Virginia Scharff
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Hmm. Who leaked? Both Rubio and Vance? Vance missed the first meeting but he sure sounds like the voice of reason in this reporting.
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More school board victories. People care about their kidsā education.
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Excellent news
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Santiago Mayer
about 5 hours ago
Shawn Harris shifted GA-14 left by 25pts. Thatās the largest Congressional special election overperformance in at least a decade. Dalton, a majority Hispanic county in the district, shifted left by 33pts. Republicans wonāt know what hit them in November.
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James Fallows
about 12 hours ago
The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.
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Please note that Trumpās big demand is to restore the status he disrupted by starting his insane and unconscionable war.
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Alas.
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So the Israelis plan to keep killing people in Lebanon.
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Max Berger
about 10 hours ago
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
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400 Out The Door
about 20 hours ago
Yet another very important and informative read from General Hertling U. S. Army retired.
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Philip Gourevitch
about 10 hours ago
apocalypse averted - this is the moment for republicans to make sure he can never threaten again, not a minute to lose, remove him now
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
about 13 hours ago
It's not over. Not even close.
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Acyn
about 16 hours ago
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.
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Aaron Rupar
about 18 hours ago
KHANNA: We needed a diplomatic solution REBECCA QUICK: But we know Iran wasn't telling us the truth. They've been lying and that makes people not trust diplomacy KHANNA: Yes, but it was ripped up by Donald Trump in 2018. The reality is Obama had gotten rid of 97% of their enriched uranium
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Greg Sargent
about 14 hours ago
Now Ron Wyden:
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Brian Finucane
about 18 hours ago
Multiple things may be true: 1) Trump's threats are monstrous and should be denounced. 2) He appears desperate and is using these threats to try to coerce Tehran to reach a deal. 3) The danger of further US escalationāwith the risks to Iranians and probability of counter-escalationāis real
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Senator Andy Kim
about 17 hours ago
Congress must convene immediately to condemn Trumpās horrific threats against tens of millions of people and stop this unconstitutional war. We must prevent Trump from unleashing the catastrophic and illegal violence he is touting.
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James R (Randy) Fromm
about 17 hours ago
@heinrich.senate.gov
@lujan.senate.gov
@repgabevasquez.bsky.social
@repstansbury.bsky.social
@fernandez.house.gov
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Gillian Brockell
1 day ago
As expected, this Omni ICE flight has now landed in India ā the seventh deportation to India Iāve tracked this year. Migrant passengers onboard were shackled for at least 25 hours.
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Utter idiocy
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Thread
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Derek May
about 18 hours ago
Give Jared a Call
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How soon do we all take to the streets? Iām ready.
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Do it
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Hague time.
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Timothy Snyder
about 19 hours ago
āA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.ā -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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Plain speaking.
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Do it now
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 20 hours ago
Speaker Mike Johnson said he hadn't seen that particular nuclear strike from the president, so he wouldn't feel comfortable commenting on it.
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Sickening. The VP is an outspoken fascist.
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Another idiotic idea. Somebody needs to keep track.
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Acyn
1 day ago
Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.
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Steve Mullis
1 day ago
Flip this around. "American researcher in China dies after 'hostile questioning' by government authorities" How would the U.S. react?
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Kyle Griffin
1 day ago
Newly obtained video footage that shows an immigration officer shooting and injuring Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-CelisĀ contradicts the officer's claims that he was brutally beaten with a shovel, showing no evidence of its presence.
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Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-video.html
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Ron Filipkowski
1 day ago
This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.
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therealdwoo.bsky.social š£š»āāļøš”
1 day ago
Threats of war crimes
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PBS News
1 day ago
"To have your child abused while in the government's care, to not understand what has happened or how to protect them, to not even be told about the abuse, it is unimaginable," said an attorney representing the girl.
https://to.pbs.org/3PV4hr9
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3-year-old suffered sexual abuse during months in immigration custody, family alleges
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody.
https://to.pbs.org/3PV4hr9
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FactPost
1 day ago
The Trump administration is shutting down 74% of all Forest Service research facilities. These facilities study wildfires, droughts, and environmental changes.
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Joyce White Vance
2 days ago
This is not who we should beābut ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe heās taking criminal aliens off the streets. Itās a lie
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
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ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.QgQp.9B1MKZ6p5aVn&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Holly Brewer
3 days ago
Censorship
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David Nir
3 days ago
"Finally, what really stands out about Trumpās trajectory is not just how low his approval is. Itās that it basically never bounces, either. Over 14 months, there hasnāt been a single sustained recovery in his overall approval rating." From
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The six big events that have dragged down Donald Trump's approval rating
At -21.4, the president's net rating has sunk to Watergate and Katrina levels ā and one issue is driving most of the decline
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-03-cotw-trump-approval-changepoints-analysis
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Natascha Dea Burdeinei šŗš¦
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Fucking Abolish ICE, release everyone in custody. DHS is over. This nation and the world will never be able to trust DHS again. (Hello to my ICE surveillance team šš»and how the fuck do you sleep at night?)
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ProPublica
2 days ago
The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trumpās second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. š Full story:
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In a car from LAX to Hollywood listening to Cobain insist he doesnāt have a gun.
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Tisza will win.
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emptywheel
3 days ago
From the NYT profile of LaMonica McIver, which I missed on Friday when it came out. I feel like McIver ALWAYS gets forgotten when people discuss politicized prosecutions.
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Josh Marshall
3 days ago
MBS is telling Trump he can't stop now. He has to finish the Iranian regime off.
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Peter Baker
3 days ago
After Trump took office last year, the US Holocaust Museum quietly removed educational material about American racism from its website and canceled a workshop on the "fragility of democracy,"
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āProactively fall in line:ā Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office
Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/05/trump-holocaust-museum-00859274
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