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Macron shook one hand.

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dying

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President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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"I will stop this war, its slaughter of children, and the ceaseless and unnecessary deaths of thousands," he said, hilariously.

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NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK

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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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200 trade deals no one knows about? time.com/7280114/dona...

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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"Hegseth is doing his own makeup ahead of TV appearances, not paying for a makeup artist, a defense official told CBS News."

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Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

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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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wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

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To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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Morning seascape. 🦑 #maui #nature #hawaii #travel #beautiful #sunrise #ocean #hiking #landscape #marinelife #photography #love #zen

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"If Donald Trump were trying to lose his trade war with China, it’s hard to see what he would be doing differently" from Rogé Karma @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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We interviewed Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato about impacts of the Trump tariffs. “We are deeply concerned that the tariffs could have a major impact … on the Japanese economy, businesses, the lives of our citizens and even the global economy,” he said. Gift link: wapo.st/4cEQFrs

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The problem with … the two problems with .. AMONG the problems with people like Natalie Jackson is their credulous and sheeplike willingness to accept the government’s narrative about who is a “hero” or a “villain” based on dubious claims, /1

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.

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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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This looks like a movie about a guy who was leaked from a lab and became President

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man who hugged a flag on camera calls out attention-seeking

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With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

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First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up, because the latest Rasmussen poll showed low net favorability ratings on immigrants and that gulags are a toss-up issue for suburban moms. #savvy #clever #wonk #nobeliefs #noprinciples

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Hans Noel calls political thinkers who historically set party agendas “coalition merchants.” Yglesias is one of our era’s top coalition merchants. And he has helped turn the Democratic Party into a reactive party that plays possum like Schumer and says “the fascists have a point” like Newsom.

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Bear in mind, Judge Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee who was repeatedly on SCOTUS shortlists. This is both an admonition and a dire warning.

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DAVID BROOKS SAYS GENERAL STRIKE NOW AND BILL KRISTOL SAYS ABOLISH ICE

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Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador: “Now that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.”

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New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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The way Ezra lays out the basic facts in his opening monologue is so heart-rendingly perfect

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"senior Israeli officials updated their American counterparts on a plan that would have combined an Israeli commando raid on underground nuclear sites with a bombing campaign" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Propaganda of History" 🗃️

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PURE EVIL

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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

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🚨🧵New RUSI report, 'Rebalancing European Joint Fires to Deter Russia' by @justin-br0nk.bsky.social and Dr Jack Watling is out now!

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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...

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