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NEW: Trump to USA: There is no rule of law. Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student organizer at Columbia University, was invited to a citizenship interview. He was then arrested by ICE. During the fall semester of 2023, right after Oct. 7, we interviewed Mahdawi about his activism:

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How much was your grocery bill this week?

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Just when it looked like Ivy League colleges were going to knuckle down to pressure from the Trump administration, Harvard rejects a proposed deal, saying it went beyond fighting antisemitism to "unprecedented demands...to control the Harvard community." loom.ly/MAp3GuA

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"In the shorter term, I think Trump is trying to reverse two adverse SCOTUS decisions, the one ruling that everyone gets access to at least a habeas petition before being deported, and the other that would uphold the ruling that Abrego Garcia could be deported, but not to El Salvador."

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Senator Chris Van Hollen has requested an urgent meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to address the situation involving Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was “mistakenly”deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

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Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021. Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025. 👉 Read more: propub.li/3XZxXVn

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Cowards and collaborators

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This is like saying the South seceded over states rights. Wrong and dangerous.

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We don’t need $hitcoin as federal reserve assets. Trump and the Saudis can go F**k themselves. That is all. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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President Trump and Republicans are trying to take away your healthcare to pay for tax cuts for millionaires. And over 1 million Wisconsinites on Medicaid, including kids, families, folks with disabilities, seniors, and so many others, will suffer because of it.

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Let’s cut taxes for hardworking moms and dads.

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Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

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“Elon Musk drastically drops DOGE’s savings goal from $2 trillion to $150 billion for the year!” But all the fraud. All the abuse. The only fraud is the president tanking the economy so his friends can buy stock cheap, then insider trading so they can dump it quickly at a huge profit. #PrezAbuse

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Medicaid helps over 8 million seniors age with dignity and independence and lightens the load of working families struggling to get by. @protectourcare.org #HandsOffMedicaid #MedicaidMatters

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#OtD 11 Apr 1981 in London, after rumours of police brutality against a young Black man, youth in Brixton, both Black and white, turned their anger on the police, leaving 280 injured in what would be one of the iconic urban riots of the Thatcher years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8270...

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I learned about this stuff from a fellow capt who was bringing a ship in from China. He had a bunch of these counterfeit guitars, that said "Gibson, Made in USA" on them. He called Gibson from the ship and asked if they made guitars in China. Then informed CBP when he arrived. All were confiscated.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.

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I am so tired of having to protest this insanity loud enough that it gets rescinded. They’re just hoping to wear us down. This is no way to run a country.

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They’re hoping everyone erases #SignalGate from memory—but I won’t, and neither should you!!! Another key pillar of the #MAGA defense for Signalgate is crumbling. #NationalSecurity www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...

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The The corrupt and ridiculous jurisprudence of the John Roberts #SupremeCourt theaggie.org/2025/04/09/t...

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Similarly, much of the press (and notably headline/social media post writers) do not understand that executive orders are not laws, and are not self-executing.

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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Restrictions on voter registration can determine who wins and who loses. So can limits on early voting and vote-by-mail access. Close elections often hinge on which votes are counted — and which are disqualified. Even when results aren’t close, Republicans increasingly contest outcomes they dislike.

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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Words can't capture the fun I had talking on new PBS film We Want the Funk w/Parliament Funkadelic's George Clinton and filmmaker Stanley Nelson. Clinton tells how the Beatles inspired p-funk and what he'll say to aliens when they meet. Please also listen to the audio; its a treat: loom.ly/HTgWG0w

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So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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It's chilling how quickly this is all ratcheting up. First it's illegal immigrants. Then it's those on student visas. Then it's green card holders. We're only two and a half months in. Where do you think it goes next?

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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where are all the pollsters? did they tie up all their capital in equities?

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A Friendly Reminder...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.