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NYT Page One: “There have never been 100 days like this.” @nytimes.com

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Were it not for the heroic efforts of Trump in his first 100 days, 1 in 3 Americans would be dead.

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President Trump at once appoints the nation's top financial regulators & profits from one of the world's fastest growing crytpo companies. It's one of the most explicit financial conflicts of interest in presidential history. A NYT investigation published today digs into this nyti.ms/44KUVn8

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Hassett: "It was correct for Jeff Bezos to apologize and correct the record. Amazon -- whoever did it made a big mistake. I wonder if they'll have a job tomorrow."

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Zinke: "My belief is the Crimean peninsula is a part of Russia right now."

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Attn: US Armed Forces Some of you are cops. Your job is no longer national security, it's now domestic repression. "Crime" is hereby flexibly defined. The Attorney General's in the chain of command. Sort of, maybe, not really, but also yes. That's why you got into this, right? To shoot Americans?

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You could attribute this divorce, but I hold it's only possible from a man who has not had an adult conversation with a woman in his life.

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NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

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🧵NEW: The House GOP's reconciliation package would DRAMATICALLY reshape immigration via fees, and as noted below, undermine judges' contempt powers. First, one big change would be an $1,000 fee to apply for asylum, plus $550 every 6 months for work permits and $100 for every year the case drags on.

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The House Judiciary Cmt released their reconciliation bill. In addition to immigration measures, it transfers all FTC antitrust actions to the attorney general, among other antitrust provisions, plus does the following w/ courts judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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PUBLISHED! I initially hesitated to write this article because the reality of it is so frightening, but the evidence became impossible to ignore. So here I argue that ICE is a secret police force in the making, which is not a claim I make lightly. Free Access - theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...

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I keep thinking about funny, nerdy Danylo from my town, Kyiv. He and his parents were killed there by Russia last week. His desperate friends hung out by the partially collapsed building, hoping he’d be found alive. His girlfriend kept gently touching his portrait at the funeral. He was 17.

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"Access to both networks would normally require a "Q" clearance, the highest level of security clearance at the Department of Energy..." www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

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FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS '60 Minutes' news distortion review reut.rs/3EDw4Hs

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The most fitting possible punishment for these guys is to all be locked in a group chat together www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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Last week the Trump administration fired another 8 immigration judges. One judge was fired in the middle of an asylum hearing and had to walk off the bench before the hearing was over! There are now nearly 50 FEWER immigration judges than when Trump took office!

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ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

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school shootings and measles www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

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Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

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Deportation means you’re sent back to your country of origin. THESE KIDS ARE BEING FORCIBLY EXPELLED FROM THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN! THAT’S A WAR CRIME!

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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

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Trump is not joking about trying to become president for life

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.

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I'm not often a hands-waving, jumping-up-and-down person, but I do think this is an essential piece of news while this application remains pending at SCOTUS. The SG's position before the justices was significantly undermined by a declaration filed Wednesday in another case that was unsealed today.

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New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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State Department eliminates Office of Global Change, which has led US involvement in UNFCCC, IPCC, etc

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Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive. #StandWithUkraine

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Kyiv last night. One of the most barbaric attacks. I wonder what inspired Russia this time. #StandWithUkraine

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From WSJ tonight: “I’ll hook you up to a fucking polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Free link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

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So, that new give Putin all he wants "peace" plan Rubio floated this week? It appears to be illegal under a 2022 American law Rubio himself helped pass. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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BREAKING WaPo: Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal — the commercially available messaging app — on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, illustrating the extent to which he has integrated use of unclassified communications into his work. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

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jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social reposted

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NEW: A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.

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The government texting academics to find out if they are Jewish doesn't seem at all worrisome from regime that has behaved in all respects like Nazi Germany, right? theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

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There are times when a decent person would quit rather than preside over a sick farce. This is one of those times.

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NEW: President Trump will have an "intimate private dinner" with top 220 buyers of his crypto memecoin at his DC-area golf club, the issuers of the token said on their website. The coin skyrocketed on the news, at one point up 49%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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There is no bottom to this barrel.

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

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New detail from our story tonight on how Hegseth last month asked for Elon Musk to be read in on more than two dozen special access programs related to China, prompting pushback from DoD ethics lawyers. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/p...

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NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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