@kateb7.bsky.social
I wonder how long before we can see this impact GDP
Trump on collapsing visitor numbers to the US: “Not a big deal. We treat our tourists great.”
Here’s what the rest of world thinks:
Here’s what the rest of world thinks:
April 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I wonder how long before we can see this impact GDP
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Remember when you were a kid, playing games with friends—there was always that one kid who tried to change the rules mid-game just to win… but still lost, and everyone knew they were cheating?
That’s DOGE.
That’s DOGE.
April 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Remember when you were a kid, playing games with friends—there was always that one kid who tried to change the rules mid-game just to win… but still lost, and everyone knew they were cheating?
That’s DOGE.
That’s DOGE.
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We were mid recording of this week’s episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social when this Wilkinson opinion dropped - you really hear him talking to not only the executive branch, but also his fellow conservatives on SCOTUS
Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit:
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
April 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We were mid recording of this week’s episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social when this Wilkinson opinion dropped - you really hear him talking to not only the executive branch, but also his fellow conservatives on SCOTUS
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Real Christians don't celebrate other human people getting deported. @adamkinzinger.bsky.social said the truth.
April 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Real Christians don't celebrate other human people getting deported. @adamkinzinger.bsky.social said the truth.
So, if he ignores the supreme court's unanimous decision and order, what happens?
Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so.
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So, if he ignores the supreme court's unanimous decision and order, what happens?
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NEW from PP:
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. Non...
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
NEW from PP:
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump wants to deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador. That’s unconstitutional, un-American, and terrifying. We cannot normalize this. Speak out and organize like our democracy depends on it—because it does.
Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"
April 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Trump wants to deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador. That’s unconstitutional, un-American, and terrifying. We cannot normalize this. Speak out and organize like our democracy depends on it—because it does.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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oh, FUCK THIS!
we're truely losing it here in this country...
all the Jan 6ers get pardoned but no 1st ammendment for him.
we're truely losing it here in this country...
all the Jan 6ers get pardoned but no 1st ammendment for him.
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
oh, FUCK THIS!
we're truely losing it here in this country...
all the Jan 6ers get pardoned but no 1st ammendment for him.
we're truely losing it here in this country...
all the Jan 6ers get pardoned but no 1st ammendment for him.
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It’s a fire sale…
April 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s a fire sale…
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The #SAVEAct threatens our right to vote. By requiring in-person proof of citizenship (passports/birth certificates) it puts unnecessary barriers on voting. For the 69 million women who changed their name after marriage, their birth certificate won't match their legal name. Tell Congress to vote NO!
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The #SAVEAct threatens our right to vote. By requiring in-person proof of citizenship (passports/birth certificates) it puts unnecessary barriers on voting. For the 69 million women who changed their name after marriage, their birth certificate won't match their legal name. Tell Congress to vote NO!
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Polls close in TWO hours. If you are in line, STAY in line. You are guaranteed the right to vote if you are in line by 7pm!
joshweil.us/vote
joshweil.us/vote
April 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Polls close in TWO hours. If you are in line, STAY in line. You are guaranteed the right to vote if you are in line by 7pm!
joshweil.us/vote
joshweil.us/vote
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is set to significantly cut the size of the department he leads, cutting five of 10 regional offices, axing 10,000 jobs and reshaping the nation’s health agencies, via @wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department
The changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.
www.wsj.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h.... With so many cuts in some many areas, you start to wonder what our taxes are paying for, right?
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h.... With so many cuts in some many areas, you start to wonder what our taxes are paying for, right?
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Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.
March 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.
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I know this is obvious, but
but her emails
but her emails
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I know this is obvious, but
but her emails
but her emails
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"In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending."
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending."
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The people who did this (despite a judge directly instructing them not to) need to go to jail.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The people who did this (despite a judge directly instructing them not to) need to go to jail.
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Two news stories. TODAY.
The world no longer trusts the United States to safeguard its citizens.
The world no longer trusts the United States to safeguard its citizens.
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Two news stories. TODAY.
The world no longer trusts the United States to safeguard its citizens.
The world no longer trusts the United States to safeguard its citizens.
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🚨This might be Story of the Year.
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🚨This might be Story of the Year.
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
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"In this case, Republican leaders did so using a particularly unusual contortion: They essentially declared the rest of the year one long day, nullifying a law that allows the House and Senate to jointly put an end to a disaster declared by the president."
Humpty Dumpty Time.
Humpty Dumpty Time.
The tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico were imposed under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act and are consequentially subject to being revoked by Congress if Congress votes to revoke the national emergency
The spending bill now before the Senate prevents that from happening
The spending bill now before the Senate prevents that from happening
Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"In this case, Republican leaders did so using a particularly unusual contortion: They essentially declared the rest of the year one long day, nullifying a law that allows the House and Senate to jointly put an end to a disaster declared by the president."
Humpty Dumpty Time.
Humpty Dumpty Time.
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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Escalates Confrontation With Canada www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Trump Live Updates: Stock Market News, Canada Tariffs and More
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Escalates Confrontation With Canada www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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