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This Fourth of July, we celebrate our independence from tyranny with the largest demonstration in American history, centering in Washington and around the country. July 4th, 2025, the day Americans renew their vows of independence from Kings and Tyrants!

How liers negotiate: "Mr. Gruenbaum then slightly changed his story, saying the letter was supposed to be sent at some point, just not on Friday" Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

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This should have been dismissed out of hand as settled law and obvious on the face of it. The fact that this court is giving it the time of day discredits and demeans their credibility. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship (Gift Article)

The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue.

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As usual, Pete is spot on with his rhetoric, but rhetoric is not enough; we need action. If he wants to lead, he needs to make the personal sacrifice of meeting grassroots organizations that have moved millions of us and join the organizing.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last yr.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Weaponizing the DOHS and the IRS for political reasons hidden under the thin veil of "executive authority" is one of the last steps in authoritarian take over. Talk to disengaged friends. I.R.S. Is Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

I.R.S. Is Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status (Gift Article)

The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.

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The dangerous anti-human childish fantasy that is funding the Musk branch of what is happening today is convinced that only the chosen few are fit to have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. They believe AI will replace us. They are wrong - it will enable us to defeat them.

"Negotiations" require good faith. Since the allegations themselves were brought with bad faith as subterfuge for other things, there can be no "negotiations," only demands. Columbia Vows to Reject Any Trump Deal That Erodes Its Independence www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/n...

Columbia Vows to Reject Any Trump Deal That Erodes Its Independence (Gift Article)

A message from the university’s acting president said that talks with the Trump administration were continuing as the White House is seeking to place the school under judicial oversight.

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While some misguided souks count thus as a victory, the real Victor is the Unitary Executive theory that royalist justices on the SC have conjured up from nothing. Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Supreme Court Sides With Migrant Trump Administration Wrongly Deported (Gift Article)

A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Easter in Doubt as ICE rounds up Easter Bunny. Administration claims that Communist Claus is next on their list for tariff violations and illegal entry!!! Pat Bondi is quoted as saying "We're going to Kris his Kringle"

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