Van Hollen Appeals to Trump to Return Deported Abrego Garcia From El Salvador The Maryland Democrat accused the president of “gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights” and demanded the return of an immigrant and Maryland resident imprisoned in El Salvador.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, made a personal request to President Trump to return a Maryland resident who was wrongly deported last month and remains imprisoned in El Salvador. He accused Trump of "gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights."

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Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

grateful - rum island/blue springs

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

lmao “For no reason whatsoever, here's the entire list of email addresses for DOGE employees.”

Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

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Elon Musk is the richest person on the planet and he’s calling your hard earned Social Security benefits a “ponzi scheme.”

An unelected, vindictive, and dangerously out of touch billionaire thinks he can come for your Social Security checks.

time out on the springs is so magical - silver springs, fl

Why did the baby seal cross the road? It's not a riddle for this Connecticut city A baby seal was rescued from the streets of downtown New Haven, lethargic and underweight. He is now recovering at a nearby aquarium, which hopes to eventually release him back into the ocean.

A baby seal was rescued from the streets of downtown New Haven, lethargic and underweight. He is now recovering at a nearby aquarium, which hopes to eventually release him back into the ocean.

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

N.Y.C. Council Speaker Calls on Mayor Eric Adams to Resign The push by the speaker, Adrienne Adams, a Democrat, signals the mayor’s loss of one of his principal partners in government.

Adrienne Adams, the speaker of the New York City Council and one of Mayor Eric Adams’s principal partners in government, said on Monday that Adams should resign. The statement came just hours after four of Eric Adams’s eight deputy mayors announced they would leave City Hall

We’re here to fight for federal workers. 🥄🥄🥄

Judge orders restoration of federal health websites The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

Judge says Trump administration is not in full compliance with order on spending The judge had issued a temporary restraining order against an administration plan to freeze payments for grants and other federal programs, but says the administration has not been fully complying.

The judge had issued a temporary restraining order against an administration plan to freeze payments for grants and other federal programs, but says the administration has not been fully complying.

gulf of murrica

there should be vomit bags everywhere, for when the nausea hits

Democratic Lawmakers Denied Entry to the Department of Education It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering amid a push to shutter government agencies and dramatically cut the federal work force.

Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.

art will fix it

food pics are hard to take but i want to remember how grateful i feel to make food for friends and fam💕 homemade pesto-arugula-ricotta stuffed shells with sweet pepper vodka sauce, topped with a balsamic chicken and a relish of fresh tomatoes. i of course forgot to take pics of the plated dish ahaha

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The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism” Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority

Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
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USAID Turmoil Threatens Key Aid Supplies to Gaza, Officials Say Washington has funded roughly a third of the aid sent to the enclave since the war began. With most agency workers set to be put on leave, officials say that those supplies are under threat.

The Trump administration’s efforts to downsize USAID have endangered the funding for food, tents and medical treatment for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, according to U.S. officials and workers for humanitarian groups funded by the agency.

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

There is still beauty in this world

Our Two-Party System is Broken with Maurice Mitchell YouTube video by Adam Conover

Working Families Party may have figured it out.
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