Allison Gill: Abrego Garcia Case Delayed. Again.
If there’s one thing the Trump regime is good at besides crime, it’s delaying court proceedings that they’re likely to lose.
Last week, the government filed a motion in the Abrego Garcia case under seal. News reports, other court filings, and statements from Abrego Garcia’s lawyers indicate that the sealed filing asked Judge Xinis for a week-long pause of discovery to give the regime time to facilitate the release of Abrego Garcia.
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You can read Judge Xinis’ latest order here.
It’s important to note that the briefing on privilege that’s causing this delay is because the Trump regime is being AFFORDED DUE PROCESS – the very thing they’re trying to strip from Abrego Garcia.
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Raw Story: ‘Is the president not telling the truth?’ Judge grills Trump attorneys in court
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Austin Chronicle: Bill Would Ban Teaching DEI Topics in Many College Classrooms
Proposal targets lessons on systemic racism
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CNN: MAGA outlet OAN to provide content for hollowed-out Voice of America, says Kari Lake
Voice of America is off the air for now, having been gutted by President Donald Trump, but it may soon return — partly as a vessel for one of his favorite MAGA propaganda outlets.One America News (OAN), the amateurish far-right TV outlet best known for promoting Trump’s 2020 election lies, is going to provide “newsfeed services” to VOA and other US-funded international broadcasters, according to Kari Lake, the MAGA loyalist Trump picked to run a hollowed-out VOA.
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Austin American-Statesman: ICE deports Austin woman and her U.S. citizen children, immigrant advocates say
Austin immigration activists are raising concerns after they say two U.S. citizen minors were removed to Mexico Wednesday alongside their mother, an immigrant without legal status who had resided in the city for at least seven years.
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Marisa Kabas: ICE efforts in DC thwarted by solidarity
Kristi Noem has been denied another camera-ready moment of cruelty.
As soon as parents of students at Mundo Verde in Washington, DC heard the news that ICE planned to target their school starting Tuesday, they sprung into action. They quickly formed a Signal group to keep one another informed of potential ICE sightings at the bilingual charter school’s two campuses, and a sign-up sheet went around for parent volunteers to post up in front of the school buildings and keep watch. By Monday afternoon there were already several parents stationed, ready for whatever the coming days might bring.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV: Patriotism has no gender
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How the Supreme Court could not read the plain language of Trump’s pathetic excuse for an executive order and see the prejudice dripping from its every syllable is yet another disgrace with which this country must contend. What about patriotism? Are we to read Trump’s executive order and the Supreme Court’s upholding of it, even if it turns out to be only temporary, as denying to people who are transgender the right to be patriotic and act upon it by serving their country in uniform?
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EEAGLI: Africa still holds two-thirds of global extreme poverty
One of the most striking facts about global poverty today is its increasing concentration in a single region. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to just 16 percent of the world’s population, yet it accounts for a staggering 67 percent of people living in extreme poverty.This represents a dramatic shift from previous decades. In 2000, Asia was home to most of the world’s extreme poor.
(EEAGLI more…)NY Times: The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump administration’s assault on foreign aid — to accelerate the end of his giving.
Business Insider: Bill Gates calls DOGE ‘geographically illiterate,’ says Elon Musk is ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’
- In a new interview, Bill Gates criticized both Elon Musk and DOGE.
- The Microsoft cofounder said that DOGE is “geographically illiterate.”
- He said that Musk was “involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children” by cutting USAID.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 7, 2025
Alarm appears to be rising about how the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is consolidating data about Americans. Hannah Natanson, Joseph Menn, Lisa Rein, and Rachel Siegel wrote in the Washington Post today that DOGE is “racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents.” In the past, that information has been carefully siloed, and there are strict laws about accessing it. But under billionaire Elon Musk, who appears to direct DOGE although the White House has said he does not, operatives who may not have appropriate security clearances are removing protections and linking data.
There are currently at least eleven lawsuits underway claiming that DOGE has violated the 1974 Privacy Act regulating who can access information about American citizens stored by the federal government.
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Today Lori Aratani of the Washington Post reported that in February, shortly after the deadly collision of an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter in the airspace over Washington, D.C., administration officials also stopped the work of an outside panel of experts examining the country’s air traffic control system.After President Trump blamed the crash on diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices, career officials quit in disgust, according to Isaac Stanley-Becker of The Atlantic. As they left, an engineer from Musk’s SpaceX satellite company arrived.
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BBC: What is in the UK-US tariff deal?
The US and the UK have reached a deal over tariffs on some goods traded between the countries.
US President Donald Trump’s blanket 10% tariffs on imports from countries around the world remains in place and still applies to most UK goods entering the US.
But the deal has reduced or removed tariffs on some of the UK’s exports, including cars, steel and aluminium.
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This isn’t a trade deal
US President Donald Trump declared on social media this announcement would be a “major trade deal” – it’s not.He does not have the authority to sign the type of free-trade agreement India and the UK finalised earlier this week – this lies with Congress.
Congress would need to approve a trade agreement, which would take longer than the 90-day pause in place on some of Trump’s tariffs.
This is an agreement which has reversed or cut some of those tariffs on specific goods.
What was announced today is only the bare bones of a narrow agreement.
(BBC more…)Public Notice: Trump demands wartime sacrifices. Good luck with that.
His trade war is like World War 2, only much dumber and entirely self-inflicted.
Donald Trump launched a pointless trade war, and catastrophe is on the horizon. Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned yesterday that unless the president backs down on his tariffs, “they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment.”But the president is demanding that Americans sacrifice for … well, that part remains a mystery.
During an interview last week with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, Trump said he’s fine if the US has to endure a recession. He’s also repeatedly promoted the upside of Americans enduring Soviet-era deprivation on his behalf.
(Public Notice more…)Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc
The economy is at the mercy of the least informed president in history
As frightful as the state of the economy may be, Donald Trump’s flippant attitude toward the damage he is inflicting might be even more alarming. The White House’s about-faces following his inane declarations have sped up and multiplied.
As University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers told me this week, “President Trump is more effective than the COVID virus at creating chaos.” He continued, “Why did financial markets respond so badly to Liberation Day? It wasn’t just because of the tariffs. It was because it showed that this is an utterly incoherent administration with no serious advisers, completely unwilling to face trade-offs or reality.”
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Rebecca Solnit: Some Rob You with a Six-Gun/ Some With a Fountain Pen: On Civil War By Other Means
Imagine if we were at war with a foreign power that bombed most of the federal buildings in Washington, destroying the records and functions of those departments and killing millions of federal workers – bombs falling on Health and Human Services, on the Justice Department, the Department of Interior, Veterans Affairs, incendiary devices burning down the servers on which great reams of valuable information, created with expertise at great expense (paid for by you and me) to serve the public with records of what has happened, how money has moved around, vital information on health, climate, science, education.
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Dean Blundell: The New Pope: Who is “Pope Leo XIV” And Why A US Born Progressive Pope Matters in the Age of MAGA
US Born Cardinal Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV and he’s no fan of Trump’s America
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ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew