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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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@smith.senate.gov: "They try to pretend that this violence, in this case in Minnesota, was actually driven by left wing ideology, when that is clearly not what is going on here... Let's be honest, here we have Donald Trump, one of the first actions that he took was to pardon the insurrectionists."

submitted 17 hours ago • 79 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

After ruling the NIH grant terminations illegal, Judge Young ended the hearing with an eye-opening speech. “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so.”

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

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Schiff: "In the first administration, there were at least a few people in the cabinet of some independence who could say, 'No, Mr. President, that's a lawless idea, that's a stupid idea.' But there's no one in this current admin to tell POTUS 'that's a stupid idea'... there's nothing but sycophants"

submitted 2 days ago • 590 comments

Shameful.

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

MAGA is a cult so facts won't matter, but I hope some sensible Republicans wake up. (They won't.)

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 2 days ago • 679 comments

Murdered by a Democrat? NOPE. Vance Luther Boelter is a far-right Christian nationalist whose assassination list contained the names of many major Minnesota Democrats — including Rep. Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman, Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Tina Smith... 1/3

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

#NoKings apnews.com/photo-galler...

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#NoKings

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#NoKings

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The greatest con Trump ever pulled was convincing millions of rubes that he cares about them.

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

today is the day $NoKings

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USMC Ret. Lt. Colonel Joe Plenzler deployed with the same Marine battalion now heading to Los Angeles. Marines training for war are now being deployed against American citizens. This crosses a dangerous line. Brothers, remember your ethos, #RememberYourOath.

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

Among other things, this is a very solid counternarrative on antisemitism.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

What happened yesterday was part of a much bigger effort to try and silence anyone who dares to question what the Trump administration is doing. But we will not be intimidated and we will not be deterred. We must hold this administration accountable.

submitted 4 days ago • 147 comments

This is an assault on a United States Senator by a reckless, lawless Administration with no respect for the Constitution. We will not be silent. We will not be intimidated. We stand with Senator Padilla.

submitted 4 days ago • 142 comments

A group of us have arrived on the Senate floor to challenge our colleagues - on both sides of the aside - to rise to this moment and jointly condemn what has happened to Sen. Padilla. Yes we still need to collect the full facts, but this appears to be a defining moment for the country.

submitted 5 days ago • 1638 comments

Rep. Don Bacon: "What I never hear [from the administration] is that Russia is a threat. Russia has invaded Ukraine...Putin said that if we didn't take the Baltic states out of NATO he wouldn't stop the war in Ukraine."

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Double.

submitted 6 days ago • 3408 comments

Donald Trump creates chaos in California so he can send in the military to deal with the chaos ... HE CREATED! Hey Donald, we see right through your totalitarian BS!

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

If your dad or father figure in your life is curious about law and national security, please consider my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America” as a Father’s Day gift. Now in paperback. www.barbaramcquade.com

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Terry Moran told the truth about the hateful Stephen Miller. ABC News hid behind the worn-out claim that their journalist failed to show sufficient neutrality—& fired him. “Neutrality” rather than truth-telling has helped deliver a fascist regime—and legacy media capitulating to a despot’s demands.

submitted 6 days ago • 120 comments

Gavin Newsom’s bullseye: “I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear. But I want you to know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment. Do not give into him.”

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

submitted 7 days ago • 351 comments

The racist calls by those on the far-right for a “ban on third-world immigration” is grotesquely bigoted & a part of the project to gut the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1965 Immigration & Nationality Act ended explicit racism in U.S. immigration policy. www.lbjlibrary.org/news-and-pre...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 7 days ago • 1461 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 7 days ago • 204 comments

www.nokings.org #NoKings #trump

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Trump in 2020: We have to go by the laws. We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.

submitted 8 days ago • 239 comments

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social what the hell is wrong with you "LEADERS"?!?!?!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

DAMN what a photo. By Frederic Brown of AFP.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

"The former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on instead with one that fought it in court..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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submitted 9 days ago • 342 comments

🚨…WE ARE BEING TOLD THE FRONT LINE OF THE INSURRECTION HAS MOVED TO THE HOME DEPOT PAINT AISLE. MARINES SUBDUED ONE DIY HOMEOWNER WHO WAS BROWSING CEILING PRIMERS AND TWO SUSPECTED CRAFTERS CARRYING A SUSPICIOUSLY LARGE NUMBER OF BEHR PAINT SWATCHES…SUPPORT DRONES REMAIN STUCK IN THE GARDEN SECTION…

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 10 days ago • 590 comments