Well played, Gemini

"No more wars" is the easiest political statement to take, especially now. The population overwhelmingly agrees with it, it is morally clear and easy to describe

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article) When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

Here’s a video of Bernie Sanders 21 years ago explaining how the Republicans win even though no one likes their policies.

How Republicans split and divide and win.

#MomSky
#Voices4Victory

SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.

Jeferson Escalona, who DHS said was a “self-admitted” member of Tren de Aragua: "They're making false accusations about me. I don't belong to any gang." W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Aerial photo of the Dachau concentration camp

Crowds of prisoners of Dachau standing in front of the line of barracks. The fence of the camp is visible on the left.

29 April 1945 | The US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany which became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camps system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered there.

After Pressuring Ukraine for Peace Deal, Trump Finally Sees Obstacle in Russia President Trump’s inability to halt the war in Ukraine after promising to do so quickly has left him increasingly frustrated. The question now is whether he is willing to press Moscow for concessions…

President Trump’s inability to halt the war in Ukraine after promising to do so quickly has left him frustrated. The question now is whether he is willing to press Moscow for concessions.

Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."

We must stand firm against Trump’s disregard for the rule of law.

Thank you Chris for your leadership, taking a stand for Kilmar and for all of us.

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account. Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.” There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

WH tweet annotating a NYT headline to insert the claim that Abrego Garcia is never coming back.

WH sharing story with AG Bondi saying Abrego Garcia is never coming back

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

Get Out by Good Friday, Feds Say to Afghan Christians The Department of Homeland Security has revoked immigration status of some Afghans who fled to the U.S.

“I cannot think of going back to Afghanistan,” an Afghan refugee, who was told to self-deport by Good Friday, told John McCormack. “The Taliban soldiers … if they can kill Americans, if they can kill Christians. … I will not survive.”

If you pay attention to contemporary and European “rise of fascism” and WWII accounts and fiction, “everything we don’t like is terrorism” is a common feature of all fascist movements when they get into power.

Musk's Trump-Enabled Corruption Is Out in the Open An essay on the stunning greed and dishonesty of Trump and Musk, and a rumination on where it all might end.

1/ Yesterday I wrote about the overwhelming amount of corruption in the Trump Administration, and the ways in which Trump is enabling Elon Musk's corrupt practices. But...

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

Sickening — Trump’s AG Pam Bondi says #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s wife and child are better off without him.

This is the party of “family values”? Grotesque.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Tesla whistleblower wins legal battle against Elon Musk Engineer Cristina Balan raised a safety concern about a design flaw which could affect the cars' braking in 2014.

Thank you BBC for making awareness of my long decade battle with the coward of Musk.

I cannot wait to see Musk and his goons on the stand and see how they will explain their lies

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DHS Secretary Noem threatens to terminate Havard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification if it doesn't turn over student records.

Presidential Control and Administrative Capacity | Stanford Law Review

My article, Presidential Control and Administrative Capacity, is live with Stanford L. Rev. The argument: Administrative capacity poses a greater constraint on presidential action than a lack of control. Policymaking requires a strong federal workforce.

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One thing that’s been wild to observe now that the masks are off is how cartoonishly over the top racist and misogynistic a bunch of these guys are.

Behavior that if I saw in a movie I’d think was too silly to be real is now just our lives experience with tech and political elites.

Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article) Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

China: we're willing to come to the table as long as the US shows respect

US: that's obviously a completely unrealistic request! call us when you're willing to come back down to earth

Powell Warns of ‘Challenging Scenario’ for Fed in Cushioning Trade-War Fallout The central bank is wary of a situation where prices rise at the same time that growth slumps.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned that the central bank could face difficult trade-offs in trying to cushion the U.S. economy from the fallout of President Trump’s trade war

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

kids in the 80s and adults in the 20s:

“are we there yet????”

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies — and Their Mothers." The subheadline mentions that Musk juggles over a dozen children and "harem drama" while running his companies and advising Trump. It also notes he recently took a paternity test in a legal battle. The article is written by Dana Mattioli and dated April 15, 2025, 9:00 PM ET.

This is profoundly, the most disturbing story I've ever read. Elon Musk believes his children are a legion and he needs to make as many babies as possible before the apocalypse.

He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.

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