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Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...

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Thought exercise. What would Sen Mitch McConnell have done, if when he was the head of the opposition party and then President Obama tried to neutralize the federal courts? Cc @kaine.senate.gov, @schumer.senate.gov

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Article says the provision “could disarm” SCOTUS. “Could”? It’s an attempt to remove whatever teeth the federal courts have as they are standing between Trump’s MAGA wet dreams of revenge, power, and greed. Oh to have a functional opposition in the Senate. www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 5 days ago • 2082 comments

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

submitted 6 days ago • 666 comments

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

submitted 8 days ago • 223 comments

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

submitted 8 days ago • 619 comments

OPINION: “The president can do anything he wants right now—we don't have three co-equal branches of government anymore.” Former Montana Sen. Jon Tester warns 'Congress has ceded all power' to Trump. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywQ0...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

#ICEoutofIOWA apnews.com/article/iowa...

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I'm going to thread a couple of framing questions on this thread for anyone interested in covering the terrible decision in Noem v NTPSA.....

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Yep. Project Esther. Zeteo reported on this over six months ago. Glad the NY Times is finally catching up. zeteo.com/p/project-es...

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

What can congressional Dems do now? Hit the off switch. No fed dollars for fed police units where there’s evidence of grave human rights abuses.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

submitted 12 days ago • 907 comments

i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 390 comments

It’s a conversation worth having.

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This is a very chilling recounting from my friend TN State Rep @aftynbehn.bsky.social: It’s 2:23 AM on ICE Watch in Nashville, TN open.substack.com/pub/aftynbeh...

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AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces

submitted 18 days ago • 956 comments

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 732 comments

This is wrong, and bizarre from a NYT reporter. “Corruption” isn’t a precise legal term. It’s a widely-used term than means, roughly, use of public authority/official office for private gain. This is necessarily more expansive than the elements of any particular law, like anti-bribery statutes.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 734 comments

I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.

submitted 18 days ago • 451 comments

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

submitted 18 days ago • 688 comments

In US foreign assistance, the #LeahyAmendment provides that we shut off US funding for police or military units abroad, if there is evidence of human rights violations. Should we not have at least such a standard for domestic law enforcement? Cc @democrats-judiciary.house.gov

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

Why are ICE agents wearing masks and dark sunglasses?

submitted 19 days ago • 3118 comments

This part

submitted 19 days ago • 855 comments

When you make a Monty Python co-founder laugh out loud. 💕

submitted 19 days ago • 933 comments

Dems’ leadeship in the Senate and House might want to do… something? #OffSwitch #Not1Cent www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

submitted 20 days ago • 578 comments

When Dems take the House, we must have a Select Committee to investigate ICE abuses. My fear is that we won't get one because David Shor is telling Hakeem Jeffries not to touch immigration.

submitted 20 days ago • 90 comments

Star Wars: A New Pope Is that anything?

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

The Crisis of Masculinity & Trump’s Exploitation of the Manosphere American men are dying younger due to loneliness, suicide, & an inability to achieve a successful future. MAGA has filled the vacuum with a destructive "manosphere." There's a better way forward. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Finally Rome will get good pizza.

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.

submitted 20 days ago • 394 comments

Big week for Villanova alums. ✝️🏀

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

“.. The ‘full and comprehensive’ trade deal between the US and the UK .. is no such thing. .. “.. this rush to demonstrate progress on ‘deals’ reveals a rising desperation within the administration to rollback tariffs before they hit GDP growth and inflation.” 🤡

submitted 21 days ago • 110 comments