The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
— Chris Murphy
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 longto explain the plan & how we stop it. pic.twitter.com/C5rSwO7sVw
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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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— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) April 16, 2025
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
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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
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
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
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:(@thexcapitalist) April 7, 2025
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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
Private health insurers stole $33B in revenue by defrauding Medicare, with UnitedHealth alone taking $13.9B. Instead of their CEOs getting prison, their companies get tax breaks. Elon isn’t targeting this fraud & waste because it helps oligarchs and holds down the working class
How much has changed in the medical field since #ER began in 1994? #ThePitt star Noah Wyle: “The biggest difference is in 1994, there were about 40 million Americans without health insurance who were using ERs as their primary source of healthcare. That’s doubled now. We have a… pic.twitter.com/FOzfWwjEdQ
— Variety (@Variety) April 9, 2025
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Don’t tell me we can’t have universal healthcare when the US can approve a military budget of damn near $1 TRILLION DOLLARS.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 9, 2025
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68,000 Americans die each year because they can’t access or afford healthcare — and Trump is going to make sure that number gets a lot higher. https://t.co/qqoWZWAC4E
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 9, 2025
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Private health insurers stole $33B in revenue by defrauding Medicare, with UnitedHealth alone taking $13.9B.
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 8, 2025
Instead of their CEOs getting prison, their companies get tax breaks.
Elon isn’t targeting this fraud & waste because it helps oligarchs and holds down the working class pic.twitter.com/4A3XxsFFfi
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THIS IS TERRIFYING
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) April 5, 2025
Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.
He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted. pic.twitter.com/bsNo7uLwjp
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A decline in funding for #HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120 000 of these deaths affecting children.
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 27, 2025
International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.… pic.twitter.com/MtTuaCPWWf
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Exactly pic.twitter.com/cMgcf1K1oB
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) March 31, 2025
What’s the real motivation behind Trump’s tariffs? He believes they’ll bring so much money to the treasury that the U.S. will be able to afford another giant tax cut that will mostly benefit the rich. Who will pay for it? The working class. Here’s what you should know.
Oh my god. At the exact moment Trump announced his tariffs the market crashed in real time.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 2, 2025
CNBC is SAVAGE for doing the side by side.
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Wanna hear how Republicans talked about tariffs before Trump castrated all of them? pic.twitter.com/HPkAFsR66E
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 3, 2025
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If only someone warned us that Trump would enact tariffs…
— Shontel Brown (@ShontelMBrown) April 2, 2025
Oh wait! @KamalaHarris did over and over and over again. pic.twitter.com/LCmZuKLTB2
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Trump’s tariffs are a tax on working people. pic.twitter.com/UQ7ryxw4n3
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) April 3, 2025
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What’s the real motivation behind Trump’s tariffs?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 2, 2025
He believes they’ll bring so much money to the treasury that the U.S. will be able to afford another giant tax cut that will mostly benefit the rich.
Who will pay for it? The working class.
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“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have frozen funding for federal programs that provide support and sustenance to dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities, including Meals on Wheels.” and more harmful Trump EOs.
Here’s how Musk and Trump are trying to slash Social Security and call it “rooting out fraud:”
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) March 19, 2025
1. Close offices and make it impossible to verify identity over the phone.
2. Tell seniors in rural areas and people with disabilities they have to go in person to an office to verify…
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“You arrogant SOB!” Michael Steele explodes at Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for saying his mother-in-law wouldn’t mind not getting a Social Security payment. pic.twitter.com/fwR8ABdDkY
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 24, 2025
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The Trump administration prohibits federal contractors from committing to a diverse and inclusive facility. After waiving the segregation clause, the Trump administration no longer prohibits federal contractors from explicitly committing to a segregated facility.
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) March 19, 2025
The clause… pic.twitter.com/qzKRSQ0vii
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Now Trump wants to make it HARDER to vote if your name doesn’t exactly match on every doc?? That hits married folks who change their names, disaster survivors who lost paperwork, and so many others. This ain’t about security—it’s suppression. https://t.co/n7qYiN1i7O
— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) March 26, 2025
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An open letter published by nearly 2,000 doctors, scientists and researchers claims the Trump administration is waging a ‘wholesale assault on U.S. science’ that threatens the country’s health, economic development, national security and scientific preeminence.…
— PBS News (@NewsHour) April 1, 2025
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As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we’re watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10
— Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH (@DrRobDavidson) March 31, 2025
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All employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency created by Congress to support American museums and libraries, were put on administrative leave Monday, according to an IMLS employee and a union representing IMLS workers. https://t.co/G11Jm9AIvt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 31, 2025
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BREAKING: IMLS staff were just placed on admin leave!
— EveryLibrary (@EveryLibrary) March 31, 2025
IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries.
This action will interrupt IMLS’s vital, congressionally funded work.
Take action today!https://t.co/jUnk980EWf
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have frozen funding for federal programs that provide support and sustenance to dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities, including Meals on Wheels. https://t.co/SAB9E08rNy
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 30, 2025
we already knew that the US military was happy to bomb an entire building of people in order to get one guy, but seeing it written out here so casually by defense officials is horrifyingly surreal yemeni officials said 53 people died in total after this and subsequent strikes
we already knew that the US military was happy to bomb an entire building of people in order to get one guy, but seeing it written out here so casually by defense officials is horrifyingly surreal
— manny (@mannyfidel) March 26, 2025
yemeni officials said 53 people died in total after this and subsequent strikes https://t.co/g20iv4JWGg pic.twitter.com/sphkWPBjBA
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My God, a complete dismantling of Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and the entire clusterfuck of failed security by Rep. Jason Crow.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!
This is fantastic.
Rep. Crow calls for Pete Hegseth to RESIGN immediately. pic.twitter.com/f6tZ4EuJoB(@mmpadellan) March 26, 2025
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Q: “Had these messages been published, would the plans have moved forward? Would the launch still have taken off?”
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) March 26, 2025
Leavitt: “…We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media.” pic.twitter.com/N7wk8mKWcd
BREAKING: The Trump admin accidentally texted a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, from The Atlantic, their top-secret war plans on Yemen. Texts are below between Vance and Hegseth, in which the journalist was included. Imagine if Biden did this! So incompetent.
BREAKING: The Trump admin accidentally texted a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, from The Atlantic, their top-secret war plans on Yemen.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 24, 2025
Texts are below between Vance and Hegseth, in which the journalist was included.
Imagine if Biden did this! So incompetent. pic.twitter.com/CGIkNq0iNX
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— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2025
You have got to be kidding me.https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG pic.twitter.com/bnNG4dGSpI
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Trump on his cabinet members using Signal to text war plans to a reporter: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?” pic.twitter.com/cBl0g40tsm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025
“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against . many people precluded from the protections of the law”
“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against . many people precluded from the protections of the law” pic.twitter.com/klDxlbMwby
— Adil Haque (@AdHaque110) March 18, 2025
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NEW—Khalil’s wife, Noor:
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) March 14, 2025
“This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him”
Didn’t know where he was for 38 hours https://t.co/PXjyK8LOio pic.twitter.com/rMUv54FwGR
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Watching this is beyond chilling. Plain clothes officers, no warrant, no names, no alleged crimes. Just snatched from a residence hall while his wife looks on helplessly. All for the crime of criticizing a foreign govt bombing babies. https://t.co/WFgQXj6I6V
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) March 15, 2025
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) March 14, 2025
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting” pic.twitter.com/yry9ofzWIW
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Seeing how Mahmoud Khalil was detained is unreal.
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) March 14, 2025
A guy wearing an Avengers shirt from an unnamed agency says “we have you,” they refuse to give their names and it seems he has no rights to be read while being arrested, all while his pregnant wife watches.pic.twitter.com/fPJnbz4okW
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“If you find yourself believing whatever someone tells you about Mahmoud just because he is Palestinian … I can only implore you to scrutinize your own soul,” Columbia University prof. Joseph Howley said following a hearing regarding Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention. pic.twitter.com/Gn4RdTZBhY
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 18, 2025
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2000+ Jewish professors, staff, students circulating letter on Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest:
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) March 18, 2025
“We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities.” pic.twitter.com/ZxEjmXOw7v