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It’s only not simple if the answer doesn’t help your narrative

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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BIG NEWS: The Trump Administration is ordered to provide docs and depos as to its deal with El Salvador to imprison immigrants at terror prison. I break down this court order and why it’s going to make some important info very public: youtu.be/sca8xNYcMHg?...

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NEWS: Elon Musk has caused complete chaos within Republican circles, Trump facilitates return of wrongfully deported migrant after court order, Trump targets Columbia's accreditation, and much more. All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

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Phang: And listen, he’s got a beefy lawsuit here. You can imagine what discovery is going to be like once this case moves forward—because it will. It will not be dismissed…

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One small victory. Proves they can do it.

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DC Bar Members! Listen to @gtconway.bsky.social and vote for Diane Seltzer — NOT Pam Bondi’s brother Brad!!

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NEW: A right-wing think tank known for drafting model legislation for state GOP lawmakers, is expanding its state-level anti-voting efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

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lol … cry … sob

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FFS!!!

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Vinay Prasad didn’t know that all federally-funded research has to be open access. This has been a legal requirement for years.

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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Congrats @jaketapper.bsky.social for helping @MarshaBlackburn distract from Trump’s corruption, attack on the constitution, and transfer of trillions from bottom to top. Hope the book sales are worth it! 📚

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Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: The White House’s campaign against the Congressional Budget Office is veering into the ridiculous. What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.

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🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100) Among the violations: 🤢 Expired milk 🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese 🤢 A hand-washing station without soap me, for @forbes.com

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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🚨NEW: The Republicans who run one of Texas’ biggest counties have recruited the national GOP’s top map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington, D.C.-based anti-voting group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand their majority. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top...

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Genocide is happening in real-time, and the sickest irony is that the people who seem the least concerned about the bloodshed, the most willing to ignore it, the most able to feel nothing—are professed pro-life Christians like you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...

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The most extreme conspiracy theorists now defending the government trampling our rights and actually doing all the things they warned about because their guys are the ones doing it has truly been a sight to behold.

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It’s a self-purge.

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Hey, we found the weaponization of the Justice Department!

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We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower Trump’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.

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For example, one of our studies is a longitudinal study of cognition and genetics — genetic and psychological data need to be stored in different ways which cost money. Fifteen years of priceless information will be lost without funding. (Luckily we have foundation support that can help for now).

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Good luck with that

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Trump’s budget bill increases deficits more than any other recent major legislation.

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Focus on immigration quotas means other crimes are going unaddressed. I’ll discuss with Ana Cabrera at 10:40 am ET on @MSNBC. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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VAN HOLLEN: I'm simply asking you to provide the committee with a reorganization plan, and your response is 'maybe yes, maybe no.' Am I getting that right? LUTNICK: We're going to follow the law VAN HOLLEN: The law requires to you to submit these major changes to the Senate

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Last week, the State Department published a Substack post accusing European allies of destroying democracy. I looked into the author, and found out that he was a disciple of Adrian Vermeule who believed in infiltrating the bureaucracy to undermine liberalism www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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Lutnick refuses to commit to merely responding to oversight letters that Van Hollen has sent to his office

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At least they are providing much needed wall-to-wall coverage of the use of automated pens in Biden the White House.

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Adding $2.4 trillion to the national debt while slashing Medicaid & destabilizing healthcare access for millions. Make America Great Again? More like, Make America Broke & Sick Again.

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The gift that keeps giving

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Mike Johnson looks physically pained as a reporter asks him about Elon Musk's threats against Republicans who vote for the reconciliation bill

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Uh, is this some kind of reverse psychology shit, trying to poison the waters around tax increases by making liberals agree with at least one thing he says?

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this is such a pathetic posture for someone in the presidential line of succession

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sounds like this ex-congressman is pulling a max federal salary for ... well, not much work. Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule Inside A Powerful Agency talkingpointsmemo.com/news/billy-l...

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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👇👇👇👇

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I agree with this. I will also add that usually well-informed non-academic progressive voters I talk to have absolutely no idea what is going on in higher education and research and the long-term repercussions+

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Colbert: Mike Johnson and Russ Vought have said no one is going to lose their Medicaid. Is that something you would describe as true? NC Gov. Josh Stein: Untrue. I would use true, but I would add "un" in front of it. You cannot take $700 billion out of the system without people losing coverage.

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Raygun is on it 😂

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Liz still fighting the good fight. I’m glad she isn’t one of the “hunker down and hide” crowd among Democrats

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Elizabeth Warren: "You'd have to talk to the Senate moderates about what moves the needle for them. Right now, they seem to be fine with cutting healthcare access for 14m Americans and cutting access to food, and pairing that with tax breaks for billionaires."

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Elizabeth Warren to Sarah Eisen: "I'm sorry -- you're throwing a giant parade and tossing confetti over regulations that, let's see what happened over the last 9 months -- Wells Fargo has been tagged for money laundering, it's been tagged for engaging in consumer fraud ... that makes no sense."

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House Republicans’ tax bill would lead to nearly 11 million people losing health insurance, providing a key source of savings to help finance Trump’s tax cuts for wealthy Americans, according to projections that nonpartisan congressional scorekeepers published Wednesday.

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Two days after having his Air Force head thrown to his death from a window, and with kilos of makeup outweighing his delicate little skull, the Gargoyle Midget in his first public statement since the largest ever one day loss of Russian aviation in history, tells us Ukrainians are terrorists.

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