Liveblog - Weekend Wrap Up: April 27, 2025

Today’s blog will consist of both news and a free chat of sorts. As usual, post the headlines we may have missed and feel free to chit and chat and enjoy one another’s company! 

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday had no comedian and no president. Many journalists said that it had been nearly impossible to convince celebrities and lawmakers to attend the annual event, which came as the Trump administration chips away at press freedoms.

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-27T15:23:03.101Z

Good Trouble:

Jeffries: "If you work hard and pay by the rules, you should be able to live a comfortable life … instead of leaning into that vision of bringing the American dream to life, this Republican budget is actually doing the exact opposite."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-27T15:01:42.498Z

Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Are Sitting in to Stand Up for Medicaid

The lawmakers are having “An Urgent Conversation with the American People” on the Capitol steps to oppose Republican plans to cut public healthcare benefits

“This is a moral moment in America.” Gathering on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries lead an urgent discussion about what is at stake with Trump’s budget and the need for unified action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs.

Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T15:53:19.718Z

Economy:

You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T19:34:41.528Z

⚠️ Strong Letter Warning! ⚠️-Dude Won’t Even Follow Court Orders, Let Alone ‘Strong Letters:

The Fascist Felon, Elmo, DOGEbags and their Brownshirts:

Only a McMoron Would Believe this 💩 💩 💩:

Reality Check:

Cohn: "Tariffs are highly regressive. Meaning that poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-27T14:52:56.829Z

How Low Can He Go?

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T05:29:43.901Z

Pudding Time!

Trump is a tasteless, classless pig480 world leaders were at the Pope's funeral & Trump the only disgraceTalked on his phone, texted, laughed, and sleptThe rug around the coffin is considered holy ground & everyone avoided itExcept Trump & his hooker. They stepped right on it.The MAGA pigs

Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T02:27:36.488Z

No Soul Marco:

Marco Rubio on Meet the Press defends the Trump administration deporting US citizen children

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-27T14:27:42.781Z

WELKER: Does the US still want to make Canada the 51st state?MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-27T14:28:06.194Z

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer

Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under “troubling circumstances,” says the ACLU of Louisiana

As part of Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown, three U.S. citizen children were deported with their mothers by the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday morning. One of the children was undergoing cancer treatment and one of the mothers is pregnant.

Both families had lived in the country for years and had ties to their communities, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana, which warns that the circumstances of their sudden deportations raises grave due process concerns. The civil rights organization says that the first family was detained on Tuesday and the second family on Thursday, and that one of the mothers was given less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly dropped, after her spouse attempted to provide a phone number to legal counsel.

Among the children deported with their mothers, says the ACLU, are three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven. One of the children is a four-year-old suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer and was deported out of the country without medication or consultation with their treating physicians — despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s medical needs. The civil rights organization says that the mother of the two-year-old is pregnant, and was deported without ensuring any continuity of prenatal care or proper medical care.

ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted

After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has broken its silence, conceding its agents were responsible for the arrest of two men during a raid on a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and promising that the bystanders who questioned those agents will be prosecuted.

ICE also blasted the area’s top prosecutor, who has announced he will be investigating the raid, as “posturing for the media.

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T20:32:13.063Z

“Those aren’t deals:”

The Treasury secretary himself seems to stumble on how far Trump has gotten on the trade front.

Michael Derby (@michaelsderby.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T16:28:35.916Z

Only a McMoron Would Believe this 💩 💩 💩:

Bessent on investors losing confidence: "We're in this for the long term."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-27T15:20:59.980Z

Ewww! 🤢 🤮

World News:

At least 9 people were killed after a driver plowed into a street party Saturday night in Vancouver, British Columbia, the police said.

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-27T12:16:57.821Z
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