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BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
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This is one of the best signs i’ve seen!
May 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is one of the best signs i’ve seen!
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Any voter who *wanted* to be informed knew what was coming. The trouble is millions are too dumb to understand cause and effect. They are still waiting for the PT Barnum of politics to transform their sad lives through magic.
April 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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During the police response in Florida, a White House reporter asked President Trump about whether he'd consider new gun safety measures.
And.... Parkland families noted that Marjorie Stoneman Douglas alums are among Florida St Univ students
From our Special report
And.... Parkland families noted that Marjorie Stoneman Douglas alums are among Florida St Univ students
From our Special report
April 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
During the police response in Florida, a White House reporter asked President Trump about whether he'd consider new gun safety measures.
And.... Parkland families noted that Marjorie Stoneman Douglas alums are among Florida St Univ students
From our Special report
And.... Parkland families noted that Marjorie Stoneman Douglas alums are among Florida St Univ students
From our Special report
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted and is being held in a notorious prison in El Salvador — barred from contacting his family or lawyers.
I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:
I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:
Van Hollen speaks to press after being denied entry to El Salvador prison holding Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
www.youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted and is being held in a notorious prison in El Salvador — barred from contacting his family or lawyers.
I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:
I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:
Read every word.
Opinion | We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid (Gift Article)
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Read every word.
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Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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The United States government kidnapped and disappeared Abrego Garcia and sent him to El Salvador, without due process.
As of today, the DOJ is defying the judge's order asking for his whereabouts and to facilitate his immediate return.
This is next level authoritarianism.
As of today, the DOJ is defying the judge's order asking for his whereabouts and to facilitate his immediate return.
This is next level authoritarianism.
April 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The United States government kidnapped and disappeared Abrego Garcia and sent him to El Salvador, without due process.
As of today, the DOJ is defying the judge's order asking for his whereabouts and to facilitate his immediate return.
This is next level authoritarianism.
As of today, the DOJ is defying the judge's order asking for his whereabouts and to facilitate his immediate return.
This is next level authoritarianism.
Republicans are Nazis. It’s very clear. It’s BEEN clear.
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Republicans are Nazis. It’s very clear. It’s BEEN clear.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?
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The gays should make a White Lotus type show about all the different Eagles.
April 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Where is our humanity?
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Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.
April 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.
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I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.
Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵
Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.
Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵
Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵
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Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.
April 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.
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New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):
This asshole was put in charge of firing everyone and making life and death decisions for #USAID. Americans have just lost thousands of deeply caring humanitarians and replaced them with garbage
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin, Trump’s deputy administrator at USAID, share concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth.
www.rollingstone.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Technology could have always been a source for good.
Just because corrupt billionaires hijacked our own power and are now using it against us, doesn't mean we can't take it back.
It just means we have to choose to abstain from abusive technologies, and have ethical consumerism.
Just because corrupt billionaires hijacked our own power and are now using it against us, doesn't mean we can't take it back.
It just means we have to choose to abstain from abusive technologies, and have ethical consumerism.
February 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.