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They spent the last four years telling us people who invaded the capital and beat police officers with flagpoles were unjustly persecuted civil rights heroes and now it’s taken about 45 minutes for them to be like “yeah if you write an op-ed you’re going to the blacksite that’s just common sense”

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Don't let this sort of thing become normalized. No criminal record. Married with a child. Complying with immigration bureaucracy. Agents wait outside his home. Smash his window while he calls his lawyer. Take him to an undisclosed location. This is Soviet secret police stuff. youtu.be/Bnlj-wSI4Bg

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SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 comments

COLBERT, on Garcia: "If you’re telling yourself, ‘Well, what happened to this guy doesn’t apply to me,’ try adding the word ‘yet.' .. We’re not on our way to a dictatorship. We’re on the ship with ol’ tater-dick.” @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/tv/stephen-c...

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Rubio doing his best to rescue the tourism biz. 🤡 @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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Since the beginning I’ve said that Elon and his DOGE tech bros know the real value in pillaging these federal agencies is in the data, but not to raid your bank accounts. It’s to influence the outcome of our elections.

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Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

submitted 6 hours ago • 245 comments

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

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I mentioned this yesterday but it bears repeating. I’ve been quite critical of many Democrats right now. Their #Resistance has been confined to awareness-level skeeting. Senator Van Hollen is Doing The Work here. Where he’s going, his status as a Senator is little protection. Sometimes people die.

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Important:

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No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 235 comments

Let's all be @harvard.edu ❤️💪 How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

Dear US-Americans: If you have ever asked yourself, how was it possible that Nazis came to power in Germany in the 1930s... ... you are living in the right time and in the right country to get the answer.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

When American citizens have to worry about returning to their own country from travel abroad, you ain’t living in a free republic.

submitted 2 hours ago • 237 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A president who ignores the restraints

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The world’s authoritarians are networking. That’s bad news for Canada’s sovereignty #Canada #cdnpoli thewalrus.ca/indias-meddl...

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Be reminded that Auschwitz was in Poland not Germany.....

submitted 7 days ago • 121 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... but it's not even trying

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What will be the growth engine for the 21st century? China’s response: Clean energy, batteries, electric vehicles and autonomous cars, robots, new materials, machine tools, drones, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. U.S. Response: Coal Mining & Deforestation. Who will Win?

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Trump doesn't get it. You can't fuck with China and expect to win.

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They have no problem sending SWAT into schools to grab migrant kids, but when it’s an active shooter they use those children as human shields.

submitted 15 hours ago • 160 comments

Cowardice and immorality very often come wrapped in a pretense of faux sophistication, I'm just too smart to do the right thing.

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Read this story First, excellent work by neighbors/friends of this man & his child But critically, the Nashville police said "there were no known criminal warrants for the man” but ICE said they were “seeking a convicted criminal alien ICE fugitive with an outstanding removal order” Bald face lie

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BREAKING! The man who tried to kill Governor Shapiro is a Trump supporter. AP has the story. Of course! The man's brother said Balmer tried to convince his family to vote for Trump in 2024.

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This administration is literally disappearing innocent people off the street and sending them to brutal foreign prisons in defiance of a unanimous Supreme Court. This fact must scare every American who respects the rule of law and loves the ideals on which this country was founded. #ResistTrump

submitted 3 hours ago • 46 comments

Surprised Sens Gallego, Padilla + Cortez-Masto have not been a louder voice on deportation atrocities. I believe white America needs to stand up first against white supremacy, but this issue is blatant institutional racism against Hispanic community. Van Hollen doing his job. Hope it inspires others

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REPORTER: Why not show the public the evidence? BONDI: Well, he is an illegal alien who has been living illegally in our country from El Salvador ... He is not coming back to our country R: But the evidence. We're not gonna see the evidence? BONDI: We have the transcripts from the court hearings

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•DISORDER IN GEORGIA• Many constituents at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall last night were furious. Vehement opposition to Greene’s representation, the Trump regime’s fascist takeover, and destructive Republican policies led to explosions of anger and chaos. •GREENE’S GOONS• Within minutes…

submitted 4 hours ago • 149 comments

Let’s keep saying it: IMPEACH… CONVICT… REMOVE.

submitted 9 hours ago • 197 comments

Trump tanked Obama's Iran nuclear deal out of spite. Now his useless envoy demands Iran eliminate nuclear programme in apparent U-turn. Steve Witkoff’s switch from saying low-level production could continue seen as example of chaotic US foreign policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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There's an army of men out there like Cody Balmer, the Pa. governor's mansion arsonist -- underemployed, dumped, fetishizing weapons and on the web looking for someone to blame What's changed is the pols who egg on their violence. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Not sure if/how long this clip will stay up, but our #Baltimore rally in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other illegally disappeared migrants got some nice coverage at 11:00 www.wbaltv.com/nowcast #BringKilmarHome #OccupyICE #3E #Immigration #USProtests #ProtestMD #Maryland

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•••••••MEASLES••••••• •••BREAKING UPDATES••• Health officials in Washington D.C. are investigating a measles case at a local Five Guys restaurant. Officials were notified that an individual with a confirmed case of measles visited the Five Guys at 1400 I Street NW on April 5 between…

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Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York headlined a “Fight Oligarchy” rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in one of the reddest states in the country on Monday night, attracting thousands of people. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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