The White House uses known and unrepentant Russian asset Tim Pool to own and troll the libz regarding El Salvador: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lngbixovl22x
Trump is gonna attempt to turn the State Department into a deep state personality cult to him: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/22/us/trump-administration-news
I don't know why they think saying the Pentagon is against us is a winning argument: https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-are-lying-karoline-leavitt-says-the-entire-pentagon-is-working-against-pete-hegseth-in-shocking-fox-news-hit/
Meanwhile, Noem had her purse, passport, security badge, and 3K stolen on Sunday night: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/kristi-noem-purse-stolen.html
This is probably shrill and considered gauche by the very serious people but I expect at some point RFK Jr is going to actually substantially mess with the childhood vaccine schedule as well as do other things that impede public health especially with regard to MRNA vaccines. He has already pulled us from working on the 2025 flu vaccines which will make them less effective worldwide.
I have a thought game about what is going to be the breaking straw for blue state politicians to get them to actually start wondering if ignoring the Supremacy Clause is their best option. RFK Jr messing with the Childhood Vaccine Schedule might get them to set up the Blue State compact FDA
The Supreme Court has stopped deportations to El Salvador for now in a very out of character ruling issued at 1:00 a.m. EST
This is the 250th Anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Once again, the Old North Church hangs its lanterns: https://www.instagram.com/p/DInYck_OPPD/
1. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
2. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
3. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
4. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
5. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
6. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
7. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Chris is right. This is more than an immigration issue. It is a basic due process issue. Also the polling indicates that Trump's oppressive heavy-handedness on this has reversed polling from being in his favor.
The polling on immigration was always more nuanced than believed
1. There is no evidence besides the Trump administration and Bukele and online right-wingers saying so that he is a gang member. And pardon me but the "evidence" used so far to transport people to Bukele's gulag is risible and worthy of nothing but heaps of contempt. It is going to take a lot to get me to give credence to Trump, Musk, Bondi, Miller, and their enablers in the lying and propaganda-filled right-wing press.
2. There is a specific legal order that he cannot be sent back to El Salvador.
3. He married an American woman, has three special needs kids, and raises them well on a small amount as far as I can tell.
4. There is such a thing as compassion and mercy in justice.
"The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to
terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove “by a preponderance of evidence” that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?"
Now is not the time for being in a mushy middle, it only aides and abets Trump and his goons.
The Fourth Circuit disagrees: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/17/us/trump-news-updates
A federal appeals court has shot down an effort by the Justice Department to stop Judge Paula Xinis from conducting an investigation into whether the Trump administration violated court orders to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a prison in El Salvador.
In a strongly worded order, a three-judge panel said the government’s request to bar Judge Xinis from opening her inquiry was “both extraordinary and premature.”
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter,” one of the judges, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, wrote. “But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.”
I agree. Trump's basic MO is one of a third rate mafia boss shaking down for extortion money and his primary fanbase seem to be the kind of people that do not understand Scarface was not an instruction manual
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On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
The question answers itself
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The White House uses known and unrepentant Russian asset Tim Pool to own and troll the libz regarding El Salvador: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lngbixovl22x
On “Back When Patriots Opposed Kings”
Fun fact, most of the offenses applied to King George III in the Declaration of Independence also apply to Trump and Co. Try it sometime
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
Trump is gonna attempt to turn the State Department into a deep state personality cult to him: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/22/us/trump-administration-news
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It does in Jaybird's magical mystical realm where very right-wing meme has the power of ten trillion hydrogen bombs
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Except when it keeps getting in the public record
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I don't know why they think saying the Pentagon is against us is a winning argument: https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-are-lying-karoline-leavitt-says-the-entire-pentagon-is-working-against-pete-hegseth-in-shocking-fox-news-hit/
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Meanwhile, Noem had her purse, passport, security badge, and 3K stolen on Sunday night: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/kristi-noem-purse-stolen.html
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This is probably shrill and considered gauche by the very serious people but I expect at some point RFK Jr is going to actually substantially mess with the childhood vaccine schedule as well as do other things that impede public health especially with regard to MRNA vaccines. He has already pulled us from working on the 2025 flu vaccines which will make them less effective worldwide.
I have a thought game about what is going to be the breaking straw for blue state politicians to get them to actually start wondering if ignoring the Supremacy Clause is their best option. RFK Jr messing with the Childhood Vaccine Schedule might get them to set up the Blue State compact FDA
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Hegseth might be on the way out: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
Trump's plan to drastically overhaul the State Department which includes:
1. Severely limiting our presence in Canada because Canada are being meanies;
2. Ending our presence in Sub-Saharan Africa because of Apartheid Boy;
3. Ending the Foreign Service exam and creating a Trumpist personality cult entrance system
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
The Supreme Court has stopped deportations to El Salvador for now in a very out of character ruling issued at 1:00 a.m. EST
This is the 250th Anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Once again, the Old North Church hangs its lanterns: https://www.instagram.com/p/DInYck_OPPD/
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Do you know who you are dealing with in terms of monomania?
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No, they didn't.
If anything, they took one issue where Trump had a slight advantage and lit on fire like they always do.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-immigration-polls-2060973
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1. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
2. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
3. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
4. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
5. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
6. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
7. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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The sweeping humanism of the Trump admin: https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-trolls-kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-el-salvador/
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And I should give this addle-paddled conspiracy sh+t deference and respect because?
We are not exactly talking about a crew known for their veracity and trustworthiness.
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Chris is right. This is more than an immigration issue. It is a basic due process issue. Also the polling indicates that Trump's oppressive heavy-handedness on this has reversed polling from being in his favor.
The polling on immigration was always more nuanced than believed
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1. There is no evidence besides the Trump administration and Bukele and online right-wingers saying so that he is a gang member. And pardon me but the "evidence" used so far to transport people to Bukele's gulag is risible and worthy of nothing but heaps of contempt. It is going to take a lot to get me to give credence to Trump, Musk, Bondi, Miller, and their enablers in the lying and propaganda-filled right-wing press.
2. There is a specific legal order that he cannot be sent back to El Salvador.
3. He married an American woman, has three special needs kids, and raises them well on a small amount as far as I can tell.
4. There is such a thing as compassion and mercy in justice.
"The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to
terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove “by a preponderance of evidence” that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?"
Now is not the time for being in a mushy middle, it only aides and abets Trump and his goons.
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He doesn't belong in El Salvador
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1. Van Hollen managed to meet with Garcia in a hotel. Bukele and/ Trump are frightened.
2. David Brooks used his column to call for an uprising/Aux Armes, Citoyens
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In response to the 4th Circuit, Pam Bondi promoted Garcia to being an MS13 gang leader. They have unlimited supplies of chutzpah and mendacity.
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Notice how it only becomes a white wing cause celeb when a white person is allegedly attacked by a non-white person or undocumented immigrant.
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The Fourth Circuit disagrees: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/17/us/trump-news-updates
A federal appeals court has shot down an effort by the Justice Department to stop Judge Paula Xinis from conducting an investigation into whether the Trump administration violated court orders to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a prison in El Salvador.
In a strongly worded order, a three-judge panel said the government’s request to bar Judge Xinis from opening her inquiry was “both extraordinary and premature.”
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter,” one of the judges, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, wrote. “But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.”
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I agree. Trump's basic MO is one of a third rate mafia boss shaking down for extortion money and his primary fanbase seem to be the kind of people that do not understand Scarface was not an instruction manual
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