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![\"presidential-administration-deficit-management\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/presidential-administration-deficit-management-600.jpeg\" "\\"presidential-administration-deficit-management\\"")
<\/p>\nU.S. Presidents and the Federal Deficit<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/center>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
WSJ: Trump\u2019s Exceptional Tariff Weekend<\/a><\/h2>\nHis Customs office announced tariff-rate exceptions on electronics on Friday that he renounced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Bulwark: Rake-Stepping Through the Trade War<\/a><\/h2>\nThe president\u2019s plan is apparently just to improvise new tariffs until . . . what?<\/p>\n
Conversation: In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think \u2212 in fact, it might have a winning hand<\/a><\/h2>\nRobert Reich: Chaos<\/a><\/h2>\nThe American oligarchy is petrified by Trump\u2019s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The US Dollar Plummets While the Canadian Dollar Soars: What\u2019s Driving the Shift?<\/a><\/h2>\nUSD\/CAD Nears 1.3850 as Economic Fears and Trade\/Bond Tensions Grip the US
\n![\"MAGA](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MAGA-hat-made-in-China-242x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies<\/a><\/h2>\nBeijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world\u2019s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.<\/p>\n
Fast Company: This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution<\/a><\/h2>\nPlanetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n![\"holding](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/holding-hands.webp\" "\\"holding")
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dismay-as-cross-border-library-caught-in-US-Canada-feud-\u2018We-just-want-to-stay-open-Canada-The-Guardian.png\" "\\"A")
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"thought](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thought-crimes.webp\" "\\"thought")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n![\"Nayib](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Nayib-Bukele-the-keeper-of-Americas-gulag.webp\" "\\"Nayib")
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n![\"Harvard\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvard.webp\" "\\"Harvard\\"")
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n![\"Jack-Dorsey-and-Elon-Musk-would-like-to-\u2018delete-all-IP-law\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/p-1-Jack-Dorsey-and-Elon-Musk-would-like-to-\u2018delete-all-IP-law.webp\" "\\"Jack-Dorsey-and-Elon-Musk-would-like-to-\u2018delete-all-IP-law\\"width=\\"750\\"")
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"windmill](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/windmill-blocked-by-container.jpg\" "\\"windmill")
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"raw](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/raw-sewage-flowing.webp\" "\\"raw")
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n![\"''Despair](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Despair-is-not-an-option\u2026the-stakes-are-just-too-high-Sen.-Bernie-Sanders-said-Saturday-in-L.A.webp\" "\\"''Despair")
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/A-scene-from-a-protest-in-DC-earlier-this-month.webp\" "\\"A")
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n![\"Bernie](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bernie-Sanders-and-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-raise-their-hands-during-a-stop-on-their-Fighting-Oligarchy-tour-at-Grand-Park-in-Los-Angeles.avif\" "\\"Bernie")
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n![\"6foot3](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6foot3-224lbs.jpg\" "\\"6foot3")
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\n<\/p>\n
WSJ: Trump\u2019s Exceptional Tariff Weekend<\/a><\/h2>\nHis Customs office announced tariff-rate exceptions on electronics on Friday that he renounced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Bulwark: Rake-Stepping Through the Trade War<\/a><\/h2>\nThe president\u2019s plan is apparently just to improvise new tariffs until . . . what?<\/p>\n
Conversation: In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think \u2212 in fact, it might have a winning hand<\/a><\/h2>\nRobert Reich: Chaos<\/a><\/h2>\nThe American oligarchy is petrified by Trump\u2019s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The US Dollar Plummets While the Canadian Dollar Soars: What\u2019s Driving the Shift?<\/a><\/h2>\nUSD\/CAD Nears 1.3850 as Economic Fears and Trade\/Bond Tensions Grip the US
\n<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies<\/a><\/h2>\nBeijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world\u2019s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.<\/p>\n
Fast Company: This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution<\/a><\/h2>\nPlanetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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The president\u2019s plan is apparently just to improvise new tariffs until . . . what?<\/p>\n
Conversation: In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think \u2212 in fact, it might have a winning hand<\/a><\/h2>\nRobert Reich: Chaos<\/a><\/h2>\nThe American oligarchy is petrified by Trump\u2019s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The US Dollar Plummets While the Canadian Dollar Soars: What\u2019s Driving the Shift?<\/a><\/h2>\nUSD\/CAD Nears 1.3850 as Economic Fears and Trade\/Bond Tensions Grip the US
\n<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies<\/a><\/h2>\nBeijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world\u2019s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.<\/p>\n
Fast Company: This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution<\/a><\/h2>\nPlanetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
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\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
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\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
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\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
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CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
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\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
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Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
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\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
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\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
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\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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The American oligarchy is petrified by Trump\u2019s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The US Dollar Plummets While the Canadian Dollar Soars: What\u2019s Driving the Shift?<\/a><\/h2>\nUSD\/CAD Nears 1.3850 as Economic Fears and Trade\/Bond Tensions Grip the US
\n<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies<\/a><\/h2>\nBeijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world\u2019s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.<\/p>\n
Fast Company: This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution<\/a><\/h2>\nPlanetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
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CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies<\/a><\/h2>\nBeijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world\u2019s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.<\/p>\n
Fast Company: This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution<\/a><\/h2>\nPlanetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
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\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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Planetary roller screws are emerging as a critical\u2014and costly\u2014component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.<\/p>\n
Apple Insider: Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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Jennifer Rubin: Active Empathy is life-changing<\/a><\/h2>\nAs you are reading this, I am spending the day with family and friends in observation of Passover (Pesach). However, before heading out of town I wanted to share a few thoughts about the holiday.
\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\n…
\nHowever, as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, former chief rabbi of the UK reminded us, the holiday emphasizes\u2014more than anything else\u2014empathy
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
Guardian: Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: \u2018We just want to stay open\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nCurrently, to enter the library, Canadians must trek over mats placed atop a muddy lawn, following a set of arrows that lead the building\u2019s former emergency exit. But the library\u2019s management envisioned an accessible entrance along with sidewalks and a larger parking lot.
\n(Guardian more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: Canada Announces Earth Shaking Plan To Rebuild It’s Military Further Severing Ties With Trump’s America<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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Christina Pagel: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it\u201d – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy<\/a><\/h2>\nMapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information<\/p>\n
Dean Blundell: The Chilling Threat to American Freedom: Trump\u2019s Regime Targets \u201cThought Crimes\u201d with Deportation and Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Jess Piper: Send it Back to the States<\/a><\/h2>\nI gathered signatures to put abortion on the ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n
Missourians needed 180,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot \u2014 we gathered 380,000 signatures. In November of 2024, Missouri was the first state to overturn a complete abortion ban. We voted to protect bodily autonomy with a Constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n
We did it, but now Missouri Republicans are trying to overturn our will by putting the abortion question back on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Americans were told that the Supreme Court overturned Roe to send the question of bodily autonomy \u201cback to the states.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a lie.<\/strong>
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
Bulwark: Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines<\/a><\/h2>\nAn emergency Sunday Triad, because I\u2019m concerned that people don\u2019t appreciate how important this week will be for American democracy and our constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Buckle up.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\n
\n<\/center>
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Sun: Trump Set To Meet With \u2018World\u2019s Coolest Dictator\u2019 as More Migrants Are Flown to El Salvador\u2019s Super-Max Prison<\/a><\/h2>\nBulwark: Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court. What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia.
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\nThe Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\nHis plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\nIn his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n
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CBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\nComic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Daily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\nUnder the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink.
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\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\nHarvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n
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Law Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\nThe AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n
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Fast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\nAs the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections.
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NY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Steven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\nBernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power
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Noah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\nCreating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
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\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\nIf Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\nForget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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Verge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\nApparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\nBorowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/ul>\n
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\nTrump reiterated that he had no power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele said he had no intention of returning Garcia.<\/p>\n
And then Trump did something extraordinary: He claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled 9\u20130 in his favor<\/em> on the case and that the Court\u2019s decision meant only that the U.S. government would have to provide a plane if<\/em> Bukele chose to return Abrego Garcia. The Justice Department\u2019s latest legal filing asserted that courts cannot direct President Trump\u2019s foreign policy by forcing the return of a man unlawfully sent to a Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n … His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.<\/p>\n In his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that \u201chome-growns are next\u201d and that El Salvador would \u201cneed to be build about five more places\u201d to hold American citizens.<\/p>\n Under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration threatened to pull billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard. The Ivy League school didn’t blink. Harvard called the demands unlawful.<\/p>\n The AG’s own words are being used against her. Also: More law firms capitulate to Trump’s authoritarian shakedowns.<\/p>\n As the two tech moguls call for the abolition of intellectual property law, experts warn that such a move could gut innovation and dismantle decades of legal protections. Bernie Sanders grasps this perilous moment and the need for collective power Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug. If Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people. Forget the era of \u201cBernie Bros.\u201d Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a record crowd in Los Angeles with a new message aimed squarely at Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Apparent AI-cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been lampooning the tech CEOs in California crosswalks.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Presidents and the Federal Deficit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n…<\/p>\nNY Times: U.S. Renews Opposition to Bringing Back Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvado<\/a>r<\/h2>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nLet\u2019s be very clear about exactly what\u2019s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump\u2019s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timothy Snyder: Trump: “Home-growns are next”<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nCBS News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript<\/a><\/h2>\n
Comic Sands: Trump Demands FCC Revoke CBS’s Broadcasting License In Unhinged Rant About ’60 Minutes’<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDaily: Harvard Stands Up And Rejects Trump’s Extortion<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Daily more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration\u2019s Demands<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nLaw Dork: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers: Bondi’s actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nFast Company: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey want to kill IP law. That would be a huge mistake<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Fast Company more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNY Times: Poof! There Goes America\u2019s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\nPopular Information: Trump administration cancels program to protect Alabamans from raw sewage<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Popular Information more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSteven Beschloss: Taking It to the People<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNoah Berlatsky: The devious purpose behind MAGA’s incessant lying<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThese lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith.<\/p>\n
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Bernie and AOC Are Starting a New Political Movement Before Our Eyes<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(TNR more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nVerge: Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons<\/a><\/h2>\n
Atlanta Black Star News: \u2018Absolutely Nothing You Can Do to Stop It\u2019: Musk, Zuckerberg Mocked on Silicon Valley Streets After Hackers Infiltrate Crosswalks As \u2018Tesla Regret Syndrome\u2019 Hotline Goes Live<\/a><\/h2>\n
Borowitz: Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Fortune<\/a><\/h2>\n
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