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Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

submitted 20 hours ago • 951 comments

Today I'm finding out which people believe that if you're part of a population that is a small overall percentage of humans on the planet, it's okay to strip you of rights. I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify them into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.

submitted 11 hours ago • 106 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1100 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 15 hours ago • 220 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1309 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1607 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 16 hours ago • 512 comments

The ICE officers covering their faces feels like a pretty big tell

submitted 2 days ago • 235 comments

I don't care how many junior staffs Hegseth or others throw under the bus. Hegseth HIMSELF was on the Signal group chat. He used his fingers to enter the sensitive military info into the chat. He bears 100% full responsibility for that -- no matter how many scapegoats he finds.

submitted 1 day ago • 366 comments

Imagine POTUS nodding yes while a self described dictator from a country smaller than Washington state refuses to return to USA a man sent to his country in error. Even tho USA taxpayers are paying the bill for this prisoner.The big story is about the wanna be dictator not the self described one.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

So you can take over Greenland and Canada but can’t send a plane to pick up someone you are paying another country to hold for a year? Weird take on sovereignty.

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1625 comments

The Trump economy is just booming 💥! Thanks Trump voters.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

submitted 1 day ago • 930 comments

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 924 comments

It’s your move Supreme Court. Are you going to forfeit your power and place in our government along with the the Republicans? Will you fail us, too?

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Since when does the White House object to human trafficking? Donald Trump, welcomed the Tate brothers with open arms.

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Please share

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Either the U.S. government is able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

submitted 2 days ago • 1613 comments

It is my firm opinion that that asshole’s admin is stalling and refusing to bring Kilmar back because he is already dead. They killed him.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

Yes it is! Take them to jail or in a mental institution where they belong.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 1 day ago • 1254 comments

Where the fuck is Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay makeup artist renditioned to El Salvador? And why is he not in the news? www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

THIS IS THE ENERGY WE NEED!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 621 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 1 day ago • 1486 comments

Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.

submitted 1 day ago • 910 comments

Biden: One called it a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme? What the hell are they talking about? People earned these benefits. They paid into that benefit. They rely on that benefit.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Mahmoud Khalil was here legally. Detained. Rumeysa Ozturk was here legally. Detained. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally. Detained & deported. MAGAs don't want "legal" immigration. They want to stop non-white immigration—just like pre-1965. "AGAIN" in MAGA always meant reviving Jim Crow America.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Make sense of this mess: We’re shunning skilled immigrants —while dumbing down schools by banning books & defunding education. And the grand plan for the workplace is a bro-club of white men hoarding power. So when does “greatness” kick in? Because all I’m seeing is regression wrapped in a flag.

submitted 2 days ago • 265 comments

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

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The lies Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller just told about Abrego Garcia on national TV... ...I have no words for them. I am sick of calling things obscene or deranged. These are obviously evil people charting an obviously evil course for our country. The idea of Hell was devised for people like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 813 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 2 days ago • 1986 comments

Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

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bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 2 days ago • 673 comments