Ahmed Baba
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Journalist. Political Analyst. Tech. Founder – https://t.co/k4ukdMYyqJ. Columnist @Independent. Co-founded @ranttmedia. Seen on MSNBC, CNN, etc. Bookings—[email protected]
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Joined April 2015
Trump personally directed the prosecution of a political target, despite U.S. prosecutors repeatedly saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge. Biden never did that. This is what real weaponization of the DOJ looks like. I went toe-to-toe with Scott Jennings on the facts.
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The purging of the federal bureaucracy of nonpartisan civil servants is a central component of Project 2025. You can read more about this in my newsletter. If you like the piece, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber: https://t.co/MZSqhX61UA
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The Trump Administration is using the government shutdown as a pretext to speedrun their planned purges of federal workers, executing a key goal of Project 2025 - which Russell Vought helped craft.
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Last week, I wrote an article about how Trump and Russell Vought would exploit this shutdown to accelerate Project 2025. Here we go. Mass layoffs have begun.
The RIFs have begun.
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Surprise. The President, who is deploying troops to Democratic cities, sending ICE to terrorize communities, changing the name of DOD to the Department of War, approving extrajudicial killings of people on boats near Venezuela, didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. Shocking.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is out here calling for the ACA subsidies to be renewed and blaming GOP leadership for the shutdown. There are some real cracks beginning to form in the Republican Party’s shutdown strategy.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House, we
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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"We took the freedom of speech away..." - Donald Trump, October 8, 2025
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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We can't become desensitized to this. The President of the United States is baselessly calling for the jailing of two Dem leaders on the same day a former FBI Director was arraigned for an indictment the president personally directed. This is un-American authoritarian insanity.
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Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.
Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."
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Since my first Project 2025 article in 2023, I’ve written 70+ articles on it & made 20+ news appearances discussing it. At first, warning about it. Now, analyzing its implementation. It’s all in my newsletter. Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber: https://t.co/cnA1aUtwaf
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I wrote one of the first explainers on Project 2025 all the way back in November 2023. It’s unsettling how much of this turned out to come true.
Project 2025 is an authoritarian plot to replace up to 50k federal workers with an "army" of GOP loyalists, dismantle agencies, and turn the government into a tool of the far-right. Trump's plans align with this. Every American should be aware of it. https://t.co/7hx9JcBgbq
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This is an AMAZING bit of reporting. A senior Trump admin official was spotted by someone casually talking about sending in the 82nd Airborne to Portland on Signal and the source snagged MORE THAN 200 IMAGES of the conversation. https://t.co/328jgt6oU6
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A top Trump Administration official, Anthony Salisbury, indiscreetly discussed sending the Army’s 82nd Airborne into Portland, Oregon with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top aide, according to...
“Salisbury chatted candidly, and at times profanely, about a wide range of matters with Hegseth’s adviser Patrick Weaver … According to Weaver, Hegseth wanted Trump to expressly tell him to send [the 82nd] into the American city.”
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The Institute for Justice already has one class action lawsuit in Alabama and is working on getting in touch with the citizens impacted by the Chicago ICE raid 👇🏾
@AhmedBaba_ We at @IJ already have one class action going via Leo Venegas Garcia in Alabama. But we’ve been trying to to get in touch with citizens involved in that egregious Chicago raid. If anyone can put me in touch, IJ works for free, and we’d love to speak to them.
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If a Dem POTUS, let’s say Obama, spoke about fellow Americans the way Trump does, Republicans would freak out. If he called Republicans the enemy within and deployed the military to GOP-led cities, he would’ve been impeached within 24 hours. Trump does it to Dems, GOP applauds.
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Seems to me there’s escalating evidence for a massive class action lawsuit against ICE for systemic 4th Amendment violations. Searching an entire apartment building, zip tying children, & detaining citizens 100% constitutes unreasonable searches & seizures. One example of many.
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This Chicago ICE raid is inhumane. Terrorizing an entire apartment building in the middle of the night, separating families, detaining children, and harassing innocent people is indefensible. This has to stop.
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. https://t.co/r6BRTbxWwY
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For years @jamestalarico has been making the case for progressive policies by citing the teachings of Jesus, flipping the script on Republicans who exploit religion to pursue policies that run contrary to everything Jesus (the historical & religious figure) stood for. It’s great.
Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick
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Also, Trump referring to the shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” makes it pretty easy for Democrats to say Trump wanted this shutdown
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Trump’s post touting Vought’s ties to Project 2025 just handed Democrats a messaging layup. As these funding cuts and layoffs roll in, Dems can credibly call this a “Project 2025 Shutdown”—and expand beyond healthcare to include critiques of Trump’s broader authoritarian agenda.
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I wrote this piece yesterday and Trump’s post just 100% confirmed the premise https://t.co/MZSqhX6zK8
Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left
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