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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 214 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 266 comments

Mass arrests are beginning. People are getting kettled.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s what we know about Russell Vought: He’s stepping in for Elon Musk to run DOGE, the faux-agency slashing the federal gov. A self-described Christian nationalist, Vought was one of the key architects behind Project 2025. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 10 days ago • 70 comments

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 11 days ago • 373 comments

And then I said… ”The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts!”

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

How long until Trump issues a retaliatory executive order targeting Musk and/or his companies?

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

This harvest is for you, John Redcorn.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 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 46 days ago • 118 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 71 days ago • 202 comments

People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

submitted 78 days ago • 277 comments

UPDATE: The Trump DOJ has filed a “woefully insufficient” Declaration and the judge is not having it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 90 days ago • 74 comments

According to a leaked internal memo, Trump and Musk are now set to introduce a destructive, DOGE-driven plan for Social Security. The Social Security Administration is preparing to add what Trump and Musk are framing as an “anti-fraud” step to claims for earned benefits. Elon Musk calls Social…

submitted 92 days ago • 83 comments

Breaking via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

submitted 92 days ago • 183 comments

submitted 93 days ago • 15 comments

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

submitted 93 days ago • 2759 comments

Update: I’M STILL SCREAMING BC THESE MEMBERS OF THE BAR ARE ACTUALLY GOING WITH THE “A VERBAL ORDER FROM THE BENCH IS NOT ENFORCEABLE” DEFENSE

submitted 93 days ago • 55 comments

Here is an anole that fell on my arm when I was closing the greenhouse door at the farm. It was very chill. 🦎😎✌️ @thelazyanole.bsky.social

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

WTF, Chuck?!

submitted 97 days ago • 923 comments

A group of 14 states have just filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and Trump, arguing that the authority granted by the White House to the Musk an DOGE is unconstitutional.

submitted 125 days ago • 70 comments

BREAKING: NEW resignations over Trump's DOJ moving to drop the Eric Adams case. John Keller, acting head of the Public Integrity Section, refused to drop the case and resigned. Three others resigned. Kevin Driscoll, acting head of the Criminal Division, refused to drop the charges and resigned.

submitted 125 days ago • 39 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge issues blistering order saying that Trump administration has violated his prior order re funding freeze. If admin. continues to disobey, next logical step would be contempt and a potential constitutional crisis. Visit Democracy Docket for updates. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 128 days ago • 788 comments

And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders. The rubicon has been crossed.

submitted 128 days ago • 204 comments

🙌🙌🙌

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to have my comments at an Immigrant Townhall make it in our local paper www.galvnews.com/news/law-off...

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

submitted 134 days ago • 1555 comments

JFC. Call your Senators and Reps and demand that they tell Rubio to fire this man.

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING NEWS: In a massive lawsuit, the AFL-CIO has SUED the Treasury Department: “for their unlawful…disclosure of personal and financial information…to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).”

submitted 135 days ago • 453 comments

As a Christian I’m in an odd place. My heart ultimately believes in and calls me to a love that is one with all of creation and redemption, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and caring and recognizing we are all one are some of its hallmarks. At the same time, I’m increasingly pro-guillotining Elon Musk.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats, thank you for putting your trust in me. It's the honor of my life to serve as your next DNC Chair. Now we’re going to pull ourselves together, work as one, and fight for the American people.

submitted 137 days ago • 3068 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 139 days ago • 1392 comments

NEW: Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol Yes, thank you!! @mcuban.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/m...

submitted 153 days ago • 262 comments

It’s been awhile since it got this cold, Texas! ❄️❄️😳❄️❄️

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

The #SCOTUS website now lists tomorrow as an opinions day—and not from the bench. We don’t know for sure, but there’s only one reason why the Court would announce a previously un-planned hand-down like this—because it’s going to be the TikTok case.

submitted 153 days ago • 28 comments

In a new filing, DOJ says it delivered a copy of the special counsel’s report on the classified documents case to Judge Cannon, as directed. The filing pointedly tells Cannon that her review of the report is “not necessary” to determine whether it should be made available to members of Congress.

submitted 153 days ago • 29 comments