🔵 Anti-Trump Protests Erupt

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Citizen Frank
April 19, 2025

Good evening. It’s Friday, April 18.

 

Anti-Trumpers are planning a massive, nationwide protest against President Donald Trump as part of actions from the 50501 movement over Easter weekend.

The 50501 movement works under the phrase, “50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement” and describes itself as a group fighting to “uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach.” The organization’s next “day of action” falls on Saturday, April 19 — the day before Easter Sunday.

“We are trying to protect our democracy against the rise of authoritarianism under the Trump administration,” Hunter Dunn, a spokesperson for the group, said according to the Washington Post. They claim that their group is not partisan in nature, asserting that Democrats, independents, and Republicans alike are participants in the protests.

MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose deportation from Maryland to El Salvador has become a cause celebre among liberals and Democrats, is no longer being housed in the Central American country’s notorious CECOT megaprison, Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters Friday.

“He told me, and this was yesterday, that eight days ago — so I guess nine days ago from today — he was moved to another detention center in Santa Ana, where the conditions are better,” the Maryland Democrat told reporters at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia upon his return from a three-day trip to El Salvador highlighted by a meeting with Abrego Garcia.

According to Van Hollen, Abrego Garcia told him that “despite the better conditions, he still has no access to any news from the outside world and no ability to communicate with anybody in the outside world.”

President Donald Trump is taking over the reconstruction of Penn Station and kicking the MTA off the project, federal transportation officials announced Thursday.

The move was laid out in a letter to MTA Chair Janno Lieber from Federal Railroad Administration Chief Counsel Kyle Fields, who said the work will instead be overseen by Amtrak, which owns Penn Station.

“There is no reason to delegate leadership of this important project,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a statement.

US District Judge James Boasberg denied an emergency request from lawyers for alleged Venezuelan gang members Thursday seeking to block “imminent” deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing suspected Tren de Aragua gang members being detained in Texas, had asked Boasberg to issue a temporary restraining order requiring 30 days’ notice from the Trump administration before any of their clients are deported under the 18th-century law after learning the removal notices had recently been issued to detainees.

“I’m sympathetic to your conundrum, but I don’t think I have the power to do anything about it,” Boasberg said during an emergency hearing in the District Court for Washington, DC.

President Trump warned he could walk way from efforts to end the war in Ukraine if a deal can’t be found soon, as Russia said a one-month pause on targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure had ended.

“If for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, you’re foolish,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office. “You’re fools, you’re horrible people, and we’re going to just take a pass. But hopefully we won’t have to do that.”

While Trump did not say he has a “specific number of days” in mind by which he wanted to see an agreement before walking away, he needed to see quick progress.

Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter, who, like others, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

The latest incidents add to the Pentagon’s broader upheaval in recent months, including fallout from Hegseth’s release of sensitive information in a Signal chat with other national security leaders and a controversial department visit by Elon Musk.

MMA fighter Conor McGregor has claimed that Ireland is ‘losing its Irishness’ as he sat down with US commentator Tucker Carlson to discuss immigration and his unlikely bid to become president.

Speaking in an interview with conservative Carlson, which aired on Friday, the UFC champion did not hold back when it came to discussing his hard-line stance on migration.

‘[It] is changing the fabric of my country’, he said while being interviewed in his Dublin pub by the former Fox News host.

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