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I am retired defense attorney, liberal, pro democracy. Covid anxious #covidisnotover . Love family, cats and other animals and kids, art, reading, video games, and not really a hermit but it looks like that from the outside.
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🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Unreal. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

It's like a death cult

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

Are we great yet?

The cruelty is the point.

He got a REAL ID, is a citizen and was arrested and told his real id was fake. ICE is a disgrace.

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

Watch what they do, not what they say.

Trump cut nearly $3 billion in the first 100 days. Cancer is the #2 killer of people. Anyway, MAGA. www.axios.com/2025/05/19/n...

Phang: Putting aside the big bullshit bill that just got passed in the House in the dark hours of the night, DOGE has single-handedly destroyed so much of our federal government. We, as Americans, deserve to know why they have done it, how they have done it, and what they are continuing to do.

I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

Ansari: I sit on the Natural Resources Committee, where we witnessed the most anti-environment legislation go through. It includes massive giveaways to the oil and gas industry. I discovered that the chairman had purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas stocks.

Jeffries: There are three big issues with the bill 1. It represents the largest cut to healthcare in American history. 2. It represents the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history. 3. All of this is being done to enact the largest tax break for billionaires in American history.

Speak Truth...Jan 6 should have been the end.... ..

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!

Trump/Musk and the entire GOP has spent the last four months systematically liquidating disease cure research in the United States. Lots of critical cure studies shuttered mid-way through. Research shutdown everywhere. It's all hands on deck to prevent new treatments for cancer, ahlzeimers etc.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

Oh ffs. Vietnam, in negotiations with the Trump admin to get their 46% tariffs lifted, is now negotiating with Eric Trump to build a new Trump Tower in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam already offered to reduce all tariffs on goods from the US to zero and authorize Elon Musk’s Starlink for their country.

Holy shit In one hour: They are indicting a D congresswoman They are going to pay the family of domestic terrorist Ashli Babbit 5 million dollars They sent 50 perfectly innocent people who are here legally to their gulag in El Salvador

Injured DC police officer Dan Hodges on Justice Dept settlement with estate of Ashli Babbitt: “…Trump wants to pay the insurrectionists so that he'll have them on retainer for the next time he wants to influence the course of history with mass violence.”

Unthinkable evil.

Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful.

Statement from the NJAG Matt Platkin

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

BREAKING: Trump's effort to remove the U.S. Institute of Peace's board members is a "gross usurpation of power" and must be voided, a federal judge ruled. Trump's purported replacements and their actions also voided. Story soon @www.allrisenews.com storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is HUGE. For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!

14 MILLION. That’s how many people Republicans admit their plan would rip healthcare away from. Share it. Shout it. Stop it.

Stinking orange mf........

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JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...