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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

Called it. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent. That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.

In case you hadn't noticed:

Spain hits first weekday of 100% renewable power on national grid – pv magazine International www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

This is really bad. Those guys could have been anyone and it’s only a short time before we start seeing random vigilantes pretending to be ICE. Maybe that’s the idea?

Sending the 300 migrants to a prison in El Salvador is a violation of 13 international laws and/or treaties, US law, and 3 Constitutional Amendments.

This is ominous. I can’t see a single ship coming into or going out of the Golden Gate.

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I paid into Social Security for over 60 years. My employers matched every penny. Destroy SS, and you owe me every penny I and my employers contributed. What? You don't want to make me whole? FAFO - if you want a war, so be it. I'll be building a guillotine. For YOU.

Seems like a good thing for Americans to understand more generally is that due process isn't some privilege that special people get, like priority seating on an airplane. It's (supposed to be) a firm restriction on the government's powers

I know a lot of US citizens only care about US citizens, so I'll just go ahead and point out: when ICE arrests you, the due process would be the point where you prove you can't be deported because you're a US citizen. Without it, there's nothing stopping them from sending you to CECOT forever.

For everyone saying they're not worried about being illegally deported because they're not a criminal: good luck proving it without due process.

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

Wow, this is the first time we've heard this number. Previous reporting suggested it was $6 million. So now it's $15 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to imprison people in El Salvador without trial.

Another lawmaker heading to El Salvador to demand Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release. "This is not just one family’s nightmare; it is a constitutional crisis that should outrage every single one of us,” says Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.). “I will travel to El Salvador to confront this crisis head on."

This should lead to criminal charges against Leland Dudek and the people at DOGE who did this. I’m deadly serious about it. They committed fraud by deliberately marking people dead who were alive.

Have not seen it reported anywhere, but a contact in the government shared this: A new Presidential order this week that attempts to end every environmental regulation. Yes, every. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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!!!

there are people out there who really, truly can't wait to just "hop on a quick call". like, genuinely for the love of the game. and they have to be stopped.

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Speaking as someone who has spent decades working in cybersecurity, and even longer as a hacker... This is exactly what you do when you hack/penetrate a system illicitly, and don't want to be caught/tracked. This is not something you do when you are working on a system legitimately.

I find myself getting sincerely emotional about this. That he’s, under the circumstances, okay. That his wife and kids know this after an agonizing month without him. That a Democratic politician cared enough to go and see him, even after getting told no at first. Trying matters. Fighting works.

This is indeed incredible. “Conservative judge” doesn’t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it’s signs-and-wonders level.

Oh dear. Things are about to get real fun.

Yesterday’s smug briefing between Bukele and Trump was (is) a criminal conspiracy to deprive an individual (many individuals) of their rights, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242. Thanks to the Supreme Court, though, it’s an “official act” that is immune from prosecution. Forever.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

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

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

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The Trump Administration sent Harvard a detailed list of extreme demands on Friday. It called for the dismantling of "DEI" Harvard centers, including a legal clinic, tha study human rights, and the surveillance of students political views. Harvard has responded and rejected these demands.

reminder that no one should be getting sent to el salvador. not innocent people, not guilty people, no one. this is unconscionable, and as long as it is tolerated for anyone, will continue to be a threat for everyone.

I know we beat this drum daily, but today especially it’s obvious these are not the actions of a party that anticipates ever losing power.