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Textbook lying with numbers and statistics here. They have their desired conclusions and will fabricate “data” to support their narrative and goals

If I could broadcast a message to the entire Democratic Party, it’s this: GENUINE CONFLICT DOMINATES PEOPLE’S ATTENTION If you want to draw public attention to Trump abuses, his terrible nominees, plan to fight them. Make those fights real. No performative soapboxing: really try to inflict damage

As you watch the Trump regime defend the imprisonment of Mr. Garcia in a massive concentration camp in El Salvador by spewing non-stop lies, please understand they would do the same to justify the imprisonment of you and your family. This is what fascist regimes do.

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

the plan is to end American science research all of it, no exceptions other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

All these business guys have noticed that Trump’s approach to trade is ignorant, chaotic, careless, etc but I am begging them to see that *everything he is doing* is like this — decision-making just gets *worse* when he doesn’t have stock market feedback. www.slowboring.com/p/its-not-ju...

When the Hollywood Reporter speaks more truth and shows more courage than literally every major newspaper and TV network. Why Joe Rogan’s Recent Tilt Is So Dangerous https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/joe-rogan-douglas-murray-podcast-1236192416/

I just don't understand how these firms—full of lawyers from the most prestigious law schools in the country—couldn't see that nothing they concede to the administration will ever be enough. Trump will always want more.

Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide. That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.

Global corporations and authoritarians are working in concert to put a bullet in the head of informed consensus. They're winning. It's not subtle.

SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.

Increasingly difficult to see how blue states and cities can continue working with the feds in any capacity. We're getting into Fugitive Slave Law territory.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

I want to be shocked but this is par for the course for musk. Cheating everywhere he can to cover for his incompetence Pluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs - Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

I found this in the archived tools of Jordan Wick: a tool for determining the union status of (all?) government employees Combined with Wick's compromise of the National Labor Relations Board's computer systems, looks like a very powerful combo for destroying unions 🧵

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Google's anti-privacy advocacy is so unhinged they've pissed off […checks notes…] advertisers. searchengineland.com/google-backl...

the biggest difference between the media's ~2015 "pivot to video" and the ongoing "pivot to ai" is that this time it's coming for virtually every industry where's the opt-out button??? i want off this ride thebulletin.org/2025/04/the-...

PSA: immediately remove these extensions if you have them Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/researcher-uncovers-dozens-of-sketchy-chrome-extensions-with-4-million-installs/

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

If Trump comes after you, and you have some resources—think law firms and universities, not foreign students disappeared for speech—then you have a moral and patriotic obligation to fight back. If nothing else, it ties up the regime’s resources. They don’t have that much. They need capitulators.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

A dangerous far-right alliance is extending its influence around the world, and Harper’s IDU is its hub.

The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion Now he’s down to $150 billion And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services This clown will cut $58 billion Maybe

3 facts that should drive the news: 1) DOGE has committed, rather than found, fraud. 2) A bunch of antisemites are using a claim to police antisemitism to take over universities. 3) In spite of claims they're cracking down on China, Trump's FP & financial policies have vastly helped China.

Excellent and chilling piece by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social but, whatever Thiel wants to claim, this isn't what Hirschman meant by "exit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

Fun fact: Trump is actually spending MORE money than Biden did. Musk and DOGE are a FRAUD — their real role is shutting down parts of the government that regulate Musk’s businesses while redirecting govt contracts to Musk and other insiders.

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

OMG “Clearview as a tool in everyday policing, with almost no transparency about how they use the tech. “What Clearview does is mass surveillance, and it is illegal,” the privacy commissioner of Canada said the ACLU settled a lawsuit with Clearview for allegedly violating an Illinois state law”