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🇺🇦🤍 Hippie 🤍 Witch 🤍 Swiftie 🤍 History Buff 🤍 Supporter of Basic Human Rights 🤍
Delay Deny Depose
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Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
April 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
April 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Every law firm that bows to Trump should know: When he leaves, your firm goes with him. How could any client ever trust you again?
Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight.

We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
April 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to
Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.
April 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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👇
April 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador, says that him and the family have not been able to contact him and don't know his current condition.

Absolutely unacceptable!

Bring him HOME!
April 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
April 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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😂😂👍
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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And this is why countries are dumping their U.S. treasuries and dollars.
April 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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A lawyer who represents a pro-Palestinian student protester in Michigan was separated from his family and detained on his way back from a family vacation. “This wasn’t something that was random,” says Amir Makled. “They had a whole profile about me.”
Lawyer Representing Pro-Palestine Protester Detained at Airport, Phone Seized
Amir Makled believes he was targeted for his work: “They had a whole profile about me,” he says.
buff.ly
April 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Say it with us: “constitutional crisis”
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952.

April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.
April 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"Of 36 recent airstrikes verified by the UN human rights office, all those killed were women and children."
April 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

And 36 times is deliberate murder of women and children by people who know exactly what they are doing.
"Of 36 recent airstrikes verified by the UN human rights office, all those killed were women and children."
Red Cross chief says Gaza is 'hell on earth' as Israeli assault continues
April 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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As a GAO stan, I am delighted to tell you:

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) www.wired.com/story/gao-a...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited
The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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On today’s episode of “He’s Tearing This S**t Up”—Trump plans to dismantle NOAA, shutting down climate research and weather labs.​

In Texas, that means fewer hurricane warnings, less drought data, & more risk to our communities.​

This isn’t just a budget cut—it’s a threat to our safety.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Apr 11
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.
Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN
The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This is the way.
April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A public school teacher in Florida has been informed that her contract will not be renewed after she used a student’s chosen name without parental consent, in what appears to be the first instance where a teacher’s job has been directly impacted for affirming a student’s identity.
Florida Teacher Loses Job for Using Student’s Chosen Name
“Every child deserves to be educated in an environment where they feel respected,” a petition backing the teacher says.
buff.ly
April 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
April 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Donald Trump's administration targeting NOAA is going to get people killed.
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Another court defeat for Trump White House

Judge rejects request for pause on order restoring access to Associated Press

Judge: "Constitutional protections would be worth little indeed if they wilt in the face of presidential incursion"
April 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":

"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM