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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It’s time to “stop arguing about when the crisis begins and start marshaling the will to end it.” @jenrubin.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...

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Lantern Service

The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea”…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I have wondered this myself. It would certainly explain the stubborn refusal of both governments to even provide any information about him.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

WTAF?? Watch the entire video. This was a warrantless state-sponsored kidnapping without cause and without a warrant or even a semblance of due process.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego García, a lawful U.S. resident, was detained by ICE—then deported to El Salvador. Despite the Trump administration’s admission of error, little is being done to secure his return to the States. As Brian O’Neill explains, the authority to bring him home exists. The refusal is political.

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'Out of our hands': The most dangerous lie in Trump’s deportation doctrine

The stalling—thinly disguised as deliberation—only reinforces the truth. The refusal is political.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If what Trump said in the Oval Office today doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“Homegrowns” = US citizens. CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like. This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets? It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. No basis? Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash. apnews.com/live/donald-...

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Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US

President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE🚨 Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis. @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:

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April 13, 2025

This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🧵 IT IS HAPPENING HERE. The removal of Jews and other “undesirables” from German-occupied countries in the 1930s started slowly and gradually before the Nazis built a military-industrial machine to efficiently accomplish the task at scale. (Thread 1/5)

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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Stocks are soaring because it's always great when someone just stops hitting you with a hammer. But when they stop, the next step is to take the hammer out of their hands. Congress needs to take back its tariff authority. And we need to keep saying it until it happens, in this Congress or the next.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“Trump’s claims that Putin wants peace were belied when Russia launched massive strikes at Ukraine as soon as Trump stopped sharing intelligence with Ukrainian forces that enabled them to shoot down incoming fire.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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March 8, 2025

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The United States is in a new Cold War with Russia. This one is being fought not with nuclear stockpiles, but through information technology. And this time, the President, his administration & Republicans in Congress are actively aiding & abetting the enemy. @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:

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March 2, 2025

On February 28, the same day that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

MAGA: Measles Are Great Again. Yesterday saw the first US measles death in more than a decade, on same day that our Sec of HHS asserts that the spreading measles outbreak in Texas is “not unusual and happens all the time“ (false) & cancels annual conference to formulate this year‘s flu vaccine. 🤦‍♂️

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them. Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.

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Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/02/2025

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025

Murphy: "Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law is unprecedented. What we are all watching right now is Donald Trump throw away the idea that laws apply to everyone equally. And it is astonishing to watch so many of my Republican colleagues fall in line."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The disturbing part of Trump declaring himself THE KING isn't that he did it, it's that his followers want him to be a king. They've completely abandoned the fundamental precepts of democracy in favor of total centralized control by a new American royal, because they both hate the same people.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Posted by the official White House account on X today. (I captured it myself, so unfortunately I can attest that it is real.) Trump has anointed himself king. He’s not even pretending anymore. Every Republican legislator is complicit in the demise of U.S. democracy. x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/02/2025

Donald Trump’s administration has begun indiscriminately culling scores of people who keep air travel safe, despite four deadly plane crashes during his first two months as president.

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Trump Launches Mass Purge of Air Traffic Control Staff

The Trump administration has kicked off a firing spree of air traffic controllers, despite four deadly plane crashes on his watch.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17/02/2025

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“Inspect and maintain” don’t sound critical to air safety, but they are. Every flight you take relies on a continuous flow of precise data from these systems. If they’re not working properly, people will die. It’s that simple.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

On Presidents Day, here's a World War I poster with a prescient message:

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“The arrogance on display is staggering. They think their actions will increase U.S. power, but they are in fact wrecking their own country and, in the process everyone else.” (Mentioned by @hcrichardson.bsky.social in her 2/16/25 ltr, open.substack.com/pub/heatherc.... Recommend reading it.)

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social, question re your story in The Week Ahead on the SAVE Act: even if it passed House, can’t Dems kill it in Senate through filibuster threat, as Rs have done so often? (Doesn’t change fact that it’s repugnant—just trying to gauge severity of the threat.)

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It feels like the early days of 2020 all over again, when COVID-19 first emerged but this time, it’s 2025. The warning signs are unmistakable: rising cases, silent spread, weak surveillance, and a dangerously slow response.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/02/2025

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Because why miss an opportunity for cruelty, right? 🤬

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