Yvette Li

With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.

"Transforming the I.R.S. and its tens of thousands of employees into political enforcers for the president — a doomsday scenario long feared by conservatives — would shake a foundation of American civic life..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social

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DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.

"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DHS tweet: The rumors circulating on social media that ICE Boston employed a militia leader from Arizona to make arrests in New England are not only false, but they are also inflammatory and place the safety of federal officers in jeopardy. Our ICE officers are facing 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations. 4:25 PM • 4/17/25 • 24K Views

“Our ICE officers are facing 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”

Embarrassing that this sycophantic ass-clown is representing us on the world stage. We have become a joke to the world in 3 months.

“I feel much better now.”
—nobody

The President has chosen to intentionally crash the U.S. economy and financial system by doing things which have been ridiculed in every intro macroeconomics class for the past 80+ years. Those with the power to stop him refuse to do so because they hate minorities.

“Special kind of stupid.”

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Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

MAGA:
Violent rapists have no place in this country.

Also MAGA:
Cry harder. He’s your president.

Airline signs deal with ICE, seeks 'energetic, highly motivated' flight attendants to 'support the department's deportation efforts' Avelo Airlines signed an agreement to fly for ICE to "support the department's deportation efforts," the company told 12News.

“We realize this is a sensitive and complicated topic..."

www.12news.com/article/news...

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The current “president” of the United States is an absolutely insane motherfucking idiot.

The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.

"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

As Trump cracks down on immigration, U.S. citizens are among those snared Recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed advocates and scholars who say they reveal the dangers of a system accelerating with few safeguards.

US citizens.

"All these people are U.S. citizens who were detained, deported or otherwise swept up in immigration enforcement actions under the Trump administration’s intensifying crackdown..."

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is batshit

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”

thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"

ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.

45 years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the US for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.

While on his way to work, the 73-year-old grandfather was picked up by ICE agents near his home in Lafayette, LA. He’s being held in an ICE processing center.

The trouble with tarrifs

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

WHAT THE F**K!

It’s a cult.

But the price of eggs!

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

Val Kilmer has died at 65