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PBS News
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Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling.

buff.lyMost U.S. adults think abortion should be legal 3 years after Roe was overturned, poll showsThe new findings from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll show that about two-thirds of U.S. adults think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

melmiceli.bsky.social
@melmiceli.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

mobilize.usOne Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No KingsAcross the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

mobilize.usOne Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No KingsAcross the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

washingtonpost.comNIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

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stephen fowler
@stphnfwlr.com

Replying to @stphnfwlr.com

It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.

npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway.bsky.social

A very, very good question.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social

Is there any link between the Trump admin’s “deal” with El Salvador and Bukele’s plan for a “Bitcoin City,” which was going to be scaled back in order to receive loans from the IMF — and Trump admin’s plans to use gold reserves to buy Bitcoin? Or all just coincidence theweek.com/business/eco...

theweek.comThe collapse of El Salvador's bitcoin dreamCentral American nation rolls back its controversial, world-first cryptocurrency laws

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Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
@axidentaliberal.bsky.social

I cannot overstate how despicable the Mahmoud Khalil case is The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police

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Philip Gourevitch
@pgourevitch.bsky.social

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant DetentionA request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

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Paula Poundstone
@paulapoundstone.bsky.social

It is my hope that this photo follows him wherever he goes.

Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social

It’s not complex. People can see with their eyes. He’s repellent to voters due to a toxic combination of exhausting amounts of cringe (see cheese head hat), desperate thirstiness (that fatal “hey, look at me mommy” vibe) and irritating arrogance (he’s not even from this school)

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway.bsky.social

Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”

jsonline.comBice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'Elon Musk's super PAC removed an X video from a $1M giveaway winner in which she said she received the money, in part, to 'vote.'

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Reuters
@reuters.com

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

reut.rsCosta Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visaFormer Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."

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Evan McMurry
@evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration has acknowledged that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father with protected status to El Salvador—but claims that the courts cannot order him back. A @nickmiroff.bsky.social exclusive:

theatlantic.comAn ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran PrisonThe Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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Joyce White Vance
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

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Jeff Sharlet
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

nytimes.com‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.

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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

reuters.comExclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources sayPresident Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.

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Phil Williams
@philinvestigates.com

"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

cbc.caANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC NewsPossibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

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Lynne
@lynne-sails.bsky.social

Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are.

Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com

A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

jsonline.comMilwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the languageAs Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently.

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Mark Cuban
@mcuban.bsky.social

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

wunc.orgUSDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banksThe USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

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Sen. Adam Schiff
@schiff.senate.gov

I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

open.substack.comMy Vote on the GOP Spending BillI'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight.