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It's not just the mysterious Freedom Fuel gas stations; Trump has been doing real-deal, state control of business and markets since he walked back into office. None dare call it socialism.
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The looming deportation of Haitian immigrants in Springfield will hurt them, the people they work for and who rely on them, and the city itself. Jim Swift writes from Springfield, plus Bill Kristol on the ICE shooting cover-up in today's Morning Shots: lnk.thebulwark.com/3STobUZ
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There is one person and one person only who is to blame for the disaster unfolding in Maine.
JVL's latest Triad gives his opinion on the Graham Platner discourse and who may be responsible for this catastrophic Senate race. www.thebulwark.com/p/progressives-are-mad-at-the-w…
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"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had lived as an American, de facto if not de jure, for the last thirty-five years. As his son said, he had sought to live the American Dream and to help others to do so." That was enough to end his life? lnk.thebulwark.com/4bhBO6F
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo lived in the United States for 35 years, built a small business, and achieved his dream of building a home for his family. Tuesday, on his way to work, ICE shot and killed him.
Adrian Carrasquillo talked to his sons about who their father was.
In the latest addition of Huddled Masses: www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-here-for-35-years-pu…
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"We as a nation are responsible for what’s happened. We can never fully make up for the human cost of what has been done in our name. All we can do now is to act as quickly and unambiguously as possible to reject these policies." lnk.thebulwark.com/4vUCCXy
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Rob Flaherty, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s top digital guru:
“The situation is unbelievably f***ed.”
Read the latest Morning Shots:
lnk.thebulwark.com/3RkArgQ
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The MAGA and MAGA-adjacent internet will happily adopt any cause Trump champions—regardless of how haphazardly he does it.
Even when, as is often, it dramatically backfires on them.
The latest edition of False Flag from Will Sommer:
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"Before this story was published, Maine voters in our focus groups told us that they would likely abandon Platner over this exact type of scandal."
NEW from Sarah Longwell: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pbKZeS
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“Immigration hawkishness spurred Trump’s rise in 2016 and propelled his return to office in 2024. And it is going to be a litmus test for any GOP presidential aspirant in 2028 and beyond.”
Sarah Longwell's latest on birthright citizenship:
www.thebulwark.com/p/voters-are-sounding-more-like…
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