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The phrase "Read it and weep" applies literally here. Weep for this scientist and weep because we are now a country that throws scientists in jail. She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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Effort to Get Starlink in South Africa Collides With Tension Over Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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Climate denier Trump removes federal coastal erosion map for New England commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...

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This is what resisting fascism looks like

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Shoppers seeing prices of wedding gowns skyrocket due to Trump tariffs, reports Attleboro (MA) Sun Chronicle.

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Hello Americans who continue to revere our numbskull president:

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James Bouie nails it. "The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance." The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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Even if you're a right wing justice, this is so crazy. Why allow Trump to fire these public servants and wreak havoc on their agencies if the court plans to review the matter further? Why not wait? Supreme Court Sides With Trump, for Now, on Firing Agencies’ Leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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head of france’s central bank françois villeroy de galhau: trump’s tariffs represent “an unprecedented destruction of value by a democratically elected leader.” “rarely [read: never] have we seen an american government score such a goal against itself.”

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Northeastern University student newspaper editorial decries Trump's assault on campus free speech huntnewsnu.com/85461/editor...

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Maine Governor Janet Mills shows leadership again in resisting Trump Maine Sues U.S.D.A. Over Funding for School Meals www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

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Would love for someone to explain what is up with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Based on her remarks, she opposes Trump's (now mostly delayed) tariffs, but is otherwise not interested in joining the resistance to him. If so, that is deeply disappointing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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UMass Amherst steps up to help foreign students targeted by Trump administration www.gazettenet.com/Revoked-visa...

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Connecticut veterans blast decry cuts to veterans services planned by President Trump. ctmirror.org/2025/04/07/c...

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