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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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The White House is engaging in direct extortion of local and state governments, attempting to force them to change their policies by stopping funding projects that already have signed grant agreements with the federal government.
New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The White House is engaging in direct extortion of local and state governments, attempting to force them to change their policies by stopping funding projects that already have signed grant agreements with the federal government.
Amtrak’s NextGen Acela Review: Broken doors delayed departure 45 min and we’re now broken down in MD due to engine failure. American made, $2.4 billion invested, 9 yrs to develop to operate worse than the regional train 🤯
September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Amtrak’s NextGen Acela Review: Broken doors delayed departure 45 min and we’re now broken down in MD due to engine failure. American made, $2.4 billion invested, 9 yrs to develop to operate worse than the regional train 🤯
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
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Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individuals’ total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 – 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%).
www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org/system/files...
August 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individuals’ total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 – 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%).
www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org/system/files...
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Donald Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas in 2024.
Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%.
If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%.
Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%.
If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%.
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick: "We're a red state. We deserve more representation."
August 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Donald Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas in 2024.
Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%.
If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%.
Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%.
If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%.
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It’s crazy how they can just start chucking law-abiding people in prison and change societal expectations around that, so that many people just say “welp, that’s just a thing that happens here now (and it ain’t me)!”
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It’s crazy how they can just start chucking law-abiding people in prison and change societal expectations around that, so that many people just say “welp, that’s just a thing that happens here now (and it ain’t me)!”
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"Cops gave out 13 percent fewer traffic tickets to drivers of cars, trucks and buses between April and June, compared to the previous three months, enforcement stats show — while criminal summonses against people on bikes surged during the same period."
Today in @nyc.streetsblog.org:
Today in @nyc.streetsblog.org:
NYPD Issues Fewer Traffic Tickets to Drivers As Criminal Tickets to Cyclists Surge - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Adams's focus is completely backwards, safe streets advocates say.
nyc.streetsblog.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Cops gave out 13 percent fewer traffic tickets to drivers of cars, trucks and buses between April and June, compared to the previous three months, enforcement stats show — while criminal summonses against people on bikes surged during the same period."
Today in @nyc.streetsblog.org:
Today in @nyc.streetsblog.org:
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Our govt has disappeared a 82-year-old--decades after he fled torture from Pinochet's regime.
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
July 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our govt has disappeared a 82-year-old--decades after he fled torture from Pinochet's regime.
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
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Since February, Trump has denied six of the 10 major-disaster requests he has received from Democratic governors. He has approved 14 of 15 requests he has received from Republican governors during that same period.
stateline.org/2025/07/15/f...
stateline.org/2025/07/15/f...
Federal disaster aid is uncertain for states even as Texas floods underscore need • Stateline
With hurricane and wildfire season well underway across much of the country, state and local emergency managers say they have little idea how much support the federal government will provide if disast...
stateline.org
July 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Since February, Trump has denied six of the 10 major-disaster requests he has received from Democratic governors. He has approved 14 of 15 requests he has received from Republican governors during that same period.
stateline.org/2025/07/15/f...
stateline.org/2025/07/15/f...
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“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
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As Republicans pass a bill full of extremely unpopular provisions aimed at further enriching the obscenely wealthy, remember that over half of their campaign funds in 2024 came from just 100 mega-donors who absolutely love this bill. That's not a coincidence.
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
As Republicans pass a bill full of extremely unpopular provisions aimed at further enriching the obscenely wealthy, remember that over half of their campaign funds in 2024 came from just 100 mega-donors who absolutely love this bill. That's not a coincidence.
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Press release and big announcement about the new concentration camp in Florida.
My friend, out of curiosity, looked up if there were a press release upon the opening of Dachau. Turns out there was.
My friend, out of curiosity, looked up if there were a press release upon the opening of Dachau. Turns out there was.
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Press release and big announcement about the new concentration camp in Florida.
My friend, out of curiosity, looked up if there were a press release upon the opening of Dachau. Turns out there was.
My friend, out of curiosity, looked up if there were a press release upon the opening of Dachau. Turns out there was.
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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
June 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
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Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
June 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
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District court checks executive power to deport without due process
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Executive defies court orders and deports people in secret flights
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SCOTUS reverses lower courts and blesses defiance
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Executive learns it can defy court orders
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Executive sues entire court for daring to issue such orders
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Executive defies court orders and deports people in secret flights
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SCOTUS reverses lower courts and blesses defiance
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Executive learns it can defy court orders
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Executive sues entire court for daring to issue such orders
JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
District court checks executive power to deport without due process
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Executive defies court orders and deports people in secret flights
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SCOTUS reverses lower courts and blesses defiance
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Executive learns it can defy court orders
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Executive sues entire court for daring to issue such orders
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Executive defies court orders and deports people in secret flights
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SCOTUS reverses lower courts and blesses defiance
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Executive learns it can defy court orders
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Executive sues entire court for daring to issue such orders
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"Trump portrays Democratic-led states and cities as un-American, aiming to normalize treating them like the enemy" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My comments:
My comments:
June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Trump portrays Democratic-led states and cities as un-American, aiming to normalize treating them like the enemy" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My comments:
My comments:
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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Pro-gun PACs respond to school shootings by massively increasing their contributions to candidates in districts with these tragedies.
www.nber.org/papers/w33900
www.nber.org/papers/w33900
June 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Pro-gun PACs respond to school shootings by massively increasing their contributions to candidates in districts with these tragedies.
www.nber.org/papers/w33900
www.nber.org/papers/w33900