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I used to be a ninja, but now I'm just a concerned Texan.
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For whatever reason this part of the 'kid who killed his parents and wanted to assassinate Trump story' doesn't seem to be getting as much play. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yep. The narrative is “we are kicking out criminals,” and they don’t care if the “criminals” are grad students who got a speeding ticket. They seriously appear to be running some kind of script that runs foreign students against law-enforcement databases and auto-terminates if there’s a match.

MAGA terrorists have struck again, not content to just send pipe bombs to try to carry out mass political assassinations, or to simply settle for their traitorous assault on the capitol. This is why they need to be treated like the violent fascist enemies they are.

BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel allows Judge McFadden's injunction in the Associated Press access case to go into effect. McFadden's stay of his order ended at midnight, and the D.C. Circuit panel only scheduled arguments (for 4/17) on DOJ's requests for an admin stay and a stay pending appeal.

something I think that so many stupid people just do not understand is that rules are, in fact, rules and they actually do make things black/white

WHAT DOES THIS FUCKING MEAN

Spoken as a true leader:“Last night, we experienced an attack, not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of PA…,” Mr. Shapiro said. “I want you all to know that your prayers lift us up, and in this moment of darkness, we are choosing to see light.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

When an attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris immediately issued statements condemning the shooting and all political violence. The fact that Donald Trump hasn’t said a word about the arson attack on Gov. Shapiro and his family tells you all you need to know.

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

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WOW. They grabbed her off the street even while the State Department itself said that she had done nothing wrong.

I CAN FEEL THE COMMIES IN THE AIR TONIGHT OH LAWD

"why is president trump lying about his weight? what else is he hiding?" literally writes itself, but the press is more interested in getting access to the next cruel kids party and doing blow off an Alabama sorority girl than actually serving the national interest

This is also totally false; multiple people who definitely never had their email “provided” by someone with humanitarian parole got the email. It’s clear DOGE used the wrong dataset.

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data www.wired.com/story/palant...

NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Today's recalcitrant DOJ update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia predictably reopens the tedious debate over the meaning of "facilitate." DOJ claims it means merely *permitting* his entrance into the US, without requiring "any affirmative steps." DOJ is wrong. 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oh cool, we’re actually getting the black ops 2 plotline

The Trump administration’s revealed belief is that American workers & businesses are so economically inept that not only can they not compete against China, but they cannot compete against unionized European autoworkers or Canadian steelworkers or Korean chipmakers. I have more faith in Americans.

Going on @ayman.msnbc.com in 45 minutes or so to talk about this nightmare filing. Please remember that if the Trump administration succeeds in establishing this precedent, nothing will stop it from whisking away innocent American *citizens* to rot in an El Salvador prison forever.

i never imagined marco rubio would end up being one of the central villains in this endless nightmare. an absolute monster among monsters.

Don’t fly May 7th. I was a congressional intern the summer that the U.S. began requiring passports to travel on land between the U.S. and Mexico/Canada. It was a complete shitshow. Passport delays reached months. People were calling up constantly for help to avoid having to cancel their vacation.

This ICE declarant “understands” nothing. There is no such thing as post-hoc invalidation of a lawful grant of withholding due to a future act which makes a person ineligible. If they want to get rid of it, they have to go through a process. They didn’t.

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

every time they make a tariff modification I am legally obligated to tell you it would take 0.05 seconds for them to exempt bananas and coffee but they STILL WONT DO IT

Right wingers love to be like “pshaw you think batteries can supply power for a power grid during the hot summer night” not knowing that batteries are literally doing that right now

The options here are: 1) they’re so stupid that when setting 100s of exemptions last week they just forgot our 2nd & 3rd largest manufactured imports until Friday 2) they think you’re so stupid you won’t see this is still a giant unfair giveaway to parts of the electronics industry 3) both

somebody's mad about the reporting on the iPhone exemption (and I guess we're tariffing all electronics at some point in the near future)

>iphones getting re-tariff'd in a month i can't keep doing this dawg YOU EXEMPTED THEM 24HR AGO

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

Our completely avoidable, totally unnecessary global financial crisis. This is Trump’s real cognitive test, and he’s flunking it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

Treasury bonds are tumbling. Why? “The whole world has decided that the U.S. government has no idea what it’s doing,” said Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...