Steven Beschloss: “Home-Growns Are Next”
Donald Trump is not just hungry to kidnap migrants without due process. He said out loud today he’s ready to deport American citizens. We’ve been warned.
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Robert Reich: The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week
- The first way the Trump regime openly becomes a dictatorship is by directly defying a Supreme Court order.
- The second way we officially become a dictatorship is if the Trump regime can accuse any American citizen of being so dangerous as to justify being sent to a foreign prison, without any independent court reviewing the regime’s evidence.
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 14, 2025
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Bukele was livestreaming the event on his official X account and wearing a lapel microphone as he and Trump walked into the Oval Office, so Trump’s pre-meeting private comments were audible in the video Bukele posted. “We want to do homegrown criminals next…. The homegrowns.” Trump told Bukele. “You gotta build about five more places.” Bukele appeared to answer, “Yeah, we’ve got space.” “All right,” Trump replied.
Rather than being appalled, the people in the room—including Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Attorney General Pam Bondi—erupted in laughter.
At the meeting, it was clear that Trump’s team has cooked up a plan to leave Abrego Garcia without legal recourse to his freedom, a plan that looks much like Trump’s past abuses of the legal system. …
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Mother Jones: Trump to the USA: There Is No Rule of Law
Daily Beast: Pam Bondi Gives Stunning Response When Asked if Trump’s Plan to Jail Americans Abroad Is ‘Legal’
CAGEY
Even Jesse Watters wants to know.
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Bondi refused to answer.
“Jesse, these are Americans he is saying who have committed the most heinous crimes in our country,” she said. “Crime is going to decrease dramatically because he has given us a directive to make America safe again.”
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Lucian K. Truscott IV: John Roberts created this monster. What is he going to do about him?
Law Dork: DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed
The lawsuit alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case. Also: A look at the bigger picture at DOJ.
Allison Gill: The Supreme Court’s Redistribution of Rights
It’s almost unfathomable to me what the Supreme Court has done to us in the last 15 years, but we all should have seen it coming.
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John Pavlovitz: If Your Church Won’t Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter
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Jennifer Rubin: Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
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Bloomberg: China Orders Boeing Jet Delivery Halt as Trade War Expands
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AP: US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere
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Fast Company: Trump wants to kill the wind industry—but new wind farms are still booming
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Daily Kos: Trump threatens press freedom by defying court order
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Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, ordered the administration to let the AP back in after it kicked reporters out for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” The ruling went into effect Monday, but AP reporters and photographers were still being locked out of Oval Office events, according to others in the press corps as well as the AP itself, as of midday Monday.
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News Nation: Joe Biden will speak about Social Security in his return to the national stage
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USA Today: Obama slams Trump’s ‘ham-handed’ crackdown on Harvard University
Scott Aaronson: I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
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They all understand that events have given us no choice but to fight Trump as if there were no antisemitism, even while we continue to fight antisemitism as if there were no Trump.
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TNR: AOC Asks MTG One Damning Question on Tariffs
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Wired: A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’
The abrupt firing of Xiaofeng Wang and his wife from Indiana University last month shocked the academic community and is stoking fears that Chinese-born scholars are being targeted.
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NPR: After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. set to start
Stephen Robinson: RFK Jr. and the great discrediting of HHS
Anti-vax nonsense is the new official line.
