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The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start revenue service along the Northeast Corridor on Thursday.

In any other era, Congress would have opened an investigation into this. The corruption that we are witnessing is staggering. This is Ben Ali’s level of corruption and abuse of power.

The Trump admin said it would go after violent immigrants but they are giving this guy: *an early release from prison *a promise not to be deported for at least a year *a work permit

sick stuff.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses. #NoKings

F#ck. “A provision ‘hidden’ in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including SCOTUS—from enforcing their orders *** The provision ‘would make most existing injunctions…unenforceable,’” per the dean of UC Berkeley Law School. 5/22/25

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

This headline from the Times:

There are two Americas.

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

There is no strict Constitutional prohibition against sending four-year-old cancer victims with American citizenship to die in Honduras. So it's hard to see what liberals are so upset about. by Jonathan Turley

🚨🚨🚨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.

We need to sue Musk to recoup the hundreds of billions he has cost taxpayers.

And is this? Just questions... nypost.com/2025/04/18/u...

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Amid concerns that the Trump administration seeks to privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, Omeed Malik—who reportedly belongs to the secretive Rockbridge Network (which is reportedly backed by Peter Thiel)—has been appointed to the Board of Fannie Mae. 1/

Y’all are wild

Happy 250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord from the Supreme Court of the United States

The National Intelligence Council determined in a secret assessment that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s public statements.

Police officers entered a woman's restroom to arrest a transgender woman who was washing her hands. She was taken to a men's jail and charged with trespassing. She faces up to 60 days if convicted. This isn't about safety, it's about cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-woma...

Goldman devotes a report to foreign boycotts of US goods. 🇺🇸 “.. this headwind provides an additional reason why US GDP growth will likely underperform consensus expectations in 2025. “.. Foreign Sentiment Towards the US Has Declined Sharply”

1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece 2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words ew.com/kenan-thomps...

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.

The Commerce Secretary of the US is telling people to go out and buy stock in a specific company on national television.

“Polestar wants to deliver the final blow. … Polestar is offering anyone who owns or leases a Tesla $5,000 off a lease on a brand new Polestar 3. Combined with their latest $15,000 Polestar Clean Vehicle Incentive, any Tesla driver can buy a Polestar 3 for a whopping $20,000 off.”

abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

Remember when the Washington Post refused to endorse Kamala Harris

tesla just speedrunning into enron territory

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented. But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

I think it’s fair to assert that no Congress before the Trump era would have failed to investigate such cartoonish corruption.

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Understand that this El Salvador gulag deportation was done partly in order to make the fascist video that the president now transmits, with his fascist message. The cameras are all set up in advance.

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Pence got cold feet after tweeting 🤣

Report: Musk’s grandfather’s political movement wanted technocrats to rule the whole North American land mass from Panama to Canada newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/tec...

Generally not a fan of Nicholas Kristof but he's a sound person to track the deaths that Elon claims haven't occurred on his watch. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Don’t worry there was nothing nefarious going on, we have a very good explanation. Our concentration camps are just overcrowded and infested with disease.

Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that, under the Trump administration, “the FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general, & the Treasury Dept have all requested that the bank freeze accounts of several nonprofits” (including Habitat for Humanity) & “state government agencies.” 3/13/25

One very telling detail from Khalil's arrest: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69719...

NOW: They waited until late to drop this little nugget. Look what they're downsizing now:

We had to collect 180K signatures to put proposition A on the ballot to increase minimum wage to $13.75 and guarantee sick pay for Missourians. The measure won. Just now, the Missouri House voted to overturn our will. Without signatures…with a vote. They do the bidding of the wealthy.