The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 17, 2025
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it. pic.twitter.com/C5rSwO7sVw
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Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support
Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support https://t.co/hBeQ4GKoIb
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 12, 2025
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This is the story of Victor Perez. pic.twitter.com/iE8aB61H6C
— Victor Blackwell CNN (@VictorBlackwell) April 12, 2025
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Victor Perez—a 17-year-old with autism and cerebral palsy—was shot nine times in his backyard by Idaho police on Saturday.
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 9, 2025
911 was called to provide help in a moment of crisis and now Victor is fighting for his life. Police shootings disproportionately harm Black and Latino… pic.twitter.com/eEOWp3SFHl
BREAKING: Two people were killed and at least five wounded in a shooting at Florida State University and the gunman is a sheriff’s deputy’s son, authorities say.
BREAKING: Two people were killed and at least five wounded in a shooting at Florida State University and the gunman is a sheriff’s deputy’s son, authorities say. https://t.co/R1Soby4lv1
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 17, 2025
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Update: Two people were killed and five wounded in the Florida State University shooting, police said. The gunman also was wounded. https://t.co/ZDcZ7vZb7j
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 17, 2025
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Today, a 20-year-old shot and killed two people and wounded six others at Florida State University.
— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) April 17, 2025
Meanwhile, gun extremists in the Florida Legislature are pushing to lower the age to buy firearms to 18.
No, really.
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“This is America.”
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 18, 2025
Stephanie Horowitz, a student who survived one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida seven years ago, was among those hiding from an active shooter at Florida State University Thursday.… pic.twitter.com/NrxW8scbYP
Musk’s DOGE team may have “violated a court order that prevents DOGE staffers from handling sensitive” Social Security systems. Save Social Security. Protect our privacy. Fire Elon Musk.
Musk’s DOGE team may have “violated a court order that prevents DOGE staffers from handling sensitive” Social Security systems.
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) April 13, 2025
Save Social Security. Protect our privacy. Fire Elon Musk.https://t.co/xdaOpVjbyu
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Alex Lawson on @maddow: Musk and Trump are destroying the Social Security Administration.
— Social Security Works (@SSWorks) April 14, 2025
We’re advising people to make sure they have a hard copy of their Social Security file…We’re not sure it’ll be there online after these DOGE goons are done with their chainsawing. pic.twitter.com/p0BO8NiXuo
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DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk: Daily Beast
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 13, 2025
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A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically booted from his office this week after clashing with DOGE.https://t.co/5lES8anwS0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 12, 2025
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🚨 NEW: President Biden fires back at Elon Musk for calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme — “A Ponzi scheme? What the h— are they talking about? People earn these benefits.” pic.twitter.com/h9gDDYJTKQ
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) April 16, 2025
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s… pic.twitter.com/R2XJWDtBUe
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 16, 2025
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The Trump Administration is trying to dismantle Social Security.
— Rep. Ted Lieu (@RepTedLieu) April 15, 2025
Not on our watch. pic.twitter.com/4Dj929kQl4
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding.
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding. https://t.co/i3FzsHFGFd
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025
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From the U.S. Holocaust Museum:
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) April 14, 2025
“What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.”
Welp.
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NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn’t even the target of an ICE operation — but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said “He’s not the one” when arrested! pic.twitter.com/GfiuUFydtP
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) April 15, 2025
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Bone chilling.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 14, 2025
A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.
1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does. https://t.co/oYtQ3x7L0N
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President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, made it clear in a joint meeting that the Maryland man who was wrongly deported won’t be returned to the US https://t.co/teirguPSDq
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 14, 2025
125 Americans die from gun violence each day. Instead of acting to end this epidemic, the Trump admin fired most of the CDC staff who work tirelessly to research & prevent gun deaths. Less information means fewer solutions, more violence, and more deaths. We deserve better.
🚨 NEW: Trump just repealed the ATF’s zero tolerance policy, putting reckless gun dealers who knowingly sold to traffickers and criminals back in business.
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 7, 2025
Trump doesn’t care about our safety. He cares about helping his gun CEO friends profit off of violence in our communities.
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125 Americans die from gun violence each day. Instead of acting to end this epidemic, the Trump admin fired most of the CDC staff who work tirelessly to research & prevent gun deaths.
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 11, 2025
Less information means fewer solutions, more violence, and more deaths. We deserve better. pic.twitter.com/k0b3P0xZ0i
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Gun deaths take an average of 24 years away from their victims. This epidemic is stealing our futures and sense of safety in our communities, and our leaders are letting it happen. It’s long past time they treat gun violence in America like the public health crisis it is. pic.twitter.com/16DI6xGvNw
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 10, 2025
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Three people were killed and three others were injured last night in a shooting in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) April 9, 2025
Our hearts go out to all those impacted in another senseless act of gun violence. We don’t have to live this way, but tragedies will keep happening until our leaders act.
BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.
BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S. https://t.co/phVkofEeWN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2025
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MAJOR BREAKING: The President of El Salvador says he WON’T release Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 14, 2025
“How can I return him to the U.S.? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the U.S.?”
Abrego-Garcia was NOT charged with Terrorism and the Supreme Court ordered Trump to facilitate his return. pic.twitter.com/5QLVDw5eLD
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🧵The Administration is indiscriminately sending people — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia — to El Salvador’s brutal prison system. Donald Trump has openly said he wants to, and will, send U.S. citizens to El Salvador next.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) April 14, 2025
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This is obviously a lie—the cruelty is the point. Kilmar must be returned home to the US immediately. Absolutely no one should be sent to Bukele’s torture camp. Trump ignoring a 9-0 Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar home is an unprecedented constitutional crisis. https://t.co/ddCpU18gi8
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) April 14, 2025
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BREAKING: This might be the most vile, lie-soaked, anti-American gaslighting yet:
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025
– The Trump administration and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele are refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an innocent man illegally deported and locked in a foreign prison.
– Marco Rubio… pic.twitter.com/9Se32iPnSz
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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: The Attorney General of the United States blatantly lied—not once, but four times in a matter of seconds.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025
I’d love for MAGA to explain why they’re perfectly fine with this level of dishonesty:
1) No court has ever ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a… pic.twitter.com/H3abET2i7V
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1) Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) April 14, 2025
2) Trump illegally sent him to a prison in El Salvador; the Administration admits this was a mistake
3) The Supreme Court unanimously ordered his return
4) Trump refused
5) Trump wants to do the same thing to U.S. citizens
This is sick. https://t.co/8odNp7CReO
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The illegal deportation and imprisonment of a person named Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a test.
— Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) April 14, 2025
My thoughts from @Morning_Joe: pic.twitter.com/cY7s99OTQv
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Senator Van Hollen threatening to go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia is good. What’s happening to him is wrong, and we need Dems to draw attention to it: “If Kilmar is not home by midweek–I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and… pic.twitter.com/FjCZCRyfQd
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) April 14, 2025
That white couple who adopted Black children and used them for slave labor has been found guilty and given maximum sentences: Wife: up to 214 years, Husband up to 160 years.
That white couple who adopted Black children and used them for slave labor has been found guilty and given maximum sentences: Wife: up to 214 years, Husband up to 160 years. https://t.co/tbgfiKHrc4
— Kaylara’s All Gas, No Breaks! (@Kaylara0wl) March 20, 2025
This man knows the market. He predicted: 1) Dot-com Bubble (2000) 2) Great Recession (2008) 3) The COVID Bubble (2021) Howard Marks just went on Bloomberg and said “tariffs are changing everything.” Here is his latest warning:
The federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in 15 years.
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) April 8, 2025
For 15 years, rent has gone up. Groceries are more expensive. Utility bills are higher.
For 15 years, corporations got bigger. Billionaires got richer. And working Americans got screwed.
Americans deserve a raise. pic.twitter.com/I2p3kJEtYH
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This man knows the market.
— Oguz O. | 𝕏 Capitalist 💸 (@thexcapitalist) April 7, 2025
He predicted:
1) Dot-com Bubble (2000)
2) Great Recession (2008)
3) The COVID Bubble (2021)
Howard Marks just went on Bloomberg and said “tariffs are changing everything.”
Here is his latest warning: 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3LrCmhYfy4
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Trump is surprised when a reporter tells him that the EU today announced tariff increases on the US pic.twitter.com/9WpSD9T0FN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 9, 2025
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Trump’s Trade Rep appeared to learn about the 90-day tariff pause in the middle of a House hearing. Rep. Steven Horsford grilled him immediately:
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 9, 2025
“Is this market manipulation? Who benefits? What billionaire benefits from this?” pic.twitter.com/NQAug18BoV
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Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 9, 2025
Nothing to see here. pic.twitter.com/I6wl3VoGUF
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BREAKING: The White House caves on most tariffs—then calls it “The Art of the Deal.”
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 9, 2025
You can’t make this up. These are the most dangerously incompetent people I’ve ever seen:
– Disrupted global supply chains
– Sent American companies into a panic
– Tanked global markets
-… pic.twitter.com/tGveCFntPH
50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 wounded. Two-thirds of the casualties are women, children, or elderly people. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Much of that devastation has been done with U.S. bombs supplied to Netanyahu’s war machine. We are complicit.
From the Senate Floor: American bombs and American military equipment being used to destroy Gaza. We cannot escape that reality. https://t.co/OLTFk2MMtK
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 8, 2025
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New York University canceled Dr. Joanne Liu’s talk, saying some of her slides could be viewed as “antisemitic” because they mentioned deaths of humanitarian workers in Israel’s war on Gaza.https://t.co/8cyKqwc0X7
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 6, 2025
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50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 wounded. Two-thirds of the casualties are women, children, or elderly people. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 8, 2025
Much of that devastation has been done with U.S. bombs supplied to Netanyahu’s war machine. We are complicit. pic.twitter.com/w9JYwVwa3y