Elon Musk will sit for a deposition regarding DOGE’s gutting of USAID.

Multiple reports estimate that his dismantling of the foreign aid agency directly contributed to thousands of deaths around the world.

And that’s just one piece of damage DOGE left behind. Watch.

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Protesters in Brussels, Belgium are showing up for the Hands Off! protest!

Thank you, Belgium, for your solidarity!

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When I tell students about the realities of pre-New Deal industrial life — where it was so commonplace for workers to die on the job that a Pittsburgh newspaper once celebrated that “only” 127 had died the previous month — they can’t believe it.

That’s the world Trump wants us to return to

Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless.

This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

If you can’t physically protest today, then be sure to amplify and share protest videos online, or drive past protesters and honk to show your support if you can!

We need to flood the internet with protest footage, of both big and small events.

We can’t count on the media to cover it.

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from today's post about the tone-deaf heartlessness of our oligarch overlords —
thanks for reading it!
link to the whole
deal is here: bit.ly/4liGRHl
(longer excerpt in the alt text)

Huge crowd of protesters forming at the Hands Off! protest in Boston, Massachusetts!

Let's go!

Sucks to be you, small businesses

POINT OF ORDER: I just can’t let this go. I won’t let this go. Four service members died and our president, our leader, has said nothing. They died in Europe and Europeans honored our fallen solders. Our president, vice president, crickets. I’m disgusted still.

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

Letter signed by 90 law professors at Harvard Law School explaining the lawlessness of the Trump administration‘s attack on the legal profession.

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If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

Can confirm “State of Maine” hasn’t apologized. (As the official keeper of all state records and guardian of the seal ;))

No one elected Elon Musk.

As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences.

We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.