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This would be a huge scandal for any other president. A South Korean company challenging Commerce Department trade penalties paid Donald Trump’s holding company $2,000,000 last year.

✊⚖️ "I Am Somebody!" 🌟 🕊️ Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1972 Sesame Street

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules. The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.

Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky. That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces. remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social would benefit from studying @kenjennings.bsky.social ‘s approach to encroaching clouds of nihilism - educational and effective without the grouchy old man vibe.

This makes it feel personal… www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

The mayor of Akron, Ohio. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It was such a pleasure being a guest on "Math-Life Balance", a podcast devoted to interviews with mathematicians. Mura Yakerson is a fantastic interviewer! Check out our chat at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8F... #mathsky

Martin Gregus Jr. Cinematographer 📸GEO, National Geographic, BBC 🎥Netflix, Disney, Discovery "I often get asked if my images are real; if the flowers are really that purple, if the bears are often that calm. Well if you were wondering here is a little video from my most famous image."

Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

My fav funny guy…

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

Reported earlier today that a new DOGEr, Roland Tenglong Shen, who works at Thiel-backed payments company Ramp, is now at Treasury's central payments hub. A request for comment through LinkedIn went unanswered and now Shen's LinkedIn profile has disappeared. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...

'Bizarre': Scientists stunned as Trump turns Covid website 'into a conspiracy theory page' www.alternet.org/trump-conspi...

So much contained in these three paragraphs in the NYT:

Worried: Timothy Snyder predicts that Trump's admin, having created terrorist opportunity, will absolutely take full advantage of one: Posted April 19: The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After

I gift this NYT piece by David French, so that all can read. “Millions of Americans are desperate for a quick and effective response to Trump’s attacks on the Constitution. But the election foreclosed that possibility. The courts — even if they have the courage — lack the power to save America.

I am disappointed that today I’m paying taxes to fund government efforts to stop preventing disease and starvation overseas rather than paying taxes to support government efforts to prevent disease and starvation overseas.

Steal Away (1980) Robbie Dupree

This is wild, fascinating and genuinely important. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

China has offloaded $50 Billion in US Treasury bonds & limited further purchase of Dollars. Meanwhile, an anonymous buyer is purchasing European Bonds.

I♥️NY

I will pay any tariff for a framed copy of this

If you haven’t read this yet, you should. Trigger warning: absolutely disgusting, but top tier work by photojournalist Philip Holsinger. This is one for the history books. /cc @sandibachom.bsky.social

It all makes sense if the end game is creating the Network State. This video was created 3 months ago. Events are unfolding as planned. If legit, a large coalition of citizens would be against it… if they knew about it. Share and spread the word! youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

Right-wing venture capitalists in the tech industry seek to compromise the US government, to assume a new level of power and wealth, and attain forms of legal, economic and regulatory sovereignty, where they can operate outside of any other nation-state power. www.vcinfodocs.com/day-one-of-v...

4 days ago I shared a @ryanmcbeth.bsky.social video with a friend who was concerned about Livelsberger’s final letter. By sharing I implied, “don’t worry, they’re lying”. She then texted me, “That makes me feel better. I hope he’s right.” Today she texted me “Whoops” 🙄 youtu.be/8JilWrV5mdo?...