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From #northshore Massachusetts relocated to northeastern #Vermont and not just an aggregation of hashtags but: #antifascismIsProper #vegetarian #UBI #punk #punchanazi #antitrust #records #NEK #climate #spiritualjazz #decolonization #movies #SCOTUSexpansion #atheist #rescue #dogs #art #antifascism #photography #audio #privacy #bread #puppets #p2p #security #transparency #accountability #intersectionalism #sober #farmSanctuary #resistZionism
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Peter Thiel is unleashing a neocolonial billionaire fantasy in Honduras

https://therealnews.com/peter-thiel-is-unleashing-a-neocolonial-billionaire-fantasy-in-honduras

> Tech billionaires want to create their own city-states. Hondurans pay the price.

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Mayor demands ICE militants exit his city after they bomb a peaceful civilian protest with chemical irritant weapons, with many mothers & small children present and no clear path to safety.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful, “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.

https://apnews.com/article/portland-protest-tear-gas-mayor-keith-wilson-1f21fc3d3d4b7a2874239a29ece52c06

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ICE is Now Literally Breaking Down People’s Doors in 1930s Gestapo-Style Raids

@humanistreport podcast

The scene in Minneapolis looks eerily familiar to 1930s Germany. In the aftermath of ICE’s execution of Renee Good, the ICE gestapo has threatened, harassed, assaulted, and terrorized countless others in Minneapolis and elsewhere. To boot, hordes of ICE agents are now going door to door in Minneapolis just like JD Vance said they would. In this video we’ll talk about the parallels between Germany’s 1930s gestapo and ICE. We’ll also explain why they’re ramping up their repression and why this is a ‘hair on fire’ moment for the country.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Imhq3ktTwwY

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In current-regime USA, no act of crimefighting goes unpunished.

hates anticrime as much as antifascism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8039wg1rdo

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Conservatives have long worked to brand antisemitism as a problem that exists exclusively on the left. The chaos at AmericaFest this past weekend suggests that narrative is collapsing, and the MAGA movement is being forced to confront its own internal fault lines. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/americafest-antisemitism-shapiro-jd-vance

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@ Antisemitism and zionism are in total colonialist whitenationalist alignment.

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The US' single-party government wants the public impoverished and unable to get medical care. And Don is a child-rapist.

Screen capture of a post by Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island in which he says: Trump’s Rob Reiner comment was low even for him, but it’s the week of Epstein Files release and Affordable Care deadline, so look for more stupid Trump stuff to distract you from that. Epstein. Health care. Eye on the ball.
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Citing "serious ethical concerns," journal retracts key Monsanto Roundup safety study

An inherently dangerous product - and product system - that has deleterious effects to all human, animal, and plant life on Earth. It works by injecting a genetic antidote to specified crops and then eventually killing everything else without any reliable means to prevent the toxic part - - from going everywhere. It's not "just a weed spray". Thousands have died and possibly tens of thousands permanently disabled or eventually-poisoned without knowing, with very specific oncology that can be identified in humans but isn't because we don't get tested for it.

Monsanto-Bayer has been getting away with it in large part because of a liability compartmentalization & management scheme that provides them virtual legal impunity; and the fraudulent "science" like this, for which they have paid lots of money. So it is a VERY big deal that this fake science has gotten retracted. Bayer will no doubt sue the fakescience/retractor publisher out of existence but that isn't the story.

https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/citing-serious-ethical-concerns-journal-retracts-key-monsanto-roundup-safety-study/

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Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs

> Dozens of government and university websites belonging to cities, towns, and public agencies across the country are hosting PDFs promoting AI porn apps, porn sites, and cryptocurrency scams; dozens more have been hit with a website redirection attacks which lead to animal vagina sex toy ecommerce pages, penis enlargement treatments, automatically-downloading Windows program files, and porn.

https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

This is precisely what should happen, and why it needs to happen.

Change my mind.

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

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Just a reminder, too, that along with Rebekah Mercer (and the data model she inherited from Sheryl Sandberg's & Steve Bannon's massive data theft) Peter Thiel is the BigHack parasite-in-chief who invented the national-socialist LLM that installed this whole Russell Vought-managed, publicgood-redistributing plundering clownshow. Don is quite literally an AI invention. More much more to come, not going to be getting any better on its own terms.

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His handpicked ‘experts’ just voted to roll back hepatitis B vaccine guidelines—and reverse a historic public health victory.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-rfk-wins-acip-cdc-advisory-committee-hepatitis-vaccine?utm_source=yourMom&utm_medium=tempra&utm_campaign=parasitic

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US-Israel genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire - @amnestyintl

More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, The conquest alliance of US, Israel, and for-now mostly silent partners in lethality and dispossession, al-Saud & the emirs, are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, without signalling any change in their intent, said Amnesty International today...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire

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It's not something I do very often but I DONATED. Not a brag. Mostly because Don said not to support her. But especially because the fear-based tactic that he's using to get people to vilify her is that, according to him, @aftynbehn doesn't love Jesus, and she is not a country music fan. Really. Unlike the plundering Fauntleroy, who totally gives many sincere fucks for those things.

And then I read this statement of purpose on ​Aftyn's fundraising page. (Watch her short video, there.)

"A pissed-off social worker, Aftyn has seen firsthand how broken systems fail the very people they’re meant to protect. She’s now running for Congress after the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” passed — the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the rich in American history. She’s fighting to shift power to where it belongs: in the hands of the communities that make Tennessee and this country strong."

Representative Aftyn Behn (D-TN) will be GREAT for Americans.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn-behn-website

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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.

A screenshot of a social media post from “Republicans against Trump.” The post quotes Marco Rubio from 2016 criticizing Donald Trump. Below the text is a CNN interview screenshot showing a man in a suit speaking with U.S. and Florida flags behind him. The on-screen chyron reads: “RUBIO: TRUMP RHETORIC LIKE ‘THIRD-WORLD STRONG MEN’” and “Sen. Marco Rubio (R) Presidential Candidate.”
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@georgetakei Nobody ought to feel an ounce of sympathy for this parasite who for example treated US citizens in Puerto Rico worse than chattel when he created a bidding war for bankers and senators to buy in to his Oversight Board, "awarding" Santander Bank the rights to local citizens' public resources. Just one very profoundly craven, sociopathic, atrocity among many.

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Mumbai Families Suffer As Data Centers Keep the City Hooked on Coal

Thank god it can't happen here

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/175213/mumbai-families-suffer-as-data-centers-keep-the-city-hooked-on-coal

> Two coal plants in Mumbai (in India) that were scheduled to close last year continue operating after the state government of Maharashtra reversed shutdown decisions in late 2023 and extended the life of at least one facility by five years. The largest single factor the Indian conglomerate Tata cited in its petition for an extension was increased energy demand from data centers...

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The National Press Club (of which I’m a board member) “is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.” https://www.press.org/newsroom/national-press-club-statement-president-trumps-remarks-murder-jamal-khashoggi

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Report: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S.

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/report-there-are-27-4-empty-homes-for-each-homeless-person-in-the-u-s-02df1d8b0037

> Look, let’s start with the absurd math. The U.S. Census Bureau says we’ve got about 17 million vacant houses sitting empty while roughly 600,000 people don’t have anywhere to sleep. That’s 27–28 empty homes for every person experiencing homelessness. Sounds like we should just, I dunno, move people into the empty houses, right? If only it were that simple.

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People of the USA have a government which is trying to tell them that a child who has menstruated isn't a child, which says something about how, instead of being governed, people of the USA have parasitic, feckless poltroons who give fewer than zero fucks about their laws.

https://www.rawstory.com/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedo/

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I feared this day would come:

Trump puts human rights organisations on sanctions list and forces YouTube to delete their accounts, thereby erasing 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes.

As a political commentator on YouTube, this news is profoundly troubling for me. And yes, I clearly need a plan B.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

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@randahl
Aside from the obvious response of switching to an open video-sharing platform for one's own posts, there must be consequences for warcrime collaboration and complicity by Google and all others so complicit. The impunity by big tech for their part in war crimes; crimes against humanity; and the fomenting, amplifying, & reinforcing of global tyranny has to end right now.

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U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at a school bus stop

The agents’ actions were “unreasonably aggressive” and a violation of their own policies, said attorney Robert Simon. Food-bank worker Jimenez, who lives in the mobile home park along the same road, approached the officers to “tell them that there’s kids that are coming out to wait for the bus,” according to his lawyers.

“He was telling them, ‘Excuse me. Can you guys please, you know, please wrap this up.’ And immediately, the masked agent pulls out a gun and exchanges some words,” said lawyer Cynthia Santiago. “[The agent is] also shaking his pepper spray... He’s in fear, and he’s trying to get out of the situation,” she said. The agents and their cars had blocked one southern lane on Vineyard Avenue and jutted into a second.

“He had to reverse to get away,” said Simon. “Then there was a shot from the side, back passenger window, to the car,” Santiago said. “Use of deadly force is to be used as a last resort. Coming out to communities with guns drawn is the opposite.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-02/lawyers-say-ice-shot-us-citizen-from-behind-as-he-stopped-to-warn-them-of-childre

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A "Homeland Security" mercenary combatant contracted by the US federal government shot at an unarmed man during a traffic stop earlier this month while working alongside D.C. police officers, according to three of the man’s lawyers, who accused city police of misconduct because the gunfire isn’t mentioned in the incident report. A D.C. police officer told a judge he was instructed by a superior not to document the Black Man Shooting in a court record, a transcript of court proceedings shows, and the judge dismissed charges AGAINST THEIR TARGET, THE DRIVER, over a lack of any evidence against him, apart from his blackness.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/27/dc-traffic-stop-shooting-dispute/

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Opinion | Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism?

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nyt-progressives-fascism

> The nation's paper of record ignored the nationwide 'No Kings" protests — and those held in solidarity globally — while urging Democrats to move even farther to the right in a vain effort to “defeat Trump”, all the while ignoring the GOP's attempt to undermine election integrity.

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The New York Times is full of “brown liquid”

> Sadly far worse than mere fishwrap, the @newyorktimes is in need of active disengagement. Where I once would share the occasional third-party sanitized/archived link to one of its "stories" (and NEVER one of those "gift" tracking-links) the once somewhat respectable broadsheet needs to become the nonentity of record.

https://www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york-times-is-full-of-brown-liquid

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U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

I don't know anybody who's seen any greater threats from the citizens, but the masked whitenationalist mercenary abductor-thugs are BEAUCOUP threatening; get them the fuck out.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/us-house-speaker-calls-portland-naked-bike-ride-most-threatening-thing-ive-seen-yet.html

> "The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

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@dangillmor
OpenSecrets.org is authoritative on campaign finance, if not comprehensive on those other things. We are not supposed to depend on Google anyhow, with anything ever.

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We all went out bowling and then to an enormous late dinner after this evening's weekly ANTIFA meeting and I'm exhausted. Good night everyone!

An ACTUAL organized group of AntiFAscists who called themselves The Iron Front was a German "extraparliamentary" and paramilitary organization in the Weimar Republic which consisted of social democrats, trade unionists, and democratic socialists. Its main goal was to defend democracy against totalitarian ideologies. It appears to be a good tradition since it strikes terror in the hearts of modern US fascists like Stephen Miller & Peter Thiel.
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"Just kill them"

In the US, Fox News is now promoting a final solution to the challenges with the mentally ill.

Not that long ago, the US helped us stop the Nazis — how in the world did the US fall so low?

Clip from Fox and Friends.

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@randahl
Brian Kilmeade is the parasitic voice of — and there are a lot of highly-armed militant morons listening to it.

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So, as a point of clarification:

No, whether or not you cry crocodile tears for noted bomb walrus John Bolton is not going to have much of a bearing on whether or not the fascist Trumpenreich will use its state security forces to harass, terrorize, or harm you. They will do that, regardless of whether or not you "speak up" for John Bolton and let me remind you:

"Collaborators get the wall."

Who'd Bolton use to work for and what did he do in that capacity?

Right. Fuck that guy.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites
Okay so both fuck that guy and fuck the reich.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

BTW thanks for “noted bomb walrus”.

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Turns out, unsurprisingly, that American fascism is bad for tourism and U.S.-based conferences. (You'd have to be an idiot to organize an international gathering inside the U.S. at this point.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/las-vegas-tourism-decline-trump-immigration

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@dangillmor It isn't just convention destination cities. I'm in a very rural area and businesses are failing because Canadians haven't come south for warm-water summer swim holidays per usual.

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On Aug. 9, 1945, 17-year-old Koichi Tagawa survived the Nagasaki bombing and began a diary. His words captured the fire, the loss and the moment he became an orphan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/history/nagasaki-nuclear-bomb-diary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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@thejapantimes はだしのゲン is also very good.

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Above morning rush-hour traffic this morning, Interstate Route 93 in Boston

Flashmob overpass sign on Boston's Southeast Expressway in Dorchester at morning rush hour reads: ICE TARGETS COLOR NOT CRIME
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Racism is SYSTEMIC

Bigotry is PERSONAL

Hope this helps.

Narrator: it is not going to help.

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reliable narrator

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Inflated and speculative data center electricity demand forecasts are driving a dramatic and unnecessary overbuild of infrastructure that threatens to lock in fossil fuels, hike energy bills.

“Such speculative infrastructure investment creates significant economic risks for ratepayers, who ultimately bear the financial burdens."

https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-report-u-s-data-center-projected-power-demand-exceeds-capacity-of-global-chip-suppliers/

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It's almost as though they're responding to the critical need to cut both consumption and demand by petulantly digging in their heels with a big infantile “NO!” and then increasing supply just because No.

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Senate Democrats unified in opposition to block the crypto-friendly bill that would have enabled Trump’s corruption. We were worried about losing some Democrats on this vote, so thank you for speaking up over the last day. Your calls definitely made a difference. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/cryptocurrency-legislation-senate-vote-00336381

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So, Leah's concern about cloture shenanigans was undue?

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TODAY: We need every Senate Democrat to vote no on a crypto bill that would enable Trump to keep accepting bribes from billionaires, corporations, and foreign governments. We can block S.394 if Democrats unite in opposition, but they’re not there yet, so make sure your senators hear from you ASAP. https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-stop-trumps-crypto-corruption?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

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@georgetakei are promoting eugenics with scary racist false logic and fake science in Britain also right now, in lockstep parallel:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/05/badenoch-provides-evidence-of-her-own-fantastic-thinking/

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The US is now monitoring the social media of resident-status seekers, for suspected support of .
— National Public Radio

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism

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Who had the inside scoop and traded on it illegally?

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by Polymarket Intel, with the handle @Poly ..., posted 2 hours ago. The post reads: "Massive call options on $SPY were opened minutes before Trump’s 'buy' post—then surged 2100% in an hour." It includes a mention of @unusual_whales . Below the text, there is a chart showing the price movement of $SPY call options over a few hours, with a significant spike labeled "Insiders" just before a larger spike labeled "Public." The chart indicates a rapid increase in value following Trump's post, suggesting potential insider trading activity.
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@georgetakei
And it is going on right now. The markets are an inherent contrivance, a manipulation. Crimes.

Yes, I have been watching the hyperfluctuations in realtime, created mostly by two identifiable transaction machines. It is absolutely insider trading, being conducted in precise microtimings with knowledge by those in a position of special access, under the care and protection of the entity directly responsible for the fragility of current valuation mechanisms. And the ongoing global trade crash. It needs to be swiftly prosecuted but we have lost all public oversight of institutions and their enforcement. Will it somehow happen, even with patsy fallguys as prosecution targets? Probably not even that. In any case it MUST START with those plundering from within Executive & Legislative branches of Musk/Trump, Inc.

Please see my prior posts on how we each have some little measure of power, in mutuality, to press upon the overvalued equity market including and not limited to the fascist state pumpups e.g. TSLA and PLTR.

Lawmakers Traded Up To $1.3 Million In Tesla Stock After Musk Endorsed Trump
https://journa.host/@z_everson/114314787402807460

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At some point, this administration and its mouthpieces like Musk and Stephen Miller are going get a federal judge killed with their rhetoric that judges should be impeached for ruling against the president. Every time they do this they are effectively painting a target on judges for their more extreme MAGA base.

From WaPo: "Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers at the White House, is escalating the administration’s attacks on federal judges who have ruled against the president’s recent orders, labeling them as rogue Marxists thwarting the will of American voters."

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@briankrebs It's a risk they've discounted, really don't care about, since they're fulfilling their goal of ratcheting fear of appearing disloyal - whether or not the incitement to maim & kill gets acted upon.

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So this was some hopeful & righteous news on the justice front. Columbia Magazine editor Joshua J. Friedman wrote on BlueSky yesterday: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the government defied his orders [NOT to deport the Venezuelan soccer fans who, it claims without evidence of any kind at all [see subsequent article from Slate, beneath] are members of some sort of gang (possibly fictional) to Don's & Bukele's private El Salvadoran prison. In fact, the government appears by defying this judge to be tacitly admitting that the men are entirely innocent pawns of executive's showboating and powergrabbing, certainly not guilty of crimes].

"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations."

[This is an order which customarily precedes a contempt penalty; it's a necessary step toward holding the White House & entire executive branch of government accountable - as the Constitution requires - to the judicial branch.

Friedman includes this link to the actual order.]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.47.0.pdf

Slate Magazine writer Mark Joseph Stern wrote:
It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador precisely because any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately.

Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/immigration-trump-news-mass-deportations-tren-de-aragua.html

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