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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on Trump attacking the rule of law: We are all Harvard. We are all Abrego Garcia. youtu.be/aPFo2nS19D0?...

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There are ~330 million people in the USA. There were ~13 million undocumented people here before Biden was president. If he added 20 million. that would mean ~10% of the people in the USA are seen as "illegal" to the GOP You see what's coming, right? This is a lie to justify disappearing citizens

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This is the second dubious deportation to El Salvador that appears to be the handiwork of a dirty cop. Andry Hernández, the gay makeup artist alleged to be part of Tren de Aragua, was implicated by a Milwaukee cop known to prosecutors as having credibility issues. www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

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Unrelated, the White House justified an illegal deportation of a foreign national by saying he wasn't exactly "candidate for father of the year." ...

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Even if vaginal birth did limit brain size, it's not gonna make it smaller. That brain is the same size right before the baby comes out as it is right after, regardless of exit route

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Elon lives in a bizarre mental universe that’s like a mashup of Robert Heinlein’s masturbatory juvenalia and Hugh Hefner’s vision board ca. 1971. The dude has completely lost touch with anything a normal person might consider “reality.” No wonder he’s acting like such a weirdo maniac.

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Free link to crazy WSJ story about Musk and his “harem drama.” Can’t do it justice with the four-screenshot limit! www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

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BREAKING: GOP-controlled NC Supreme Court just threw out overseas ballots and mandated an “impossible to administer” 30 day-cure period for military voters to hand Jefferson Griffin the election he lost.

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Europe is sending people to the US using burner phones. Like any responsible government would do when sending someone to an unsafe or untrustworthy nation: newrepublic.com/post/193958/...

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When the “first hundred days” coverage starts, keep this in mind. FDR’s hundred days was a special session of Congress that passed legislation to enact his agenda. The story here is not how active the Trump administration’s been—it’s the unprecedented and unconstitutional consolidation of power.

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I always wondered if the "don't exaggerate" people worried about looking foolish once the worst happened Turned out they went with "nobody could have seen this coming"

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Oh my. My only fear is that this administration and the Heritage Foundation will just treat this list of chuds as a recruiting pool for government jobs.

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Despite what you’ve probably heard, Trump’s immigration agenda isn’t actually popular. While Americans sometimes approve of “the way he is handling immigration” in abstract, they are very negative on the details. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

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The party that did nothing but obstruct Obama’s legislative agenda and then whine about the “tyrannical” actions he took via executive order, is now smitten with a MAGA emperor god who is ruling almost entirely via executive order even though Republicans control both houses of congress.

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Courage is contagious in the best possible way. 👏 Harvard 👏 Cornell 👏 MIT Keep going! Solidarity!

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Good for Harvard

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"It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum." My column on an Oval Office meeting that was every bit as chilling as the assault on Zelenskyy in late February. www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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this is the way

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AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

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This is why I am suspicious of Ezra's Klein's argument that "speed is a progressive virtue." Trump is acting quickly as a way of destroying public goods, life-saving regulations, and the compensatory state.

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Thinking about FDR & Eleanor, working to remake the rotten parts of🇺🇸, the faith they put in ordinary Americans & the extraordinary skill & fortitude required of them to navigate waters full of isolationists, oligarchs, Nazis, racists…perhaps a good time to read DK Goodwin’s “No Ordinary Time”

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We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

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They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

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The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I don't use "impeachment" lightly. Aside from Trump, Marco Rubio PIPED UP to endorse flouting a court order, and said the only person who can make foreign policy is the president, which is incorrect in more ways than he can count. High crimes, dereliction of duty, constitutionally illiterate.

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bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

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literally the first listing i clicked on zillow

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This is empirically true at this point

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Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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“She started to realize that while the new right’s racism and misogyny were often delivered with an ironic smirk, it was no joke.” We’re going to see so many people “start to realize” it’s going to make your head spin.

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pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

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Stephen Miller claims on Fox News that returning the Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador would constitute a "kidnapping" and "invasion of El Salvador's sovereignty." "He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador," Miller lies. "This was the right person sent to the right place."

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@joycewhitevance.bsky.social “If there were a map that showed democracy slipping into dictatorship, we would be at the spot marked ‘You are here.’” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

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BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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Never Forget…..

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Watch a major campaign being born.

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Watched @repjasmine.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the Red Wine and Blue zoom this evening and got a much needed infusion of hope and inspiration to make it through the week. There is so much bad in the world, but the light shines through. #freeAbregoGarcia #resist

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on the Kleptocracy Presidency: The number and nature of conflicts of interest is astonishing www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump, Bukele Condemn Abrego Garcia to Prison On Live TV talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-b...

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Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop.

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