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This is going to explain so much going forward.

Not sure it makes much difference in this case, but still a visible reflection of the deterioration of trust in the EU-US relationship

Fun place. The beer? Well, it’s a fun place.

Doesn't matter how you choose to define fascism. Whether you use • dictionary definition • how it feels as the rule of law unravels • comparing this administration's actions to how infamous regimes began (in Germany, Italy, Spain, Argentina), it clears all three of those bars. It is here, now.

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

At this point calling it anything softer than defiance is just inaccurate.

Big numbers like this lead to local quotas and the desire to fill them which leads to haste and abuse and lawlessness and terror. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

A little late night Southern hospitality from at my cousins’

Closing schools during pandemic = bad, unforgivable, “worse than the Iraq war” - Nate Silver Closing schools because you made the president feel bad = that’s just how politics work

I must be in The Upsidedown because this American Airlines flight has arrived 30 minutes EARLY

If they wanted to get him they would. The US is not deterred by “sovereignty” in most cases.

Weird, I swear English was supposed to be the official language. Apparently America was great before Seward bought Alaska?

Gimme your top three can’t miss Asheville NC breweries. On my way there now! 🍻

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

lol, literally just raiding fort knox

i think about this photo a lot

And it moves the Overton window either way. Once the outrage turns to us sending US citizens to Salvadoran gulags, no one has the energy to fight the undocumented immigrants or visa holders being sent there anymore, with or without criminal records or due process

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

Mahmoud Khalil addressing the judge today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

sort of wild that "the government should not pick who wins and loses in the market, and free trade is good" is now no longer the position of the US government

This part

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The FBI has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.

Would appreciate some intrepid journalists finding out and publishing the names of every tech company involved in any part of this www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

This is good reporting, lays it out clearly: “The Department of the Navy’s purge of 381 books there picked sides in the racism debate, and those that examine and criticize historical and current racism against Black Americans lost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

absolutely insane, a betrayal of the most basic principles of freedom of speech for which the American republic is supposed to stand

Grandma, a famously consistent poaster on X

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

Roses are red Daisies are plain

We're gonna find out how recession-proof booze really is, and soon

Chris Rufo: I'm going to manipulate these stupid media orgs in obvious ways. NY Times: Sign us up! Rufo: Could you try to get the president of Harvard fired for me? She's Black and female. NYT: On it! Rufo: Let's destroy higher ed in America. NYT: Ooooh, how intriguing. Can we promote you more?

interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.