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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 218 minutes
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Air Date 4/26/2025
For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Mr. Abrego Garcia - Main Justice - Air Date 4-15-25
KP 2: Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-11-25
KP 3: Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 4-21-25
KP 4: Bukele Goes To Washington w. Roberto Lovato - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-20-25
KP 7: Trump's Real Plan With El Salvador Revealed - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 4-15-25
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On finding glimmers of hope for the future
DEEPER DIVES
SECTION A: DEPORTATION PRACTICES
SECTION B: VICTIMS OF REGIME
SECTION C: VENEZUELA AND EL SALVADOR
SECTION D: RESISTANCE
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0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
0:06.9 | For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, |
0:15.2 | we are getting exactly what we expected. |
0:17.7 | For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise. And yet, |
0:23.9 | here we know. For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about |
0:29.0 | 50 minutes today includes main justice, counterspin, strict scrutiny, the Majority Report, |
0:36.1 | 60 Minutes, the Tom Hartman program, the muckrake |
0:38.9 | political podcast, and Democracy Now. Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, |
0:44.1 | there will be more in four sections. Section A, deportation practices, followed by section B, |
0:50.4 | victims of the regime, section C, Venezuela and El Salvador, |
0:55.1 | and Section D, Resistance. |
0:57.6 | But first, we are still in major promotion mode |
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1:31.7 | Let's turn to the Abrago-Garcia case. |
1:41.7 | Since our last podcast, the Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam that is an unsigned order with no dissents. |
1:42.5 | That's right. |
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