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A few weeks ago, chemical lobbyists asked the Trump administration to shut down an EPA website showing the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities. The EPA just took it down.

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The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday. Elections have consequences and sitting out elections has even bigger ones. apnews.com/article/stud...

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` Medical journal CHEST, focusing on respiratory diseases, received a letter from the U.S. AG for DC, probing whether the publication is “partisan,” and asking questions about its acceptance of “competing viewpoints.” COMPETING VIEWPOINTS? Helloo! Medical science is not a "viewpoint" kinda thing! 🤬

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Spot on!! “El Salvador is the new fucking Poland!” — @malcolmnance.bsky.social / @dangerousones.bsky.social

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Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main... #Palestine #Israel

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UPDATE: ACLU not kidding.

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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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My government will streamline credential recognition and attract global talent — including Canadian doctors and nurses working in the U.S.

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He wants them to die and die alone and afraid. 🤬 www.advocate.com/politics/tru...

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NEW: Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, Yassamin Ansari, and Maxine Dexter have arrived in El Salvador "to pressure the Trump Administration to abide by a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia." "This trip is not being financed by taxpayer dollars."

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We have arrived in El Salvador. Trump is illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting people with no due process. We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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There is one man to blame for the chaos in our country: Donald Trump. Illegally firing Jerome Powell won't fix anything, it will only cause more economic pain for Americans.

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Lol and also lmao

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The White House Easter Egg Roll is sponsored by Amazon, Google, and Meta — who are all being sued by the federal government for antitrust violations. It's the first time the event has had corporate sponsors. Everything is for sale under Trump — and Big Tech wants to cash in.

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The Trump Administration’s assault on American academic health and science has targeted 10 public and private universities, jeopardizing an enterprise that made America the world leader in technology and innovation, Atul Gawande writes.

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Trump is set to fulfill the Project 2025 vision for destroying the civil service: “The point of having a protected cadre of career civil service employees is to preserve expertise within government. It’s clear that doesn’t matter to this administration.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Google DeepMind is pursuing artificial general intelligence, with the versatility of a human, but with superhuman speed and knowledge. CEO Demis Hassabis predicts these tools will enhance almost every endeavor we do as humans. https://cbsn.ws/3ErZ19c

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Good morning from the DC federal courthouse where the US v Google remedies trial will be starting shortly. The opening statements are available via phone if you want to listen: www.dcd.uscourts.gov/public-acces...

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Do people not remember what happened to women last time? "he's taking everybody's stuff out…That's his speciality, he's the uterus collector". "an experimental concentration camp. It was like they're experimenting with our bodies." #3E #opDeathEaters www.bbc.com/news/world-l...

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The story is worse than it looks: Border patrol turned this young man over to federal prosecutors, and in the criminal complaint attested that he “admitted to illegally entering the country” at or near Nogales, which is a whole hour from Tucson. Something … doesn’t add up. Here’s the complaint:

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If one quote from a insurance exec ever summed up the American healthcare experience, this might be that quote: www.propublica.org/article/blue...

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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

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🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

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Yet another security breach that put American troops and lives at risk. Pete Hegseth has no business serving as Defense Secretary. Donald Trump must fire him.

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Yeah so apparently we're like trafficking trafficking, selling humans to one dictator to sell to another. How much you wanna bet this gets slid in so the habeas petitions can't get through?

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BREAKING NYT: Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer. The info included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting Houthis. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Committee to Protect Journalists offers security warning to reporters entering the United States, in a sign of Trump's threat to free press: “CPJ has seen a spike in concern among journalists whose work entails traveling to the United States or crossing the border."

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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

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Editorial | "Las negociaciones de paz, ahora al borde del fracaso, sufren de una escandalosa asimetría desde su concepción. Trump se ha esmerado en halagar a Putin y en extorsionar a Zelenski. Son desiguales e injustos los estímulos para que ambas partes hagan concesiones"

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Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, DIY supplier iFixit and refurbished device retailer Back Market have partnered to launch a marketing campaign that encourages consumers to replace their phones every 5 years instead of the national average of 2.5 to 3 years.

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Tom Homan on ABC does not deny that the administration's position is they have a right to grab people off the street and deport them without a hearing

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But we’ll “make so much money from tariffs.” Colossally ignorant and harmful.

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A whole bunch of so-called Christians have no problem with this because the victims are not white.

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SCOOP: The USPS Union President has sent out an email to employees warning them of impending privatization concerns after Elon Musk moves to fire 10,000 postal workers. Read the full email here: shero.substack.com/p/privatizat...

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Going through US citizens’ phones at the border with no warrant and no probable cause

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Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe, vulnerable, and alone. But when we find ourselves surrounded by courageous people and brave institutions, we can more easily find courage inside ourselves. This is the beauty of solidarity.

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Abuses of the tax code was one of the items in the original impeachment case against Nixon. Using the tax code to selectively target enemies - and decimate civil society - is the next step in the authoritarian agenda.

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Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

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All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.

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There is nothing good that the Trump administration isn't going to try to burn to the ground. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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FED WATCH: “.. shocks to the supply chain are increasing by the day. Ford is halting shipments of F-150s, China is putting export controls on rare minerals, halting LNG imports, and cancelling Boeing orders, .. and air travel between the US and Canada is plunging by 70 percent.” #SummerOfScarcity

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Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...

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Mic drop

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