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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Hey, this guy is Doing Something and I would like to make it clear to the other Democrats that Doing Something is good!
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A student at UW-Madison had her visa revoked for a speeding ticket and a failure to stop citation. She paid the fine, had court dates for the failure to stop and the case was dropped.

Is that "do all kinds of crazy things," Secretary Rubio?
Rubio: "If you come to this country as a student, we expect you to go to class and study and get a degree. If you come here to vandalize a library, take over a campus, and do all kinds of crazy things, we're gonna get rid of these people. And we're gonna continue to do it."
April 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
April 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Elon Musk decided to turn a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin into a referendum on Elon Musk.

You’ll never believe what happened next.
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Did Cory Booker just use the "I must be in the front row" line? Bob Uecker is everywhere, man.
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Republicans passed and defended a law making it illegal to provide water to people waiting in line to vote.
Elon Musk advertises his blatantly corrupt attempt to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court:
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Where is @law.wisc.edu ?
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are stealing from us.
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Oops 😬
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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the fact that this is a private security guard hired by Elon Musk seems like a five alarm fire ???????????????
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Ok man, I’ll tell them
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Hard-hitting news
February 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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“We're witnessing a broad assault on genuinely meritocratic achievement — one that could enable right-wing elites to corruptly loot the place, or install a highly ‘personalist’ government marked above all by loyalty to Trump himself, or some combination of the two.“
The awful news that Elon Musk clashed with a top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not?

I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key question, and why it's so alarming:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad, but one’s a little worse.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Congress just submitted a bill to “Terminate the Department of Education. “

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
February 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Holy ****
January 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Awwww man whose entire empire is built on invasion of privacy and data theft is sad his privacy isn’t being respected. 😢
January 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Scott Frost hiring Alex Grinch. Christmastown-ass football program. Who’s your QB coach, Mason Rudolph
Alex Grinch has been named UCF football’s defensive coordinator.
December 17, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Apologies in advance for this…
December 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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A huge victory for workers: a Dane County judge has just restored collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin who had them stripped away under Scott Walker’s anti-worker Act 10.
spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...
Dane County judge strikes down Act 10
Judge Jacob Frost ruled that certain sections of the law were unconstitutional.
spectrumnews1.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for AG, has a very long history from when she was Florida's attorney general of helping Trump legally after he gave her contributions.

And there's more you need to know.

A brief thread.
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 PM