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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

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this afternoon people identifying as Harvard grads is understandable; good on Harvard

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What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

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the ban on impoundment's dead, innit?

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butch basic corrupt bitch to paraphrase Rep. Crockett.

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El Salvador fucking over the American people is something of a role reversal

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There’s a video circulating on social media that Trump raised the minimum wage to $25 an hour. 1. That’s a lie 2. Trump can’t do that 3. Trump wouldn’t do that even if could 4. Trump actually just cut contractor minimum wage.

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Rubio: "No court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States."

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here's my brag: I've never had to take a cognitive test, because I'm sane

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Bukelean I mean Orwellian

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1) The presser with Bukele with theater designed to get credulous journos to repeat the "terrorism" claim w/o question. Remember: THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE freed adjudged Jan6 terrorists on Day One. 2) The WAY in which they flouted courts provides more surface area (bc this was not classified).

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The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.

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No nation prospers by shortchanging its children. Public schools are key to the success of each child and our entire nation. I refuse to sacrifice them so billionaires and big corporations can get richer, and I’ll keep fighting to save our schools from the Trump-Musk chainsaw.

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I'm begging media outlets to stop using Bukele's self-imposed moniker, "world's coolest dictator." Even in quotes, it's gross.

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People love to list useless things done by Roman emperors, namely Caligula’s declaring war on the sea. But a technocrat “conquering space” w/an 11 min 🚀 flight carrying a brigade of rich female celebrities—when ticket $ combined are worth the entire NEH budget for a yr—is beyond Caligula levels imo.

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Argentinian libertarians every decade or so -I will end government and unleash the economy a year later -Hello IMF I need 100 billion dollars

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In other words, when Trump and Musk say USAID is “corrupt,” they mean is violates racial hierarchy to spend money to save the lives of millions of non-white poor people. When they say that Social Security is “wasteful,” they mean it is wrong to spend money to protect the elderly poor.

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An interesting essay. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game ... you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government.

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Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate

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Scalise, Whitmer, Zeldin, Pelosi, Trump, Shapiro … No matter how much you might dislike anyone on that list, we have to stand together against political violence. Because as bad as things are now, the normalization of assassination attempts will make our country’s disintegration that much worse.

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videos like this were a significant factor in my deciding not to eat meat any more

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Sound familiar? This is what the silence or even mocking by the right of the Paul Pelosi attack has led to.

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This headline should be clearer. Trump has zero authority as president to return Confederate monuments removed by cities and towns across the country. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/04/14/c...

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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

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"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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“2 hours until Katy Perry goes to space” - Billionaires shouldn’t exist

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Alexa, show me proof that these vanity space projects are about vanity

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This explanation from @leahlitman.bsky.social on why law firms are surrendering to Trump is really dark stuff: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

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I just read Hallie Rubenhold's "The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper" and it is very illuminating and good. Not sensationalist crap, but interesting sympathetic looks at the precarious lives of Victorian-era working class women. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiv...

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sure, jan

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Wenzel Hablik's powerfully evocative depictions of the German landscape are among his most celebrated works. With richly expressive and intense colour 'Sunset,' painted around 1910 is a broodingly dramatic painting from his expressionist period.

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A cartoon by Liza Donnelly. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Oops: "China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world." gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

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