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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis: “As defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador." Her description: "Wholly lawless." Pretty accurate description of Trump 2.0. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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Haste makes waste. Isn't DOGE supposed to root out waste and chainsaw it into the dumpster? DOGE must butcher itself. Buh bye, Elon. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Touting his qualifications to be US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin gave 2 high profile J6 cases he lost. Too, he said he has no experience in court cases that were "tried to verdict, judgment or final decision" as sole or chief counsel. Would you hire this man? www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-mart...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA's slash & burn destruction of the gov't has never been about waste & abuse. It's always been about bringing Project 2025 to life: protecting the wealthy; corporations; & male, Christian, white supremacists. Everyone else: women, minorities, the poor be damned. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Proving the absurdity of confirmation hearings: Before his nomination, Hegseth said women 'straight up' do not belong in combat roles. He reversed himself to win Senate confirmation. Now, he's true to himself again keeping women out of combat roles. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Trump imposed minimum 10% tariffs on 185 nations. Notably absent: Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Cuba. Estimates of the added cost to average American families are up to $5,000. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

This does my heart good! Even after Paxton's office did not contest any of the facts in the case, the junkyard dig still claimed it was a "bogus ruling." Shut up, Mr. Paxton, and open your wallet. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/04/k...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

“That’s like letting a burglar break into your house, steal your TV, and have the court say well, there’s no TV to adjudicate, so I can’t do anything about it,” www.wired.com/story/judge-...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

This is what corruption looks like.

submitted 89 days ago • 2794 comments

Tell me again how Convicted Felon Donald Trump and Republicans want to protect women. 🤬 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump

submitted 89 days ago • 23 comments

Why have federal laws that specify conditions when an official can be fired--neglect of duty or malfeasance--if a rogue president can ignore the law & fire them at will? One more nail in the coffin of balance of power. One more brick in the wall of dictatorship. www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Defendents are alleged to be a "propaganda arm" & "in-house public relations firm for Hamas. Cheap claims are sensational but must be proven. Where is legal evidence? Plaintiffs intentionally confuse criticism of Israeli actions with antisemitism. Not the same! www.reuters.com/world/us/law...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

AG Pam Bondi: “This is an out of control … federal judge trying to control our entire foreign policy." Entire US foreign policy? Forget Israel & Ukraine, Russia & China. This judge is doing his job: ensuring an out of control administration's actions are legal. thehill.com/regulation/c...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

--Attacks on ABC, CBS, WAPO, Atlantic --Investigations of PBS/NPR (but not Fox) --Firing & attacking prosecutors working on J6 cases --Extortion of "liberal" colleges --Threats against law firms. But it's conservatives who are persecuted and censored, they say. How can people believe this?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations Pennsylvania Dems!!! Democrat James Malone won a PA state Senate seat last night flipping an R+23 district in a major upset victory over the Republican! In the PA House, Democrat Dan Goughnour won, securing a one-seat Democratic majority in the Pa House! Now, onward to WI & FL 4/1!

submitted 94 days ago • 22 comments

Such hypocritical BS. If Democrats did this, R's would be calling for blood. This is the result of unqualified, incompetent people being rubber-stamped into high office. BTW, journalists don't have to make up lies about DT; he does a fine job lying all by himself. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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The US military began studying the arctic environment in late 1940s & recognized the threat of climate change to national security. It found "direct evidence that people’s actions, including burning coal and oil, were changing the composition of the atmosphere." theconversation.com/the-us-milit...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters Friday evening. So… (1) Trump is lying & he signed it? (2) Trump is senile & doesn’t remember signing it? (3) Trump had Marco Rubio use the autopen to sign it? www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...

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Sen. Mark Kelly: “A program of this size and complexity requires careful oversight to make sure it doesn’t fall behind or have cost overruns.” Pres Trump: "We can’t tell you the price.” Not a good start. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Extortion is no way to run a democracy. www.reuters.com/world/us/col...

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How can the tiny SBA absorb the huge student loan program & administer it properly after DOGE cut its workforce by 43%? SBA's record is troubling. During the pandemic it gave $200 B in fraudulent loans. Handing it $1.8 T in student loans is asking for disaster. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Felon President Trump’s naked attacks on the Judiciary show one thing: the mark of a dictator. Clearly, only one thing matters, no matter who, what or where, you MUST be loyal to DJT. If not: impeachment or termination. What's next: prison or a firing squad? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

“Americans deserve to have their Social Security records protected with the utmost integrity and vigilance.” ----Lee Dudek, acting Commissioner of Social Security. "Utmost integrity" doesn't fit when Musk & his baby DOGE techies have free rein with SSA data. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

UPenn is latest in the cross hairs of Trump's extortion campaign against liberal schools. "You want your money back? You tow our line. You do what we tell you to do." Ransomware hackers are envious. apnews.com/article/penn...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t make this up.

submitted 99 days ago • 2019 comments

No, dumbass felon. It is a legal, universally recognized, official border between 2 sovereign countries. Another example of Trump emulating Putin.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 100 days ago • 629 comments

Trump/Musk's boldest illegal raid yet was the takeover of the independent Institute of Peace. Protected by police, DOGE claimed the bldg & ejected the staff & board. If this was a college campus, Trump would've called out the Nat'l Guard to tear-gas the thugs. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A few months ago, America was revered worldwide for its generosity, offering hope, refuge, safety & medicine to desperate people. Then Republicans took over and trashed it all: We're now a cruel miserly Scrooge spitting in the face of those we promised to help. www.context.news/socioeconomi...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The Constitution is built on checks and balances, and it’s unacceptable for the president to defy court orders simply because he doesn’t like them.

submitted 101 days ago • 47 comments

No noncitizen is safe from ICE. Trump's rhetoric was on deporting violent, criminal illegals. When the number of them proved too low & the effort to catch them too high, ICE just grabbed more people, easier targets, to pump up the numbers. Trump voters did this. www.usatoday.com/story/news/l...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Cruel & unusual! Forcing shackled people to crouch-walk--so they can't see where they're going--to deportation flights. Unidentified people not charged with any crime. Only allegations, no charges or due process. Why not just put sacks over their heads? Is this America or Russia?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump's USA. Shoot a dozen children in a school - Not terrorism. Stand outside a Tesla dealership with a negative sign - Terrorism.

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

Felon President Trump vowed no reduction in benefits for Medicaid, Medicare & Social Security. How, then, do Republicans cut hundreds of billions from the programs? Easy: fire workers who administer the programs. No benefits are cut, but recipients can't access them. Perfect Republican logic.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

To the Insurrectionist Felon President: since you bring up impeachment, I'll trade your fake, whiny complaints about judges upholding the law for your breaking your oath to defend the Constitution; for your denying the authority of co-equal branches of govt: Congress & Judiciary; for aid to Russia.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The rule of law wins another round against Felon Trump's admin. The truism "haste makes waste" is proven again as Trump/Musk/DOGE's radical chainsaw firing of gov't employees backfires into a colossal waste of time & resources, plus the harm to people's lives. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ's letter is typically absurd. Judiciary is a co-equal branch of gov't with sound jurisdiction. The admin chooses to defy judicial orders. The case has been rushed due to Trump's actions, not the court. The gov't CAN be forced to answer questions. The unidentified deportees had no due process.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Hail a politician with a spine! Stick to your words, PM Carney.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Felon President Trump has no authority to revoke pardons. His reasoning that the pardons were signed by autopen, making them illegal is absurd. Did he personally sign each of the 1600 pardons he gave to J6 criminals? No. So aren't they illegal? time.com/7268902/trum...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

We are in a constitutional crisis. Not if or when, but now! Trump's admin is on-record rejecting judicial orders. They've usurped Congress' authority. It is a rogue regime acting illegally. They must be held to account immediately. This is a constitutional crisis! www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

It's crystal clear: DEI haters gaslight America. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are convenient scapegoats. The real intent: White supremacy. Not white, male, straight? You're irrelevant. Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Veterans, Women and Civil War www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

A personal story of how Musk’s chainsaw cuts affect one person, one research university, but impact tens of millions of people with terrible health issues. www.facebook.com/share/p/19xG...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

To whom does the USA owe more than our veterans? Trump/Musk's butchering of the government will hit veterans disproportionately hard. The statistics in this article tell why. Republicans voted for this last November. It's on them. Remember that. theconversation.com/5-reasons-ve...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Do Not Forget! The claim by Republicans that Trump/Musk's slash & burn rampage is to cut waste, fraud & abuse. That's a fraud in itself; it's just spin to cover the real intent: to pay for the $4.6 Trillion tax cut for the already wealthy. Think your tax bill will shrink a lot? You're a sucker.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Conservatives traditionally argue for originalist interpretations of the Constitution, especially 2A issues. Now, Trump wants to flip-flop 14A, asking SCOTUS to put a modern spin on it so Trump can redefine birthright citizenship in his crusade against immigrants. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

The WH gave Columbia U a list of demands before $400 M in canceled grants/contracts could be restored. Cancelation was pure political retaliation against a disfavored "liberal" institution. The $$ had zero to do with politics. Were other schools examined likewise? www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, is asking the DOJ inspector general to launch an investigation of Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in D.C. Sincerely, Good Luck Mr. Raskin! thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments