marksfca.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

If you only saw Donald Trump‘s first Easter message on Truth Social, you might be surprised at how normal it reads. But barely 60 seconds went by before he returned to his usual schtick.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Direct File gave people an easy-to-use, free way to file their taxes. Now, Donald Trump wants to end that program. It's a massive giveaway to the giant tax prep companies that rip Americans off.

submitted 6 hours ago • 57 comments

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

submitted 8 hours ago • 275 comments

Q: Is Gavin Newsom right that the Albrego Garcia case is a 'distraction'? Crow: "I wouldn't use the word distraction...There was no due process in this case...The Trump administration has no evidence that this person is a criminal...That is right out of an autocratic playbook."

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1719 comments

💥

submitted 8 hours ago • 566 comments

“.. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as ‘bonkers crazypants.’ .. you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.” @politico.com #BonkersCrazypants 🤡 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 8 hours ago • 48 comments

"The administration won't admit it, but this was a screw-up."

submitted 9 hours ago • 32 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 9 hours ago • 1069 comments

Sen. Van Hollen: "I don't think it's ever wrong to fight for the constitutional rights of one person because if we give up on one person's rights, we threaten everybody's rights...Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 9 hours ago • 179 comments

I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM

submitted 9 hours ago • 79 comments

There's a lot more to the deportation deal between Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele that you REALLY need to know about. WATCH:

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Sen. Van Hollen: "[Trump] and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts. They need to put up or shut up in the courts."

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

Thousands take to the streets across US to protest Trump and Musk policies: ‘They flaunt their criminality’

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

NBC News video of a bus carrying Venezuelans shown leaving the detention center and going toward an airport and then later returning around the same time a federal court hearing was taking place:

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

Senator Chris Van Hollen says the Trump administration pledged $15 million to El Salvador and has paid over $4 million to detain prisoners, including the illegally abducted Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 17 hours ago • 31 comments

I would add it’s so incredibly hard to get in this kind of legal trouble when you’re an affluent white man with very powerful friends…. Trump had to work to get here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 92 comments

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Easter ceasefire has not halted Russian activity on front line reut.rs/4jl3SrW

submitted 13 hours ago • 22 comments

Trump treats immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America worse than we treated Germans and Japanese subject to the Alien Enemies Act in World War II. He is a monster, not just a tyrant.

submitted 10 hours ago • 82 comments

Direct File has proven to be a win for taxpayers, offering a fairer and more accessible tax system. Ending it would shift costs to millions of Americans who would then pay billions to extractive private-sector tax preparers. Emily DiVito explores the impact: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/irss-di...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: I’ve seen a doc circulating w/ details of a relatively major State Dept reorg to be announced soon, maybe Tuesday. It has a LOT of stuff. “Significantly downscales” US embassy in Ottawa and limits consular officers to 10. Closes all “non-essential” embassies/consulates in Sun-Saharan Africa.

submitted 22 hours ago • 48 comments

"At Michigan, students have been told the casualties include orientation events for new Latino, Arab and Asian American students, along with the LEAD Scholars program, a financial aid award for Black, Latino and Native American students." These things harm no one. He just wants nonwhite suffering.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

This is a rare feat known as “The Full Ginsburg,” achieved by only 34 people per this list: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Gi...

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

A draft Trump order would drastically restructure the State Department, cutting offices that address climate change, refugees, democracy and human rights while eliminating almost all Africa operations and shutting down embassies on the continent. @ewong.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

Video from Friday shows ICE buses heading toward an airport in North Texas before turning around as the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must, for now, refrain from deporting Venezuelan men based in the state under the Alien Enemies Act.

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 451 comments

APOLLO: “It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal. .. While markets wait for trade negotiations with 90 countries at the same time, global trade is grinding to a standstill .. if current policies do not change, then the probability of a US recession in 2025 is 90%”

submitted 12 hours ago • 145 comments

Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, its oldest, is shutting down as autocracy leaves no room for dissent. www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/a...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 23 hours ago • 183 comments

In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Mark Paoletta is the guy at the center of the Harlan Crow painting with Clarence Thomas, sitting on the pedestal of the weird Native American statue.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Following up on ProPublica piece on Thiel startup RAMP hunting for the motherlode govt payments contract, as of yesterday a DOGEr & Ramp employee, Roland Shen, is now inside Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service, the US Govt's central payments hub. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

submitted 1 day ago • 1039 comments

Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

submitted 1 day ago • 396 comments

👊🏼 🎶🌆

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Massachusetts was set to become the capital of U.S. offshore wind, including a half billion dollar port for building and deploying massive wind turbines that could help slake America's thirst for energy. Then Trump killed it www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump wants to control what’s taught in colleges—but the U.S. leads the world in top universities for a reason. Because we funded innovation & let them operate freely—they thrived. Now Trump wants to gut that. Reminder: Presidents can’t legally defund schools. This is authoritarian cosplay!

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Bwahahaha! This is now one of my all-time favorite protest signs. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Another view of the protesters Trump protest in Chicago at Daley Plaza. Bravo, Chicago!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

I spoke with Sarah Boim of @firedbutfighting.bsky.social, about her firing and the devastating cuts to the CDC, which terminated teams dealing with lead contamination and cruise ship sanitation, as well as a branch preventing children from drowning. defector.com/an-interview...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is a fictionalized view. In reality, you cannot explain these voters unless you start with: “They are being propagandized 24/7 with falsehoods from Fox News.”

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments