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Disgusting:

#Bukele, in a social media post, crowed that “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture,’” was “now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” But acc/to a person familiar w/the situation, a Bukele aide placed the 2 glasses w/ cherries & salted rims on the table in front of Sen #VanHollen & #KilmarAbregoGarcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.

#propaganda #law #immigration #Trump

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Trump and Jerome Powell 

Tyrant #Trump is threatening to fire the Chair of the Federal Reserve, which he cannot legally do (hasn't stopped him from firing the heads of other independent agencies). Why? Because Powell isn't lowering interest rates - because Trump's tariffs will cause inflation. History shows us that national leaders are often eager to juice the economy by pressuring central banks to reduce interest rates... but that violates their all-important independence, preventing them from managing the tricky balance between inflation and recession. If Trump did get his way and had huge tariffs while simultaneously lowering interest rates, inflation would take off like a rocket.
nytimes.com/2025/04/17/busines

When I was a kid I used to #pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the #Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
—Emo Philips

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#atheism #faith #god

Dictator Donald’s goons picked a legal fight they’re too cowardly to finish. As courts shred their fascist fantasies, they deflect with emoji-laced theater and dictator fanboy cosplay. Torre’s right; this isn’t strategy—it’s fear wrapped in bravado, the stench of impotence masquerading as strength.
https://www.rawstory.com/msnbc-2671800147/

These “What is a woman?” Questioning trans women’s identity types should be very careful. Breast implants are not biological. Butt lifts, face lifts, and hair dyes are not ‘biological’. So, if she wants to condemn women that aren’t ‘100%’ to a narrow standard, she will open the gates of hell for herself and 90% of the women in this country. Maybe she would be better off minding her own panties and not so much snooping in anyone else’s.
castanet.net/news/Kelowna/5451

Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?

The most common question I am asked here in Malay Borneo, when people find out I am from NZ, is how life is in New Zealand since losing the world’s greatest leader, Jacinda Ardern ?

My answer is simple. NZ has gone from the best leader of my lifetime to the worst. #Adern #Luxon #NZPol

@HarriettMB @fkamiah17 @AlisonW @Pamela1960

There's also the option of telling them you are not trans. No one can prove they are cis.

The police are going to fuck up on a Gender Non Conforming cis woman soon, statistically more common than trans women...

Make it too scary and hard to be transphobic.

Make them fight for every inch. Make it time consuming. Dismiss. Delay. Derail. Deny. Their tactics to us can be used right back.

How is it that Trump is able to pay El Salvadore to house US prisoners?
Aren't the purse strings supposed to be controlled by Congress?

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.
#Tucson #Arizona

Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

reuters.com/world/russia-remov

#Ukraine #Russia #Taliban #Afghanistan

"Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’"

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Truly disgusting that Trump who orchestrated a violent insurrection at the Capital on January 6 and pardoned the violent rioters has the temerity to call an innocent man "violent."

As an atheist I sometimes wish there was a god who would deliver justice to evil men like Trump.

How is this not human trafficking?

“In exchange for holding deported immigrants, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has said he is being paid $6 million by the U.S. government.”

nytimes.com/live/2025/04/17/us

#Via Senator Chris Van Hollen/ vanhollen.senate.gov‬
Apr 17, 2025, 9:02 PM

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."

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