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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

May Day March, Davis, CA 800+ strong. Not bad for a small town on a Thursday night.

The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan. This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge Hannah Dugan, two-year-old V.L.M.

They are not outliers, exceptions, or aberrations. …

What we are witnessing is the Trump administration’s immigration plan in motion.

Today, at Law Dork:

If you love your library, listen up…

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

Vaccinate your kids, folks. A lot of people are going to get sick and die from preventable diseases because this is where America is right now - in freefall.

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died After studying the early days of radio, McChesney developed a holistic critique of media structures that exposed how open they were to manipulation by those in power.

"His analysis of our media systems could fuel a deep cynicism about the corruption inherent in human institutions," writes @joshuabenton.com of McChesney. "But people should remember him as someone who always maintained the optimism that democracy could find a way to heal its broken infrastructure."

Democrats flip deep-red Pennsylvania district in special election shocker No Democrat had ever won this ancestrally Republican seat, but it's now the second Democratic pickup of the year.

Way to go, Pennsylvania! www.the-downballot.com/p/breaking-d...

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Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.

#BreakingNews On 3/21/25 we received a near total termination of our federal contract for legal services under the Unaccompanied Children Program (UCP). No child should ever face a heartless immigration system w/o a lawyer by their side. #SaveUCP
Read:
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Case 1:25-cv-00596-ELH Document 48 Filed 03/20/25 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND AMERICAN FEDERTION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, et al. Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. ELH-25-0596 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, et al. Defendants. TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is this 20th day of March 2025, at 2:12 p.m. by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, ORDERED: 1. Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order ("TRO," ECF 21) is GRANTED.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and DOGE employees from access to Social Security Administration systems containing personally identifiable information, orders them also to delete any previously obtained non-anonymized SSA information.

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

Arlington scrubs race and gender from cemetery’s website Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of material focused on Black, Hispanic, and female troops buried there.

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Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.

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Trump's first month showed $36 billion more in spending than last year This February's monthly statement showed federal payments that were $36 billion higher than last February's.

New data from the US Treasury reveals that federal spending was $603 billion in February, which is $36 billion HIGHER than February last year under Biden.

This suggests that DOGE has done nothing to cut spending.

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As Donald Trump continues to push limits of the Oval Office, we must work together to stem the rising tide of authoritarianism.

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‘We cannot remain silent’: Descendants of incarcerated Japanese Americans turn trauma into advocacy The community has drawn parallels between what happened to their families 83 years ago and Trump's rhetoric and immigration policies.

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The Trump FCC is at war with the First Amendment The MAGA thought enforcement is in fact unprecedented — and dangerous.

Important Decoder today -- I talked to @mattfieldwood.bsky.social to pull apart Brendan Carr's war on the First Amendment www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

This is fantastic!

And I'm really glad that you're tying all of this nonsense specifically to #Project2025.

Reporters and everyone else should do likewise from here on out. It gives everyone a sense of direction; it makes this seem less random (i.e., more beatable); and it's the truth!!

Why Sanctioning the ICC Would Be Terrible for Civil Liberties | ACLU Sanctions would endanger the investigation of war crimes across the globe and prove a grave blow to human rights.

Sanctioning the International Criminal Court would have dangerous implications for the First Amendment and human rights accountability.

F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Sponsorships (Gift Article) Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the inquiry could help Congress decide whether to continue funding local stations.

They'll do anything to try to keep people ignorant. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags Officials in Columbus, Ohio, blasted a parade of masked people who marched down the streets with swastika flags Saturday afternoon.

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Dissociation, Misogyny, and Saturday Night Live in Authoritarian Times - Women’s Media Center Saturday Night Live, a cultural mainstay that has offered healing and hope at pivotal moments of national crisis, chose instead to rub salt in the wound in its first post-election episode.

Before SNL tonight, let's talk about their first post-election ep. Would love to hear your thoughts on my essay about Lorne Michaels' capitulation in advance.

SNL's gutter misogyny was more than a bomb, it was betrayal by an institution that previously met the moment in times of national crisis.

Up is down, and toilets are historic, apparently #Filoli