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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/04/2025

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/04/2025

1/ Trump has gutted the Admin. for Community Living (ACL), a lifeline for 2,500+ orgs. Its grants supported local Independent Living Centers, dev. disabilities councils, respite care & more—helping people with disabilities & older adults live independently. www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/04/03/h...

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HHS Layoffs Likely To Have Ripple Effect On Disability Programs Nationwide

Mass firings at a federal agency supporting community living efforts for people with disabilities are fueling concerns that funding will be disrupted and programs could be forced to close.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Most Accurate Headline of the Day 🏆 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I wrote this essay about Noem nearly a year ago. The week, the now “Secretary of Homeland Security”, made a video in front of what looked like a concentration camp, in which she wore a $60K watch and used imprisoned human beings as props. This was the goal. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

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Puppy killing to court the mob.

MAGA & the glorification of gratuitous violence.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"The report found that more civilians were killed in the first week of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign than were killed in the 12 months of US- UK strikes on Yemen that were conducted under the Biden administration from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025." The Signal chat was bad. This is worse:

news.antiwar.com

US Killed 25 Civilians in First Week of Renewed Bombing Campaign in Yemen - News From Antiwar.com

US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 25 civilians and wounded 28 others in just the first week of the Trump administration's renewed bombing campaign against the Houthis, according to the Yemen Data...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The only way someone can be added to a Signal chat is if the person who started the text group--the admin--directly adds them or directly approves their request to be added. There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group. Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Michaelah Montgomery, who Trump claimed was a random Chick-fil-A customer, admitted that Trump’s visit to the Atlanta Chick-fil-A “was planned” and that she was told by a MAGA political group that she “needed to be at” the Chick-fil-A ahead of time to “meet Trump.”

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene ditched her district last week, amid severe weather and constituents demanding answers, for tropical Costa Rica. That’s why she looks like Trump right now.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

FYI: You might know me as any number of things, but one of the things I am is a YouTuber who has been running a yearly charity event since 2007. That’s going to become apparent on my bsky feed over the next four or five days. You can learn more about it at projectforawesome.com.

projectforawesome.com

Project For Awesome 2025

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Roger Goodell, on the NFL’s DEI policies moving forward: “We’re not in this because it’s a trend. It’s about attracting the best talents.” “I think we’ll continue those efforts.”

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

muskwatch.com

Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees

The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Every single report on the Trump funding freeze — every report on Medicare portal, Head Start, homeless veterans programs — needs to mention immediately WHY. The freeze is in order to complete an ideological purge of so-called “woke” programming. This is IMPORTANT, y’all.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Rampell on Trump coin: If you're the Saudi government, you no longer need to pretend to stay at a Trump hotel in order to give money to Donald Trump.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/01/2025

JUST IN: The U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%, and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Now they're going after VPNs. *Pay attention* to what's happening in places like Turkey, India, Russia and China — and how tech companies are complying, or not, with state surveillance. As we've seen in the past month, they'll do the same when prompted here.

Headline from PCMag:

Apple, Google Pull 6 VPN Apps From App Stores in India

Subhed
Indian law now requires VPN apps to maintain customers’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and transaction histories for five years.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Someone remind Joe Biden that he has full immunity for official acts, like pardoning anyone he feels like pardoning, telling the IRS to release all of Trump's tax returns, and telling the DOJ to release Jack Smith's report and any non-classified evidence from Donald's many cases.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is great. hacker News is an under appreciated source of news. Do more of these PLEASE !

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/01/2025

NEW: The Greenland man Trump has made the face of his movement to take over the territory is a convicted drug dealer, violent criminal, and serial offender, according to Danish media outlets DR News and B.T.

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Trump Promotes Convicted Drug Trafficker as Face of Greenland Deal

Danish press reports Timmy Zeeb served prison time for drug smuggling and violent crimes

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

✔️ Money to the Trump inaugural ✔️ Dinner at Mar-a-Lago ✔️ Getting rid of fact-checking ✔️ Putting UFC's Dana White (a key Trump ally) on Meta's board Hard not to see these moves as an effort to avoid being politically targeted by an illiberal president.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2025

CNN: Well, the way Trump pitches it is that when it comes to Greenland for example, it's for national security purposes. Is there any credence to that statement? REP. JIM HIMES: No. It's bananas. It's insane.

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