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I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: CVS Plans To Exit Obamacare In 2026, Affecting 1 Million Aetna Members CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also kn...

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

In the first 100 days, Musk &’Trump have knocked down the barriers intended to prevent creation of dossiers on every U.S. resident. They’re building a database of ruin: comprehensive files on everyone so they can punish those who protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now?

This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

Sounds like he just wants to make money for lawyers. He's already been told by the courts that funding can't be tied to BS like this.

Ten years ago, public lands recreation had already eclipsed public lands grazing by 22X the number of jobs created and 10X the revenues.

So why don't we kick cattle off public lands, rewilded the west and;

Expand the Parks ?

Black wolf facing the camera, standing on a sinter and tall grass area with a pine tree to his left.

Get your cattle off our public lands.
If you want to run cattle, do it on your own dirt.
Take some responsibility and fence it adequately.
Stop blaming your failed business model on our wildlife.

Rewild our public lands.
With liberty and justice for all.

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.

A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month

BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.

That looks dangerous!

In fact, a White House official said on Friday that despite the deal reached with Paul Weiss, Mr. Trump would continue to target law firms with executive orders, including some the president could sign as early as next week. In the Oval Office on Friday, Mr. Trump asserted that law firms "did bad things" and had attacked him "ruthlessly, violently, illegally." But now, he said, they "want to make deals."

Do you get it yet, law firms?

What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie.

It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession.

You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.

Say something. Do something.

Our Westside Democratic Club in Cincinnati hosted a town hall. We invited our Congressman Warren Davidson OH-8 who was a no show! Shocker! Oh and a proud boy paid us a visit…😒
#townhall #indivisible #protest

Unilever fired Ben and Jerry's CEO over political activism. Take a look at some of the other brands they own. Do with that information what you will! #boycottunilever #benandjerrys #politicalactivism #boycott

The $400,000,000 Trump is withholding from Columbia University is no arbitrary amount. It was the amount Donald wanted Columbia to pay him for land he owned. They refused. And Donald was furious. That was 25 years ago. And petty Donald has not forgotten.

The fascist is afraid of 19.1 million college students exercising their first amendment rights. The students from every campus should protest & show the fascist that he can’t bully them into submission. #FreedomOfSpeech

The information was readily available. She just thought it would only affect other people.

Trump Bid to Take Over Postal Service Could Threaten Mail Voting Read more here.

🚨 Trump wants to take over the U.S. Postal Service.

Not only would that violate the Constitution and Postal Reorganization Act, but it would give MAGA control over mail ballots - opening mail-in voting to fraud.

Hands off our ballots, Donny.

Alabama's secretary of state removed nearly 500,000 names from voter file | StateScoop Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen says a new system developed by his office identified thousands of registered voters who are deceased, moved out of state or lack proper identification.

🚨 BREAKING: MAGA Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen purged HALF A MILLION voters from the state's rolls - after ditching the ERIC system.

Allen claims they’ve developed their own system… but won’t provide the full details. That's voter suppression.

@howthingsworkoh.bsky.social

While you're writing pink slips to DJT on the Ides of March, consider adding Matt Huffman to your list of who to fire. Pass it on!

ICYMI, a woman was forcibly dragged out of a GOP town hall in Idaho by private security.
One was a retired sheriff who collects $150K disability from Los Angeles County for an “incapacitating” shoulder injury.
The Board of Fire & Police Pension Commissioners authority to review disability pensions.

All they'd have to do is get the word out about what is happening now. We need a propaganda video comparing Russian style communism to Trump's policies.

My rep says he's working on a national ban.

Maybe he's been promised the Russian market. He's a hero there.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.