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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026
here's is what Rubio looked like on the night he claims he was working hard with the president and definitely not shirking his secretary of state duties (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Getty)
pic of Rubes looking faded with Trump and Dana White
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Meiselas: How would you vote on a $200 billion supplemental for this war in Iran? Cortez Masto: I would vote against it. That $200 billion in taxpayer money could go toward helping taxpayers. With that money, we could fund ACA tax credits for another seven years...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/03/2026
America has paid little attention to the effective use of small drones as deadly tools in the Ukraine war—but a swarm of them over an American military installation with nuclear weapons in Barksdale, Louisiana, ought to change that, Brynn Tannehill argues:
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America Needs to Get Serious About Drones
The new age of war is already here, swarming over Barksdale Air Force Base.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In MEMPHIS — Trump says he told Republicans not to make any deal for TSA funding until he gets his voter suppression bill passed… then in the next breath says Dems are to blame for long airport lines 🤔
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Are ICE agents trained for this? ICE agents increasingly lack the necessary training **to be ICE agents,** and they definitely aren’t trained to work as TSA officials..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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5 unavoidable questions about Trump’s “plan” to deploy ICE agents to airports
My advice for air travelers: Keep showing up extra early at the airport, because ICE agents’ presence probably won’t make a positive difference.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 24/03/2026
President Trump's push for ICE officers to remove masks at airports reignites debate over if and when the federal agents should wear them.
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ICE officers are skipping masks at airports, reigniting debate
President Trump's push for ICE officers to remove masks at airports reignites debate over if and when the federal agents should wear them.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
GOP Rep Massie: "Some told us this war was about nuclear weapons. But 6 months ago, we were assured our last strike on Iran decimated their nuclear program...I think the most candid answer came from the secretary of state, who told the press that Israel forced our hand and dragged us into this war
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Was he sure it wasn't just diaper rash?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
That isn't a "No."
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Moskowitz could make more money as a comedian, although he makes good points with his jokes.
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...
tucson.com
Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This btw is one of the reasons it’s time to retire all this edgelord nonsense about “warfighters” and get back to what American servicemen are supposed to be - *soldiers* (and sailors and marines etc)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Damn, Barbara Starr 🔥
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Sen. Van Hollen: Donald Trump wants US oil companies to be able to grab Venezuelan oil. At the end of the day, that's what this is all about. He has put our troops at risk so that more American oil companies can make profits in Venezuela and his billionaire buddies on Wall Street can benefit
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Sorry you are leaving. I had stopped coming here because I found it hard to share but someone posted a post of yours on Instagram and came here looking for your insights. Take care of yourself.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More of this nationwide please!
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I will when Lawrence comes back. Where are you?
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The Economist @economist.com · 19/08/2025
Vladimir Putin wants to force Ukraine to abandon its strategically critical “fortress belt”. For many Ukrainians, giving up this area without a fight would be tantamount to capitulation
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Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt
He wants Trump to secure for him what Russia’s army cannot
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
TONIGHT: @pkrugman.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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The Paranoid Style in American Economics
Remember, every accusation is a confession
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Supporting Trumps immigration policy is just how racists ask for participation trophies.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Vance ‘spewing lies and utter nonsense,’ says LA Mayor www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
You said that we have never seen people grabbing people off the street and not identify themselves but the Portland BLM Protests found people being grabbed off the street by people who were not showing ID. It scared me then and I didn't understand why we didn't stop it then.
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Politico @politico.com · 20/06/2025
Top Senate Democrats are urging Republicans to back away from changes to social safety net programs as the GOP prepares to bring Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to the floor next week.
politico.com
Senate Dems urge Thune to abandon social safety net changes
The overture won’t work but it previews the party’s message against Trump’s megabill.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Lisa, on the National Guard deployment, can they raise the issue that both Noem and Trump suggested the real reason for sending troops was to depose our elected officials and gutting Democrats?
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (🧵) DAY 2 JUNE 2025 These Tumultuous Times Get as outraged as I am Call your Congressional Representative &Senators 202 224-3121 This must STOP ICE agents dragging off women, children, and families who are not criminals ICE No ID Masked No Warrant GESTAPO! (🧵⬇️)
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 02/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE | DOGE took over the US Institute of Peace. Now, the inside looks like a zombie movie, security chief reveals
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‘Offensive’: Peace Institute security chief on vermin infestation caused by DOGE
Exclusive: Rodents swarmed the building after DOGE operatives failed to clear out the food left behind by booted staffers, institute security chief Colin O’Brien told The Independent
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Imagine if Joe Biden had said ‘where do these three judges come from?’ and one of them had been appointed by… him.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today you said Trump had already vanquished all 2 of the Trans people. Read this in the San Bernardino Sun: www.sbsun.com/2025/05/27/t...
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Trump blasts Jurupa Valley transgender athlete set to compete in CIF State meet
AB Hernandez continues to prepare for the CIF State Track and Field competition, which takes place Friday and Saturday in Clovis.
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Bluegirl1713.Bsky.social @bluegirl1713.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Love your show every day. But why don’t you all just talk about what musk really did?? He stole all of the countries data. All of our data for his AI computer. That’s what he did. Now he went on his merry way with trumps blessing on lying and stealing.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Qatar may have in mind that when they passed on funding Kushner's overpriced building at 666 Fifth Ave, suddenly Saudi Arabia and the UAE put a blockade on Qatar. When Qatar financed the building, the blockade went away.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Trump administration has settled on One Weird Trick to avoid judicial review: Kill nationwide injunctions, refuse to respect lower court rulings, and keep cases away from the Supreme Court indefinitely. Oddly, it was Kagan and BARRETT who hammered this yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol...
So the issue Kagan flagged here is: What if a case never gets to the Supreme Court? What if all the lower courts are in agreement that the Trump administration is wrong and rule against his executive order? Well, if Sauer’s scheme prevails, the Justice Department could simply decline to appeal any of those decisions to the Supreme Court. Then the Justice Department could turn around and say: “Well, we don’t have to respect the decisions by these lower courts, except with regard to the named plaintiffs.” And everybody who’s not a part of the litigation gets screwed. If you aren’t a plaintiff, the government can take away birthright citizenship for your kids, deny them benefits, and deport them. And there’s nothing you can do except hire your own lawyer and slog your way to a new injunction that applies to you. As a practical matter, hundreds of thousands of people are not going to have the resources to do that.
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vchaf.bsky.social @vchaf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
They should at least say we aren't at war or in aninvasion.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The 7-justice majority emphasizes that they are not deciding if Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is legal. But they do make clear that HOW the Trump admin was trying to USE the law WAS illegal - a very clear violation of due process. They remand to the 5th Circuit to develop a new test.
To be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are
entitled to more notice than was given on April 18, and we
grant temporary injunctive relief to preserve our jurisdiction while the question of what notice is due is adjudicated.
See post, at 13 (ALITO, J., dissenting). We did not on April 19—and do not now—address the underlying merits of the
parties’ claims regarding the legality of removals under the
AEA. We recognize the significance of the Government’s
national security interests as well as the necessity that
such interests be pursued in a manner consistent with the
Constitution. In light of the foregoing, lower courts should
address AEA cases expeditiously
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Supreme Court recites the facts about what happened in detail, making clear that the government was about to deport hundreds of people to El Salvador without ANY real opportunity to file habeas corpus lawsuits in challenge, a direct violation of their previous order - and mentions Abrego Garcia.
We understood the Government to assert the right to remove the detainees as soon as midnight central time on
April 19. The Government addressed the detainees’ allegations on April 18 only at an evening hearing before the District Court for the District of Columbia, where the detainees
had separately sought relief. The Government guaranteed
that no putative class members would be removed that day.
Tr. of Proceedings in J. G. G. v. Trump, No. 25−cv−766,
ECF Doc. 93, p. 9. But it further represented that, in its
view, removal of putative class members as soon as the next
day “would be consistent with” its due process obligations,
and it “reserve[d] the right” to take such action. Id., at 26;
see id., at 16 (explanation by the court that “tomorrow . . .
starts at 12:01 a.m.”). Evidence now in the record (although
not all before us on April 18) suggests that the Government
had in fact taken steps on the afternoon of April 18 toward
removing detainees under the AEA—including transporting them from their detention facility to an airport and later
returning them to the facility. See Supp. App. to Reply
1a−5a. Had the detainees been removed from the United
States to the custody of a foreign sovereign on April 19, the
Government may have argued, as it has previously argued,
that no U. S. court had jurisdiction to order relief. See Application To Vacate Injunction in Noem v. Abrego Garcia,
No. 24A949 (Apr. 7, 2025), pp. 11−20.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Supreme Court also rebukes Judge Hendrix in the Western District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit for refusing to act on the ACLU's emergency request, emphasizing that the facts on the ground showed that planes were set to take off -- thus making Judge Hendrix' failure to act an appealable order.
The Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the detainees’ appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Appellate courts have jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders that have “the practical
effect of refusing an injunction.” Carson v. American
Brands, Inc., 450 U. S. 79, 84 (1981). A district court’s inaction in the face of extreme urgency and a high risk of “serious, perhaps irreparable,” consequences may have the effect of refusing an injunction. 16 C. Wright, A. Miller, & E.
Cooper, Federal Practice and Procedure §3924.1, pp. 174,
180−181 (3d ed. 2012) (quoting Baltimore Contractors, Inc.
v. Bodinger, 348 U. S. 176, 181 (1955)). Here the District
Court’s inaction—not for 42 minutes but for 14 hours and
28 minutes—had the practical effect of refusing an injunction to detainees facing an imminent threat of severe, irreparable harm. Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of the
Court of Appeals
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Supreme Court makes clear AGAIN that the Trump administration cannot throw people onto plane with little to no notice. Those subject to the Alien Enemies Act MUST be given given time to contact a lawyer, file a habeas lawsuit, and pursue the case. Anything less is illegal.
Accordingly, in J. G. G., this Court explained—with all nine Justices agreeing—that “AEA detainees must receive notice . . . that they are subject to removal under the Act . . . within a reasonable time and in
such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas
relief ” before removal. 604 U. S., at ____ (slip op., at 3). In
order to “actually seek habeas relief,” a detainee must have
sufficient time and information to reasonably be able to contact counsel, file a petition, and pursue appropriate relief.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."
The Government does not contest before this Court the applicants’ description of the notice afforded to AEA detainees in the Northern District of Texas, nor the assertion that the Government was poised to carry out removals imminently. The Government has represented elsewhere that itis unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador, see Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25−cv−951 (D Md.), ECF Docs. 74, 77, where itis alleged that detainees face indefinite detention, see Application for Injunction 11. The detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty. Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, de-void of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025
Because if she disappears, how will anyone know where she is? This is real. This is happening. And there is no acceptable scenario where “law enforcement” hides behind masks, unidentified. If you’re following the law, what are you hiding? And don’t forget—there’s fake ICE out there too. -end-
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025
What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.
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