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Remember when Donald Trump got caught with all sorts of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after saying he didn't have anything, and then he got indicted but the judge slow walked the case to death? Yup. He did that.

submitted 11 hours ago • 97 comments

You need this in your timeline! Stop to listen. Amazing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 43 comments

Also, that time Justice Thomas sat on the Trump v. U.S. case where the Court gave Trump broad criminal immunity in a 6-3 decision, even though Thomas' wife had been very pro-Jan 6 protests. How quickly a president's crazy makes a country forget joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-must...

submitted 10 hours ago • 52 comments

"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

submitted 16 hours ago • 262 comments

This weekend, our show is highlighting all the ways - both big and small - that Americans are standing up for democracy. Whether you’re trolling far-Right figures online, bringing a friend to vote in a local election, or running for office yourself, you’re making a difference. #Velshi

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

submitted 13 hours ago • 810 comments

A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 461 comments

Just read this and imagine if West allows Russia to absorb Ukraine and get all those brilliant intelligence minds to do what it wants and to conduct these kinds of operations against whoever Moscow orders! My latest www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Hungary's Orban, now a darling of the American Right-wing, has "set up a political system within which he never loses,” says @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. “He's so manipulated the public sphere and so manipulated the electoral system.” Who suffers the most under that “fake democracy”? Hungarians.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The plaintiff, a victim of Epstein, claims the gov't concealed its conduct for years & "At no time did the FBI or any other government entity reach out to Maria to investigate or seek to understand or resolve her claims or otherwise in any way substantively respond to her claim.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

submitted 2 days ago • 629 comments

Scheduling an interagency retaliation-planning meeting seems like pretty good plaintiff's evidence for a First Amendment retaliation claim.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

"there is no word in any language that captures the level of obliviousness..." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

“This is just taking money from households and transferring it to banks and credit card companies, and to water and power utility companies.... It means Americans will pay the costs in higher household bills.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

the modern information environment

submitted 3 days ago • 120 comments

This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

👀👇🏾

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I wouldnt be too quick to buy this. Musk got what he came for all along—our personal information. The world’s richest guy doesn’t walk away from a $250 mil investment empty handed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 394 comments

I can confirm that. My husband, a military cameraman, almost got hit by one of those FPV drones when in Kherson. Russians punish Kherson residents for showing the truth in 2022, and want the city back/https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-war-crime-civilian-ukraine-kherson-region-united-nations/

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨 #Russian armed forces have been “systematically” committing crimes against humanity by hunting civilians using remote-controlled drones, report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine said today. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

My latest. I think Zelenskyy here is all of us, Ukrainians. We might often say unpleasant things, but we tell the truth. www.politico.eu/article/zele...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Thank thank thank you @msnbc & @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social team for giving me the chance to disconnect from work and reconnect with the most important people in my life 👇🏼

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

submitted 6 days ago • 394 comments

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

submitted 7 days ago • 149 comments

The House GOP snuck a provision into the budget bill that would strip away any consequences for officials who defy a judge’s ruling. It’s yet another attack on what @judgeluttig.bsky.social says is “the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.” Luttig joins @ 11aET #Velshi

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

Since Donald Trump promised great deals to Putin and endless opportunities to Russians after the bloodshed ends, and also claimed he will abandon Ukraine, Moscow feels its hands are completely untied, and it enjoys the right to commit violence, gifted by the current US leadership.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Funny, but when I was a federal prosecutor, people, including folks I know to be conservative Republicans, were absolutely adamant about prosecuting pay-to-play schemes that were much less bold and audacious than this one. Those folks all seem to have gone into hiding now.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

“There are not two sides to authoritarianism… It’s America or it’s Trumpism.,” says @deanobeidallah.bsky.social. From arresting judges to investigating law firms, media outlets & universities, Obeidallah warns, “this is beyond not normal.” #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

It’s gotten to a point where “anybody who becomes pregnant needs to look over her shoulder if she travels to an anti-abortion state,” @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social says. “Natural life cycles are now being prosecuted.” #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

The House just passed the bill to fund Trump's second-term agenda -- and "it is a piece of garbage," says fmr. Democratic Senator Jon Tester. He calls it "anti-farmer" and warns that it will lead to "an even bigger mass exodus" out of rural America. #Velshi

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

“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 8 days ago • 2085 comments

The administration’s “mass deportations” policy is in conflict with other priorities they claim, especially human trafficking. People suffer if our commitment lags. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments