Rebecca Solnit: We Are Firefighters: A Talk About the Climate and the Trees
… Breath by breath from our first to the last we take this atmosphere, this sky into where our lungs separate out the oxygen and our hearts send it coursing through our bodies and we exhale the rest, the nitrogen and the carbon dioxide. We think we are solids, but we are two thirds liquid, and survive through taking these sips of sky into our lungs.
Trees on the other hand, take in the carbon dioxide, making their bodies of it or sending it into the ground, and excrete oxygen, so the breaths each and all of us are taking in at this very moment are full of oxygen released into the atmosphere by plants, dating back to the origins of life and the blue-green algae that radically changed the composition of the atmosphere by giving it this oxygen. Then came billions of years in which plants pulled carbon dioxide out of the earth and buried it in the ground, where some of over the ages became coal, became petroleum, became the methane marketed as natural gas.
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LAW dork: The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration’s plan.
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
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The plan includes chaos. It includes shifting justifications. It includes secrecy.The plan also includes propaganda. It includes threats. It includes targeting individuals to send messages to everyone else.
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Closer to the Edge: Kseniia Petrova
Kseniia Petrova didn’t smuggle poison. She didn’t carry secrets. She brought frog embryos. For science.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 26, 2025
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ICE also deported Heidy Sánchez, a Cuban-born mother of a one-year-old who is still breastfeeding, leaving the child in the U.S. with her father, who is a U.S. citizen. Like the women flown to Honduras, Sánchez was detained when she showed up at a scheduled check-in with ICE.In March, ICE agents sent four U.S. citizens, including a 10-year-old with brain cancer, to Mexico when they deported their undocumented parents.
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But an executive order is simply a directive to federal employees. It cannot override the Constitution. Trump’s attack on the idea of birthright citizenship as a “historical myth” is a perversion of our history.
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The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
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After another trip to China in 1894, though, customs officials denied him reentry to the U.S. in 1895, claiming he was a Chinese subject because his parents were Chinese.Wong sued, and his lawsuit was the first to climb all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to the government’s recognition that with the U.S. in the middle of an immigration boom, the question of birthright citizenship must be addressed. In the 1898 U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark decision, the court held by a vote of 6–2 that Wong was a citizen because he was born in the United States.
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Robert Reich: We have much to do.
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Our first responsibility is to help protect the people in our communities who are most vulnerable to this regime.
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We can help ensure they know their rights by getting them red cards in their own languages.
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A second responsibility is to give courage to the leaders of our communities, universities, libraries, law firms, local media, museums, and other civic institutions. They need to be fortified to stand up to the Trump regime.
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Finally, continue to demonstrate loudly and boldly against the regime, so others gain the courage to join us and speak up for decency and democracy.
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Daily: Hundreds Show Up On Both Sides Of The US/Canada Border To Protest Trump
Hundreds of Michiganders showed up at three US/Canada bridge crossings to protest Trump along with their Canadian friends on the other side of the border.
Just because there is not a big national protest doesn’t mean that people still aren’t out protesting.
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Mary Geddry: The Great Unraveling: Illusions Collapsing in Real Time
From deported toddlers to luxury scams, from dying ports to panicking billionaires, the empire of lies is cracking under its own weight.
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Stephanie Kelton: The Ship is Hitting the Fan
Trump’s tariffs are deliberately re-creating pandemic-era shortages. Get used to seeing OUT OF STOCK on many of the items you’re looking to purchase. And paying higher prices for what’s available.
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Guardian: Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned
The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris
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Guardian: Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why?
The pro-Israel campaign to ‘protect’ Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise
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