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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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Just a gentle reminder that white-nationalist “Groypers” like Troy Robinson have long plagued Charlie Kirk’s operations because he wasn’t racist, homophobic or antisemitic enough.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA 'Culture War' tour
Charlie Kirk’s attempt at creating a young conservative movement, called Turning Point USA, has long had a complicated relationship with the youth-oriented, white nationalist alt-right. This week,
www.dailykos.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Just a gentle reminder that white-nationalist “Groypers” like Troy Robinson have long plagued Charlie Kirk’s operations because he wasn’t racist, homophobic or antisemitic enough.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
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On Monday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has a mandatory check-in at ICE's Baltimore field office.
His family and advocates plan to hold a vigil and rally outside opposing the government's threats to whisk him to Uganda if he doesn't forfeit his right to a trial. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
His family and advocates plan to hold a vigil and rally outside opposing the government's threats to whisk him to Uganda if he doesn't forfeit his right to a trial. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
Rising This Week: The coercion of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Trump's government threatens to whisk Abrego to Uganda if he doesn't give up his right to a trial.
www.allrisenews.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
On Monday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has a mandatory check-in at ICE's Baltimore field office.
His family and advocates plan to hold a vigil and rally outside opposing the government's threats to whisk him to Uganda if he doesn't forfeit his right to a trial. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
His family and advocates plan to hold a vigil and rally outside opposing the government's threats to whisk him to Uganda if he doesn't forfeit his right to a trial. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
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Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
August 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
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Questions, in no particular order:
1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio?
2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT?
3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal?
4. Did he notify Congress at all?
(More soon)
1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio?
2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT?
3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal?
4. Did he notify Congress at all?
(More soon)
June 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Questions, in no particular order:
1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio?
2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT?
3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal?
4. Did he notify Congress at all?
(More soon)
1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio?
2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT?
3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal?
4. Did he notify Congress at all?
(More soon)
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What am I worried about?
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What am I worried about?
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
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That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
June 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
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Arizona's attorney general said she is seeking more information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest of a U.S. citizen from New Mexico.
Arizona AG queries ICE about arrest of New Mexico man • Source New Mexico
“It is wholly unacceptable to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens,” wrote Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.
sourcenm.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Arizona's attorney general said she is seeking more information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest of a U.S. citizen from New Mexico.
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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
It gets more and more disturbing by the day
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?
By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...
weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It gets more and more disturbing by the day
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Another must read.
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Another must read.
And….they don’t care either
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And….they don’t care either
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Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
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CALL TODAY.
Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens.
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
CALL TODAY.
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Can someone who’s good at the economy tell me if this is good
April 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Can someone who’s good at the economy tell me if this is good
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Tomorrow, in addition to being Cesar Chavez Day, is the Trans Day of Visibility.
Honor to all who fight to be free.
And to my trans sibs and family, you are holy and worthy of all the good things, and I will stand with you until my dying day. I see you and love you. Thank you for your bravery.
Honor to all who fight to be free.
And to my trans sibs and family, you are holy and worthy of all the good things, and I will stand with you until my dying day. I see you and love you. Thank you for your bravery.
March 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tomorrow, in addition to being Cesar Chavez Day, is the Trans Day of Visibility.
Honor to all who fight to be free.
And to my trans sibs and family, you are holy and worthy of all the good things, and I will stand with you until my dying day. I see you and love you. Thank you for your bravery.
Honor to all who fight to be free.
And to my trans sibs and family, you are holy and worthy of all the good things, and I will stand with you until my dying day. I see you and love you. Thank you for your bravery.
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Pete Hegseth brought his wife to his meetings with senators so it would be awk to ask him about his alleged sexual misconduct www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
March 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Pete Hegseth brought his wife to his meetings with senators so it would be awk to ask him about his alleged sexual misconduct www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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“‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,’ Dr. Peter Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary RFK Jr.”
Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out
In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
www.wsj.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,’ Dr. Peter Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary RFK Jr.”
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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
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It's a Free Country...or Is It? (Sadly, no. As usual, @djrothkopf.bsky.social poignantly counted the freedoms at risk, and the list is mounting.)
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
It's a Free Country...or Is It?
We're Not What We Used to Be
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It's a Free Country...or Is It? (Sadly, no. As usual, @djrothkopf.bsky.social poignantly counted the freedoms at risk, and the list is mounting.)
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
(Punchbowl) - Extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts would boost the national debt by almost 50% when measured as a percentage of GDP and increase the deficit by around $4 trillion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis.
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
punchbowl.news/article/fina...
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CBO: Extending Trump tax cuts would boost deficit, debt
The analysis comes as Senate Republicans are set to huddle with the Senate parliamentarian’s office to get guidance on the “current policy baseline.”
punchbowl.news
March 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
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Don't look away from this.
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
March 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Don't look away from this.
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🚨BREAKING: 9th Circuit DENIES government's motion to pause federal court order requiring the rehiring of probationary civil servants who were terminated. A big win for democracy and a another defeat for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.
March 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨BREAKING: 9th Circuit DENIES government's motion to pause federal court order requiring the rehiring of probationary civil servants who were terminated. A big win for democracy and a another defeat for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.