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Four House Democrats, Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Maxine Dexter (Ore.), and Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), are traveling to El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was “mistakenly” deported to the country by the Trump administration.

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.

I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

He was compassionate and humble. He cared deeply about immigrants, families suffering in war zones, the poor, those of other faiths and the LGBTQ+ community. He did not condemn or judge but urged us to love and care for each other.
He was the best Pope of my life time.
Thank you Pope Francis .

145. Justice Alito's Misbegotten Dissent in A.A.R.P. Justice Alito's after-the-fact opinion dissenting from the Court's early-Saturday-morning Alien Enemy Act ruling rests on a revealing array of misrepresentations, misstatements, and non-sequiturs.

Today’s “One First” takes a (very) deep dive into Justice Alito’s Saturday night dissent in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemy Act case—and how it attempts to invent a series of procedural objections to the majority’s intervention that … simply don’t exist:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/145-justic...

ICE Detains U.S.-Born Citizen Despite Judge Seeing Birth Certificate Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is in ICE detention despite being a citizen. Welcome to Trump’s America.

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is in ICE detention despite being a citizen. Welcome to Trump’s America.

And while we are on the subject, how come no one is harping on lack of viewpoint diversity among faculty at Liberty University? Because it only works one way, and that’s pretty obvious. Hang in there, Harvard!

“Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE ‘full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems.’ … This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.”
@karaswisher.bsky.social

To quote Rick Wilson: Every thing Trump touches dies.
And the death is slow, agonizing, humiliating, excruciating, debasing, and if you’ve bent the knee well deserved.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

www.mediaite.com CNN’s Paula Reid Laughs Out Loud At Trump Adviser Stephen Miller’s Oval Office Rant About ‘Kidnapping’

CNN’s Paula Reid Laughs Out Loud At Trump Adviser Stephen Miller’s Oval Office Rant About ‘Kidnapping’ https://twp.ai/4imb2r

The Government Accountability Office has accepted a request from Senate Democrats on the Banking Committee to investigate changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission made by the White House and Elon Musk's DOGE, according to a letter from Sens. Warren and Warner.

I was just cc-ed on an email where a Nobel prize winner and green card holder who's spent a lot of time in the US says he cannot risk coming back at this point for a visit. And I cannot blame him for this decision. We are witnessing absolute mad king behavior.

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025.

Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

Jeffries: Court should hold Trump officials in contempt over wrongly deported Maryland man https://twp.ai/4imb1m

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker The Trump administration was accused of breaking the law in a recent lawsuit after taking down a website meant to show the public how federal funding is disbursed to agencies.  A new lawsuit f…

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Felon Trump administration was accused of breaking the law in a recent lawsuit after taking down a website meant to show the public how federal funding is disbursed to agencies.
thehill.com/business/524...

NYT headline: In showdown with the courts, Trump is increasingly combative Subhed: scholars say that Trump and his administration are now FLIRTING WITH lawless defiance of court orders.

Flirting with?! It’s fully consummated.

Just a pure degenerate and lifetime predator now in charge of the country’s public health system.

Trump insiders made billions this week off destroying the US financial system. And yes, torching global trust in us treasures does just that

Apart from all the other nuttery, Trump is too stupid to realize that we run trade deficits in large part because we have a financial (capital account) SURPLUS, with money flowing into the US, not out. For better or worse, they are financing our ability consume more than we produce.

Evisceration Monday.

US accidentally deported the wrong man to El Salvador — the hazards of denying due process. I’ll join Stephanie Ruhle at 11:40 pm ET on MSNBC.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

Kaul waited waay too long to file suit; Needs to appeal to the Wisconsin SC ASAP.
Hopefully, Wisconsinites will vote for Susan Crawford overwhelmingly and put this Musk shit to bed...

Scoop: White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart It's the latest effort by the White House to take a heavier hand in shaping who covers Trump.

SCOOP: The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks, taking over a function long managed by the reporters themselves through the White House Correspondents' Association.

Then the state needs to start arresting people.

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

YouTube video by Law & Society Bobby Jr , Greenland, SCOTUS & More

They are closing off to media. This is happening incrementally. Slowly the press pool will be full of propaganda outlets & those are the only channels that will have access. Donald's shutting out the free press & replacing it with Tim Pool et. al. youtu.be/TY1_mHBK4CY

I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.

Trump & Vance keep saying we “need” Greenland for security.
But there is no threat to Greenland from Russia or China or any country.
If there was a threat, why would the US keep just 150 military personnel in Greenland? (Air Force and Space Force)

Really glad to see that this program was reinstated. Shows that pressure and scrutiny can have an impact.