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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

nytimes.comHegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon OfficeThe app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.

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Where’s @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social ? Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident of NY—your constituent. You weren’t part of the delegation that showed up—so what are you doing to make this right and to stop innocent people from being snatched off NY streets w/out due process?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

THIS is what we mean by showing up. Reps Carter, Thompson, Pressley and Sen Markey, went to a detention center where Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk are being held w/out due process. They didn’t just stand up for their own constituents—they stood together for all because there’s power in numbers.

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So proud of our colleagues for fighting!

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social

Fearing that government information about vaccines & vaccination policy may be corrupted under an anti-vax health secretary, some public health leaders are exploring how to safeguard the enterprise of vaccinations in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/v...

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The staff is knifing Pete every night now

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal — the commercially available messaging app — on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, illustrating the extent to which he has integrated use of unclassified communications into his work. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

nytimes.comTrump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His MemecoinThe offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.

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Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.

propublica.orgTrump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and MoreBy slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

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This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great. Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

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Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut. Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty. Call your reps.

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My next town hall is tomorrow at 7 PM in Cherry Hill. Looking forward to hearing from neighbors in Camden County and talking through a lot of what's on our minds right now for NJ and our country.

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Abrego Garcia has never even been charged with a crime. Donald Trump, in contrast, has been convicted, by a jury, of 34 felonies.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Leavitt lies about Abrego Garcia: "He is a foreign terrorist and criminal MS-13 gang member ... shame on Senator Chris Van Hollen and the entire Democrat Party who wasted Easter Sunday going on every TV show in the country to advocate for the return of an illegal criminal gang member."

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Boo hoo poor Elon, he really thinks he can just walk away after all the damage he did. The world won’t rest until everything around him crashes and he ends up the poorest man in the world. There will be no forgiveness. Musk should just flee back to South Africa. #endoligarchy #teslatakedown

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives got mad because they thought women were having babies to get cash

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The Trump administration is assessing ways to persuade women in the U.S. to have more children, as a movement grows on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values. Some pitched ideas include cash baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes. nyti.ms/4jh3UAR

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Trump’s Education Department will begin collection next month on federal student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for up to 5.3 million borrowers. That change will mark an end to a period of leniency that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.

apnews.comStudent loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department saysThe Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.