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Trump's Commerce Secretary Lived Next To Epstein For 10 Years Dear Humans,

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

Oh shit.

ICE has now rescinded the requirement to document warantless arrests.

Which means people can now be disappeared without a trace.

Democrats swiftly and fiercely denounce the brutality inflicted upon Senator Padilla This is fascism. Fellow Democrats responded with immediate, appropriate rage. Those across the aisle remained silent

Today, CA Senator Alex Padilla exercised his First Amendment right to question DHS Sec. Noem & was viciously manhandled, thrown to the ground, & handcuffed.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. On June 14, Americans must protest the violent, unconstitutional actions of the Trump regime.

#nokings

BREAKING: Israel's Defense Minister confirms Israel has launched a 'preemptive strike' against Iran.

Finally, some mainstream press coverage of how woefully behind the entire SpaceX Starship project is. Rich Guy is talking about a Mars transfer orbit in 2026 and a lunar soft landing in 2027... It's May 30, 2025!

They have *zero* space-worthy Starships assembled or crew-rated components. Zero.

INDEED.

ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.

If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.

Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.

A clean-cut man with brown hair and brown eyes looking at the viewer while he stands in front of rainbow balloons

“I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber,” Andry Hernandez Romero said, weeping, praying & asking for his mother as trustees at the El Salvadoran prison slapped him and shaved his head. He’s one of 238 men the Trump administration sent there, Ashton Pittman writes.

Read more: buff.ly/wTC1Sgl

Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.

NEW, with @hudsongiles.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: Here’s all of the sensitive data systems DOGE has access to at the Dept. of Health and Human Services
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

They want you to think boycotts and protests don’t work. 71% drop in income says otherwise. Keep going.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.

This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Trump Announces Deployment of U.S. Forces to Middle East without Congressional Approval Trump campaigned on ending "endless wars," but now commits U.S. forces to large-scale operations in Yemen

NEWS: Trump deploying U.S. combat forces to the Middle East as conflict with Houthis escalates

Collections on student loans in default will resume. Here’s what to know. Some borrowers who are behind on payments might see money withheld from wages, tax refunds and Social Security benefits. Here’s what to expect and what to do.

Some borrowers who are behind on payments might see money withheld from wages, tax refunds and Social Security benefits.

Here’s what to expect and what to do.

'First to suffer' — Russia singles out Poland, Baltics in threat to NATO These countries have shown "high aggressiveness" towards Russia and are "constantly rattling their weapons," Russia's Foreign Intelligence Director Sergey Naryshkin said on April 15.

⚡️'First to suffer' — Russia singles out Poland, Baltics in threat to NATO.

These countries have shown "high aggressiveness" towards Russia and are "constantly rattling their weapons," Russia's Foreign Intelligence Director Sergey Naryshkin said on April 15.

More Than 20,000 IRS Employees Accept Trump Administration’s Resignation Offer The I.R.S. had about 100,000 employees before President Trump took office. Between resignations and layoffs, the I.R.S. is on track to lose about a third of its staff this year.

Like everything else Trump does, this is so well thought out: the IRS is going to be short one-third of its staff in the midst of tax season. What genius! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...

Millions fewer tourists are visiting the US under Trump, according to new data.

This could cost the economy nearly $90 billion this year.

Federal Judge Set to Order Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case This is another step in a long legal process. But, it's moving fast.

A federal judge just ordered intensive expedited discovery into Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia. The latest:

This means that any Senate confirmed official appointee can be removed by Trump at any time. It would be the end of any form of apolitical oversight of any kind.

If Trump Wants to Export Criminals, He Should Go First An exclusive cartoon from Michael de Adder

So Trump wants to start shipping “homegrown criminals” to El Salvador? This is fine—if the first person sent is Donald Trump.

See the newest cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake.

Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.

If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.

Kilmar is all of us.

Trump is sending migrants to concentration camps outside of the U.S.
Next he wants to send U.S. citizens.
The guy running them says once you’re there, he won’t send you back.

‘One million.’ The private goal driving Trump’s push for mass deportations. Immigration officers and analysts are increasingly skeptical the Trump administration can deport that many immigrants in a single year.

Exclusive: Trump officials have the private goal of deporting at least 1 million immigrants this year. Analysts say that's unrealistic.

Extortion

Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.

Investors are growing concerned about a U.S. asset exodus as Treasuries and the dollar decline The combined decline of U.S. stocks, bonds and the dollar could be a sign of a broader shift away from investing in America.

Trump‬⁩ has trashed a century of trust & confidence in the US economy. The bedrock has been stability, predictability, rule of law. This imbecile wrecked it in months. Things will get worse because ⁦‪Republicans‬⁩ have no guts to challenge stupid. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/i...

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

The Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

As with the EOs concerning elections, immigration and naturalization is categorically NOT an Article II power. To do this, the executive branch will undoubtedly try to hang its hat on some delegated authority by Congress. The focus now should be on clawing those delegated authorities back

the other insane thing about these new tariff exemptions is that they exempted the machinery used to make semiconductors because that’s obviously counterproductive to re-shoring semiconductor manufacturing but have not extended that logic to ***all the other types of machinery***

Protesters From Manhattan to Mississippi Assail Trump and Musk Hundreds of Mississippi residents protested against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk in Jackson, Tupelo, Gulfport and Hattiesburg.

Hundreds of Mississippi residents protested against President Donald Trump and
billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday in Jackson, Tupelo, Gulfport and Hattiesburg.