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On the blue raft in a sea of red. Not Nebraska Nice about any of this anymore. Opinions my own.
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Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.

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True

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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

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THIRD GRADERS. 8 or 9 years old.

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BREAKING NEWS!!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!! BREAKING NEWS!!! 60 Minutes could find NO criminal records for 75% of Venezuelans Trump ILLEGALLY sent to the mega-prison in El Salvador CAN YOU SAY HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!!! NO ONE IS SAFE IF THIS IS NOT STOPPED

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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

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Truly the DUMBEST timeline

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Fuck Elon! Share this far and wide!

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“We lost a year’s worth of what we planned to use.” — my retired parents to me yesterday regarding their savings

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Remember this?! 👇

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Don’t believe the schools when they say they didn’t know about visa revocations. UMass did 😡

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Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Lincoln #Nebraska !

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Wow! Omaha turned out! Lincoln was big, too!

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#GVerse

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3yo Tymofiy 7yo Radyslav 7yo Arina 9yo Herman 15yo Danylo 15yo Mykyta 15yo Alina 16yo Kostiantyn 17yo Nikita President Zelenskyi published the names of kids, innocent victims of the russian terror attack against Kryvyi Rih residential district yesterday. Never forgive. Never forget.

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This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

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Unlike a lot of people flapping their jaws I’ve done factory work and I can tell you it sucks. Physically grinding and mentally hellish in its repetition. The people who want more of it also don’t want the unions who made it so this grind was well compensated.

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Jesus Fucking Christ.

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FAFO is the only response at this point. They won't understand it until they suffer deeply from their vote.

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Honestly makes the most sense of any take I have seen so far.

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Um — Trump just turned over management of our 🇺🇸 strategic petroleum reserve to a mystery company, who will get $1.4 billion to run it? 🤔 www.devdiscourse.com/article/head...

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I’ll never get over how softly media carried the insane bailouts WE paid to farmers to cover the catastrophe of his first term tariffs. It didn’t get emphasized in debates or in response to his campaign tariff threat.HE TRIED THIS ALREADY. We paid. Remember? From 2020. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

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Huh.

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So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 593 comments

2025 is some high stakes Mad Libs…

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Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 4 days ago • 558 comments

its a long way off and anything can happen but if dems get power back i hope they understand making the government authoritarian-proof is job number one regardless of how it polls or what it means for the next election

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🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives. But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Clearly he needs to fire the person playing 3-D online chess for him 🤭

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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.

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😡

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@cherijacobus.bsky.social 💯🎯

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

No words can accurately reflect how disgusted and horrified I am by this

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

Leading economist predict the US will lose $68 billion just this year in tourism… All thanks to Trump.

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Our immigration policies should not be wielded as union busting, political cudgels. Or as ways to suppress freedom of speech or assembly.

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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

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