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Here for news and fun. Hoping to find the right balance. Commonsense and kindness shouldn't be too much to expect. Will repost courage when I see it. 🌎🌈🌻
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NEW: The Trump administration, via a senior State Department official, says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. But they still won't say if they're doing anything to get him back. Details w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Demand an investigation into the clear corruption of Donald Trump and his cronies: glaring examples of market manipulation, insider trading, and other illegal financial transactions, informed by advance knowledge of Trump’s tariff policy changes. NY AG Letitia James has jurisdiction over Wall St.

I saw someone post, "It's too late to save America." No it's not. Not even close. We will NEVER stop fighting the lawlessness, the unconstitutionally, the tyranny. The time is NOW! In fact, "THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW." (Artist: Peter Tunney)

Ashland, Wisconsin, population 8000. #handsoff

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Anne Applebaum does good work based on real-world experience with autocracy and corruption, particularly in Russia and Hungary. She knows her stuff.

Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY Orders Trump Administration to Return Abrego Garcia To The US! youtu.be/UILgyKjZYN4?...

Bring him back

In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we discussed court battle over mistaken deportation, victory for free press, and DOJ’s dismissal of Ga voting rights case. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Andrew Sullivan: “Once you grasp Trump as an elected monarch, his full rebuke to the very idea of America comes into clearer view. He is precisely — almost uncannily — what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king”

The attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador, says that him and the family have not been able to contact him and don't know his current condition. Absolutely unacceptable! Bring him HOME!

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

This is the way.

The U.S. dollar is falling, the stock market is crashing, bond markets are imploding, and consumer sentiment is tanking. Donald Trump: “We are doing really well.”

NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.

A friend who understands these matters said last night that we’ll be lucky to get out of this with a normal recession, as opposed to a real international economic crisis. As Kyle Rodda said, 'This goes beyond pricing in a growth slowdown and trade uncertainty.'” www.thebulwark.com/p/not-seriou...

🚨NEW CAP analysis: Trump's latest tariffs will cost families $4,600 per year🚨 📈Berry, banana, coffee, and nut prices UP 10% 📈Playstation 2 UP $700+ 📈iPhone prices will more than DOUBLE This is not a pause. Trump is betraying the middle class. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

They started with Critical Race Theory Then Wokeness Then Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Now Empathy www.salon.com/2025/04/11/m...

Bring him home

Looking for an alternative to the (corrupt oligarch) Charles Schwab for my investments....Is Fidelity or Vanguard better?

Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?

So basically he moved the deck chairs around a little.

On the lighter side,....I was just reminded that well into my adulthood I thought "For all intents and purposes" was actually "for all intensive purposes" ha ha 🤣

State Media, for all intents and purposes

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If the on-again, off-again tariff announcements by President Trump have struck you as unusual, that’s for good reason. Nothing like this has ever happened before, one expert said.

"Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Dexter brought forward an amendment to the bill which would put a pause on the SAVE Act until they could study and conclusively say that it would not impede married women's ability to register to vote. This amendment was blocked by Republicans." #SAVEAct

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"Back in Homer’s day, people lived within an oral culture, then humans slowly developed a literate culture. Now we seem to be moving to a screen culture. Civilization was fun while it lasted." David Brooks #Tariffs #ReadingIsFundamental www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

My latest: MTG Caught “Buying The Dip” as AOC @aoc.bsky.social Renews Call to Ban Members’ Trades