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1/🧵 OP unknown, but this is steering my morning muse... Junior Rangers, there's a real, non-zero chance that the country we know as the United States won't exist on the other side of this. It feels like pulling up to your house and seeing smoke rolling out of a window. (Been there. Done that.)

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The market turmoil around Trump’s tariffs has supercharged Dems' attacks on congressional stock trading. Their attacks crystallized after public disclosures revealed Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks during a tariff-induced dip in the market.

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In one of the main Freedom of Information Act lawsuits involving Elon Musk and his team of analysts in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a federal judge accelerated the case timeline this evening—ordering DOGE to produce details about its structure and authority within two weeks.

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He wants you to be scared. It's what he does when he is scared.

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We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

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"the worst and dumbest people in the world gloating about how they solved the ‘grift’ of sending lifesaving medications to dying babies...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

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🐾🤍.

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I don't say this often, but we all need to be like Tennessee. This is the proper energy when kidnappers come for our friends and neighbors. Today is a good day to start mentally rehearsing scenarios and plans, if you haven't already. exploringyourmind.com/the-power-of...

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Short 🧵 After yesterday's sickening Oval Office meeting and hot-mic capture about El Salvador building more prisons for "homegrowns" (note that dehumanizing language), it was rightly noted that concentration camps differ from prisons because they work outside of the judicial system.

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I think we all have this info pretty well on-board now; reposting this mainly for the angry otter. 🦦

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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 60 days ago • 1257 comments

We are way past impeachment time

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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 want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 60 days ago • 1480 comments

Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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"Every once in a while, Trump has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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So, if I understand correctly, the President of the United States is saying that the Supreme Court of the United States consists of nine “sick people,” including three whom he appointed. apple.news/AMHDqIFcpRxi...

submitted 61 days ago • 1392 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

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Me too, Steve. Me too...

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Excellent Op-Ed by our former commissioner detailing how Trump and DOGE have actually increased the risk of Social Security fraud. Please read and share.

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If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

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A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."

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Water sausages chasing a butterfly.

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance

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no criminal record no gang ties no tattoos active pending asylum case 19 years old sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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You don't get to deport whoever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want. That shit is not gonna fly.

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One of these photos is CECOT, El Salvador, present day. The other is Buchenwald, Germany, April 16, 1945.

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So a senior executive at SSA was escorted out on Thursday for voicing concerns about adding immigrants to the Master Death Record. We love to see someone standing on their principles and refusing to back down. Sharing the Reddit post about it because it has a link to the WaPo article as a gift.

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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

submitted 62 days ago • 304 comments

Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.

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Eugenicists are so stupid.

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The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.

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STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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