An 85-year-old Frenchwoman who spent 16 days in American immigration detention returned to France on Friday. Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign affairs minister, announced the return of the woman, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, (cont.) 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

The DOJ initially filed the lawsuit as part of its effort to continue Trump’s immigration crackdown and weaponize voter registration information in deep-blue states. But now Rhode Island has become the fifth state—along with California, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Orgeon—to reject Trump’s meddling.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week instructed leaders to terminate most of the department’s collective bargaining agreements, more than a year after Trump signed an executive order banning federal employee unions from many agencies on national security grounds. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Pope Leo XIV: "I will continue to speak out loudly against war…Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there's a better way." Pope Leo dismisses Trump criticism on Iran war -NPR

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As do I

Remember when those of us that said he was going to create concentration camps were called alarmist, and still are?

🇱🇧A Lebanese citizen rips down the Israeli flag after an Israeli force planted it on Shaqif Castle, along with a solar-powered surveillance camera.👏👏👏👏😎

Barack Obama has urged voters in Virginia to support plans to allow the state to redraw its congressional map ahead of the midterms. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/barack-obama...

Yet another Justice who is willing to roll the dice. I honestly think it's a (bipartisan) occupational hazard Justice Breyer was the rare recent exception www.foxnews.com/politics/ali...

MAR LARD DO DO MAGA MONSTERS ...

Minnesota Prosecutors Slap ICE Agent With Two Felony Assault Charges www.commondreams.org/news/ice-off...

❝ More than 38,000 Palestinian women & girls were killed in Gaza between Oct 2023 and Dec 2025 ❞ — UN Women

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

Not AI. This is a real tweet from a Republican congressman from Wisconsin. The cruelty is the point.

Japanese anti-war group starts new campaign at Shinjuku Station, Tokyo. ”We want world peace! Fuck Trump!"

Who could’ve predicted this would happen?

I Completely Support This Petition….

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There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

YAY ! Can We Vote On This ?.......

Quite frankly anyone travelling to the US voluntarily gets no sympathy from me. They know what they are getting into. news.sky.com/story/englan...

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States. Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay. Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

Following the successful #Artemis II launch on April 1, the 380-foot mobile launcher has returned to the VAB. Ground teams are now conducting the inspections and repairs necessary to prep for the Artemis III mission. 🚀

A senior Iranian official says vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will still be required to pay tolls to the IRGC

“When federal actions are taken without coordination or in ways that erode public trust, it makes our jobs harder and our communities less safe. That is why we are speaking out.” Individual states are acting. This is the way. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an"Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

Stay safe out in the midwest!! There’s tornadoes and really bad storms popping everywhere. These guys are great, they are on it with live streams from several chasers. www.youtube.com/live/ZF-dKyE...

🇺🇸🇨🇺 US braces for possible strike on Cuba: Report Pentagon is ramping up preparations to wage war on Cuba, and is awaiting an order from President Donald Trump to attack, USA Today reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.

This is like hitting Bingo on a ten-card spread.

Both the best thing and the worst thing would be for the World Cup to be played in front of mostly empty stadiums. It is sad to say but this tournament deserves to be a massive commercial failure.

"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ag... This is a great first step. It should be replicated every time an ICE officer commits a crime, which is something they do every day.

I put out a montage of him a while ago sniffling in nearly every podcast interview he did for two years, but maybe that wasn’t the only thing he had going on.

Oh FFS……. And THIS is an example of how the Dems are gonna make huge necessary changes after the election? I despair America. It seems like you have nowhere to turn, no hope. Dems are, in their own way, are complicit You’re in trouble America!! .

Netflix apparently has every movie, except for the ones I want to watch.

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

This cybertruck is dead and everyone has to go around it. lol

Mike Johnson should spend an eternity rotting in jail.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain access to Rhode Island's unreacted voter file. In these cases nationally, my law firm is now 5-0 and DOJ is 0-5. Not sure how Harmeet is going to explain this to her "boss." www.democracydocket.com/cases/rhode-...

The most disgusting thing about repugnantans is the fact that they are voting in Congress to fully fund an illegal war with no oversight. These people should not be leading this democracy.

Because REPUBLICANS. THEY HATE WOMEN.

Yes! He's set up a website for people to report it! He knows there's lots of honest people working at their jobs being asked to do corrupt things from the top. Even in media.

The old regime attempting to cover up its crimes is not to be unexpected

Anyone caught destroying documents should be delivered maximum sentencing for treason. Should dissuade future bad actors. Honestly, do the same here in America