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"Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT ppl to rot in prison El Salvador, incl: prof soccer player tortured by the Maduro regime *entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum -has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

ICE policy says a person can be deemed a gang member if any ICE officer notes 2 "Gang Membership ID Criteria." In Barrios' case:

A tattoo modeled off the Real Madrid logo -pic from SM o-throwing the horns.
-A Reichlin-Melnick
#Deportations #USPol

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How Elon Musk Helped Close Your Local Pharmacy

The billionaire’s rage-tweets protected the corporate middlemen inflating your medicine prices & killing your community’s #economy.
levernews.com/how-elon-musk-he

"Pharmacy benefit managers[PBMs] are for-profit #corporate middlemen standing between insurers & drugmakers...

326 pharmacies — 237 of them independent — have closed since December, when #ElonMusk single-handedly tanked bipartisan PBM reform with one tweet."

#Musk#USPol#Health
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DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/b

"“DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con [USIP's security] held if they did not... let Kenneth Jackson [the purported new head of the Institute] inside.”

How big a threat was that? According to USASpending, Inter-Con has $209 million in #government contractors currently. So it sounds like #DOGE made them an offer they couldn’t refuse."

Interview with Amy Greer, one of Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers

Trump's "recent defiance of orders issued by federal judges, including in deporting people from the U.S., raises alarm bells in Khalil’s case."

"We can't operate in a vacuum here thinking that the rule of law will insulate us completely. The public support [for Khalil], that's all we can rely on right now.”

dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kha

#fascism #trump #mahmoudkhalil #uspol #freespeech #racism .

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Stand Down, Elon Musk

A court ruling rips the billionaire head of DOGE for his unauthorized actions, but can only go so far to rescue a doomed agency.
statuskuo.substack.com/p/stand

"yesterday’s ruling from #Judge Theodore Chuang of the federal district of #Maryland was the first time any judge has directly addressed the illegality of Musk’s appointment as head of #DOGE and then ordered his actions unwound."

#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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The Tesla Backlash Is Biblical
youtube.com/watch?v=k9kmK0St9J

“In the past 3 months something of a car crash happened. #Tesla stock almost inexplicably dropped 50% since December 12th. Fifty percent in 3 months! Below where it was before the #election. Now this number is hard to wrap your head around, but Tesla's #market cap loss its valuation lost in this short period is equivalent to $800 billion."

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DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=6Gggixetsi

"Jordan Klepper covers the backlash against #ElonMusk, including town hall rage against his unconfirmed #DOGE position and sweeping #Tesla vandalization. Plus, some advice for the returning #NASA astronauts on how to acclimate to #Trump and Elon’s new world."

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@Linkshaender

Ha!, the reverse of Churchill’s famous speech. The old world coming to save the new. We will fight on the beaches w/ you as you storm the Hamptons,

But before that,

WE shall protest on our beaches & at the private airstrips, we shall protest in the tech fields & in the streets in front of the Tesla dealerships, WE shall protest in Beverly Hills ; WE shall never surrender!

@davidaugust @BruceMirken
#Resist #ResistEverywhere
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump#musk #USPol

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@davidaugust

It really is. 💔

Task one, is waking up our neighbors who feel the same revulsion but don’t know what to do. Even the smallest step of resistance now will help, but getting people to take that first step is hard.

Some are scared, some think it only “matters” if they fly to join a big protest & can’t for what ever reason. “Standing up” where they can see us, has such value right now. @BruceMirken
#Resist
#ResistEverywhere
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump #musk #USPol

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VoteVets | Stop Elon Musk's War On Veterans
youtube.com/watch?v=_gOksDg9BS

'"It feels like #veterans are being personally attacked by #ElonMusk"

"I did not put my life on the line for some #tech bro billionaire from #SouthAfrica to come in here and try to destroy our country"

And our #Congress person does absolutely nothing.

Stop Elon's war on Veterans now!"

[There are also videos for specific Congress people:
youtube.com/@votevets/videos ]