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I keep puzzling over how Rubio thinks it'll bring PROSPERITY to kidnap gay hairdressers based on their tattoos & then pay $20K/year to detain them in a slave camp. We could have spent that $6M on supporting trade with Congo instead, but Rubio has decided torture is better for profits?

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Trump just posted a new rant claiming the tariff exceptions on electronics announced late Friday aren’t actually exceptions and they’ll still get hit with tariffs.

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New photos show that Governor Shapiro and his family were clearly attacked. Firebombing the home of a Jewish Governor on Passover smacks of violent antisemitic hatred. This is what happens when so many remain silent while vile, dehumanizing Jew hatred becomes commonplace. Silence is violence.

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BREAKING: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated from their official residence overnight after a suspected arsonist set fire to the home.

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Me, June 6, 2024: “Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”

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It’s astounding that the White House’s position appears to be that they’ve never heard of, you know, “negotiating” or “asking.” As if we have no way to reach the El Salvador president and no leverage. So much for The Art of the Deal!

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The price of covfefe has skyrocketed.

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RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

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They’re using the hostages to try and justify their anti-democratic movement. Not in our name

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Musk really should just stick to destroying social media. That seems to be what he’s best at.

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"President Donald Trump’s offensive against elite universities is also an assault on the nation’s most economically dynamic metropolitan areas — and a threat to America’s global competitiveness," writes Ronald Brownstein | Analysis

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They just love them some Putin.

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Really, Shaq.. Miami, 4/12/25

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Russia's ambassador to the U.K. did not deny Moscow is tracking British nuclear submarines in British waters but claimed it posed no threat to the U.K., the BBC reported on April 12.

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Here's what we're reading today: The U.S. has reportedly demanded control of a key pipeline in Ukraine that used to transport Russian gas to Europe. This follows U.S.-Ukraine talks on Friday about a proposed mineral deal, in which the U.S. demands more than the previous draft.

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So Trump is using Garcia’s status as an El Salvadoran national to justify doing nothing at all to facilitate his return to the U.S. as required by the 9-0 April 10 SCOTUS order. In the meantime these thugs are planning to designate part of CECOT Prison in El Salvador as U.S. territory!

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REPORT: “The State of Vouchers in 2025—delves into how voucher programs favor the privileged over students from lower-income households and how they threaten public education.” www.newsweek.com/school-vouch...

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HASSETT: If you look at the latest jobs report, it was way, way above even what I expected TAPPER: You know the jobs data was from before the "liberation day"

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“The former casino owner in the White House brags that he has never gambled. But he is gambling with Americans’ lives and futures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...

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Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Warren: "Congress has a job right now, and that is to step up and take this authority away from Donald Trump."

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How about we start treating people like people? Is that too much to ask?

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Feeling like I need this framed on my wall . . . .

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Absolutely the case at an international meeting I was at last week. Deep sense of bewilderment and disappointment. The actions of the US shape the rest of the world, and citizens of other countries are worried by our unraveling.

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Government bonds have been selling off while stocks have plunged. That’s unusual, and it’s raising concerns that global investors are losing some of their long-standing confidence in America.

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No toilet paper, spotty wi-fi, no privacy, and offices so dirty employees are bringing in their own cleaning supplies—that’s how Donald Trump’s RTO push is going for federal employees.

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We are witnessing an outright theft attempt by 4 Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court An effort to disenfranchise voters in only certain counties-WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY or reside overseas The decision brings great dishonor to the Court. This blatant attempt at vote theft cannot stand

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"Last week, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library. Why? Because impressionable midshipmen might be...what? Educated in aspects of American history and society they hadn’t personally experienced?" www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...

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If you fill your military leadership with people who are either ignorant of the kinds of diverse literature purged here, ok with the purge, or, worse, excited by it… you are going to get a very specific kind of US military leadership and it does not resemble l the side that won the Civil War.

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So under our incompetent psychopath's "leadership," investors are now questioning the safety of US Treasuries, driving up interest rates given the heightened risk. Borrowing costs will increase significantly.

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77 million people voted for deregulation (Trump). Did they know they were also voting for pollution, cancer, and climate chaos loved ones and future generations? We can now be poisoned on purpose—without a check.

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The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — from the grocery store to the gas pump — and analyzing how prices are changing under the second Trump administration. Here's the latest:

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Trump surrenders again.

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“The Salvadoran president offered to turn the CECOT into an extension of the U.S. prison system in exchange for a payment of $20,000 per individual per year.” The two presidents are basically slave traders in drag. english.elpais.com/internationa...

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The so-called Defense Secretary has ordered 400 books removed from the Naval Academy library. This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler. The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.

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Aside from being illegal Improperly listing 6,100 people as dead will almost certainly make it easier to “disappear” them Because now they’ve been “erased” And you can be damned sure that American citizens will mistakenly be included as dead Come to think of it That’s probably no mistake at all

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

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This will make an excellent exhibit at her trial before the International Criminal Court

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 82 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news. Key Takeaway- Surveillance State is coming

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Exactly

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I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

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The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage surged 13 basis points Friday to 7.1% — the highest rate since mid-February.

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"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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Donald Trump has made himself—and by extension, us—the laughing stock of the world.

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From the Chief Equity Strategist and Global Director of Equity Strategy at Bloomberg LP-- www.linkedin.com/posts/gina-m...

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