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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 15/04/2025

The Supreme Court was clear: the Trump administration must act to facilitate the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to the United States. There is no room for debate — yet Trump is refusing, in defiance of a lawful court order.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

April 14, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Josh Gruenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Sean R. Keveney
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Thomas E. Wheeler
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Education
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11,
2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the
Harvard Corporation.
Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community.
Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s
values but also threaten its academic mission.
To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural,
policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive
learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across
its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free
from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source.
Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic
measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures;
imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs
designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to
support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat
hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different
place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university
will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to
strength…

recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory
rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has
not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less
objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard
accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research
and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in
making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for
the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and
independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of
their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional
rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the
federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement
in principle.
Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to
do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to
agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.
William A. Burck Robert K. Hur
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador

Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Quietly shrugging off a military purge: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly Kim Reed Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moreno (R-OH)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Reed (D-RI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The people who architected the financial and constitutional collapse of this country, for no reason than to torture immigrants on camera for likes and shares, should pay the penalty for their treason

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

MTG dabbling in insider trading now too

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Don’t let go of the evidence of insider trading, Dems. Push and push and push. Get real answers or implicate the whole GOP by their refusal to provide them.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/04/2025

the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

All but three House Republicans just voted for Trump's tariffs. The procedural measure, which preemptively surrenders congressional power to stop Trump's tariffs, passed with all Democrats voting no. This was the vote count:

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Wonder Showzen knew what was coming

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people. Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.

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Mr. B @itberns.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Yeah, this is called extortion.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Raskin: He destroyed more than $10 trillion in American wealth in a single week. And then he went golfing and bragged to America about winning the tournament at his own golf course. That's like bragging about being endorsed by your own campaign manager. So much winning

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Every one of these guys tries to act so tough but they all seem like they'd burst into tears at the sound of a slammed door.

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Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

By a vote of 51-45, the #Senate confirmed Elbridge Colby to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Dem Senators voting in favor - Kelly, Reed, and Slotkin GOP Senator McConnell voted against Senator McCormick did not vote

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It looks like they are really doing this. Wow this is nuts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025

“anything we can actually do, we can afford” stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

In 100 years we are going to get a definite explanation for how the dawn of The Information Age resulted in the dumbest people imaginable running the country

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 07/04/2025

It seems a little insane that we're actually discussing whether or not a president can have you disappeared into a foreign prison camp where you will have no legal recourse.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Someone got called into the principals office

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan nominee to the 4th Circuit who for years has been one of the most reliable feeders of clerks to SCOTUS conservatives, calls out the absolute craziness of what the Trump administration wants here.

And the government rightfully concedes that it was an “error” and a “mistake” to ignore this process. Mot. for Stay at 16-17. And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

BREAKING: The 4th Circuit has *denied* the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight tonight. Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This morning: Longest line I have ever seen at Costco. Seriously. Tariff runs?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Then you must’ve only worked with the dumbest people alive, ma’am

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

people responding negatively to the mass protests aren’t upset that it’s ineffective resistance. they’re upset at the realization that effective resistance doesn’t require them or their ideological commitments.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2025

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think certain professionally online people are freaked out by the realization that they would wield marginal influence in any genuine popular front, and so they’d rather attempt to sabotage the formation of that front. I don’t rate their odds of success highly though.

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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 06/04/2025

This is the Asst. Sec of Homeland Security commenting on a peaceful demonstration in Washington D.C.

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
Follow
Low hanging fruit.
Andrew Leyden • @PenguinSix • 7h
A large Gaza protest is gathered by the Capitol and will march to ICE headquarters shortly.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

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