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The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag
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Make no mistake: Trump is serious about trying to throw out the Constitution to stay in power.
"I'm not joking": Trump again floats running for anti-constitutional third term
"There are methods which you could do it," he reportedly told NBC News.
www.motherjones.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Make no mistake: Trump is serious about trying to throw out the Constitution to stay in power.
Ever wondered how this admin got ICE agents on the street so quickly?
#globetok #worldtok #eurotok #winterboots
TikTok video by 🧿 Mossy Matriarch 🌀
www.tiktok.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Ever wondered how this admin got ICE agents on the street so quickly?
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Understand this: by trying to gut Medicaid, the House GOP is targeting seniors in nursing homes, kids with disabilities, and low-income workers who can’t get health coverage from their jobs.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
February 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Understand this: by trying to gut Medicaid, the House GOP is targeting seniors in nursing homes, kids with disabilities, and low-income workers who can’t get health coverage from their jobs.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
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"Unlike Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or J. D. Vance, I have had children serve in uniform in wartime," writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social. "The parent of a service member looks with a particularly keen eye at who is in command."
Lawful, but Enormously Destructive
Trump’s purge of the Pentagon leadership will have long-lasting and damaging consequences.
www.theatlantic.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Unlike Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or J. D. Vance, I have had children serve in uniform in wartime," writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social. "The parent of a service member looks with a particularly keen eye at who is in command."
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🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target.
They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed.
This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.
They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed.
This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.
February 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target.
They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed.
This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.
They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed.
This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.
Republicans Aim to Extend a $684 Billion Tax Break That Benefits Many of Them - Mother Jones
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Republicans Aim to Extend a $684 Billion Tax Break That Benefits Many of Them — Mother Jones
Proponents claim
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February 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Republicans Aim to Extend a $684 Billion Tax Break That Benefits Many of Them - Mother Jones
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I guess those GOP members didn’t read this: www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I guess those GOP members didn’t read this: www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Connect the dots...
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
Trump’s biggest corruption yet
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Connect the dots...
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
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Tech billionaires have an unprecedented ability—and incentive—to manipulate the public's perception of reality, Adam Serwer argues.
The Department of Paranoia
The effort to kill USAID has enshrined Elon Musk’s delusional conspiracy theories into official White House policy.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tech billionaires have an unprecedented ability—and incentive—to manipulate the public's perception of reality, Adam Serwer argues.
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Despite Elon Musk's tweets, he cannot unilaterally remove entire departments from the U.S. government that were established by legislation.
This is brazenly illegal.
This is brazenly illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Despite Elon Musk's tweets, he cannot unilaterally remove entire departments from the U.S. government that were established by legislation.
This is brazenly illegal.
This is brazenly illegal.
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“I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country,” Jackson said.
What Justice Jackson warned about in the Trump immunity case Is coming true
“I worry that after this ruling, our Nation will reap what this Court has sown.”
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country,” Jackson said.
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Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.
We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.
We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.
Community health centers are closing amid funding confusion
Community health centers are facing a potential federal freeze on their grants and funding following orders from Trump.
www.newsweek.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.
We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.
We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.
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Trump's first two weeks back in office has been filled with chaos and dysfunction. But none of it is random.
It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out.
Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win.
Don't tune out. Don't let them win.
It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out.
Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win.
Don't tune out. Don't let them win.
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump's first two weeks back in office has been filled with chaos and dysfunction. But none of it is random.
It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out.
Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win.
Don't tune out. Don't let them win.
It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out.
Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win.
Don't tune out. Don't let them win.
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Halting spending approved by Congress.
Firing independent inspectors general.
Replacing civil servants with loyalists.
Dismantling key federal agencies.
All plans pulled from Project 2025.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
Firing independent inspectors general.
Replacing civil servants with loyalists.
Dismantling key federal agencies.
All plans pulled from Project 2025.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
February 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Halting spending approved by Congress.
Firing independent inspectors general.
Replacing civil servants with loyalists.
Dismantling key federal agencies.
All plans pulled from Project 2025.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
Firing independent inspectors general.
Replacing civil servants with loyalists.
Dismantling key federal agencies.
All plans pulled from Project 2025.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
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Abolishing the Dept. of Education would be devastating to our nation's students — and our teachers.
MAGA Republicans have been waging a war on public school teachers for years.
They want public schools to fail so they can pour the money into private, for-profit schools.
MAGA Republicans have been waging a war on public school teachers for years.
They want public schools to fail so they can pour the money into private, for-profit schools.
The Republican War On Teachers | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Abolishing the Dept. of Education would be devastating to our nation's students — and our teachers.
MAGA Republicans have been waging a war on public school teachers for years.
They want public schools to fail so they can pour the money into private, for-profit schools.
MAGA Republicans have been waging a war on public school teachers for years.
They want public schools to fail so they can pour the money into private, for-profit schools.
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Trump's acting CFPB director (Scott Bessent) stopped the agency's work, which includes:
-Capping credit card rates and excessive fees
-Penalizing banks for ripping off consumers
-Preventing politically-motivated debanking
It's a victory for Wall Street at your expense.
-Capping credit card rates and excessive fees
-Penalizing banks for ripping off consumers
-Preventing politically-motivated debanking
It's a victory for Wall Street at your expense.
February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump's acting CFPB director (Scott Bessent) stopped the agency's work, which includes:
-Capping credit card rates and excessive fees
-Penalizing banks for ripping off consumers
-Preventing politically-motivated debanking
It's a victory for Wall Street at your expense.
-Capping credit card rates and excessive fees
-Penalizing banks for ripping off consumers
-Preventing politically-motivated debanking
It's a victory for Wall Street at your expense.
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Republicans are going along with Elon Musk's unlawful power grab.
They're okay with an unelected billionaire who has no congressional authority having his hands on the Treasury's payment system and your Social Security number.
Remember this.
They're okay with an unelected billionaire who has no congressional authority having his hands on the Treasury's payment system and your Social Security number.
Remember this.
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Gerald Connolly, Democratic Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight, just introduced a motion to SUBPOENA Elon Musk.
MAGA James Comer, chair of the committee, refuses, and chaos interrupts.
MAGA James Comer, chair of the committee, refuses, and chaos interrupts.
February 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Republicans are going along with Elon Musk's unlawful power grab.
They're okay with an unelected billionaire who has no congressional authority having his hands on the Treasury's payment system and your Social Security number.
Remember this.
They're okay with an unelected billionaire who has no congressional authority having his hands on the Treasury's payment system and your Social Security number.
Remember this.
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Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
Republican calls to scrap workplace safety agency
Representative Andy Biggs made an earlier bid to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2021.
www.newsweek.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
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Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.
January 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.
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Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week.
Don’t let him.
Don’t let him.
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week.
Don’t let him.
Don’t let him.