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Steve Austin
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Bionic Man. Fighting for justice and democracy! Trump and Elon are Fembots! They can suck it. #BlueCrew
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bionic-man.bsky.social
A little about my point of view. Raised in a red town/district. Registered Republican at 18 years old. Grew up with racism all around me. I was racist myself(I’m sure to a degree). I didn’t start “cringing” at racism until college.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Thanks to the Supreme Court for requiring “meaningful notice” without defining it - allowing Trump to interpret it however he wants.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 18
Last night multiple people detained at the Bluebonnet ICE detention center in Texas were handed sheets of paper IN ENGLISH and told by ICE officers that they were required to sign the paper (even if they only spoke Spanish).

These were reportedly "Alien Enemies Act" notices.
On April 17 at 10:36 I spoke to the sister of Luis Yoender Mercado. She informed me that she spoke to him this afternoon. Luis is detained at Bluebonnet. He has a master Calendar hearing scheduled on April 23, 2025. He told his sister that several people had received notices and were told by officers that they were being sent to El Salvador. 6. I also received messages on a listserv from several contacts indicating that people at Bluebonnet were receiving notices that they would be removed. The message says, “We just heard that it looks like more removals are being planned. We got this message from a member: “Hi, ICE moved a large group of Venezuelans to Bluebonnet earlier this week and some of them have alerted counsel that they received a notice minutes ago saying they would be removed under the AEA. The notice was in English and had a box for people to indicate they want to contest the designation. People should check on their Venezuelan clients if they've been moved to Bluebonnet and tell them to mark "I contest" in the notice.” 9. Sometime between April 14-16, Y.S.M. was transferred to Bluebonnet Detention Facility, as was his father. On the night of April 16, I was made aware of his location and emailed a request for a video call. I received a follow-up to my request on April 17 in the afternoon. 10. During the night of April 17, I received notice through Y.S.M.’s father that Y.S.M. had been taken away by agents. Y.S.M. was taken to another room. The agents returned for Y.S.M.’s belongings. As he passed by, Y.S.M.’s father could see through a window that Y.S.M. was crying. As Y.S.M. and the agents were passing, Y.S.M. held up a paper to the window. Another detainee who spoke English was able to read that the paper said “deportation.” The country of removal was not visible. Because he has no final immigration order, the government could only be seeking to remove him under the AEA, not the immigration laws. I am an attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services in Brooklyn, New York. 2. On April 17, 2025, I spoke with my client, a Venezuelan national detained at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, and with his partner several times on the phone. 3. My client and his partner told me that Venezuelan men detained at Bluebonnet were being given a piece of paper saying that they were about to be deported regardless of their immigration status because they are a danger to the United States and that these men were asked to sign the paper notice or a document provided with it. They also told me that ICE officials refused to say where the men would be deported. 4. My client and his partner also told me that individual men were being removed from the facility without warning upon receiving the paper notice.
April 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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muellershewrote.com
If I were a senator, @democrats.senate.gov I would be ON A PLANE to either Bluebonnet in Abilene or Harlingen NOW where Trump is about to send more people to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act with no meaningful due process.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Apr 18
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us
April 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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muellershewrote.com
I was told it would take one day.
April 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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muellershewrote.com
We cancel research and education grants, then spend money on this:
youranona.bsky.social Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · Apr 18
U.S. immigration detention is a profit-driven enterprise. Private corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic receive billions in federal contracts, earning daily revenue per detainee. The more migrants detained, the greater the profit—turning human suffering into a business model.
April 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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meidastouch.com
This is easily the worst first 100 days of any administration ever. Just a complete and total failure by all objective metrics. What a disaster.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 18
Marco Rubio is now acknowledging that it might not be possible for Trump to end Russia's war on Ukraine (Trump promised to end it before he took office!)
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“Wrongly” is how Trump’s own administration characterized it.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 18
The White House just posted this on X.
Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he's NOT coming back.
April 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."
April 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
FYI: A third TRO, issued Tuesday, is now protecting people in a third district — Western District of Pennsylvania — from removal under Trump's AEA proclamation (in addition to S.D. Tex. and S.D.N.Y.).

From Judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA A.S.R., on his own behalf and on behalf of ) others similarly situated, Petitioners, V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Respondents. Civil Case No. 3:25-cv-00113-SLH ORDER OF COURT AND NOW, this 15h day of April, 2025, upon due consideration of Petitioners' Emergency Application for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc. 2]; and, in order to preserve the status quo and to prevent irreparable harm to movants just so long as is necessary to develop a fuller record and to hold a hearing on Petitioners' application for a temporary restraining order, see Hope v. Warden York County Prison, 956 F.3d 156, 160 (3d Cir. 2020); and, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651, in order to preserve this Court's potential jurisdiction in this matter; accordingly, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b), IT IS ORDERED that Respondents hereby are temporarily enjoined, pending further order of this Court, from either removing Petitioner or any members of the putative class from the United States, or from transferring Petitioner or any members of the putative class from the Western District of Pennsylvania. This Court finds that Petitioner and members of the putative class have demonstrated that irreparable harm will result if they are transferred from this district or removed from the United States prior to a response and hearing; and, Case 3:25-cv-00113-SLH Document 8 Filed 04/15/25 Page 2 of 2 IT FURTHER IS ORDERED that Petitioners' counsel is directed to serve Respondents with a copy of the class action petition for a writ of habeas corpus, application for temporary restraining order and all accompanying papers, along with a copy of this Order, by email to the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and promptly to file proof of such service on the docket; and, IT FURTHER IS ORDERED that Respondents shall file a response to Petitioners' Emergency Application for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc. 2] on or before April 16, 2025; and, IT FURTHER IS ORDERED that a hearing on Petitioners' emergency application for a temporary restraining order [Doc. 2] hereby is scheduled for Friday, April 18, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., in Courtroom A, 319 Washington Street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before Judge Stephanie L. Haines; and, IT FURTHER IS ORDERED that this order shall expire upon this Court's resolution of Petitioners' application for a temporary restraining order. Stephanie L. Haines U.S. District Judge
April 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Watching the noon CNN/MSNBC news programs, and virtually the whole Ábrego García discussion is “how this is playing politically.”

The laziness is breathtaking
April 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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democracymichelle.bsky.social
Leaving his dirty undies all over the furniture of his filthy DC apartment and ignoring the people he’s supposed to represent while he promotes his book.
April 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The trauma this family has suffered at the hands of this administration is unconscionable www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
From an NBC News article by Nnamdi Egwuonwu about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s meeting with Senator Chris Van Hollen: “The vice president also denied a request from Van Hollen that day to facilitate a phone call between Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who says she has not spoken to him since he was transferred to the Central American facility. Sura said Thursday night that Van Hollen's meeting gave her hope. ‘My children and my prayers have been answered. The efforts of my family and community in fighting for justice are being heard, because I now know that my husband is alive. God is listening, and the community is standing strong,’ she said in a statement.”
April 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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meidastouch.com
This is some sick shit
April 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
After firing the head of NSA bc conspiracy theories, Laura Loomer is going to get the last remaining sort-of adult in Trump's cabinet, Scott Bessent, fired bc he refused to let Gary Shapley run all of IRS.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
Head of I.R.S. Being Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Evergreen.
March 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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jerasikehorn.bsky.social
Share this, if you knew Trump was a traitor and a Russian agent all along. 🤚
March 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Been seeing a lot of these latey
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Loyalty tests. We talked about this when he made Manafort give polling data to the Kremlin.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Jan 22
Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.

Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
January 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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This is the guy who started the Silk Road dark website which was used the facilitate major global drug trafficking. Was serving life in prison. But when Trump wanted the Libertarian Party endorsement he promised them this. He never heard of Ulbricht. Even spelled his name wrong.
January 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Here are the judges assigned to the lawsuits challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:

ACLU suit: Normand Laplante (Bush)
 
18 states suit: Leo T. Sorokin (Obama)
 
Doe suit: Leo T. Sorokin (Obama)
 
4 states suit: John C. Coughenour (Reagan)
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jan 21
NEW: Trump’s birthright citizenship order faces immediate challenges.

Less than 24 hours after Trump signed an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship, at least 4 suits have been filed that seek to block implementation of the order.

More: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Faces Immediate Challenges
Four suits filed in federal court this week mark an initial effort by states and advocacy groups to block the order.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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JUST NOW: Trump says he's open to Elon Musk buying Tik-Tok
January 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jjindc.bsky.social
Can’t have diversity! No, Sir!
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
The memo comes after Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending DEI programs at federal agencies.
www.nbcnews.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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atrupar.com
REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers?

TRUMP: Sure

REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon?

TRUMP: Well, I don't know
January 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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andrewjweinstein.com
There is no bottom to this barrel.
January 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.
January 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM