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In 2018, the first Trump admin. wrongfully deported an Iraqi man, despite a court order. The U.S. govt quickly recognized the mistake and worked with the man's attorneys to bring him back. He was later returned. My story on the difference from then to now: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

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Perry Greene, the congresswoman’s ex-husband, just had to pay $75k to three Muslim women he harassed and verbally attacked from his Tesla Cybertruck. He also had to publicly apologize to them and attend a sermon at their mosque as part of the settlement. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/settlem...

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DACA recipients are taxpayers and deserve to access health care, full stop. But this administration is trying to take that away. I’m proud to be helping to lead 117 Members of Congress in calling on HHS to change course on this disastrous decision. jayapal.house.gov/2025/04/14/b...

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Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.

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The anonymous image board 4chan has survived years of controversy, weathering user and advertiser boycotts as well as damning accusations that it incubated hate speech that may have fueled mass shootings This week, though, a series of outages led to speculation that the site had been hacked.

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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It's of course false to assert, as this reporter does, that leaders of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions are categorically violating the federal harboring statute, 8 USC 1324. The question is intended to introduce some particularly insidious misinformation into the news cycle.

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Just to remind everyone: this is our fucking money--locally raised tax dollars--that Congress simply won't let our government spend, for no reason other than spite. This is why DC needs statehood. But also, this is just petty, petty bullshit by House Republican leadership.

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If you’re feeling the call to buy Jackie Robinson gear to show your love and appreciation for the man who broke the color barrier in modern Major League Baseball, I implore you to skip Fanatics/MLB and buy directly from the @jackierobinsonfdtn.bsky.social Museum at shop42.org.

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Bukele's spot as a MAGA darling results in part from years of aggressive courtship of right wing figures, with little of the traditional pretense of outreach to Dems. (reposted without typo.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Some CIA directors delete torture videos. John Ratcliffe deletes Signal texts showing he shared classified information.

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

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(Bloomberg) - The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Holy shit “Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”

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Absolutely not. Harvard has quietly shut down almost all Palestinian programming on campus. The directors of the Middle Eastern Studies centres were removed from their posts. The law school has cut back DEI initiatives. Claudine Gay is still fired. Don’t be distracted.

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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

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Masked ICE terrorists did this to Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk after kidnapping her because she wrote an op-ed: www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Oh the self inflicted wounds…

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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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(Bloomberg) - China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing Co. jets as part of the tit-for-tat trade war .., according to people familiar with the matter. $BA @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

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Lying about a citizenship interview to arrest someone isn’t clever; it’s cruel. Mohsen Mahdawi is a lawful U.S. resident. His unlawful detention is another attack on everyone’s First Amendment and due process rights.

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👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l

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“There are so many alarms to ring about the actions of this administration, but the damage to essential technical infrastructure may be one of the effects with the longest tails.“

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New — The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. The Trump-Vance administration ignored such an order previously, when it moved Rumeysa Ozturk out of Massachusetts to Louisiana.

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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ice actually detained someone at a naturalization ceremony today, absolutely depraved country we're living in www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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It is FAR MORE important that people debunk the accusations of terrorism, on which the political fight pivots, than focus on implications for US citizens IF this precedent holds. As I said: Stewart Rhodes remains an adjudged terrorist. But Trump freed him and deported Abrego Garcia, who is not.

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Link to Mahdawi’s habeas petition, filed today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Trump is now bragging about: ➡️ illegally arresting innocent people ➡️deporting them to foreign prisons ➡️ignoring Supreme Court orders ➡️doing the same to US citizens This is fascism. This is that moment in the history books we were all warned about repeating itself.

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It's getting lost in the chaos, but the Trump administration is attempting to end LEGAL immigration. Many of us sounded this warning years ago.

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now that they think they figured out how to get away with kidnapping, trafficking, and placing people in concentration camps their next step is to escalate

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There we go. Support this man.

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This reminds me of POW “confessions” during the Vietnam war.

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SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

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Pell Grants made college possible for me—just like they have for so many. Experts anticipate Trump's chaos will make it even tougher for borrowers, including more loan defaults and reduced assistance due to the Department of Education being gutted. www.ajc.com/education/la...

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Everybody is talking about how the cool dictator totally cucked Trump, right there in the Oval Office! He said Trump is powerless to bring prisoners back from El Salvador, and Trump just sat there and smiled. Just a total beta move, man. A macho man would show Bukele who's in charge here.

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The judicial branch was over the minute they coup’d the son of an ex president into power. That was over 25 years ago.

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trump always talks about this kind of thing cause its the kind of story thats constantly on the front page of the ny post. even before he was a politician, trump regards the nyp as the key newsmaker in america. he absorbs right wing media like all fox news grandpas. unfortunately hes also potus.

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This once again confirms the prisoners are in El Salvador prisons at our behest and under our control.

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