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Every SENATOR who supports DJT is now in support of a dictator. Same for complicit Justices on SCOTUS.

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Just updated this timeline to fix a typo and address an error in the last box where I'd gotten the manner of arrest wrong. I present the full version Mr. Abrego's time in the United States, using court documents to explain the allegations of gang membership and what actually happened in his case.

submitted 3 hours ago • 46 comments

I’ve just posted this video message to members of the DC Bar, urging them to vote AGAINST AG Pam Bondi’s brother to be its next president. Please pass this on to anyone who is eligible to vote. www.instagram.com/reel/DIcQFxt...

submitted 21 hours ago • 345 comments

💙🇺🇸💪🏼🏴‍☠️ GO HARVARD🇺🇸

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

submitted 21 hours ago • 55 comments

OMG everyone watch this ad. 😂😂😂😂 #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/t... Most companies say high costs will keep them from moving manufacturing back to US and if they do, 81% expect automation to be favored over workers Reshoring would double costs and Trump’s trade war is more likely to kick off a new global search for low-tariff regimes

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the only way to fight this regime. DO NOT COMPLY. Read "With billions at risk, Harvard rejects Trump administration’s request for policy changes" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-kjDfdIB/8N...

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A horrifying new normal. Another day, another person being swept up in the ongoing abuses of civil rights. This time, Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who's lived in the US for 10 years, went in for his citizenship interview and was instead arrested by ICE and is now facing deportation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

@weisselberger.bsky.social always loves when I TMI but this is only about me. Went to get a mammogram. Checked in. Insurance, DOB, etc. offered co-pay. Receptionist: No co-pay on mammograms Me: thanks Obama! Old lady sitting nearby: <seethes>

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

This is simultaneously the grossest and most accurate ad I’ve ever seen. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

When an admin starts to defy the judiciary, Congress should shut all work down. All of it. No more action on ANYTHING until the rule of law is restored.

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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

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America does NOT take American citizens, shave their heads, separate them from their families, throw them into prisons in other countries, enslave them, and let them be unaccounted for —dead or alive. We do NOT allow the Trump admin to human traffic in slavery or to repeat Nazi Germany!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

These people and OTHERS have been taken illegally without due process. Who will be taken next?! Americans -DEMAND due process! Kilmar Abrego Garcia Andry Hernandez Romero Mahmoud Khalil Rumeysa Ozturk The Federal government CANNOT round up and detain whoever they want without DUE PROCESS.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

I just received this email. The pending litigation? Who filed a lawsuit I wonder? (It was me.)

submitted 20 hours ago • 129 comments

Red line crossed. @schumer.senate.gov believes “people will rise up.” We HAVE been rising up! What we need is a Dem leader actually leading with a plan. Schumer can’t keep banking (pun intended) on unpaid activists and volunteers to keep shouldering the burden in his absence. Lead or step down.

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Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller sounded unhinged on Fox Monday morning. Miller, the chief architect of Trump’s most brutal immigration policies, launched into a crazed tirade attempting to justify the Trump regime’s defiant refusal to bring home Kilmar Abrego García —…

submitted 21 hours ago • 113 comments

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

submitted 20 hours ago • 114 comments

‘Christian Family Values’…👇 The. New. American. Taliban. ✨

submitted 23 hours ago • 63 comments

Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social important new Starter Pack go.bsky.app/SZssan6

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Thank you, wonderful Rubi @rubicon1313.bsky.social go.bsky.app/CCdChgk

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I am so tired of being the Real Talk™️ person in conversations but if I don’t people may die so: I won’t stop. Covid is not over. Measles & Tuberculosis are making a comeback. H5n1 is free range & cage free in our ecosystem and food processing facilities. Ignoring it all doesn’t make it go away.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.

submitted 22 hours ago • 557 comments

Senator Chris Van Hollen has requested an urgent meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to address the situation involving Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was “mistakenly”deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

submitted 21 hours ago • 168 comments

“Canadian car travel to the US plunges 32% in March…” 4/14/25 youtu.be/beq9n9mJFiQ?...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

The Trump regime is on the cusp of a showdown with the Supreme Court. Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...

submitted 21 hours ago • 110 comments

A lot of Republicans, especially in the Senate but certainly some in the House, are humiliated by all of this. They don't like it, but they also don't like the left and they sure as heck don't like being guilted about it ... Because they know it's true. www.rawstory.com/republicans-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

Did…did JD Vance just break the national championship trophy?

submitted 23 hours ago • 224 comments

People are lining up for hours at Kharkiv blood center to donate for Sumy, because it’s the closest option. How can anyone think we’d give up even an inch to Russia? Photo: Anna Gin

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

I have the same suspicion. Both this and the decision to send planes to El Salvador on March 15 in spite of Boasberg's order seem to come from him. Then he goes out and shrieks on TV, including on TV that SCOTUS watches.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers. This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.

submitted 22 hours ago • 47 comments

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

submitted 22 hours ago • 162 comments

Did you know more than 100,000 elections are happening in 2025? This year, voters across the country will choose their governors, mayors, school board and city council members, and more. From education to the environment, all of these people make decisions that impact our local communities.🏡

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Frank Zappa was a brilliant man born before his time 💯

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

Trump said again he’s open to sending U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison. There is no constitutional basis for this—such an act would be a direct violation of the Constitution.

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“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

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BREAKING: Last week’s trade data shows an incredibly bleak picture for the economy: - 49% drop in global container bookings - 64% drop in U.S. imports. - 30% drop in U.S. exports.

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