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“While his win was an upset, the appeal of Mamdami’s fresh optimism should not be surprising after years and years of cynical, self-serving politicians who fail to grasp the anti-corporate fury among many Democratic voters.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-zohran-...

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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

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“Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears, as he hears the Our Father chanted beautifully in Ukrainian, by the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on pilgrimage in St. Peter’s Basilica for this Jubilee Holy Year” (Source: Catholic Sat)

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.

submitted 10 hours ago • 382 comments

Interesting how no Democrat wants to deal with the fact that law enforcement by-and-large voted for Trump, knowing what he would do.

submitted 10 hours ago • 23 comments

Omg, it me

submitted 10 hours ago • 60 comments

“Maybe this mayoral race will be an opportunity to redefine what ‘socialist’ means, transforming it from a Republican slur to a commitment to expanding the common good and pursuing policies that actually serve the needs of working people.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 10 hours ago • 41 comments

*goose meme** What caused the pile-up, John. WHAT CAUSED THE PILE-UP

submitted 10 hours ago • 757 comments

Remember: Ds must make this a career-ender for every R who votes for this monstrously cruel bill

submitted 10 hours ago • 57 comments

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

submitted 13 hours ago • 752 comments

New in PN: The MAGA mind virus "77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."

submitted 15 hours ago • 153 comments

A Melania Trump event is being investigated after promising to donate proceeds to a charity that doesn't appear to exist, report says. They’re ALL corrupt.

submitted 13 hours ago • 175 comments

It’s happening here. It’s happening:

submitted 12 hours ago • 53 comments

Trump DECREED that he wants to sign the evil budget bill by July 4th. Republicans are in a crazed frenzy to try to pass the bill through both houses and get it to him. Senate will be convening at 2pm today, hoping that they can hold debate & amendment sessions in the middle of a Saturday night. 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Bernie to Dems:

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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?

submitted 1 day ago • 934 comments

This broke me from the first paragraph "For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved." Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

I strongly agree with Elie's five-alarm-fire take. And I respectfully but firmly disagree with those who think today's disastrous decision will be fairly easy for lawyers to work around.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 1 day ago • 1240 comments

The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. apnews.com/article/jan-...

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Nearly two-thirds of voters (64 percent) say they prefer giving most undocumented immigrants in the United States a pathway to legal status according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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"They are happy to use us as pawns for their own political purposes." Jewish mayoral candidate & Mamdani ally @bradlander.bsky.social & slams Trump & rightwingers both for their use of antisemitism to smear their opponents & their Islamophobia. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/they-use-u...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Calling out Kristi Noem and FBI director Kash Patel's bogus claims of the threat posed by Canada to the border. Canadians refuse to travel to a nation that kidnaps people and is no longer under the rule of law. youtu.be/rhWNGN4sspk?...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Exclusive: The U.S. DOGE Service has lost the power to control the government’s process for awarding billions of dollars in federal funds, the latest sign of the team’s declining influence following Elon Musk’s exit from Washington.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Trump's masked thugs beat this Latino reporter and broke his leg. Then just left him there, wailing in pain. Trump's ICE America.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

On Kaine’s War Powers Act resolution, Senate Republicans (plus Fetterman, minus Paul) rejected an opportunity to apply some checks and balances on a White House that needs to be checked and balanced. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I head to court in two months to face off with my rap*st. This is the actual jury trial, and I’ve already spent a lot in traveling and I’m pursuing justice. Just throwing this into the universe. A re-share would mean the world. gofund.me/869834ef

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

Not only are ICE bounty hunters, who look more like criminals than law enforcement, abducting people from workplaces & off the street—we’re now seeing they’re being held in private detention centers w/some of the most deplorable conditions imaginable. REPEAT: people are profiting from this cruelty.

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"The State Department has one estimate that the cost of shutting down USAID was $6 billion. So instead of saving money, they've spent $6 billion killing a lot of kids." @nickkristof.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the gratuitous cruelty of cutting USAID:

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🦋 Armed & masked Border Patrol agents blast their way into home of woman with young children 10 Agents used a blast to access home of U.S. citizens in Huntington Park, CA at 6am Jenny Ramirez with her 1 year old, ran to protect her 6 year old. Her boyfriend had hit a federal car the week before. 🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

“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.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

In Marbury, the Court lacked jurisdiction because it entered a mandamus under a statute passed by Congress that violated the Constitution, so that the court overruled the law, negating its jurisdiction. Under Marbury, the Court here would seem obligated to provide a remedy where there is a right.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 1 day ago • 314 comments

Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

The United States is a nation beyond the rule of law. People are being kidnapped on the streets by men in masks. They are being disappeared and deported to foreign concentration camps. A Canadian died in their hands. We must demand full access and independent investigation of his mistreatment.

submitted 2 days ago • 356 comments

This creepy little dude is only 44. (IKR?) And he's nominated for a lifetime position on the bench. Please call your senators.

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Successful authoritarianism isn’t just about what the state can do to you — but more importantly, what they can get you to do to each other Capturing regular people into a self-reporting structure of cruelty, dehumanization, and oppression is how authoritarianism breathes free air

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Rieckhoff: That’s America’s Secretary of Defense. I wish he attacked Vladimir Putin as aggressively as he attacks CNN and others

submitted 2 days ago • 257 comments

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

submitted 2 days ago • 1643 comments

The powerful swing of young New York #Yankees star Mickey Mantle! #MLB #Baseball #Legend #History #RepBX

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

(gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I’m offended on behalf of my entire profession

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Of course he did. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 2 days ago • 822 comments

“The biggest crybaby in the history of American politics now feels ‘like a warrior.’” @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

submitted 2 days ago • 307 comments

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1154 comments