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The Padilla detainment is awful but don’t miss that Noem promised to “liberate” California from the elected officials they chose.

I know these comparisons are tiring but:

Imagine if the Secret Service and FBi wrestled Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley to the ground and cuffed them for interrupting Sec. Mayorkas speaking at a press conference?! The impeachment articles would fly!

And in fact, they DID impeach Mayorkas for less….

Trump makes false claims of white genocide in South Africa during Ramaphosa meeting U.S. President Donald Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

1/ Good debunking

"Trump played a video clip that showed a long line of white crosses on the side of a highway, which Trump said were 'burial sites for white farmers.
The video was made in...during a protest against farm murders after two people were killed...The crosses did not mark actual graves"

Opinion | Harvard Has Taken an Important Step. Here Is What Must Follow. The university’s willingness to stand up to the Trump administration can be a model.

Harvard’s example should embolden other universities, states fighting coercive cutoffs of federal aid, law firms facing the president’s campaign of retribution, groups
challenging unlawful actions in court, and ultimately voters at the ballot box. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

Trump officials admitted to an “administrative error” when they deported Abrego Garcia — a legal resident with no criminal record.

A judge ordered Garcia be returned, but Trump is fighting it in court.

Garcia now sits in a prison in El Salvador.

The cruelty is staggering.

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Oh it’ll find a bottom alright.

Tfw the markets open

Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

The North Carolina appeals court’s decision in Republican challenges against incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in the state’s Supreme Court race last year is “like dropping a match in a really dry forest.,” she told Democracy Docket in an interview Friday.

NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business.

Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25

the president himself is off to a golf event.

Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.

Dr. Peter Marks, who is leaving his FDA post on Saturday after he was offered the choice to resign or be fired, described Kennedy’s tenure to date as “very scary” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—

Oh.

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social --

Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

obscene lying from Stephen Miller on Fox News as he claims the economy was in "depression" thanks to Biden when Trump took office (the American economy was in fact the envy of the world three months ago ... )

Congress, how bad does it have to get before you step up and put an end to the insanity?

Oh, to have to confidence of a Trump supporter who has no clue what she’s talking about.

"Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're rein ating them. And that was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes," Kennedy said, speaking to reporters at a stop in Virginia. Kennedy said that the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's entire Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch was among the mistakes.

Sounds super efficient!!

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE

This was before the tariffs

It's just...unbelievable

newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

The Trump Administration admits to an “oversight” in the deportation to the mega-prison in El Salvador an immigrant who has PROTECTED LEGAL STATUS since 2019…

But now claims: “Oops, we can’t bring him back.”

Making Calls for Susan Crawford, Trump's Madness and Buffoonery Has Become Impossible To Ignore, Booker Goes All Night For America Paid Subscribers Gather Wed at 7pm ET, Founding Members Friday at 1pm ET

From Hopium:
- Election Day! Join the Hopium community in making calls for Susan Crawford
- Trump’s madness/buffoonery becoming harder to ignore, Rs clearly getting uncomfortable, jittery now
- @booker.senate.gov fights for America on the Senate floor
More 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/making-cal...

To be clear: Trump did not merely say he was indifferent to higher car prices resulting from his auto tariffs ("couldn't care less"). He also said he *hopes* auto companies raise prices

Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.

As we all suspected:

"Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations."

🎶One of these is not like the others....

Justice Dept. Refuses to Give Judge Flight Data, Citing State Secrets The extraordinary move by the Justice Department was an escalation of its conflict with the judge in the case and, by extension, the federal judiciary.

Here you have it. The problem is they now have the credibility of a used car salesman, or the President of the United States. They didn’t even mention state secrets until their 3rd or 4th attempt at evasion. Scoundrels.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

In addition to her 11 hour testimony on Benghazi, 3 committees held hearings on Hillary Clinton’s email servers. I wonder how many hearings will address the latest breach of war plans?

One astounding thing abt Whiskey Pete trying to lie his way through this: He had hours and hours on the plane to Hawaii -- where he was probably texting with others about this -- to think up a way to deal with this and STILL faceplanted immediately.

Ooopsie