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Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

These are some of the most unhinged things an American politician has ever said.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Authoritarianism

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

Bukele stated he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, saying it would be like smuggling “a terrorist” into the United States

I warned you.

Watching Trump and Bukele in the Oval Office just now made me feel physically ill.

JUST NOW: Trump + the president of El Salvador each say there is nothing they can/will do to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia They claim he’s a “terrorist” & “gang member” without evidence or criminal record The Supreme Court’s ruling to “facilitate” his return will be ignored

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

This guy released dangerous criminals convicted of violently assaulting police officers into our streets.

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Yesterday they refused to answer two of the three questions ordered. Today's refuses to address, in any way, all three. None of this has anything to do with the order. This is open defiance of a district court backed by a unanimous three-judge circuit ruling and a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Cody Balmer, 38, jumped a fence and managed to evade state troopers as he broke into Josh Shapiro’s house and set the fire. He fled the scene and was arrested in Harrisburg. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

Doge not saving you money

Ya think?

"I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on, which is a good situation, not a bad. It's great."

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Trump demands a massive military parade to honor his birthday. The behavior of a dictator.

beyond parody — the White House cites Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of his health

👀

What dictators do, not presidents: “the new, striking artwork depicting Mr. Trump drew criticism from some presidential historians, who could not recall another president hanging a painting of himself during his term in the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

If you are facing an investigative #polygraph examination in federal govt, reach out to me for guidance. I've been handling examinations for over 25 years.

#Cowards

The dream is dead

Couldn't have said it better myself, Rachel! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

⚡️Kyiv hires US law firm Hogan Lovells to advise on minerals deal. Ukraine's Justice Ministry has hired the U.S. firm Hogan Lovells for assistance in negotiating a critical minerals deal, according to public records. Sources also told Reuters that talks on the deal had become "antagonistic."

“Hey, hey, Elon, How many kids did you kill today?” admittedly doesn’t rhyme as well as the original. But that’s not as important as Elon being responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of kids.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.) “He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…

Dow tumbles 2,000 points today after the White House clarified that its tariff on all Chinese goods was at least 145% — even higher than previously believed. #TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

The world economy is gyrating wildly, war rages in Ukraine and Gaza and the president of the United States just signed an executive ordered titled: "MAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADS."

I heart @brooke — telling a suicide bomber who blew up the economy due for no reason that he is brilliant is peak beta chode for Ackman.

Every time.

Like clockwork. He is a chaos monkey throwing feces.

BREAKING: China retaliates against Trump’s retaliation by announcing that it's raising tariffs on US goods to 84%. We are so screwed — thanks to Trump. What a fucking idiot! #TrumpTariffs

Not soon enough.

Rep. RASKIN: The DOJ tried stopping you from coming today. They sent two armed marshals to your home to intimidate you. Why did you decide to come? Former DOJ pardon attorney: I don’t want to be complicit in the misuse of Justice Department resources to do political favors.