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submitted 2 hours ago • 85 comments

New from me at Cato: with yesterday's developments in the Abrego Garcia case, it becomes clear that Donald Trump aims to create an offshore zone in which persons of his choosing can be whisked out of the U.S. and stripped of all constitutional rights, "beyond the writ of" the federal courts. /1

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The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.

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If you think Trump is joking about ‘home-growns’ being next to be sent to Salvadorian prisons you do not know Donald Trump. He’s been pining for this moment his entire life.

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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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The 22nd Amendment says it plain: “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.” Bannon on Bill Maher, straight-up said Trump’s going for a 3rd term — and they’ve got a “team” working to circumvent the Constitution. They’re not joking. They’re plotting. Believe them.

submitted 2 days ago • 402 comments

Purports to exempt. None of this has ever had the requisite paperwork done. #TrumpAndPaperworkMan www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

To recap: the official Trump economic plan is to hand China the future of tech manufacturing — while bringing cacao and coffee farming to America, where those crops literally can’t grow.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 383 comments

Immigration crackdowns aren't about eliminating immigrant labor in the United States, it's about making sure immigrant labor is underground and illegal so it can be exploited, both for its own sake and to compete with native born labor and keep wages for Americans low as well.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

submitted 5 days ago • 1219 comments

This is going to be an utter catastrophe for higher education. Foreign students pay full freight and subsidize US students - this plus research and other Federal funding cuts is doing to eviscerate 25-26 budgets.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is blatant theft from the taxpayer. The $ was already approved & awarded after extremely rigorous review. We will now not get the benefits from this lifesaving research. Moreover these people, labs, departments and university will be thrown into sudden turmoil, which is both cruel & wasteful.

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Looks like Columbia’s really getting its money’s worth for Khalil

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"The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I assume that representing AEA detainees in habeas counts towards the $100 million in pro bono under the "Ensuring fairness in our Justice System" category?

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Treasury Sec. Steve Bessent: “We are shedding excess labor in the federal government…that will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing.” They expect cancer scientists to stitch socks in factories.

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

Our lord and savior.

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In its new State of American Libraries Report released Monday, the ALA found more than 70% of attempted bans of a given title or titles come from organized groups and elected officials, and just 16% originated with a parent.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Looking forward to being retrained to work in a sweatshop in Trump’s new economy.

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Just bought a $2.86 coffee from Haji's Famous Deli, but the cashier refused to buy anything from me, and I made clear to him that this deficit is not sustainable.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

“Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th.”

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

Making it a point that even your cash isn’t safe.

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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

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