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atrupar.com
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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atrupar.com
Suozzi: "It just doesn't make sense that you're reducing taxes for some of the wealthiest people, hurting some of the lowest income people, while blowing the biggest deficit in the budget that we've had in the history of the country. Those things just don't add up."
July 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.
May 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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npr.org
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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atrupar.com
Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."
May 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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newyorker.com
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
nyer.cm
April 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
"It's inconvenient to give everyone due process, so we won't do it for certain people" is a sentence that's never been said by someone who believed in a free country.
April 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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atrupar.com
Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."
April 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is really really scary and bad

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
April 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
“Kimmel rolled a super cut of Hegseth using the word ‘leakers’ repeatedly, ending with him saying, ‘I don’t have time for leakers.’

“‘You don’t have time for leakers?’ Kimmel repeated in disbelief. ‘You are the leaker!’”
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
If the USA selected the President and all Cabinet members by picking names of random US citizens out of a hat, the country would be better run than it is at present.
rshereme.bsky.social Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · Apr 19
A complete meltdown: The Pentagon is in “chaos” as Hegseth loses four staffers in a single day.

Who could have predicted that appointing an unqualified TV host with no relevant experience and a history of drinking problems to lead the Department of Defense would end in disaster?
April 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Please don’t underestimate how much FUN Donald Trump, Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele, Stephen Miller and Pam Bondi had today pissing on the grave of Abrego Garcia—a permanent legal resident of America with no record, a US-citizen wife, and 3 US-citizen kids.

This is their JAM.
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Pam Bondi is helping Trump defy the courts and become a dictator. If the Bezos Washington Post wasn't under Trump's thumb, it would apologize for endorsing Bondi as AG.
The Post gave a thumbs-up to Bondi, saying she was "qualified" and that "lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious."
April 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
This is *extremely* alarming — White House fires a career federal prosecutor because he (1) went after a politically connected businessman and (2) criticized Trump during a 2020 congressional bid.

“White House fires a career prosecutor” is itself unprecedented.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DON The Department of Justice in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) By Brittny Mejia, James Queally, Matt Hamilton and Matthew Ormseth March 29, 2025 6:24 PM PT A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Adam Schleifer was terminated Friday morning, receiving an email informing him that the dismissal was "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump," according to two of the sources, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from federal officials. Joseph T. McNally, the acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California who is Schleifer's boss, was not involved in the decision, the sources said. Though U.S. attorneys are political appointees who often ally with the agenda of the current presidential administration, line prosecutors like Schleifer are normally considered career employees. But since taking office, the Trump administration has made a point to drive those seen as political enemies from all levels of the federal government. "This is the most overtly political firing I've seen in my time at the Department of Justice," said Palmer, the former federal prosecutor. "I could absolutely see it having kind of a chilling effect. I also think current prosecutors are concerned about the ability to have free speech. An AUSA [assistant U.S. attorney] who I spoke to said they are concerned that the only people who will be allowed to stay are Republicans or very quiet Democrats." "The message from Adam's case is that if you're going to indict some run-of-the-mill CEO of a company, you need to check if he's a Trump supporter first," the former prosecutor said. "It's going to cause line prosecutors to be considerably more careful about pursuing anyone who has even tenuous connections to the president, which is not good for the DOJ."
March 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
America. Where women can die from a miscarriage and kids can die from measles.
March 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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isaiahrmartin.bsky.social
Every terrorist on earth
March 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Celebrating hurting people because that’s the brand
March 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Democrats continue winning recent special elections, this time flipping a PA State Senate district that Trump won by 15 points against a candidate backed by Elon Musk. meidasnews.com/news/democra...
Democrats Secure Major Election Victory In Pennsylvania
They have taken control of the House.
meidasnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
(🧵) THREAD from a Trump and Musk biographer.

More than any men in America, Trump and Musk target for retribution anyone who crosses them.

And more than anyone, these two complain about media using anonymous sources to report on them.

It’s worth taking a moment and sit with those two statements.
March 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
March 21, 2025
March 21, 2025
These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM