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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

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In March, after blowing up Democrats’ unified opposition to the GOP’s gov't funding bill, Chuck Schumer defended his vote, saying his red line would be: “If Trump doesn’t obey the Supreme Court.” Well, that didn't take long.

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It looks like the Trump regime is trying to hide ICE flights from the public tracker.

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Don’t pass this by.

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we were teenagers waiting for parents to come home from their naturalization interview as nerds in AP course we buzzed our parents with Trivial Pursuit questions (“where did Lee surrender at the end of the Civil War?”) & wished we could play I can’t imagine if Mom & Dad never came back home

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Selma. The Trump administration pulled funding meant for Selma’s schools, along with $5 million in additional funding for a statewide reading program. www.al.com/educationlab...

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Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Trump orders U.S. government to stop tracking "super gonorrhea" that is resistant to most antibiotics: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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The Alabama Secretary of State’s office has notified hundreds of thousands of voters that they need to update or verify their registration because records show they may have moved. More: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/04/why-did-432000-alabama-voters-get-letters-saying-they-might-have-moved.html

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“They have no idea how ordinary people live.” The Trump Administration may think that Americans who want to retire are not paying attention to the stock market, but they are watching — and want the chaos and confusion to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/y...

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Trump again blames Zelenskyy, not Putin, for the war. If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s the most useful useful idiot in history.

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Reminds me of how FDR had an intelligence report indicating that Japanese Americans were not a threat and threw them into concentration camps anyway. Later, when he needed them for war, he said Americanism was never a matter of race or ancestry.

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Democracies can collapse with speed, and take decades, even centuries, to rebuild The U.S. is now on a watchlist with Serbia and Congo for its threats to civic freedoms. But we have an exclusive at WHAT ROUGHT BEAST: it’s even worse than that. Free & ad-free. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

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Why would the President meet with (and allow into the country) a head of state who refuses to return a person sent to their custody in error?

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AOC, Moments ago in Salt Lake City, Utah. Trump could never generate this excitement. The tides are turning.

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"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"

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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

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“We’re at a drastic turning point that is likely going to set us back 50-plus years in civil rights protections when it comes to access to education,” DeLano told AL dot com.

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Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

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I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.

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After months of deliberation, Alabama lawmakers plan to put $375 million toward high-needs schools in the state, part of a broader effort to overhaul school funding.

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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

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China is now quietly choking off US exports from deep red states like Iowa and Nebraska using non tariff barriers. Beijing is blocking US beef, poultry, and natural gas under the guise of safety concerns. This will be devastating to farmers.

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I would like to point out that the executive branch claiming the power to mete out life/death sentences seems like a separation of powers issue as well

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the transfer to El Salvador of US deportees is, per Pres Bukele, a straight up contract that has “nothing to do w/foreign policy.” The fees we are paying makes their entire prison system “sustainable.” Don’t see how US can make argument that bringing A-G back is some sensitive foreign policy matter

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Someone should check which Trump allies and members of Congress bought Apple/tech stock on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

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Blink #richkid #amateur

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California defies Trump order to certify that all school districts have eliminated DEI

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Hey sisters at least we have this photo to remind us of when we could vote and read books and go to college

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🚨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...

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FBI Director Kash Patel at his confirmation hearing: “There will be no retributive actions taken should I be confirmed as director.” Now: FBI suspends analyst who investigated Russiagate. Patel singled him out in Patel’s book, Government Gangsters. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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I thought these were the people who are fighting antisemitism on college campuses 🤔

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New data point foe the Elon body count www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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As a friend pointed out, not even Lebanon does this - and we had a 15 year old sectarian civil war

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Have you noticed higher-than-usual egg prices? 🥚 According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price for a dozen grade A large eggs jumped from $5.90 in February to a record high of $6.23 in March. Read more:

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Rufo reminds me of the old joke about the blind men trying to guess what an elephant is based on very limited information. He latched on to a few problems and found a platform for taking down universities.

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Just listened to The Daily this morning. Chris Rufo was interviewed. Rufo’s accusations of Universities sounded like a lot of projection. Typical.

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