"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel.... "The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally." It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments. Gift link ⬇️ www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wait a sec. Last year NYC had 171 firearms deaths on a population of 8.3 million. Louisiana had 1,266 deaths on a pop of 4.6 million, which is on the order of 12 times as many. You are twelve times as likely to be killed by a bullet in Louisiana than in NYC.
We are borrowing HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS from Japan to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Apologies, the previous chart was incorrect. I missed that SCOTUS granted emergency relief in Murthy v. Missouri after the appellate court's stay. I also missed FDA v. Alliance. The updated rate of lifted injunctions for the Biden admin is 10% (2 of 21), not 0%.
I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what? To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Trump made every attempt to justify a war with Iran by somehow conflating the Declaration of Independence with the Civil War - two events that occurred one hundred years apart. Donald Trump is not mentally fit.
Berkeley's strategy for closing RV encampments on Second Street could become a model for other California cities.
It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
Carlos should be spending #Father’sDay with his family. Instead, he has been disappeared to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, with no way for his partner or daughter to contact him. We demand the immediate release of all those disappeared to CECOT. We must #BringThemBack.
A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.
I hate that we need to be reminding people that they don't have to follow orders to abuse (or murder) civilians, but, we do.
I have been, and will continue to post this often. Your Guard, Reserve and active duty family, friends, neighbors and coworkers are going to need it. Please share far, wide and often!
Oh you don’t say economist.com/leaders/2025...
Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked a Democratic resolution that would have condemned the proposed gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to Trump.
🔥 @repstansbury.bsky.social : “These guys (Republicans) are proposing to give $7 TRILLION in tax breaks to billionaires, millionaires, and their corporate donors by taking away food from children.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJm-oY9...
I think we need to get better at whatabout statements. Whatabout statements are important; they mark right wing hypocrisy. But what if we build in more? If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said, "Donald Trump admits he's not able to exercise self-control Obama did," it'd ring differently.
Trump's Transportation Secretary after saying that Newark Airport was safe to fly from: "My wife was flying out of Newark tomorrow. I switched her flight to LaGuardia"
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
So, if I’m reading this right: They gutted the office that runs the government’s award-winning, in-house HR and staffing software, and now they’ve inked a sole-source, no-bid contract so that a private company on proprietary software can do what the office of civil servants did on in-house software
Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised. A gift from the content gods.
NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
Stunning poll findings: Marist now has Trump at only 46% approval *among rural voters,* who voted for him by overwhelming margins in 2024. And CNN finds more that 40% of those who *approve of Trump* expect a recession next year. As we discuss here, it's premature to say his base will never crack:
This kind of journalism has never been more important. It needs shared widely.👏 60 Minutes cataloguing the state-sponsored extortion of the legal system under Trump. Virtually no-one would go on camera such is the climate of fear. Government by The Mob, exposed.
I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people
El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.
This is completely false—as a matter of constitutional text, history, case law, and ordinary common sense. Miller is out to destroy our republic.
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm. These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.
Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him? Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens. This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬 Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
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Hang this around the Republicans’ necks for the rest of their lives
If Biden was asked a question about Harvard and went on a long rant about Harlem, it would be front page news and Republicans would be drawing up articles of impeachment. Trump is suffering severe mental decline and it’s about time it gets the attention it deserves.
About a month ago, Tesla board members reached out to executive search firms to formally find a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, per WSJ They also told him to spend more time at the company & he said he would. unclear if the succession planning is ongoing or not 👀 www.wsj.com/business/aut...?
Oh my God.
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.
Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.
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100%!!
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100%!!
Today Trump ordered DOJ to investigate ActBlue, which is payment processing platform for basically every progressive organization in the US. Trump is ordering DOJ to disrupt the opposition party Yesterday Trump personally got $10s of millions in cash from untraceable foreigners in new crypto scheme
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
Now, Trump’s FEMA has denied critical funding extensions for Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina and Georgia, leaving these states—both hit hard by 2024’s storms—facing massive costs. Arkansas was also denied a major disaster declaration for recent tornadoes.
Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it
NEW: Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on a computer in his office www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Yes!!! @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
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...
Really great to see someone say what needs to be said over and over: lots of those executive orders are bullshit grabs for powers the president doesn't have--unless we give it to him, and that starts through misinformation.
It is not actually in the President's power to unilaterally rescind or modify regulations that were enacted through notice-and-comment. Maybe FedSoc judges invent a reason for it, but it's not what precedent or the Administrative Procedures Act says. See, e.g., www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...
"He's Pure Evil" futurism.com/tesla-engine...
Today’s “One First” takes a (very) deep dive into Justice Alito’s Saturday night dissent in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemy Act case—and how it attempts to invent a series of procedural objections to the majority’s intervention that … simply don’t exist: www.stevevladeck.com/p/145-justic...
If you do speak at the Senate Housing Committee tomorrow, statements should primarily focus on how California is likely to shut Democrats out of the presidency for a decade absent major housing reforms.
Reminder that Joni Ernst, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending she wouldn't Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year
Good time to follow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
... plus three of the nation's biggest law firms and the special counsel who investigated President Biden.
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
as we've seen by now, they start with immigrants won't be stretch for them to building master databases for surveillance of lgbtq people, young women, progressives, targeted religions etc that might have sounded conspiratorial a couple months ago...but here we are
Worth being aware, if you aren't already, of the 100-mile border zone loophole that allows that federal government to stop and interrogate anyone, without probable cause. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Holy shit this is bad. Like, really bad.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social, this is repugnant. As a Californian and long time Democrat, you have lost my vote for any future office you wish to hold.
Most revealing thing abt the trade front. EU trade chief left Monday's meeting in DC not just without making any progress. He couldn't get a clear idea of what the US even wanted. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
one young person told me: “I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives, it was a big step. And they just ripped it out from under us without even a 2-week’s notice.”
it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).
Defiance is growing, becoming more ambitious. Courage is contagious. Keep working hard everyone. We are getting stronger and Trump weaker. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
I’ve always believed America First was a Russian import.
A strong majority of US voters and 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 believe immigrants with green cards & visas have the right to: - be informed of the charges against them 81% - the right to a fair trial 77% - the right to present a defense 75% - the right to appeal a court decision 69%
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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#BillionaireTaxBailout
The House Resolution leaves families with low to middle income worse off, while the rich get richer. Why don’t our representatives work for ALL of us instead of just the rich?
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I presume you are going to El Salvador then? You voted for Rubio, an absolute monster. You now have to help clean up the mess.
If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Let’s go!!!
Raskin: The basis for this most destructive trade war in the history of the world is the profound economic research and policy writings of one Ron Vera, a completely fictional economist conjured up by Peter Navarro, a real person who Elon Musk just called a moron
Remember SignalGate? (One of Trump's superpowers is being involved in so many scandals all the time that very few of them end up having staying power beyond a news cycle or two.)
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a letter shared with members, has requested a one-on-one debate on the House floor with Speaker Mike Johnson on the budget.
This, this, this. More work like this. For higher ed, for journalism, for entertainment, every area. Documentation.
With Yoon removed from office today, by my count that makes 34 democratic leaders convicted since 2010. Only one—Trump—faced no real consequences. Trump's actions weren't uncommon. What was exceptional was how our institutions failed to hold him accountable.
Ag groups on the tariffs "it is a shit show" agfundernews.com/food-ag-grou...
After crashing the stock market, Trump is now in FL for the rest of the week hosting the Saudi-owned LIV golf league at his course.
It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.
2000 members of National Academies warn that this administration is hurting the country. “We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Another large law firm capitulates. Absolutely shameful. These firms are helping Trump destroy the rule of law and democracy. If Willkie Farr & Gallagher won't defend itself, why on earth would any client trust it to defend the client?
Need the NPC brain chip meme but modded for MAGAland
Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles. Two doses of the MMR vaccine are 97% effective against measles. If you're wondering if you should get (re)vaccinated against measles, here is a helpful chart. 9/11
This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.
Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
As we all suspected: "Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations."