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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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I watched this happen and knew I would have to come up with the words to describe it and its impact. As I read for inspiration I came across this, and Mr. Conway is correct here. This headline sums it up perfectly. Well done.

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Listen Chuck, I know your brows are furrowed to the max and if you had some pearls you'd be clutching them the way you clutch on to your Dem "leadership" but...take some action? Are you aware of what Sen Chris Van Hollen is doing? How about you hop on that wagon? Or just step down. That works too.

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Not entirely clear if @urochester.bsky.social is involved with this litigation, but the cover photo is of our library!!! Everyone is an alum of the library!!!! www.fox43.com/article/news...

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Where we are as a country

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Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.

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This is what a 50-state strategy sounds like. Maybe you don't win all those elections, but there are other ways for energized citizens to make their voices heard, and some of those ways are especially important for the current fight to restore a democratic constitutional order after this Trump coup

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In September 2021, Texas banned nearly all abortions. A JAMA Pediatrics study found that, between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas surged 12.9%, compared with a much smaller increase in the rest of the US of 1.8%. Infant mortality rates rose 8.3%. www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/h...

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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

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HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

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Jon Stewart on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver youtu.be/OZbCyBMfy2c

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The Supreme Court has stated that the U.S. removal of Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was "illegal," that the Government must facilitate his release from custody there, and that it should share what it is doing to make this happen. The Government is refusing to comply and thus has nothing to share.

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👇👇

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Trump caught on hot mic telling dictator Bukele to build more torture camps so he can send Americans there next. WH defying court orders, press locked out, and Trump lies about SCOTUS. Approval at record lows. Catch up now.

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Do you want your kids to ask why you cowered in fear when it all came apart? It’s time to step up. My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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NEWS: NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs will escalate her dispute to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, the NC Democratic Party filed a lawsuit highlighting its concerns that longtime residents may soon have their votes discounted. andersonalerts.substack.com/p/riggs-nc-d...

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Did anyone notice that Buekele didn’t wear a tie? I thought that outraged people when Zelensky didn’t

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Donald Trump is floating the idea on nazi style concentration camps in order to divert our attention from tarrifs and his fucking of the economy. HOW DERANGED AND FUCKED UP IS THAT?

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Please read this from Senator Murphy and then urge your elected officials to do everything in their power to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

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VoteVets Action Fund, the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, and two individual voters all working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm filed a separate appeal. www.carolinajournal.com/riggs-groups...

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Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

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If you work for ICE under Trump then you ARE a Nazi and I hope you are put down just like we put Nazis down in WW2! 🖕

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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Trump administration is pretending to comply with the Supreme Court’s order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo—while refusing to actually do so, @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. https://theatln.tc/k6OLmbC3

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crossed the Rubicon Constitutional Crisis

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Yes, we're in constitutional crisis. Right now.

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of NC Alliance for Retired Americans and VoteVets AF, my firm has filed an appeal to the Fourth Circuit to block the Republicans' efforts to steal a North Carolina state Supreme Court election. Follow Democracy Docket for full details. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

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What Rep. @bobbyscott.house.gov (D-VA03) said! bluevirginia.us/2025/04/sen-...

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UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

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Stop pretending we aren’t here. Stop pretending the Republicans in Congress aren’t willing participants.

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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Leave it to Jimmy Kimmel! Please repost so it Does go viral. 💜

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