Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

senior political correspondent @ Zeteo // contributing writer @ Rolling Stone // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor @ University of Cincinnati // volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul // “a deranged hack,” according to the Trump White House

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social
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“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

azmirror.com/2026/04/10/ice-overcrowding-like-sardines-congressional-oversight-arizona/
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… Some sound up for it. Others… less so
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Also: I don’t think a lot of elite Dems are planning on deflecting hypocrisy charges much when this happens. They are taking it as a given that he’s gonna do blanket federal pardons. They also know that in that case, local and state prosecutions of trump officials et al. are an uphill climb…
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when we reported this in December, sources told us that when, not if, trump does it, they will use “Biden did it” profusely zeteo.com/p/trump-is-already-discussing-preemptive

Now, trump was obviously gonna do it anyway, no matter what Biden did. Trump seriously considered blanket preemptive pardons at very end of term1, so
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social
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House Dem leadership says Swalwell needs to end his campaign for governor. Stops short of calling on him to resign from the House.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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This is why Gallego instantly backing away is so striking. He apologized for believing him! They are furious.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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"'No Doubt War Will Resume': Skeptical Iranians Say It's Too Early to Celebrate"

Zeteo reports from the ground in Tehran to hear how some ordinary Iranians are feeling about the two-week ceasefire announcement.
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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social
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Yeah, we are still a city under siege.
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From Dec 2025, to wit: zeteo.com/p/trump-is-already-discussing-preemptive

From @premthakker.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com
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They were all: no it’s because of woke views of policing and like cmon lol
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You may say I’m making a painfully obvious joke but there are still tons of commentators and policymakers who argue that the violent crime or murder surges across the nation caused by Covid weren’t actually caused by Covid
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social
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How much do you wanna bet that some intern at the meeting immediately logged into Polymarket and started typing, "White House warns staff against betting..."
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social
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From the AP:

"At one of Beirut’s busiest intersections, an Associated Press photographer saw charred cars piled on top of each other. A body was crushed inside one."

"At hospitals, staff were still trying to identify dozens of bodies."
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social
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The Trump administration views DACA recipients as deportable as any undocumented immigrant. For my latest, I talked to immigrants without permanent legal status who entered the country as children and spent months in ICE detention.
www.notus.org/immigration/daca-recipients-detained-deported-donald-trump
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Probably a coincidence
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social
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A look at the situation on the ground nearly three months after Alex Pretti's killing.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social
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@hettena.bsky.social calls out the ny post and the cia on their bullshit

open.substack.com/pub/theiceman/p/the-cia-ghost-murmur-story-is-probably?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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lmfao
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Least important part of this but I wish I had this story lol. Good stuff
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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I talked to numerous people in Newtown. They were surprised to hear Trump condemn Alex Jones for his Sandy Hook denial, because they expressly asked Trump to disavow this in 2017 during his first term and he refused.

I've got quotes from them and the backstory here:

newrepublic.com/article/208951/trump-maga-war-critics-alex-jones-surprise-admission
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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“We were hoping the president-elect would denounce Alex Jones for the damage he caused to families who did lose somebody and other families impacted by the tragedy. He never did. We were disappointed in the lack of response.”

-Newtown official to me in this piece:
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…both literally and figuratively. That is what made the height of operation metro surge and other operations since Jan 2025 so uniquely disturbing: the trump White House was intentionally forgetting that their secret police force were supposed to be, well, secret.
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A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…
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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social
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Most Americans don’t know this.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com
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In a new short documentary, Zeteo returned to the Twin Cities to see how Operation Metro Surge is still affecting Minnesotans.

Watch the full film: zeteo.com/p/donald-trump-ice-occupation-minnesota
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Zeteo puts out a lot of good reporting and this is no different. This is still an ongoing story that needs to be known
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well in los angeles, people carry their passports with them. i don't go there without mine, and i'm 3rd gen californian/angelino. and my friends and i don't go out at night anymore.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social
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Fair question
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