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⬇️ This is paywalled, but @philipobaji.bsky.social makes key point: 🇷🇺 engineers the migration crisis from end-to-end. 🇷🇺 stokes a conflict, seeks out migrants, funds smugglers, and funds far RW anti-migrant parties across the free world to oppose the influx of migrants at the receiving end! 👇❕

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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

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The right to free speech and civic organizing is typically an autocrat's 1st targets when trying to consolidate power. So, we can expect Trump to try and silence speech by vilifying & attacking civil society, like nonprofits, @ianbassin.bsky.social explains.

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I think it's getting lost that Trump is currently very much in the process of defying the Supreme Court, which directed the administration to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return. This is not some theoretical showdown that will happen later. It's upon us right now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

Religious leaders have historically played a crucial role in the fight for democracy. We hope these resources from experts and practitioners can help them continue this tradition. Subscribe for concrete ways religious leaders and communities can take action. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

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Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

submitted 21 hours ago • 247 comments

If someone else had said this, it would be the stupidest thing I'd ever seen. But since it's Miller, it is simply the most egregiously dishonest thing.

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Would you like to plant a tree for $1 this Earth Day? 🌱 🌳https://plantwithpurpose.org/plant-a-tree/

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Happy Earth Day! Take a moment today to disconnect from screens and step outside. Feel the sun on your face, listen to birds and breathe in the fresh air. Reconnect and remember what we’re working for. nature.ly/44zSTGk

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The math here is simple. Republicans have passed a budget framework where very large cuts to Medicaid will have to occur. Now, they are preemptively shifting the blame for those cuts to Governors, who cannot engage in deficit spending. All of this is for a regressive tax cut.

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Today is the big day! Happy #EarthDay from NOAA! Check out noaa.gov/Earthday, & visit noaa.gov any time for the latest Earth science news, scientific research discoveries & ways you can get involved to help our home planet.

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A healthy democracy = a healthy planet. 🌎🗳️ When people have power — not polluters — we can protect our climate, our air, and our future. This Earth Day, let’s fight for a democracy where every voice is heard and every community thrives. 🌱

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As #nonprofits are under fire, what the government can actually do to affect an organization’s tax-exempt status? nonprofitquarterly.org/nonprofits-u... #federalfunding #501c3 #IRS

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"I fear we are entering profoundly troubling times, when people will condemn others to religious persecution or foreign imprisonment in the false name of justice. And the question we must ask ourselves is, what will we do?" newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-scanda...

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A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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To state the obvious, the President's Fed bashing is raising long-term interest rates (operating through the risk premium). This will raise mortgage and other borrowing rates and be contractionary. The wealth effect from a falling stock market also contractionary.

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He’ll be replaced with another lackey fascist, but it’s still important that a) it was possible to bring down a top Trumper; b) it was journalists—from annoying legacy media, Atlantic & NYT—that got the scoops making it possible.

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There is a different version of the Christian faith, one that is far removed from the political headlines. This faith loves its enemies. It mends the broken heart. And it declares, by word and deed, that no one is too lost to experience the love of God. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...

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FED WATCH: “.. shocks to the supply chain are increasing by the day. Ford is halting shipments of F-150s, China is putting export controls on rare minerals, halting LNG imports, and cancelling Boeing orders, .. and air travel between the US and Canada is plunging by 70 percent.” #SummerOfScarcity

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Disinformation is official White House policy. Lies & ideology take the place of truth. @martinmckee.bsky.social @kentbuse.bsky.social & I warned of exactly this in November. It's happened even faster & even more emphatically than we feared. It's extremely dangerous. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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"The children died one after the other. Twelve acutely malnourished infants living in one corner of Sudan’s war-ravaged capital, Khartoum.. . . starved to death in the weeks after President Trump froze all U.S. foreign assistance. . ." DON'T TRY TO TELL US NOBODY HAS DIED.

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Thousands of people rallied at hundreds of events across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s handling of immigration, civil liberties, federal job cuts and other issues. nyti.ms/3EyqNkh

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

Just so we’re clear, Trump is arguing that we could have just put him on a plane to CECOT on January 7th?

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My new piece in The Atlantic continues how to fight Putinization in America. Trump is accelerating his wide-spectrum attacks on the rule of law & on public & private institutions that might slow him. If legislators don’t fight now, they won’t be able to later. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

There’s a lot of people fighting for freedom against authoritarians and dictators all over the world. It’s easy to lose sight of them. In Tbilisi, Georgia, protesters are out on the street for the 143rd night as they fight against an election stolen by a Putin-backed party.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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The nationwide measles outbreak now stands at more than 800 cases, but you probably don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on that news. The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!

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Judge James Boasberg said he would start contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for showing “a willful disregard” to his order to return a wrongfully deported Maryland man. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"¿Cómo un millennial que se dedicaba a las empresas de su familia se convirtió en un eslabón central de la historia política de El Salvador?" Y luego en la politica de EEUU. Un podcast presciente desde @radio-ambulante.bsky.social @silviavinas.bsky.social centralpodcast.audio/alguien-como...

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BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court. Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Literally the first article of impeachment against Nixon and prohibited by law

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Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

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Trump: says it was wrong for the IRS to investigate religious leaders and his supporters Q: “If that was wrong, why are you considering changing the tax status of Harvard?” Trump: “Because I think Harvard is a disgrace…Tax-exempt status is a privilege…it’s been abused.”

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