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well if there is one thing whose awesome power republican presidents respect and are powerless in the face of it's a central american nation's national sovereignty

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Tom Homan is a cruel, vindictive, oxygen thief.

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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

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the other insane thing about these new tariff exemptions is that they exempted the machinery used to make semiconductors because that’s obviously counterproductive to re-shoring semiconductor manufacturing but have not extended that logic to all the other types of machinery

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Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."

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The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

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This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

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The Trump tariff roller-coaster goes off the rails. The mad king makes a mockery of the rule of law. The Reverse Robin Hood budget bill begins. Heather and I break down this week's news — and take a sneak peek at my new memoir — on today's Coffee Klatch. https://youtu.be/fUIFIG1TnRo

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The dream is dead

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

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In a reasonable world, these statements wouldn't be considered anti-Christian but Rubio definitely thinks of them that way: -- The meek shall inherit the earth. -- God and Christ are always superior to Trump. -- Judge not, lest ye be judged. -- It's very difficult for the rich to enter Heaven.

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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

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"It was the worst type of magical thinking to imagine Trump would have any serious constraints in a second term ... If his voters believed he wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the economy for no good reason, they simply didn’t pay attention to his first term or 2024 campaign."

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New from me at Cato: Trump's penalty orders have taken a scary new turn, selecting targets for having taken a stand on behalf of the integrity of the U.S. election system, and ordering the Dept. of Justice to investigate an evidently innocent man, Chris Krebs. /1 www.cato.org/blog/new-rev...

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🚨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...

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Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

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WTF. The Social Security Administration hasn’t posted a press release on its website since March 27. According to Wired, the agency is shifting communications to X, owned by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the person President Donald Trump put in charge of seeking “efficiency”.

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The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

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Trump is about to get another physical that says he's 6'4", 180lbs, and has a 10" cock. Daring us once again to disbelieve our lying eyes. The first time that happened should've been the end. We let him skate on the little lies. We let him skate on trivial, but simple transparency. It escalated.

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The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the Trump regime must facilitate the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?

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1 in 4 coal miners in Appalachia get black lung disease, caused by exposure to silica dust in mines. Once again, Trump is throwing workers under the bus for the sake of corporate profits.

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NEW on @npr.org: A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have. More on the claims and the latest in DOGE access concerns:

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Seven years ago?!? Wow.

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Anyone else out there think Garcia has already been killed in prison?

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It was always about personal profit

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What could go wrong? All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) have been laid off, leaving just 12 U.S. officers left to handle current and future ship inspections, CBS News reported Thursday citing multiple officials.

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