John Legend

John Legend

@johnlegend.bsky.social

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Powerful story about the mistreatment of the Haitian immigrants in my hometown of Springfield, Ohio. We can’t look away from this

Zeteo@zeteo.com

Trump and MAGA have waged a campaign of racist lies and fear on Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community — from ICE raids to the president’s destruction of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). @swin24.bsky.social reports on the crackdown that is unlike anything else. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...

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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Nick Kapur@nickkapur.bsky.social

Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.

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I marched in the streets of NYC in protest as we were on the verge of the disastrous war in Iraq 20+ years ago. It was so obvious then and is so obvious now. These MFers are lying to us.

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I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.

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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

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The most dangerous man in US history?

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere.  Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines  Trump: The bar is what I think it is.

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By the hour, Donald Trump makes it clearer he is the most dangerous political leader in our history, the greatest threat America faces.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social

Sending the National Guard into LA, sending masked thugs into US cities, sending tanks to parade through DC next weekend--they are all ominous signs about the kind of country our wannabe dictator is working towards. There's much worse to come. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bondi on Boasberg: "Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador. He cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over ... going forward, these terrorists better look out."

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Reminder: If they can lie that they're violent and disappear them, they can lie that you're violent and disappear you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bondi on Boasberg: "Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador. He cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over ... going forward, these terrorists better look out."

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“He’s been talking about it…” Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985. And it shows.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years. You gotta trust Donald Trump in the White House ... it's broken. Let him fix it ... Let Donald Trump fix the American economy."

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Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP

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This is morally indefensible and strategically bankrupt. It’s just letting people die on purpose and it makes us weaker in every way.

Jeremy Konyndyk@jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

This is insane. Apartheid Clyde is trying to live out his white supremacist fever dreams

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Ethnic cleansing shamelessly encouraged by the United States President.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Van Hollen: "He just said that it will be US policy to forcibly displace 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. That is ethnic cleansing by another name. He said the US would then own the Gaza Strip and we would develop it and other countries would take these Palestinians."

This is major. We also need Democratic leadership to tell us what the people can do to reject this unlawful attack on our government

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

Congratulations to all of our big winners at the Grammys tonight! We finally have a Beyonce Album of the Year! It’s about time! And Not Like Us won Video, Song and Record of the year.

Not Like Us wins were a stunning sweep for a single not attached to a nominated album. A dis record, no less! I love being a fan of both Kendrick and Beyonce. They never disappoint.

I don’t think we have ever had such a robust, thoroughly awesome slate of Best New Artist candidates at any Grammy ceremony I’ve seen. The performances by all of them were incredible!

All Mitch had to do was summon up a conviction in DJT’s impeachment after he encouraged a fucking insurrection. We would have been done with DJT forever.

Harry Dunn@libradunn1.bsky.social

Aside from Donald, the person i despise most in this world is Mitch McConnell. Donald Trump is president because of this asshole... McConnell solely could have kept him out of the white house. I hate him

DJT literally made racial attacks against Mitch’s wife. Mitch could have saved the country from the guy who personally attacked his wife. But no. What a sad group of “leaders” we have in this country.

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

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