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I'm certainly not the only one. But I've been saying this. The White House is losing the war over public opinion on the Abrego Garcia case badly. 26% is an astonishingly low number. Trump is losing a significant chunk of his core base on this. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 62 comments

fascists carve their way in with edge cases. don’t give them an inch. this is not a deportation. the US Government kidnapped a 2-year-old child & her mother. abolish ICE.

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

(I never Amazon-shame, because saving money is important and also I try not to be a dick, but their scheduling a huge sale to counter Independent Bookstore Day is supremely shitty.)

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Arresting judges. Threatening allies. Lying about trade deals. Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House. Floating a 2028 run. Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic. We must retake our democracy.

submitted 9 hours ago • 490 comments

This case becomes more obscene each time I learn new facts abt it. More abuse of power by a degenerate administration.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Bravo, Japan. The free world should seize Russia’s frozen assets and transfer them to Ukraine at $20 billion a month until Russia stops its lawless invasion.

submitted 8 hours ago • 45 comments

Research shows people who shop at indie bookstores on Independent Bookstore Day are fucking rad.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

quality work by all involved here.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

I hate this President with all the fiber of my being!

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Independent bookstores are the beating heart of the literary world. Say no to to billionaires and their soulless bots. Say yes to the small bookshop run by delightful nerds who will happily explain why this very book on this very shelf is destined to be your absolute favorite.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 2 days ago • 525 comments

Trump on the steep drop in international tourism to the US: "It's not a big deal"

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Pete Hegseth is treating the Pentagon like it’s a Fox News set—ordering a makeup studio while leaking sensitive information in Signal chats. This is what happens when you put clout-chasers in charge of national security.

submitted 2 days ago • 1038 comments

The first question we need to ask is why Trump wants to keep Abrego García in El Salvador. A normal administration would want to retrieve someone wrongly sent to a foreign gulag. I believe part of the reason I that Trump wants a fight with the courts in which he can defy their orders.

submitted 2 days ago • 291 comments

A reminder that just before stepping back into office and also during the very start of his second presidency, Trump was directly privately pitching GOP lawmakers and close associates/big business elites to “really get in on” his meme coin…. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

First, Donald Trump launches a memecoin, netting himself billions. Next, his family gets in on the scheme. Now his billionaire buddies are getting even richer too. The most brazen corruption imaginable. x.com/StevenTDenni...

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

(Just to be extra clear, I'd use "rendition" as the verb as well as the noun.)

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Impeach and remove him you cowards! Begging??? Even dirty floor mops have more dignity than those spineless republicans! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 2 days ago • 688 comments

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

In its ongoing stonewalling of the district court judge overseeing the case of the mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump DOJ is now slow-rolling discovery by insisting on a tortured reading of court orders in the case. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

It is horrifying that we must now use the verb "disappeared" in the United States. Without a hint of exaggeration. That it has become increasingly routine.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

A new day, a new horror. Ricardo Prada was detained by ICE, imprisoned in Texas & apparently deported. But no-one can find him. He has, literally, been disappeared. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell Law: “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing immigration law.”

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 751 comments

DOJ-in-Exile, A Further Elaboration talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doj-i...

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⚡️Russian journalist and outspoken war critic escapes from house arrest. Ekaterina Barabash, a Russian journalist who was arrested earlier this year for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, has escaped house arrest and is now wanted by police, Russian state media reported on April 21.

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Remember that they have never directly competed with #IndependentBookstoreDay before. They're doing this because they're scared. Who's scared them? YOU have, by beginning to move your purchasing away from their monopoly. Keep it up! Visit your local indie on 4/26.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Didn’t know Paul Ingrassia got a White House job. He’s argued that descendants of enslaved people should PAY reparations, and that “western civ” is product of “exceptional white men,” & that the Right is fighting an explicitly Christian holy war w/ rest of us. open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

The New York anti-Trump protest today is BIG! Looks like tens of thousands on the streets. #50501movement #HandsOff #NoKings (🎥 L2FTV)

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Connecticut is out in full force today. #CTPolitics #CT #Connecticut #NutmegSky #NoKings #NoDictators

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Only in Maine 💙 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The lions of the Public Library looking serenely down on Democracy

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Big crowd swelling out into 42nd St at today’s NYC demonstrations. A sense we’re on the offensive now

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WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.

submitted 6 days ago • 262 comments

Hilarious to me that the “gender is gender” pres and vp are the most make-up wearingest executive branch leaders in US history

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Hard to capture the size of this NYC protest since it wraps around the Public Library(which is appropriate!)

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

retired creative writing profs next!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Here now. Find it online and at your local indie bookstore.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans are more eager than ever to embrace the Big Lie and have become even bolder in their willingness to engage in mass disenfranchisement to secure and hold power. If federal courts endorse the GOP’s scheme here, it will open the floodgates to similar efforts in the future.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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A couple thoughts on this: 1. It violates the law. In 1998, Congress explicitly provided that the President could not, directly or indirectly, request that the IRS start or end an audit or other investigation of a taxpayer. www.taxnotes.com/research/fed... 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 69 comments

That’s right… Bill Kristol?

submitted 9 days ago • 353 comments

In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals.

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