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They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.

Trump: "Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, and some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. That was meant for the babies of slaves."

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Don't be distracted by Trump's Iran rhetoric; the real threat is his plan to dismantle Medicaid, and use the funds to pay for tax breaks for billionaires #DontBombMedicaid

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Trump is singling out a woman reporter on social media less than two weeks after one of his supporters killed Melissa Hortman and her husband and her dog. This insanity needs to stop.

Notice what the administration is doing by trying to portray anyone questioning the success of these strikes as anti-military. It’s a deflection tactic. The mission was perfectly executed, we just don’t yet know if it was successful, and that’s OK - that’s what the IC is for.

Trump calls for Israel to cancel Netanyahu’s corruption trial or pardon him

The cruelty and callousness exhibited by 6 Supreme Court justices yesterday is beyond comprehension. The United States is unrecognizable. It is not the country in which I grew up.

Operation Stormy Daniels. Haha

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION. $793 BILLION. It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage. Just wild.

“This is disgusting. It’s wrong. And I don’t want it being done in my name. You shouldn’t either…We have our own self-destructive ayatollahs (I’m looking at you, Stephen Miller), and they deserve to be stopped, before they tarnish our good name forever.” open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

Three years without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Three years of cruelty. Three years of women denied care, criminalized for miscarriages, and forced to cross state lines in crisis. Three years of the GOP screaming “freedom” while snatching away our bodily autonomy. (1/2)

The Big Fugly Bill It’s Wednesday. There are 496 days until the midterm elections. America hates the Big Fugly bill, Trump bombs at bombing and an earthquake in Gotham.

Jeffries: "Not a scintilla of evidence to date has been presented that I have seen to justify the notion that there was an imminent threat to the United States of America. If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it."

Kill the brutal bill. Before it kills us.

The Supreme Court approved this today.

Congrats MAGA, you did it.

The guy that was facing prison or white house time last November is now starting world war three. who would have guessed

Our air base in Qatar is under Iranian attack, but don’t worry because we have a former reality tv game show host criminal conman with the impulse control of a hangry toddler for a president and a day drinking weekend tv “news” pundit for a Secretary of Defense, so this is fine. Everything is fine.

We're not talking about people disappearing on our streets. See how that works.

The US, the UK, and China have all issued shelter in place warnings for their embassies in Qatar. DHS issued a national terrorism advisory for the US until September 22. I’m not sure I like the golden age

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. The Supreme Court will issue orders tomorrow that could affect this number. Stay tuned.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

In a perfect world, the decision to drag our country into war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism isn’t made by a draft dodging former reality tv gameshow host “president” and his day drinking former weekend tv “news” host Secretary of Defense.

The people who lost their minds over the “tyranny” of gas stove regulations seem to have no problem with Trump’s attack on Iran that lacks any Congressional authorization

Summary of the DOD presser for those who missed it:

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

“Bombing for peace is like fucking for chastity.” - a bumper sticker I had in high school

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

June 21, 2025

They can sit their ass down in the back of the room and STFU.

Seems important.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Take note.

The antiwar President is taking us to war. Does ANYONE believe that if Trump hasn't ripped up the Iran deal for no reason, and Kamala Harris had won, we'd be going to war now? Pathetic stuff.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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I don't think we're in a democracy anymore. Unmarked secret police kidnapping people off the street? A dictator mobilizing the military against civilians? Defying court orders? Ignoring due process? Arresting political opponents? Democracy has left the building. We CAN & MUST get it back, though.