9/ “This affordability crisis is feeding something deeper than broken household economics: disillusionment, division, and despair. And that’s exactly what authoritarian movements thrive on…," said @harishipatel.bsky.social

Very excited to moderate this conversation with such inspiring leaders that do work deep in communities while also holding a national vision for these times. If you are going to @netrootsnation.bsky.social this week, please join us on Thursday at 1 PM for this conversation!

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

“El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all the hallmarks of a concentration camp”

Back in January, I reported on DOGE entering an agency system, exporting the data, OPM server info left open to the public, and someone signing in from a foreign country using a DOGE account. Almost identical to what the Whistleblower reported to NPR this week www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement. ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion. Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Horrifying

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

NEW: The Supreme Court is creating a due process gap through the redistribution of rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-suprem...

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so. This is a constitutional crisis. How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

@gregcasar.bsky.social: "Elon Musk gets $8 million a day in federal government contracts and subsidies. $65 a day is how much your average senior gets on Social Security just to barely survive on after working their entire life."

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

👋 Jared Golden, ME 👋 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA 👋 Henry Cuellar, TX 👋 Ed Case, HI 🤔 See the problem?

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Exactly

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

More pain, no gain

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

Seriously, who voted for this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65n...

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

By more than double -- 46-22% -- independents think Trump is slapping on tariffs to get leverage over companies who will then have to plead with him for relief and show loyalty

Very excited about what's happening in Cook county! Check out one of the stories in the link below:

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

The NYC mayoral race is one of the most exciting, policy-driven elections in the country right now. As a lifelong policy nerd, I’m fired up watching bold, people-first ideas shape the race and proud that many come from the work we’ve been doing at @economicsecurityproject.org with our allies in NY!

This is the extremely scary part

NATE SILVER: “We’ve had three entirely post-Liberation Day polls. None of them are good for Donald Trump.” @natesilver5380.bsky.social www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...

What’s even keeping Trump at a 43% approval rating? At this point, it’s the right-wing media that’s doing the heavy lifting.

I know it’s cliche to say “if Democrats did this” - but truly the reason Dems are so mad, at the GOP & at some members of the press (not all), it’s bc the simple truth is that if a Dem president single-handedly drove the US into a recession in his first 100 days they wouldn’t survive in office.

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

The Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

This is a straight up war crime, captured on video. Israel murdered 15 international aid workers consciously, deliberately, and covered it up. Astonishingly, outrageously, the Trump administration, all Republicans, and most Democrats will do absolutely nothing in response.

absolutely insanity on Fox Business. this would be a bit much even in Pyongyang.

When human rights advocates in El Salvador say Trump likes their prison system because it’s a “judicial black hole,” this is what they mean. The Trump admin has partnered with Bukele to create a new Guantanamo even more removed from American rule of law. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

TRUMP TAKE VIDEO GAME No fun in Trumpland: Video games, toys, and more take hit by tariffs www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

BERKSHIRE STATEMENT: “There are reports currently circulating on social media (including Twitter, Facebook and Tik Tok) regarding comments allegedly made by Warren E. Buffett. All such reports are false.” @cnbc.com $BRK www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/b...

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

As Trump runs our economy into the ground, Republicans are handing money to billionaires hand over fist, while raising prices—raising taxes—on every American. We could stop Trump’s tariffs today—instead, Republicans are cheering Trump as he drives us toward a painful recession.

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — A federal judge orders the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.

Smart to pay attention to this coming from a senator.

10/ And once Trump has the lawyers, colleges and industry under his thumb, it becomes very hard for the opposition to have any viable space to maneuver. Trump didn’t invent this strategy. It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.

Thank you @durbin.senate.gov for your bold leadership on this issue.