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No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.

submitted 22 days ago • 129 comments

Pushback works

submitted 28 days ago • 177 comments

Now that’s how you roll out the welcome mat.

submitted 32 days ago • 280 comments

We have arrived in El Salvador. Trump is illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting people with no due process. We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 41 days ago • 243 comments

Sen. Van Hollen makes a very good point: If all these accusations the Trump administration is making against Abrego Garcia, why have they not made them to the courts?

submitted 44 days ago • 17 comments

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

submitted 45 days ago • 1335 comments

I said it early because I recognized the potential, #TeslaTakeDown pickets are what started to give regular people a way to take direct action after the inauguration. And those pickets have made a difference. If you can join the pickets in your area, you should.

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 45 days ago • 285 comments

News: AOC had her strongest ever quarter, raising over $9.5m from 266k individual donors for an average of just $21. AOC doesn’t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses. 64% were first time contributors.

submitted 47 days ago • 69 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 47 days ago • 40 comments

If two presidents colluding on TV to resurrect and profit from kidnapping and slavery in the middle of Passover isn't antisemitic I don't know what is. After a Pesach arson. We are in hell.

submitted 48 days ago • 94 comments

Inject it in to my veins.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Now that the utter incompetence of this cabinet is on display, we can see why they hated DEI and affirmative action so much. They're the ones who can't compete when there are accountability structures to give qualified BIPOC and women a chance.

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

submitted 48 days ago • 552 comments

So all the White House political reporters are spending the weekend getting up to speed on the Abrego Garcia case and litigation related to the gulag in El Salvador so that they can prep good questions for Bukele’s visit on Monday, right? Right????????

submitted 50 days ago • 242 comments

Autism isn’t something to fix. We are not broken. We are the artists, the writers, the dreamers and the thinkers. You consume what we create. We built the world you live in. We give meaning to your lives. Don't mess with us.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 51 days ago • 638 comments

The kind of zealous representation we want to see.

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

The gerontocracy has real consequences: The House just passed their budget resolution -- a vote that would have likely failed if every Democratic seat was filled. Remember: We've got three Dems missing -- one who's out from illness and two others from members who died in office. Not great.

submitted 52 days ago • 35 comments

Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

submitted 55 days ago • 463 comments

In light of the recent visa withdrawals, here is a PDF with advice for international students at UCLA. I’m so sorry to have to share this. drive.google.com/file/d/1x8_z...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

If you’ve wondered if anyone is going to stand up for you in the middle of this coup, Senator Corey Booker is doing it right now along with help from Murphy, Warnock, Warren and others. Support him with your views and your dollars. youtube.com/@senbooker?s...

submitted 61 days ago • 11 comments

Dear Target, How is ditching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion working out for you? Sincerely, A Former Customer Oh, and btw, we’re just getting started. Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 62 days ago • 138 comments

15 hours & counting: Senator Cory Booker fillibuster continues @booker.senate.gov He's currently engaging in questions from his great friend Senator @coons.senate.gov re: humanitarian matters at home & abroad Booker: Stanford grad (BA & MA), NCAA football player, Rhodes Scholar has stamina

submitted 61 days ago • 116 comments

Corey Booker is doing it right. @senatoradamschiff.bsky.social @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social get busy, fight back.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Literally my entire feed now is people asking these questions so I am going to throw them here one more time Booker's speech is not a filibuster technically as it was not aimed to delay a specific measure. While not technically a filibuster, in six minutes it will have at least delayed a vote.

submitted 61 days ago • 73 comments

These are the heroes of our time. Be on the right side of history folks. Do right by the rule of law and democracy. Do NOT be a coward who obeys in advance!

submitted 64 days ago • 219 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 67 days ago • 506 comments

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

submitted 67 days ago • 2174 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 67 days ago • 2065 comments

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

submitted 69 days ago • 583 comments

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 70 days ago • 687 comments

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

submitted 71 days ago • 352 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 71 days ago • 4456 comments

Is anyone seeing any ads from Democrats or others on TV about the GOP gutting social security? I haven't seen any on Youtube, for example. Seems like very low hanging fruit.

submitted 71 days ago • 48 comments

We simply cannot forget this guy was a mid-level stooge just a few weeks ago who was promoted to the top after he helped DOGE and bragged about it in one of the most deranged LinkedIn posts ever written.

submitted 71 days ago • 71 comments

I am 54 years old. I stepped back from Moms Demand Action after 11 years because I understood that power is finite. Organizations and nations can’t evolve if they don’t have new rolling leadership. This isn’t about age, it’s about hoarding power.

submitted 71 days ago • 61 comments

On Tuesday I edited a story about the FTC firings. Readers took issue with our framing — not just us, but other publications as well. And you know what? Y'all were right. www.theverge.com/policy/63339...

submitted 73 days ago • 156 comments

This is incredible.

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

This Motion says, in essence, you judge, are out of line for demanding the evidence needed to prove that I lied to you in court. Since we’re in the “revoking degrees” phase of our democracy’s unraveling, I’d like to the know the schools from which this coterie of lawyers were graduated.

submitted 74 days ago • 51 comments

“I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments