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Questioning authority since I could talk, & activist giving 'em hell even before RNC convention, DFW '84. Never on Xitter. Retired atty, poet, sketch artist. Happily married lesbian with grown kid & the best critters. Keep hope & keep fighting!
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A MORAL CRISIS “The rule of law is being trampled. Innocent people are being disappeared. Court orders are being ignored. If you claim to love this country—if you believe in the Constitution, due process, order, and justice—this must be your line in the sand.” Take 3 minutes. This is important.

It’s the evil laugh at the end for us 😕

'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Wow. Harvard University says they will not comply with Trump’s demand to “audit” the viewpoints of their student body or else be defunded. More of this.

NEW: The Supreme Court is creating a due process gap through the redistribution of rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-suprem...

April 14, 2025

John Roberts, favorite food of face-eating leopards everywhere.

Today in “give bullies an inch,” CBS agreed to settlement talks with Trump for cutting a Kamala Harris interview answer for time, now he wants them taken off the air. www.wonkette.com/p/how-is-our...

Trump wants mega-prisons in El Salvador for American citizens now, and for Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in prison forever. www.wonkette.com/p/trump-tell...

Good question!

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Calling it the Errors Tour, yeh?

'Oxfam America noted Monday that research shows "every $1 spent auditing the top 0.1% yields $6.29 in direct revenue, with total returns likely far higher due to greater deterrence."'

An experienced reporter takes a look.

Hard to summarize, but worth a look at the interesting interconnections.

Perhaps it's time to boycott things made in El Salvador.

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

Buried lede: Trump’s handling of the economy: March 2: 51% approve, 49% disapprove. March 30: 48% approve, 52% disapprove. Now: 44% approve, 56% disapprove. www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-tr...

The attempt to burn down the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion is pretty clearly an assassination attempt, and it's likely an antisemitic hate crime. It should be referred to that way by political media.

The Man Who Mistook a Sharpie for a Sceptre

It'll be a good stress test, and one they will fail.

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

A disgrace. “What emerges is a picture of how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana [and of] a sprawling, opaque apparatus designed to deport the maximum number of people with minimum accountability.” www.propublica.org/article/rume...

Margaret Hamilton created the software that sent humans to the moon. Katherine Johnson was the only person that early astronauts trusted to check their orbit calculations. Pearl I. Young was the first woman scientist at NASA in 1922. These are the women who built space travel. Learn their stories:

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

I'll say it again: in a country where due process is individually denied and then broadly eroded and eventually eliminated, being a citizen will not protect you from the terror of this administration.

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

Sound familiar? This is what the silence or even mocking by the right of the Paul Pelosi attack has led to.

The Abrego García saga is far from over, even after a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the government must facilitate his release from custody in El Salvador. What the White House is now saying, and why it’s complete garbage, in today’s piece. Link: buff.ly/BosXZao

The grift is out in the open. When will voters punish this? Let’s all make it happen in 2026. Before it’s too late.

Republicans are entirely responsible for this loaded debt gun put to our heads. Reagan: (still in effect) cost US at least $20T; Bush: ~$6T, + $6T for the 2 illegal wars he lied us into to win in 2004; & Trump 1st: est. $5T. That’s $37 trillion, & our nat'l debt now stands at $36.22 trillion.

We can no longer have nice things

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