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ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”

@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Gov. JB Pritzker

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk.

Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

When you’re getting lectured by the <checks notes> German government on failing to account for the dangers posed by right-wing extremism, it might be time to take a seat.

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR D CK A handbook for survival in the digital world JESS DAVIES

Something I have always been aware of but apparently some men less so - reading @jess-davies.Sky.social ‘s new book

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m.

#richkid
#amateur

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

Repenser les identités reçues Sébastien Ricard présente un premier texte théâtral, « La chouette », inspiré par Paul B. Preciado et Jean Morisset.

Repenser les identités reçues www.ledevoir.com/culture/thea...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

Canada needs to reign in our American influenced/owned corporate media.
We are trying to distance ourselves from them.
Having them control the message, while we try. Is counter intuitive.
We must give Mark Carney a majority government to achieve this.
#cdnpoli #ElbowsUp

Scores of transgender Americans seeking route to Canada, including through asylum claims Ottawa under pressure to follow European countries’ lead and issue travel advisory about transgender Canadians visiting the U.S.

Globe&Mail [Apr 15] -- Canadian immigration lawyers being inundated by trans Americans seeking to move to country as it moves closer to issuing a travel advisory warning its own trans citizens of possible persecution if they go to US. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

(Bloomberg) - 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 elevated.

@bloomberg.com
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Sooner or later, we're ALL going to be Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Charlie Angus brings the Resistance to Edmonton, rips into Trump, Poilievre, Smith, Moe, Manning and Maple MAGA - Alberta Politics Charlie Angus may be retiring from federal politics, but there’s nothing retiring about the veteran New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay who showed up in Edmonton Sunday afternoon on the latest stop ...

The resistance is shaking things up in the heart of MAGA MAPLE.
Albertans are strong for Canada.

albertapolitics.ca/2025/04/char...

a lady in a wheelchair holding a mass deportation now sign

i think about this photo a lot

Bingo

Trump announces pause in ‘reciprocal’ tariffs for all countries but China Stock markets soared. Tumult in bond markets had raised fears that the United States may be in the early stages of financial turmoil.

The opportunity for insider trading and deep corruption with this gyrating nonsense is vast, as the massive stupidity and unquenchable greed of Trump and his minions competes for dominance. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

FUNDSTRAT tonight:

“.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

“The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” - @mashagessen.bsky.social

What a fucking dope.

This man is a mendacious clown. Let’s be clear he has always been one.

“Ideologies injure our brains and bodies”—an interview with Leor Zmigrod In her new book, the neuroscientist relates how our minds shape—and are shaped by—our beliefs

Are rigid brains drawn to rigid ideologies?

Peter Hoskin explores Leor Zmigrod’s fascinating new book THE IDEOLOGICAL brain, which reveals the neuroscientific foundations of our political beliefs and why extremists think differently: www.prospectmagazine...