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“The Congo in Africa. Many, many people come from the Congo. I don’t know what that is, but they came from the Congo.” – Convicted criminal Donald Trump

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Ballooning property prices and rents are causing serious housing affordability problems in Australia. So how bad is it? And how did it get to this point?

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YES!!

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We definitely need more of this from our State AGs. All of them. Thank you AG Tong. Thank you AG James!

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US labor market stable; tariffs depress single-family homebuilding reut.rs/4cGKumE

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📌THIS is what America is SUPPOSED to be about. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Fuck you, Donald Trump.

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The Trump regime is targeting America’s Black history — dismissing it as government waste. Aiming to quickly dispose of the monuments and facts of our past. DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…

submitted 13 hours ago • 53 comments

.@meeks.house.gov and I demand to know the details of this deal. The Administration has twisted the law and already made a grave error sending Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a gulag in El Salvador.

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

This is a very useful paragraph from ‪@jasonfurman.bsky.social‬, and one that might explain our current tariff debacle.

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

I'm hosting a town hall in Santa Fe on April 22 – please register to join us in-person! I'll be taking questions from folks, sharing an update on my work in Washington, and my staff will be on-site to assist with casework if you're experiencing issues with a federal agency.

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Nearly $1 billion of DOGE ‘savings’ vanish overnight Staffers at DOGEseemingly updated its claimed savings overnight on Tuesday, erasing approximately $962 million, #MOG8 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Extremely good interview from @metrauxjulia.bsky.social. "He’s the antithesis of creativity. I’ve never seen his book of collected poems. Who are you to tell us that we can’t write poetry?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

To compete effectively with China this century, we need strong allies, economic ties to free world, impactful foreign assistance, global media, organizations that promote democracy, & an innovative economy fueled by our research universities, ie the exact opposite of Trumps policies.

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Experts say that countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also the United States. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Cops using AI bots to entrap dissidents, peaceful protesters www.wired.com/story/massiv...

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 743 comments

In Europe with my favorite hat, getting incredible responses from Europeans and American travelers from all walks of life. The reactions are either sadness for what is happening to the U.S. or anger & frustration over gratuitous chaos caused by POTUS & his incompetent sycophants.

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I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Intuit, the company that owns TruboTax, which makes money off filing income taxes with the IRS, gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his inauguration slush fund. #Corruption

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

#RuleOfLaw Keep it coming.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Some of our favorite photos from this Sunday's town hall with @corybooker.com , @captmarkkelly.bsky.social , @gabbygiffords.bsky.social , Mayor Regina Romero, CA Laura Conover, @gregstanton-4az.bsky.social & AZ Dems Chair Robert Branscomb Photo Credit: @popnarkotic.bsky.social

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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The Republican billionaire budget will rip health care away from over 140,000 Massachusetts residents. Kids, seniors, and moms like Lucia.

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Broadway, Southwest Boulevard, N. Platte Purchase, Wornall, 63rd, and more. It’s street resurfacing time! www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

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Fed Chair Powell: "We're never going to be influenced by any political pressure."

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“We’re here to try to save our nation.” - Joan Egan of Missoula. Nearly 10,000 people turned up to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour in Missoula with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC. By @keilaszpaller.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/04/16/b... #montana #mtpol #mtleg

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bad news. they're not letting you post on this website anymore

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I’m so excited about the stickers for my next mailer 🙌 I don’t usually show these off before they’re sent to the club members but these are SO COOL Monthly “mushie-mail” members will be getting these May 1 🤗 sign up at Patreon.com/luke_venechuk

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NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 94 comments

The Supreme Court ordered this administration to facilitate Kilmar’s release. Marylanders and people all across the nation are calling on the President to bring him home. Enough is enough.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1676 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.

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BREAKING: An American citizen has been kidnapped by ICE and is being illegally held in Florida. This is terrifying.

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Science doesn’t improve by cutting Black, Hispanic, and women experts. But that’s exactly what happened—38 out of 43 removed from NIH boards were just that. And they wonder why trust in institutions is fading.

submitted 18 hours ago • 270 comments

Using an emergency declaration to impose tariffs is a clear abuse of presidential emergency powers. It joins a long list of overreach and lawlessness by the current administration.

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The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”. It’s about racism. It’s about state terror. It’s about dehumanization. Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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What goes around comes around...

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Trump’s economy

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In March, a 22-year-old man incarcerated at Mid-State Correctional was brutally beaten and killed by correction officers, amid strikes across state prisons. No one should die in custody at the hands of correction officers. Messiah Nantwi should still be alive today.

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