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I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West. ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.

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NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

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Tea Pain just got back from Europe. Everyone we met , as soon as they heard we were from America, the next thing outta their mouth was about what an embarrassment Trump must be for us. We did not disagree.

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A New Mexico judge and his wife have also been arrested, for allegedly hiding a TdA gang member in their home. Given recent history, it’s probably best to take the “hiding” and “gang member” allegations with a fistful of salt. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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A CNN host asked these creeps: “Does it matter to you all who has more babies in America, or is this a universal thing for you?" Eventually the husband came out and said yeah it does. He doesn't support possible "baby bonuses" for low-income people because they are "a drain on tax system"

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Exclusive: The White House wants to defund a bipartisan board that advises the president and Congress on Social Security policy, sources told Reuters, as the Trump administration moves to cut costs and eliminate independent voices in government reut.rs/4cTpQjk

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Senile Donnie is given fake paperwork telling him SCOTUS did things they did not do. I doubt he even knows where he is most days.

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John James thinks what Americans have experienced in the past 100 days is a new "Golden Age". As he launches his campaign for governor, he's going to run into a buzzsaw of Michiganders who've lost jobs, businesses, and retirement funds thanks to Trump & Musk. It's only golden for the ultra rich.

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“I have nothing to do with Russia” lol he couldn’t have more to do with russia if he were eating borscht and playing with nesting dolls

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Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.

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A big win for democracy in North Carolina: A state court panel ruled that a law that stripped the Democratic governor’s power to appoint members of NC’s Board of Elections & transferred it to the Republican state auditor is unconstitutional. Republicans passed this law after losing in November

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"Alejandro’s 6-year-old niece asked him almost every day: When will her dad call her?"

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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And this dopey dip-shit wearing a beanie bought with Russian rubles had something to say about what Zelenskyy wore? Lol

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent trying to walk it all back after alienating our allies: "I wish to be clear: America first does not mean America alone. To the contrary, it is a call for deeper collaboration and mutual respect among trade partners." The art of the cave. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 1005 comments

Just-out YouGov polling shows Trump's approval on the economy continuing to plunge — and his handling of immigration turning negative very sharply. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

The line at the very bottom hits particularly hard in 2025.

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Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

submitted 5 days ago • 777 comments

The VA just sent an email out to all employees announcing an Anti-Christian Bias Task Force and asking them to turn in fellow employees for a list of violations. They want them to use Anti-ChristianBiasReporting@va .gov! So you know….

submitted 5 days ago • 283 comments

incredible -- Tammy Bruce spends two minutes on Fox denouncing the NYT for reporting about Trump's plans to slash the State Dept, but then in the next breath broadly confirms their reporting

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

Yep. The hope is that there aren't really viable replacements for U.S. Treasuries—mostly due to their sheer size in the global market—but the decoupling of the dollar and Treasury yields itself shows that Trump has single-handedly generated an aversion to U.S. assets.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

So this is the type of people in power we have to deal with in HB. An important note - Pat Burns is constantly chastising people about “decorum” during city council meetings, and has been caught swearing and demeaning citizens multiple times.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 7 days ago • 256 comments

Will is correct. Hitler loathed the United States because of our multiracial population and our commitment to liberal democracy. Signed, someone who did a PhD field in 20th century German history.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

DOGE is a few different things. But one of the biggest is take control of the federal bureaucracy and hand out all the contracts to yours and your friends companies. Then privatize a bunch more stuff and gives those contracts to your cos and your friends' too. Smash and Grab, national edition.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

WTAF

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If anyone you know in ICE tells you they’re “just following orders” remind them of the following: - they can read - they’re aware of the SCOTUS ruling and numerous injunctions around the illegality of what they’re doing - feigning ignorance will not soften their place in history…or in America.

submitted 9 days ago • 666 comments

🚨 Today: Mass firings just hit the CFPB. This is because Trump and Musk are trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the agency that protects regular people like you & me from being scammed by banks, credit card companies, and shady online platforms. 1/

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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I don't normally watch CNBC -- was this Sara Eisen person a visitor on a tour who was selected for airtime in some kind of contest? Because I can't imagine someone this deeply misinformed about basic facts is employed as a news anchor.

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🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.

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NEW reporting from the NYT: “A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.” In a deeply disturbing social media post, President Bukele then…

submitted 9 days ago • 411 comments

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

submitted 10 days ago • 169 comments

NEW: A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

This man is a Catholic, and he went to a foreign country on Wednesday of Holy Week to exalt in the pain of human beings rounded up and imprisoned without trial.

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 11 days ago • 666 comments

CODEL for me but not for thee www.thehandbasket.co/p/selfies-ce...

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"I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real. And that’s not right," the Alaska Republican senator said this week.

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Update on this bill: The House voted the exact same way (all Republicans but one in support of removing the $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, all Democrats opposed) and the bill is going to Trump to sign.

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A WH official confirmed today that President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act to make it easier to build in the U.S. where endangered species live. A proposed rule would eliminate habitat protections by changing the definition of "harm" to listed species.

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Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

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“Sickening and heartbreaking” Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

submitted 11 days ago • 557 comments

The system is R-I-G-G-E-D against working people. RIGGED.

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🚨BREAKING: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long just had his personal debt paid off by donors whose firms have business before the tax agency he’d lead, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. If confirmed, Long would be able to do favors for the donors. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

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Sean Duffy on pulling EV charging stations out of projects: "I'm not doing green. I'm not doing social justice."

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SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

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Duffy on the shortage of air traffic controllers: "We have too many controllers that retire after 25 years of service. And so we have to look and go, is this a national security issue? Is this a safety issue? And should these air traffic controllers be retiring after 25 years of service?"

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Steve Vladeck: Scott keeps trying to make this a political conversation. I‘d like to get back to the law here. And the law here is that he was removed to El Salvador in defiance of a court order that literally said he could not be removed to El Salvador. Scott Jennings: He had due process!

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This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

submitted 12 days ago • 145 comments