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It's important to challenge this in the courts. It's also important to understand that Trump engages in performative behavior when he wants you to ignore something else he's doing. Don't look away.

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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.

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The cruelty is, as always, the point.

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Donold has gone from "Obama wasn't born in America" to "they're eating the pets" to "Biden was replaced by a robot". This is what mental deterioration looks like.

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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NEW: Here is the travel ban. We're doing a full analysis now, but some quick takeaways: - All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others. - Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already. - Exempts immediate relatives.

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New worker owned publication by excellent journalists! bsky.app/profile/auto...

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Another entry for the "you can't make this up" category: Trump is demanding federal employees pledge their loyalty to MAGA.

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Trump and Republicans’ attacks on public broadcasting are direct attacks on the free press. NPR, PBS, and others keep every community in America safe and informed. They’re an essential public good and we should increase their funding, not cut it.

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this is excellent

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Please read the latest article by my daughter Katherine Hawkins www.pogo.org/analysis/ste...

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My latest, on Acting President Miller’s threats to the courts www.pogo.org/analysis/ste...

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Fixed the link - please spread the word! We just put this call for artists and already have 100 entries for cool art coming out of No Kings Day. If you're creating something you want to share - let us know! nokings.org/art

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/b... I’ve written a historically accurate novel on Margaret Fuller—anyone want to publish it? www.carolcstrickland.com

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"Trump, in other words, has as much power to remove [the director of the National Portrait Gallery] from her post as I do — that is to say, none at all." - @jamellebouie.net

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"He’s a destructive crook who needs to be held accountable for his actions. And that’s exactly what this press roll-out, along with gauzy interviews, is all about thwarting." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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Voters last fall might not have realized that a Republican victory in 2024 would mean cuts to cancer research, but here we are. Take the new White House budget plan, for example. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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The war on women continues, and some will die. The Trump admin announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition. apnews.com/article/abor...

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"Physical activity decreased the risk of anxiety by almost 40 percent for boys at both 5 and 11, the study found. The same held true for depression and boys: Physical activity was associated with a 19 percent reduction in depression among boys at age 5 and 23 percent at age 8."

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Exclusive: Staff of FEMA were left baffled after the head of the US disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation reut.rs/3HAP8qI

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The audio in this clip, purporting to show Pope Leo XIV chastising US Vice President JD Vance, is AI-generated. It is one of many deepfakes of the first-ever American pontiff that have flooded the internet since he took the helm of the Catholic Church. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Considering the fact that JD Vance is a recently converted Catholic, every journalist who has the ability to ask him a question should be asking point blank if he agrees or disagrees with the Pope's messages on Gaza that have been going viral all over the internet

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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“The administration is clearly trying to intimidate Democrats, in the same way that they’re trying to intimidate the country.” This past week, DHS police invaded the Manhattan offices of Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and briefly handcuffed one of his staffers.

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Raskin: ‘I’m with Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer’ and others saying ‘Watch Elon Musk’ thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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An immigration lawyer who tried to stave off ICE disappearances in Lower Manhattan last week spoke to Hell Gate about the trap that's being set for immigrants. "This is so extreme, from both a legal perspective and one's conscience," she told Hell Gate. hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...

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"ICE agents then stormed into the courtroom, kicked out the attorneys, and detained everyone in the courtroom over the judge's objections. Really terrifying." my g*d this is barbaric.

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Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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We are going to see this administration escalate even further on immigration as they fail to hit the outrageous numbers that Miller is demanding.

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!!! My boss from 2016-2020 - great choice and congrats to MAB

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Only my husband could sit in the second row of a theater watching Hugh Jackman for 90 minutes and when the play ends say to me, “I know I know the name but who exactly is he again? Where do I know him?” (Two thumbs up for Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and big thanks to TDF for the tix!)

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I feel like my family does not fully appreciate my skill when it comes to cheap theatre tickets because HELLO FREE SECOND ROW TICKETS TO SEE HUGH JACKMAN!?!

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If you’re going to speculate about a former POTUS, can we ask why the CURRENT guy spends so much time on the links, rarely works, displays no empathy for Biden’s health, and reposts a social media claim that Biden was executed and has been replaced by clones and machinery. Bueller? Anybody?

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Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

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Trump is chickening out and trying to blame Elon for anything bad that happened to his supporters because he’s seen all the leopards eating faces posts. But it’s his fault. He wants credit for all the good things his predecessor did and none of the blame for the things HE has done.

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The goal is to save as many of the bees as possible. 14 million bees (revised from 250 million) 70,000 pounds (31,751 kilograms) of honeybee hives Local beekeepers swarmed to help recover, restore and reset the hives www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #BlueEarth #SaveTheBees #Pollinators

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We need the Senate Democrats to highlight every instance in the BB Bill where it would cause cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or SNAP, and publicize each one, highlighted, with a page number. Then everyone needs to share those posts and videos.

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How con artists can kill.

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Yammering about antisemitism; promoting antisemites. "The ways in which the administration is exploiting the Jewish community's legitimate fears and concerns about antisemitism is ultimately undermining Jewish safety," said @amyspitalnick.bsky.social, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

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This owner thinks newspapers are better off diminished than dead www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...

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