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So... If you want to fight the #tariffs, see how #Canada responded by selectively punishing #Bourbon because it was produced in the red state of Kentucky. Half of the Republican votes against the Canadian tariffs were from Kentucky.
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This is why when MAGA says it wants to make all of the USA in its own image we have to protect ourselves and our children by saying, "No. No, fucking, no! You crazy, incompetent, crazy loons."

IRS nearing agreement to use its data to help ICE locate undocumented migrants | CNN Politics The IRS is close to finalizing an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to help locate migrants suspected of being in the US illegally, a person familiar with the matter said, as Presiden...

So.. undocumented migrants can either pay US taxes and get busted by ICE or not pay taxes, get busted by the IRS and ICE.
Damned if you do damned if you don't, one more time.
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It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.

If Trump and Musk were actively trying to kill the American scientific golden goose and chase all the talent and the next Intel and Google into free Europe, this would be a good way to do it.

A great poem laying out the challenge posed to higher ed by AI.
A great artist can draw a perfect circle, but she can choose to draw wild imperfections to suit her artistic intentions. If she can't draw a circle can she really appreciate the nature of her own wild imperfections?

Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government's online locator for detainees.

"U.S. officials acknowledged in a court filing Monday that many people sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records..."

A travesty... When our #ICE treats people inhumanely we lose some of our humanity.

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One of the key pillars of authoritarianism is muzzling intellectuals and experts, leaving no one credible to point out faults in the administration's claims.

We're on a fast track to dictatorship, and that's not hyperbole in the slightest.

At what point do scientists of NIH leave like the German scientists of WW2? Europe already supports Higher Ed better than the US.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the billionaire tech bro's watched a brain drain go to European companies like #Mitral-AI

Where scientists go innovation follows.

YouTube video by The Bulwark Venezuelan Deportations Are EVIL, DYSTOPIAN And Extremely UN-AMERICAN

Venezuelan Deportations Are EVIL, DYSTOPIAN And Extremely UN-AMERICAN.

Tim Miller and I discuss.

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Now Trump wants to come for anyone, including naturalized U.S. Citizens?

Deport traitors to democracies worldwide, Melania and Elon, and keep the hard-working immigrants who love this country and keep it moving.

He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

There is no reason to believe only "the bad" migrants are being targeted.
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Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants even as judge orders that removals be stopped The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

It has begun. Trump defies judge to disappear 250 migrants to El Salvador while improper ICE detentions rise.

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This awful law was used to intern Japanese-Americans during WWII for which the US Government later apologized and paid reparations. Using this antiquated law today, given its history, is horrific! Will they soon use torture (e.g., water-boarding) on Americans to locate “aliens?”

A looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates The long-predicted downturn in the number of 18-year-olds is almost here. And it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy.

The attacks on academia will be compounded by the looming college student enrollment cliff. Why aren't more people talking about this??? www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n... #college #university #academia

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

This is effective.

"leaves out emergency funding for disasters" What about hurricanes?

After House vote on bill to avert shutdown, Senate Democrats face 'stark' choice House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government through the end of September 2025. The measure now heads to the Senate, where Democrats face a "stark" choice.

Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the lone Democrat who voted for Trump's CR to fund the government.
#DINO

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Elon Musk Blames X Outage on 'Massive Cyberattack' A 'pro-Palestinian hacktivist group' known as Dark Storm takes responsibility for the DDoS attack, which started early Monday morning.

First #spacex creates debris, then the #X gets cyber attacked. #Musk is getting some deserved attention. #Doge #xitter
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Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China WASHINGTON—Promising a glorious future marked by limitless prosperity for the East Asian nation, President Donald Trump outlined a bold vision Tuesday night for a golden age of China. “Under my leadership, a prosperous new era of Chinese dominance will begin, the likes of which have never been seen before,” Trump said in an address to […]

Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China
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DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for TSA’s Transportation Security Officers, Enhancing Safety, Efficiency, and Organizational Agility | Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Transportation Security Officers, which has constrained TS...

Homeland Security is saying the #TSA union is now dead.

An employer saying your union is dead seems like a call for a strike.

Maybe we need a #NationalStrike? I'd love to hear this discussed @gtconway.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @thebulwark.bsky.social

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SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure | TechCrunch SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has

Musk creates debris everywhere he goes. #doge #spacex
The FAA halted flights in Florida because of his “space launch debris.”
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Coincidence?
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@gtconway.bsky.social what can be done to make sure Trump doesn't get asylum in Russia after his term ends? I suspect nothing. If there is some way to block his asylum then he'll REALLY try for a third term.

Musk wants our data to train his AI. So he fires the tech experts that are government generalists who would recognize what he is doing from inside the gov. Kudos to @karaswisher.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social for seeing this pattern early and talking about it.

Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

I don't understand why senators aren't retiring en masse when they see Trump destroying things that they have previously supported... #Ukraine, #FBI, #HHS.
Here is how to do it.
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Old Man's Son Also Old Man

Old Man's Son Also Old Man

Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declassified and publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his ...

Why does AG Bondi want us to know Jeffrey Epstein's contact book includes the president, Ivana, Ivanka and brother Robert?
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JB Pritzer NAILED it!

"We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one."