitals across the nation depend on Medicaid to stay open. Illinois' hospitals and health systems support 445,000 full-time jobs and anchor our rural communities. If these cuts happen, hospitals will close and people will lose their jobs.

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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...

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The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

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Good must prevail over evil. Otherwise, what’s the point?

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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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“Under the Biden administration, ICE primarily focused on detaining public safety & nat’l security threats. As long as they did not have criminal records, Cubans with I-220As were not taken into custody. That appears to have changed” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Here’s something fun I learned this week If you find yourself in an ER in an abortion ban state and upon intake they discover you’re pregnant, from there on out your care will be different than any non-pregnant person’s. The fetus becomes primary.

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The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

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Trump suspends shipments of produce and poultry to US food banks: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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The president might not care for the rule of law, but it still exists–and it still matters. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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BREAKING: IMPORTANT MEASLES UPDATE TEXAS is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak originating in Gaines County (western Texas) has now increased to 309, with 30 new cases confirmed in just the last three days,…

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All of this is vindictive, and the swipe at Biden’s family is especially ugly (and wholly gratuitous, unless I’m missing something), but Tish James is the currently serving attorney general of New York.

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I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

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Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

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About half of all childbirths in America are covered by Medicaid. Over half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid. Over 79 million people are covered by Medicaid. And the House GOP’s plans to gut Medicaid would hurt nearly every community in America.

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Higher education. The federal bureaucracy. Nonprofits. The military. And now the law firms. Facing a hostile and lawless administration, we are all having the same individual conversations: about leadership, about principles, and about our common fate. These must now be collective conversations.

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Tragic. A male wolf who was released from British Columbia into Colorado earlier this year was shot and killed in Wyoming last weekend. Wolves are explorers by nature, and it's likely that he traveled from his release site in search of something - a mate? New territory? Home?

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Guatemalan workers sue Iowa egg company, alleging human trafficking iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/18/g...

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U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

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United we stand, divided we fall

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BREAKING: The Russian government has announced plans for “US-Russian cooperation on Mars exploration with Russia’s space agency, Rosatom” with Elon Musk. This is a rescue mission for Putin’s economy and a lifelong dream of Musk—to create a white planet. www.mind-war.com/p/musks-russ...

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#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Changes in climate will shrink the area of land suitable for banana plantations by 60%. Banana growers will need to do climate-resilient planning to maintain their livelihood & business model. www.carbonbrief.org/major-banana...

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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

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Good grief

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New Mexicans: Pay attention here:

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Thanks Raygun for the opportunity to say what I think about the rule of law today…without even speaking.

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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

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It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues. Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.

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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

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Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

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You may not recognize it at first, but life in this country will never be the same if people stop coming from abroad because they are not guaranteed protection under the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

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A series of emails sent to national parks workers provided instructions on how to describe staff cuts to visitors. They were told to avoid the word “fired” and not blame closures on staffing levels. By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

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Fear and panic spread as measles enters the birth center of a Texas hospital. On Wednesday, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, where she gave birth in the middle of a deadly, surging measles epidemic. After the baby was born, doctors discovered the young mother was…

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”we have condemned 228 men to die in a foreign prison without charge or trial” is a fact that I cannot shake from my mind. It just keeps reasserting itself. God have mercy bc this is just the beginning.

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Trump deports Milwaukee mother to Laos, a country she has never been to, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t speak the language www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review. It's corruption. And it's dangerous. Fire Elon Musk. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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