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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets" For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

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U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes

The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Layoff announcements surged to their third-highest level on record in March, driven largely by Elon Musk (DOGE). U.S. employers announced over 275,000 job cuts last month—a figure not seen since the height of the pandemic.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ronan Farrow doing some remedial tutoring for JD Vance.

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JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords.

Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.

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Kyle Cheney, a "legal affairs reporter" is apparently unable or unwilling to look at the facts here.

In 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the first Trump administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang. He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner.

It is telling that the entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation today making you think an innocent "father of 3" was apprehended by a gulag. Here are the relevant facts:

1) The man is an illegal immigrant with no right to be in our country.

2) An immigration judge determined he was a member of the MS-13 gang.

3) Because he is not a citizen, he does not get a full jury trial by peers. In other words, whatever "due process" he was entitled to, he received.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This isn’t legal, Elon. Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

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The opposite of fascism

Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

When you removed populations from the category of human rights, are you removing them from the category of human?

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❌ 👑 @r-leveque.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

MAHA is eugenics. Fascists promoting eugenics. Full stop. They are coming for the most vulnerable first, but guaranteed they won't stop there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfYH...

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Call it what it is: MAHA is Eugenics

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Veterans are 6% of the adult population but 30% of the federal workforce (they get preference in hiring). Which means Trump and Musk are already firing thousands of people who put their lives at risk for their country, many with disabilities they acquired in their service.

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Martha near Seattle, 8647 @marthawt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

While both Trump and Vance yelled at him. Un-effing-believable that #ThisIsAmerica now.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Excellent context here on the relationship between misinformation and support for Trump & Co. (not necessarily applicable to this case. bsky.app/profile/karl...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Great advice from Dan Froomkin. Share it with your family and friends.

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