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“Nothing will ever be perfect” - Trump said today in response to the immigration debacles involving people wrongfully deported. “It’s better to let 100 guilty people go free than imprison one innocent person” - the foundational philosophy of American criminal law. We’re approaching DEFCON 1.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

What’s interesting about the response to the email: at the FBI, Patel, a hard-right Trump appointee and ally of Bannon, said no dice. Same at State but response came from Tibor Nagy, a moderate Trump appointee who was a career diplomat. 1/

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email. Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

submitted 98 days ago • 47 comments

Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders. These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.

submitted 115 days ago • 432 comments

Dems can take the House back in 60 days @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @thebulwark.bsky.social @chasingoz.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @tnbrando.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @georgetakei.bsky.social @godpod.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social youtu.be/iYdQiW5YHFc

submitted 115 days ago • 82 comments

He always has to be the savior doesn’t he? So glad NPR headline tells the truth. www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Swiped this from Substack-& I’m not sorry!

submitted 125 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

submitted 131 days ago • 378 comments

The Anti-Defamation League defended Elon Musk’s “salute” youtu.be/qHypsgPSakU

submitted 131 days ago • 28 comments

Orlins If Elon walks like a duck…. youtube.com/shorts/RI-ot...

submitted 131 days ago • 4 comments

Brave yourselves for more of the like.

submitted 131 days ago • 1031 comments

As the oligarchs & sycophants party at all of inaugural balls, deportations will begin. Know and exercise your rights, have a plan, and be prepared.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Just like the stimmy checks, Trump had to be our savior, to show his “love” for us with TikTok. But it is now a tool to make us obey. He will take away TT if he doesn’t like what we do. Yesterday felt icky, precisely because our community was violated to become a tool of manipulation.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

For the record, as of 1/19/2025 in Northern NJ, here are 4 common store-brand grocery items and prices. See you in a week when Trump rolls all these prices back to the 1950s.

submitted 132 days ago • 82 comments

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

submitted 132 days ago • 1180 comments

President-elect Trump and his family on Friday started selling a new cryptocurrency token, a potentially lucrative new business that ethics experts assailed as a blatant effort to cash in on the presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

submitted 133 days ago • 875 comments

Even if TikTok is saved, at what cost? What are the strings? Will we be throttled, censored, or banned for our content? I don’t know if I can go back, but if I do it will be cautiously.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Never forget, TikTok’s “threat to National Security” was not that China had access to our data; the threat was the modern town square, the exposure of the corrupt and greedy political class, and exposing the false propaganda spread by legacy media.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment