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“This trapdoor is wide enough to swallow the entire Constitution. So long as he can find at least one foreign strongman to cooperate, Trump can, if he wishes, imprison any dissident, judge, journalist, member of Congress, or candidate for office” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution
If Donald Trump can disappear people to El Salvador without due process, he can do anything.
www.theatlantic.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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they want us poor, sick and desperate
We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections

That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
NY Times Headline
Trump to take over renovation of Penn Station.
April 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. At about 160 000 light-years away it is one of the nearest galaxies

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, N. Bartmann - Music: Stellardrone - Ascent)
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM