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The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration

The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. It now works, a source says, with little to no oversight.

Common Dreams

House Republicans Pitch a Plan to Cut Social Security to Billionaire Donor Harlan Crow | Common Dreams

If Republicans want to cut our earned benefits, the American people deserve for them to tell us that to our faces, rather than weaseling around the job they were elected to do, and for which they earn a handsome salary.

MSN

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image Comrade Trump continues his streak of destroying the American empire's grip on the world, hastening the renewables transition, de-dollarizing global trade, and killing the world's suicidal habit of entrusting its digital life to America's defective, enshittified tech exports: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-fre

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It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

Tangle

The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story.

I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.

Senate Voting to Give Trump a Tariff Nuke

A bill supposedly aimed at Russia is really an unprecedented new tariff power grab—yet prominent Democrats are backing it.

the Guardian

US Senate passes Russia sanctions bill championed by Lindsey Graham

Late senator spent final days of his life working to advance bill that will now head to the House after 86-11 Senate vote

DC’s Strange, Late Night: The Surreal Scene at WHCD Parties After the Shooting

Oz Pearlman was mentalizing President Trump when the commotion started, and soon the main event was cancelled. Then a different kind of wild time began across Washington hotspots from Cafe Milano to the Substack party. There was an esprit de press corps, some dancing, plenty of tequila, and a very American juxtaposition of violence and gaiety.

Field of Schemes (@fieldofschemes@mas.to)

In the worst-case scenario, host city residents will skip town to avoid traffic and transit nightmares while tourists steer clear because of high prices and ICE fears, leading to a situation where nobody will go to the World Cup because it's too crowded. https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/05/05/24077/it-may-officially-be-time-to-call-the-2026-world-cup-an-omnishambles/

The mystery of the uneaten lobsters and steaks from the White House Correspondents' Dinner is solved

Social media was abuzz with people wondering what would happen to the uneaten food from the gala.

Louis Mosley - Wikipedia

Common Dreams

Private Prison Firm GEO Group Reports Record $254 Million Profit After New ICE Contracts | Common Dreams

"Trump’s donors are making money from this violent separation of our immigrant families," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "This is corruption."

Massive recall of 600K chip bags nationwide over Salmonella risk

The recalled bag of potato chips have best-by dates from July 27 through August 31