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Sen. Van Hollen and his meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is all over the news and social media. Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia. Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.

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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:

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John Roberts desperately wants to avoid having this fight and they're going to make him have it anyway, or be the latest and most prominent institution to cave and prostate themselves before Trump in publicly humiliating fashion make your choice, John

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As a lawyer, I can tell you why Abrego Garcia must remain in El Salvador. If he were free, he could sue me for defamation and win. by Pam Bondi

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here's a face representing useless democratic party consultants this kind of world view is why the party acts like gutless wonders and gets their asses handed to them by fascists like trump and bush ii

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Someone got paid good money to tell Democrats not to call these guys weird

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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

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Bukele is going to end up blubbering before an American military tribunal about how Trump forced him into their partnership and he never really had a choice.

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van hollen immediately elevated himself to Presidential contender and all it took was being willing to fly to El Salvador, elected Democrats be advised if one of you works up the guts to throw a punch who knows where you'll go

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CHUCK SCHUMER: I call, in very strong words, on Trump Administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to United States. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: I went to El Salvador, and met with Kumar, he is alive.

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Lots of history in Boston

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always the victim, even when they’re kidnapping people. No doubt slave-catchers said the same.

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No band I know better speaks to what life’s like now than Chastity Belt “If I look at my phone again I'll just wanna die Aside from that I feel alright” open.spotify.com/track/15ynDD...

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This is indeed incredible. “Conservative judge” doesn’t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it’s signs-and-wonders level.

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If it was worthless they wouldn't have stolen it, and this should be obvious to everyone.

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theonion.com/historians-q...

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U.S. Senators, Canadian Senators, and Ottawa Senators: Learn The Differences

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This is a good piece but they haven't lost their way, this was always their purpose www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-free-p...

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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Something for SCOTUS to ponder while Humphrey's Executor is on the shadow docket

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what is wrong with republicans?

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NEW: The City Council just approved this settlement, officially exhausting the city's entire $82 million annual budget to resolve police misconduct lawsuits. @wttw.bsky.social

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Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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We have billions in government contracts with the fascist head of a baby making cult and when they led the Senate the Democrats didn’t hold a single hearing to discuss whether that might not be a good idea

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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

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This is only true if we get better Democrats. The goal for next year must be to contest every primary.

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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the one that doesn't make you complicit in fascism, hope this helps

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What Judge Xinis is banking on is that the government does not want to spend two weeks in discovery. Two big things can happen: (1) They just make the call and get him back (2) They spend two weeks creating a public record of their own fuck ups and then get sanctioned

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Some House aides and members have grown frustrated with leadership's cautious approach to procedural warfare, and have drawn up a playbook for going it alone. You can read that playbook, now circulating internally, exclusively here.

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I've been thinking a lot about what art will look like during this administration and beyond. I believe it will be fuzzy and dissociative. But the record that best captures today's political malaise was released in May of last year. On DIIV: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/tune-in-ch...

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...the newspaper that colluded with the bush administration to kill over one million people in iraq for fun said that?

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“Ok, I was wrong, but the people who were right were annoying, and therefore you should continue listening to me and not them” was exactly the argument of the Iraq War cheerleaders as that situation turned into the debacle it was always going to be.

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No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

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Cannot believe I just got an email from Gillibrand's office saying she "understands the frustration" but a shutdown would risk a recession and Elon firing whoever he wants?? Did her staff send this email from the past??

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They are monsters

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