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"Meanwhile, the anger at #Musk & #DOGE is absolutely fueling the #protests, property damage, and public outcry at #Tesla owners & dealerships...

while #Trump can’t currently punish the free public for #protesting, it’s obvious he wants to. Which means he, at least, is no longer operating under the illusion that it’s a #democracy he wants. Nor a #republic."

Coast to coast US #protests against the dangerous cuts to our #veterans' services, and not a word in the cowardly corporate media!

When the American people march in protest, it is big news. Normally this would dominate all other headlines. I certainly can't remember a time when we had nationwide protests and there was just... no mention of them.

And I'm old enough to remember laughing at Baghdad Bob.

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Everybody take your anger to the streets tomorrow! I just got back from the Veterans' March and although I am still furious I am no longer feeling physically sick with disgust and anger. Screaming in public with lots of other people is good for the soul.

We're protesting peacefully, but it's the #IdesOfTrump tomorrow by postcard campaign and street protest!

#50501movement #protests #FuckTrump #DeportMusk

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50501 Movement50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movementJoin the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.

WOW just got back from the veterans' march, which overshot the event permit's estimated crowd size by 2 orders of magnitude.

With very good reason, the anger is extremely intense. Every time a speaker mentioned Republicans, there were many shouts of "COWARDS" and "TRAITORS" and "WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS??" among deafening boos.

There were also chants of "FUCK CHUCK SCHUMER," and this was a crowd with lots of federal workers in it.

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"Yesterday’s #WhiteHouse stunt had all the hallmarks of Trump #corruption, but there was something else, too—an air of desperation. It was a tacit admission that the #protests are working and that #Musk and #Trump are rattled...

These moments make clear that this time, Musk has wagered the only thing he can’t easily buy back—the very #myth he created for himself."
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Ukraine Daily summary - Thursday, March 13 2025

Ex-envoy to Russia on Trump's negotiating strategy: 'incredibly bad' -- Trump said Ukraine is 'more difficult to deal with' than Russia; that might be about to change -- Ukraine doesn't trust Russia but wants to show readiness for peace -- Russian intelligence recruited teenagers for terrorist attack in western Ukraine -- Losing foothold in Russia's Kursk Oblast would be politically significant -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Thursday, March 13 2025Ex-envoy to Russia on Trump's negotiating strategy: 'incredibly bad' -- Trump said Ukraine is 'more difficult to deal with' than Russia; that might be about to change -- Ukraine doesn't trust Russia but wants to show readiness for peace -- Russian intelligence recruited teenagers for terrorist attack in western Ukraine -- Losing foothold in Russia's Kursk Oblast would be politically significant -- and more

Today in Labor History March 13, 1968: Student demonstrations in Warsaw led to street riots. All Polish universities went out on strike against the repressive communist regime, with students occupying the campus buildings. The strike, which came in the wake of Soviet withdrawals of diplomatic relations with Israel, in protest of the 1967 war, spread throughout the country, leading to a violent government crackdown and antisemitic purge that was branded as anti-Zionism. Thousands of Jews fled the country because of political harassment and being fired from their jobs.

#UselessSusanCollins not so useless! #Protests and #PublicOutcry works!

#UniversityOfMaine’s #USDA funding restored

by WABI News Desk
Published: Mar. 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM EDT

Maine (WABI) - "Senator #SusanCollins announced Wednesday that the University of Maine’s funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been restored.

"On Monday the University received notice that funding from the USDA was paused.

"According to UMS, the notice stated the pause was temporary while the USDA evaluated potential follow-up actions related to prospective Title VI (6) or Title IX (9) violations.

"Collins released at statement saying:

'This USDA funding is critically important not only to the University of Maine, but to our farmers and loggers, as well as to the many people who work in #Maine’s #agriculture, #aquaculture, and #forestry industries. Now that funding has been restored, the work that the University does in partnership with the many people and communities who depend on these programs can continue.'"

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#ResistDOGE #MaineResists #MaineResistance #District13

WABI · University of Maine’s USDA funding restoredBy WABI News Desk

The police in #Argentina leaving firearms in the middle of protests to provoke violence, leaving police cars open and unattended, infiltrated cops breaking public property, you name it.

This is happening right now.

Please share and help the world see what this corrupt, inept and fascist government is doing to shut down a protest of retirees.

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#ICE Secretly Hauled #MahmoudKhalil to #Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege

By moving the campus #activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.

by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,

"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening.
Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

"By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away.

"Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the #LaSalleDetentionFacility in #JenaLouisiana, a #PrivateJail operated by the #GEOGroup.

"Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '#RetaliatoryTransfer' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched #FirstAmendment case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.

"Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'

"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/11/ma

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The Intercept · ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers AllegeBy Jonah Valdez