David Goldstein

It’s time to “stop arguing about when the crisis begins and start marshaling the will to end it.” @jenrubin.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org

Un-freaking-believable.

See it for yourself at Covid.gov.

Right? It’s the first time in a long while that I’ve felt that lump of patriotic pride in my throat.

April 17, 2025 Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...

If you’d prefer to read @hcrichardson.bsky.social eloquent speech, she shared it in last night’s Letters from an American: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Lantern Service The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea”…

Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

April 17, 2025 Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...

“There seems to be a change in the air.”

This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

I have wondered this myself. It would certainly explain the stubborn refusal of both governments to even provide any information about him.

Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy

WTAF?? Watch the entire video. This was a warrantless state-sponsored kidnapping without cause and without a warrant or even a semblance of due process.

Putting this marker down.

'Out of our hands': The most dangerous lie in Trump’s deportation doctrine The stalling—thinly disguised as deliberation—only reinforces the truth. The refusal is political.

Kilmar Abrego García, a lawful U.S. resident, was detained by ICE—then deported to El Salvador. Despite the Trump administration’s admission of error, little is being done to secure his return to the States. As Brian O’Neill explains, the authority to bring him home exists. The refusal is political.

If what Trump said in the Oval Office today doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is.

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

Yes!

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.

He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.

He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.

He’s defying the Supreme Court.

Don’t you see what’s happening here?

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

“Homegrowns” = US citizens.

CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like.

This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets?

It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.

Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

No basis?

Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash.

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What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

🚨THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE🚨

Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:

I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.

The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.

How do you know when it’s time to leave?

Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings' ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations

5/ source: azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

4/ Then sending them off to El Salvador without due process, and asserting (as the government has already done) that they are beyond the reach of US courts so nothing can be done about it.

If they can do this with “illegals”, they can do it with any citizen they don’t like, too.

3/ Now comes this sick vision for a dystopian future, straight from the mouth of the acting director of ICE: squads of trucks across the country, operated by private contractors, rounding up immigrants for deportation “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

2/ It’s just like what we are seeing from this Republican administration: a frustration with the current “slow” pace of deportations.