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Trump DOJ says US not required to bring back man wrongly deported to El Salvador despite judge’s order​

Trump DOJ says US not required to bring back man wrongly deported to El Salvador despite judge’s order

The administration also argued that Abrego García “is no longer eligible” for protection from deportation.

www.al.com

Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Trump Admin Refuses to Return Man It Wrongly Sent to Salvadoran Prison​

Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Trump Admin Refuses to Return Man It Wrongly Sent to Salvadoran Prison

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

Trump Has A ‘Maximum’ Meltdown On Social Media After Hate-Watching ‘60 Minutes’​

Trump Has A ‘Maximum’ Meltdown On Social Media After Hate-Watching ‘60 Minutes’

The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.

www.huffpost.com

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Trump calls for end to U.S. public media funding, including NPR and PBS​

Trump calls for end to U.S. public media funding, including NPR and PBS

U.S. President Donald Trump called on Congress on Thursday to “immediately” defund two public broadcasters as he and his supporters ratchet up their long-running battle with the US media.

www.ctvnews.ca

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands​

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy

www.theguardian.com

Trump's new loyalty test: "golden Trump bust lapel pins"​

https://boingboing.net/2025/04/09/trumps-new-loyalty-test-golden-trump-bust-lapel-pins.html

North Carolina Republicans might just get away with stealing an election​

North Carolina Republicans might just get away with stealing an election | Opinion

The outcome of this legal saga in North Carolina could have wide-ranging effects on future elections across the country.

www.usatoday.com

'Never vote Republican again': Ohio voter explains why he's had it with GOP 'nonsense'​

'Never vote Republican again': Ohio voter explains why he's had it with GOP 'nonsense'

An Ohio voter declared he wanted to "never vote Republican again" after what he's seen in the Trump era in a scathing column for the Columbus Dispatch published on Monday."I've lived in Ohio for 50 years," wrote Dr. Michael Lederman, a retired professor of medicine for Case Western Reserve...

www.rawstory.com

"I'm assuming that you don't want to answer the question directly because Elon Musk was in the room."​

Senator grills Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief, about Elon Musk's involvement in his job interview (video)

"I'm assuming that you don't want to answer the question directly because Elon Musk was in the room."

www.space.com

Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower​

Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war

www.theguardian.com

4 Months Into the Year, Chicago Set to Exhaust $82M Annual Budget for Police Misconduct Settlements​

https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/14/chicago-set-exhaust-annual-budget-police-misconduct-settlements

Texas lottery player claims he was cheated out of $95 million jackpot win​

https://www.wkrn.com/news/national/texas-lottery-player-claims-he-was-cheated-out-of-95-million-jackpot-win/

 

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HBO Reveals ‘Harry Potter’ Remake Cast, From Hagrid to Snape to Quirrell

HBO just confirmed the six adult leads from its upcoming Harry Potter TV series and pledges a "faithful adaptation."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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China blocks Boeing deliveries in retaliation to Trump tariffs

China has barred its country’s airlines from accepting deliveries from Boeing in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariffs.

www.yahoo.com

 

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Chinese dude explains Americans don't need tariffs. They need a revolution.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7492201250637778231
China made a lot of money over the past few decades. The United States made even more money off of China. But China invested that money back into their people, improving living standards. Including their poorest people.

What did we do with that money? We bought like 100 guys superyachts then spent trillions vaporizing millions of people overseas. All while the living standards of Americans are decreasing.

 

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What Senator Van Hollen is doing is braver than Corey Booker doing his long speech publicity stunt. When he pretended to do a filibuster, then immediately voted to send Israel more 30,000 pound bombs to drop on tents.

Sen. Van Hollen travels to El Salvador to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release

"We are going to keep fighting." Senator Van Hollen of Maryland left for El Salvador to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release.

www.usatoday.com

Van Hollen is surprisingly woke on Israel for a Senator too.

Van Hollen urges Biden to ‘send a message’ to Israel, region in final weeks in office

A leader of the Senate’s anti-Israel bloc, the Maryland Democrat renewed calls for blocking military aid to Israel at Aspen Security Forum

jewishinsider.com

Van Hollen Backs Sanders Resolutions to Block US Arms Sales to Israel | Common Dreams

Support for Bernie Sanders' resolutions to block U.S. weapons sales to Israel grows as Chris Van Hollen urges senators to vote for them this week.

www.commondreams.org

Turns out a few years ago he went on a trip to Israel sponsored by the Liberal Zionist group, J-Street. It's funny, J-Street keeps bringing Liberal politicians to Israel, hoping to sell them on Liberal Zionism. But half the time the visitors walk away believing the Most Moral Democracy is an apartheid state.

My favorite is when they bring black Liberals like Jamal Bowman or Ta Nehisi Coates to the West Bank. When black Americans see that place, they generally say...

 

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Tesla whistleblower wins latest legal battle in fight against Musk

Engineer Cristina Balan raised a safety concern about a design flaw which could affect the cars' braking in 2014.

www.bbc.com

Jimmy Kimmel Goes All In on Elon Musk’s ‘Harem of Baby Mamas’

“Who said romance is dead?” Kimmel joked.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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HBO Reveals ‘Harry Potter’ Remake Cast, From Hagrid to Snape to Quirrell

HBO just confirmed the six adult leads from its upcoming Harry Potter TV series and pledges a "faithful adaptation."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

You know it's a real shame because I liked those books and movies when I was young. But it's hard to ignore that this empire is ruled over by a hateful old hag.

The old bitch is happy about this:

Trans women aren’t legally women: What the UK Supreme Court ruling means

The ruling concluded a long-running dispute between feminist advocacy groups and the Scottish government.

www.aljazeera.com

British law enforcement have already said they will be following the ruling. Which means if they determine this person needs to be strip searched, it will be done by a male cop:

Gotta say. Once I learned what a piece of shit Joanne is, the fact she made the bankers in her fantasy movies look like Der Stürmer cartoons certainly hit different

 

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Trump officials' defiance over Abrego Garcia's deportation is 'shocking,' appeals court says​

Trump officials' defiance over Abrego Garcia's deportation is 'shocking,' appeals court says

A federal appeals court says it is “shocking” that The Trump administration claims it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on...

abcnews.go.com

Journalist Jackie Llanos reports that a US citizen born in Georgia was arrested for entering the State as an “unauthorized alien.” Despite presenting a birth certificate & Social Security card in court, the judge said they had no authority to release him - because ICE has put a 'hold' on him.​

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

www.nbcnews.com

New Orleans officials can sexually harass workers so long as productivity doesn't decline​

New Orleans officials can sexually harass workers so long as productivity doesn't decline

It's okay for New Orleans city officials to sexually harass their employees — unless it hurts productivity, the city’s Civil Service Commission says.

www.nola.com

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts​

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-suspends-food-safety-quality-checks-after-staff-cuts-2025-04-17/

RFK Jr. says he's "not familiar" with all health program cuts in exclusive interview​

RFK Jr. says he's "not familiar" with all health program cuts in exclusive interview

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.

www.cbsnews.com

As RFK Jr. defends cuts to public health, experts warn of devastating effects that could haunt Americans for decades​

As RFK Jr. defends cuts to public health, experts warn of devastating effects that could haunt Americans for decades

There is one area to which experts say Trump’s administration unquestionably has already done real damage: public health.

fortune.com

AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against​

AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against

Amid IRS staff cuts, employees were told to stop working on Direct File.

arstechnica.com

America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them​

America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them

Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”

www.nbcnews.com

America’s Mad King​

Paywall free: https://web.archive.org/web/2025041...04/donald-trump-authoritarian-actions/682486/




After watching The Dark Money Game documentary, I followed up reading these articles detailing the wild related corruption of America.

Phenomenally corrupt or insanely incompetent? What is Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s deal?​

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/06/21/phenomenally-corrupt-or-insanely-incompetent-what-is-ohio-gov-mike-dewines-deal/

Ohio politics: A cesspool of GOP corruption and craziness​

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3270977-ohio-politics-a-cesspool-of-gop-corruption-and-craziness/

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery​

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery | Moira Donegan

By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

www.theguardian.com

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stunned by teachers' pension fund behavior with firm accused of corruption​

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stunned by teachers' pension fund behavior with firm accused of corruption

“You're still on this story, huh?” the governor said to me as we were getting started with our 30-minute interview.

www.news5cleveland.com