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20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

America is broken. Trump and his supporters have broken it, then gaslighted that others broke it. How do we fix it? #MAGAmorons

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

Dear Italy, Please do not make the citizenship laws more stringent. You know why. Sincerely, One of Italy's diaspora 🇮🇹 #italia

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

Another slippery slope that we're slipping on. apnews.com/article/bord... US Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say

I hope you all realize we're in a genuine constitutional crisis in which the executive branch is ignoring rulings from the judicial branch. The legislative branch might as well be a cackle of hyenas. #ConstitutionalCrisis

To everyone who told me to “calm down” in 2016 - The sociopathic sexual predator business fraud felon you put back in the office he tried to steal just stood in the White House & said that he wants to send American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. So, fuck you.

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

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Utah!! "The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..." utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...

Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration that have sent global markets reeling apply to virtually every economic sector. And yet, they have spared the fossil fuel industry, which donated some $96 million to Trump’s reelection campaign. By @dharna.bsky.social.

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

I WANT MORE PEOPLE TO KNOW DONALD TRUMP IS IGNORING A UNANIMOUS SUPREME COURT ORDER, THAT EVEN CLARENCE THOMAS AGREED WITH, TO RELEASE A MAN THE GOVERNMENT WRONGFULLY KIDNAPPED AND SENT TO A FOREIGN PRISON WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE OF HIM COMMITTING A CRIME!

We’re in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont for Rümeysa Öztürk’s hearing. Today, the legal team is asking the judge to release her from detention. Ideas aren’t illegal. Rümeysa must be released.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

When the FUCK are you going to wake up, Congress, and assert your powers??!! This is state-sponsored kidnapping! Today, Trump told Bukele he's going to have to build five more prisons in El Salvador for "home-grown criminals." That could mean anyone. Do something! #Trump #Desaparecidos

Trump ordering Bukele to build more concentration camps. And then Trump will have his DOJ lie to courts that Trump has no influence over Bukele about prisoners in El Salvador.

Listen from about minute 07:15 to 07:30ish. SCOTUS could not have done worse when it gave him immunity. He's a tyrant.

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

@reuters.com @apnews.com @bloomberg.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @afpfr.bsky.social News agencies, why isn't there an alert from any one of you that the POTUS just confirmed he'd like to deport US citizens to a foreign prison??? Seems to be huge step towards shredding the Constitution.

I think Trump and ReichBarbie Bondi just drove the final nail into The Constitution's coffin today, unless the legislative and judicial branches wake up and do something quickly. #Trump #Constitution #SCOTUS

The president is conducting a press event with the primary purpose of flouting the decisions of the courts and the letter and spirit of U.S. law. It is a press event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis and serial violation of human rights he has set in motion.

For a scientific writing workshop I'm teaching: Scientist friends, what's the longest you've ever waited between submitting a paper for peer review and getting peer reviews back? And what's the shortest?

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

🧪 US science dominance, built on post-WWII public-private partnerships, is threatened by Trump administration cuts to research funding and infrastructure. This risks losing talent and future innovation, potentially mirroring the UK's post-war decline. Federal R&D is a catalyst, not a cost.

He posted multiple times yesterday about being the victim of 60 Minutes. But not a peep about the heinous antisemitic assassination attempt and arson attack on Pennsylvania @governor.pa.gov. Disgusting …

60 Minutes reports on Russia's atrocities against Ukraine civilians and the US President complains. Not against the atrocities, but at a show daring to speak against Putin. We're becoming numbed to Trump threatening to pull network licenses. We shouldn't be. This is not normal.

rfk jr wants you dead

How can he say if someone is healthy, they won't die of a contagious disease, when two healthy kids just died of measles? Death isn't the only endpoint. I didn't die of mono but decades later, the virus reactivated. It attacked my myelin. Now i'm in pain 24/7 and have balance and walking problems.

Has there been a statement yet from the White House condemning this attack on Gov Shapiro and his family? #Shapiro apnews.com/article/josh... Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence planned to beat him, documents say

Required reading. "This is the last great heist, and they are getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning – and they will try to defame and destroy anyone who gets in their way." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here

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