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Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.

submitted 5 hours ago • 268 comments

How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers. Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this. Where is the censure and condemnation?

submitted 10 hours ago • 327 comments

Tuberville must be censured and denounced by every Democratic member of the Senate. This is vile and dangerous rhetoric. @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov

submitted 9 hours ago • 132 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s 2AM on a Sunday and I’m heading to the Capitol to FORCE a full reading of the Republicans’ 940-page bill. This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance. It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 554 comments

It's not a flipping "dispute." It's an illegal and extortionary attack by an authoritarian government. It's like negotiating down the terms of a mugging. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

submitted 1 day ago • 359 comments

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 1374 comments

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

submitted 2 days ago • 1732 comments

Anyone who would intimidate a 6 year-old by brandishing a firearm, would do anything to anyone. Their evil knows no bounds. This is sadism. They take joy in causing pain-suffering-death upon others. And Sadism NEVER occurs in isolation – it's ALWAYS accompanied by Sociopathy or Psychopathy (ASPD).

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

submitted 1 day ago • 497 comments

The U.S. airstrikes in Iran are the latest in erratic decisions from the Trump White House. I call upon my colleagues to not let the President obscure and distract from his signature chaos at home.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT birthright citizenship. The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 2 days ago • 121 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 1 day ago • 804 comments

Federal judge rules that Trump’s executive order imposing penalties against law firm Susman Godfrey is unconstitutional, permanently barring Trump regime from enforcing its frightening campaign to subjugate the nation’s top law firms. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Republicans in Congress are currently figuring out how to pay for a tax cut for their wealthy donors by stripping away healthcare for 16 million Americans and gutting SNAP that provides food to families--with 40% of people on SNAP being children. GOP will literally kill people to help rich donors!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Emolumental: A United Arab Emirates-based fund has bought $100 million worth of digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture of U.S. President Donald Trump's family, becoming its largest publicly known investor. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

I miss having a human president.

submitted 2 days ago • 889 comments

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching? As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 350 comments

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 1200 comments

“Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper 𝘏𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘻 on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes.”

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.

submitted 2 days ago • 585 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1160 comments

"Hegseth’s take on the operation was a literal erasure of the woman involved, of course, but it was his doubling down that it’s fine to refer to a woman as 'a boy' that raised eyebrows."

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols. What you need to know 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

A great visionary who worked to realize a vision of this country that once seemed possible. An extraordinary human being & superb journalist who contributed to our shared understanding of our country and of one another. Rest in Peace Bill Moyers. @pbs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

wat

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

It’s cruel to send Palestinians desperate for food into a death trap. And now, Trump wants to give the Netanyahu backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" $30 million. We should not send a single cent. We must stop the suffering in Gaza and fund real aid organizations.

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred. In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 3 days ago • 379 comments

WTH

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

submitted 5 days ago • 261 comments

Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello?

submitted 5 days ago • 821 comments

The Supreme Court decided to let Trump violate an international human rights treaty and send immigrants to places where they are likely to be tortured. If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Police say: If citizens encounter a matter where it appears that someone is impersonating law enforcement, they should call 911, but police also state they don't know who's ICE. So how the hell are we supposed to know if it’s ICE or a kidnapping? Solution: call 911 every time you see "ICE". #ICE

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Trump DOJ official, Emil Bove, told colleagues to “fuck” the courts, says a whistleblower. Now Trump wants to make Bove a federal judge.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

This is extraordinarily corrupt. But I still think he’s far more malevolent and sociopathic than merely corrupt.

submitted 5 days ago • 262 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 5 days ago • 313 comments