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[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

No, if you defend billionaires, rapists, and pedophiles, I won't endorse your campaign.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
https://t.co/3EFUACrS3S

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

We will bring America's capture by one-man rule to an end this November.

No Kings.

[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

So far I've only interviewed Democratic Party members of Congress, but frankly, I really now just want to interview Republican members of Congress. The problem is, none of them get back to me. My own Republican Congressman, Tracey Mann, refuses to let me interview him.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

This is disgusting

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

This is a man who doesn't believe in the U.S. Constitution. "Whether approved by Congress or not!" Also:
"I have an Article II,where I have the right to do whatever I want as President".
He's a wanna-be authoritarian and all his supporters offer in rebuke is "what about Biden!?".

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

So let’s stop the games.

If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it—in public.

You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on.

We will be there.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@scisstor His friends are running our government. That’s the point. You’ve already been conquered if you don’t understand the magnitude of this. Or go back to your happy distraction today if this is too much.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

This from one of the best living historians writing on international conflict and geopolitics.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

At this point we are long past the point where any (any) rationale for keeping the Epstein files secret is valid. Enough is already out to cause suspicion in anyone even tangentially mentioned. Even they'd be better off with a full release.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

It’s as bad as we thought.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Important context…

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Breaking News:

They didn’t just arrest Don Lemon.

Federal agents showed up early this morning to arrest and terrorize Georgia Fort who is an independent journalist.

Free this woman right now! Her arrest is a clear violation of the first amendment.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: A new video is released by Georgia Fort of the moment when Trump's agents showed up at her door to arrest her.

Fort is an independent Twin Cities journalist. She was arrested filming and reporting on a protest at a St. Paul church.

Fort had already been arrested once before by federal agents for covering the same protest.

This is Trump’s America.

Like Don Lemon, Georgia Fort was arrested for journalism. When the federal government starts arresting reporters simply for documenting events of public concern, it sends a chilling message to every journalist in this country.

The First Amendment does not belong to Donald Trump or his administration. It exists to protect the press, to hold power accountable, and to ensure the public knows what is being done in its name. Arresting journalists for reporting is authoritarian behavior and we must call it out every time it happens.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

• 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏𝟐 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬 - Silverio Villegas González was killed
• 𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟒 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨 - Marimar Martinez was injured
• 𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟐𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬 - Carlitos Ricardo Parias was injured
• 𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟐𝟗 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 - Jose Garcia-Sorto was injured
• 𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟑𝟎 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨, 𝐂𝐀 - Carlos Jimenez was injured
• 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 - Isaias Sanchez Barboza was killed
• 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟐𝟒 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 - Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins was injured
• 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟕 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬 - Renee Good was killed
• 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟖 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐎𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐧 - Luis David Nino Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras were injured
• 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟒 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬 - Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was injured
• 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟒 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬 - Alex Pretti was killed