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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

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🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 6 days ago • 254 comments

Narrator: they were not considering the offer

submitted 6 days ago • 1804 comments

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Send Migrants to South Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Some more fiery 🔥 bench slapping of the Trump Administration: Judge Brian Murphy DENYING the DOJ’s motion to reconsider his decision that the Trump Admin violated his orders by putting people on a plane to South Sudan.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

Cassidy: Why did you cut research on ALS and alzheimers. RFKJ: The Chinese aren't spending a lot of money on DEI. We have not fired any working scientists. THIS IS A BALD-FACED LIE.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Call me crazy - this makes me profoundly worried and sad.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

😳 "The government of Qatar has a 70% stake in a new $10B LNG export hub in Texas known as Golden Pass LNG." @thatcattc.bsky.social @kaylan.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s admin is attempting a hostile takeover of Library of Congress — part of the legislative branch & functions as its research arm + maintaining the world’s largest collection of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs & recordings. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Bypass: archive.is/kvvh1

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

On my wayyyyyy to the webbies 💪🏻

submitted 21 days ago • 207 comments

The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

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U.S. Presidents cannot accept gifts over $20 Qatar is offering Trump $400 million—making their entire deal, no matter how “transparent,” illegal I’ll discuss tonight at 8pm ET with Anderson Cooper @cnn.com — TN

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Apparently Jamieson Greer was sporting a new kind of sycophancy when negotiating with China yesterday. Pretty sure this violates rules on respecting the flag. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82F...

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It seems bribery is now ok for international business dealings for all Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

Also worth reading this thread: x.com/christogroze... Natalia Koshkina, born 1991. Currently, she works as 2nd secretary of the Russian MFA's linguistics dept..but a few years ago, she worked as 3rd secretary of the Russian mission to NATO in Brussels.. almost certainly not an interpreter job.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

This took me out! I am deceased…What we doing? We got meth addicted raccoons, fish addicted to anti-depressants, meth filled shrimp, sharks on that Colombian bam bam. E. Coli lettuce, chicken washed in bleach. Made measles great again. Dysentery said, hold my beer. This is wild. I have no words…

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Like, you kidnapped a guy running for governor against the faux Dem you'd prefer. Why do that? Didn't you see how you helped left parties win in Canada, Oz, and the Vatican?

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

I mean, except Trump?

submitted 23 days ago • 399 comments

JUST IN: Trump administration lawyers have given Judge Boasberg documents they say show US "does not have constructive custody over" El Salvador CECOT detainees. But DOJ submitted them under seal. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

Trump's Department of Homeland Security is illegally BLOCKING billions of dollars in disaster relief & public safety grants while at the same time it OVERSPENDS on its lawless mass deportation campaign. This admin cannot continue to defy our laws & hurt the American people in the process.

submitted 25 days ago • 37 comments

An old X post from the new Pope is making the rounds:

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Deep dive on Leo XIV’s tweets, a thread. Not a fan of Trump’s first-week immigration orders in 2017. 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

ALL RISE! The Hon. Loren L. Alikhan presiding in the case of Susman Godfrey LLP v. Executive Office of the President. One of the cases challenging Trump's targeting of BigLaw for political retribution. Background, @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/jenner-tru...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Allison Riggs won her election to North Carolina’s Supreme Court by 734 votes Her opponent has since been trying to overturn the result With 1 Senate and 14 House seats up in 2026 And the GOP’s constant attempts to gerrymander the state This decision for Riggs could flip both Houses of Congress

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

Imagine your most entitled shit student who doesn't do the reading because he's convinced he's smarter than the professor. Now put him in charge of Social Security.

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

submitted 29 days ago • 119 comments

DOGE's Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws: propub.li/4cVtSYq

submitted 31 days ago • 54 comments

My prediction is that this will be a complete air traffic disaster on Wednesday. Get ready for long lines at security checkpoints and many angry people turned away.

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

submitted 32 days ago • 1991 comments

FOX NEWS ALERT: Mike Waltz out as Trump's national security adviser

submitted 32 days ago • 308 comments

Meiselas: People are concerned about potential market manipulation and whether these statements create artificial spikes and then decreases in the market. Is that something you’re looking into? AG James: We’ve been reviewing a lot of this conduct to determine whether or not it’s actionable.

submitted 33 days ago • 71 comments

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

submitted 33 days ago • 795 comments

JUST IN: The full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals votes 9-6 to maintain a block on DOGE's access to sensitive social security records. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 33 days ago • 105 comments

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

submitted 35 days ago • 207 comments

A disgusting new level of propaganda. Karoline Leavitt wasted taxpayer dollars plastering mug shots across the White House lawn — like trophies. Lies. Fear. Dehumanization. All to distract us from their own failures.

submitted 35 days ago • 2893 comments

Almost 100 days into President Trump’s second term, a picture is worth a thousand words…

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

🚨 New: Don Jr. and Eric Trump could soon sell $9.6 million in Dominari Holdings stock they got for serving on a little-known advisory board — after just 10 weeks on the job, a new SEC filing shows. Full story here ⬇️

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go. Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!

submitted 37 days ago • 844 comments

News from @propublica.org on the DOGE front: A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information… www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

submitted 37 days ago • 819 comments