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I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

According to Brad Lander, he has been detained by the IDF in the West Bank alongside rabbis and volunteers who were helping Palestinians with the olive harvest. This is an American citizen, a future member of Congress and a member of the Jewish diaspora www.instagram.com/p/DewMih2xoK...

What we’ve suspected for a while. 🤔

I did not have former governor Chris Christie blasting Tom Emmer and ABC News for malpractice re airing blatant lies with zero pushback from Jonathan Karl on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on my 2026 bingo card.

We all need to refer to Trump as the Sadist in Chief.

FUCK ICE

How is this okay? Multiple masked men in plain clothing shoving a woman into an unmarked white van. STOP THE KIDNAPPING.

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

No joke, the national security adviser of the Emirati government is financially backing Trump's new crypto bank (!) How is this not a BIGGER story? From Zeteo's 'First Draft' morning newsletter:

A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.

Hanging? We need to call this what it is: LYNCHING. Ten Black Americans in less than two years. Every one of these deaths deserves answers, transparency, and scrutiny. No one should look at these images and expect Black Americans to shrug this off, especially in light of our history.

When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't. He stayed and pulled men out of burning water. He was 24 when he was killed. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

Every politician that accepts AIPAC $ must be questioned about this. 😡 F ing lobbyists too.

Tens of thousands of people in Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines. Schools remain closed and businesses have been unable to reopen. n.pr/4xXEmQy

Horrific… Virginia… meidasnews.com/news/lawyer-...

Ryan Bradley, the executive director of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United, said opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in 2019 has negatively impacted fishermen and the seafood industry on the Gulf Coast. After having more than 2,000 commercial shrimpers 20 years ago, today there are only 200.

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When you set quotas for arrests, you get things like this: ICE "re-arresting" people at check-ins, because those count towards their daily quotas.

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

Hey everyone, teacher here in a low income school, I just found out that I was switched from 4th to 2nd grade. I want to cry. I have nothing for that grade and was not expecting this. Its all for the kids. Please consider looking and sharing. It all helps. Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

It's already Todd Blanche's legacy that he protected Donald Trump & and the Epstein Class over female victims of sex abuse. Tell your Senators not to make it theirs, too.

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Help me here. How can I find out how many immigration centers are in the state of Louisiana and who owns them? We must do a better job of drawing attention to these abuses.

Beyond horrific

If you’re scared of a goldendoodle in a Knicks jersey you should not be allowed to carry a gun or be a cop

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@brianbeutler.bsky.social: "There should be consequences for people who use speech to undermine democracy," just like there are for speech that defrauds investors or deceives LEOs. I love this. You lie about elections, you're barred from running for anything. Ever. www.offmessage.net/p/disqualify...

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Izzy Aly, Egyptian-born engineer caught in the hell of immigration detention, is begging for medical care for his failing kidneys, even as his urine turns red Aly is the poster child for the growing humanitarian crisis inside ICE detention. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

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🔥MUST-WATCH: “You’re all cowards. I do not forgive you. Thank you for teaching me no one will stand up for me besides myself.” The 🦸🏻‍♀️student Keith Ervin called “hot” shows the WASHINGTON COUNTY school board 🐔 what real leadership looks like. emails: www.wcde.org/page/school-...

How do we know the US is becoming a kleptocratic oligarchy Over the past six months or so, Amazon has laid off about 30,000 workers But Jeff Bezos still has so much money that he can spend $10-20 million, without even thinking about it, so he and his wife can be honorary co-chairs at the Met Gala

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The Epstein Class

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

The Absolute Opposite of What They Should Be Doing….

Wendy Vega Lores dreams of becoming a pediatrician. She finished high school in two years and began intensive prep to become a doctor. She has a pending asylum case. On her 19th birthday, ICE detained her anyway. She has been locked away for 10 months.

A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is so heinous, I do not know what to say. This shit devastates me. Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Charges against penis lady did not stand. 🍆😂

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.