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Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.

submitted 38 days ago • 576 comments

I gift this NYT piece by David French, so that all can read. “Millions of Americans are desperate for a quick and effective response to Trump’s attacks on the Constitution. But the election foreclosed that possibility. The courts — even if they have the courage — lack the power to save America.

submitted 42 days ago • 107 comments

This reads like a fire signal to alert the more oblivious members of the Supreme Court that we are on the precipice of everything falling apart.

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

submitted 43 days ago • 675 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 44 days ago • 716 comments

The Trump administration cut funding and staffing at the program that oversees the federal government’s premier report on how global warming is affecting the U.S., raising concerns among scientists that the assessment is now in jeopardy.

submitted 49 days ago • 28 comments

Protecting our public lands also protects our wildlife. This #WildlifeWeek and beyond, let’s be intentional about conserving our wildlife and the habitats they depend on for future generations.

submitted 49 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 51 days ago • 821 comments

The preschooler, Belle Thomas, and her 1-year-old brother, Preston, are looking straight into the camera lens and smiling. Just then, a former president of the United States strides into the frame. That’s how Barack Obama inadvertently became part of a family’s moment in Washington.

submitted 56 days ago • 32 comments

A picture paints a 1000 words! Our heroes of pro-democracy! #MomSky

submitted 57 days ago • 103 comments

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submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Yep

submitted 62 days ago • 760 comments

The last time Lancaster County elected a Democrat to the Pennsylvania Senate was in 1889, when John S. Hoover won a special election. 136 years later, James Malone joins the club.

submitted 64 days ago • 21 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 65 days ago • 329 comments

If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law? To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.

submitted 67 days ago • 409 comments

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 68 days ago • 421 comments

This is fabulous!

submitted 68 days ago • 86 comments

Evil

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

👇👇👇👇

submitted 68 days ago • 526 comments

need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.

submitted 73 days ago • 504 comments

Holy shit. This is the gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

submitted 75 days ago • 94 comments

Jon Ossoff just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇

submitted 76 days ago • 183 comments

So good. Just run this on loop @democrats.org.

submitted 77 days ago • 117 comments

A “clean” CR is one line changing a date.

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

If you're driving the economy into the ditch the first thing you need to do is fire with the people who help compile the economic statistics. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 85 days ago • 25 comments

"None of us should let Congress off the hook. The key constitutional crisis here is if Congress does not do its job of standing up to abuse of power." — @mawaldman.bsky.social on @ayman.msnbc.com

submitted 86 days ago • 112 comments

Interesting statement on Russia and Ukraine from leadership at the George W Bush Presidential Center. www.bushcenter.org/publications...

submitted 86 days ago • 87 comments

There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.

submitted 87 days ago • 201 comments

President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

submitted 87 days ago • 207 comments

Don’t let them get away with this.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Science. We will miss it when it’s gone. The shortsighted destruction of research science will be a generational setback for the US.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

This is called fraudulent accounting, and it’s what Trump was found criminally guilty of by a New York court.

submitted 87 days ago • 56 comments

Putin has taken over our govt. We gonna let this happen?

submitted 87 days ago • 45 comments

This is a loudly blown whistle.

submitted 87 days ago • 29 comments

In-House Gov Tech Unit for State of the Art Web Portals Disbanded by Doge talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/in-ho...

submitted 89 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 88 days ago • 439 comments

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 88 days ago • 154 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 89 days ago • 1303 comments

True values come out in times of crisis. Some organizations are leaning in, others are leaning out.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing Trump and Musk value most of all is money. Their entire regime is best understood as a criminal junta whose end goal is to redirect the wealth of the nation into their own pockets. They are running a kleptocracy, and they’ve figured out that facism is actually the quickest path to riches”

submitted 95 days ago • 62 comments

been thinking a lot about this quote lately “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

submitted 95 days ago • 46 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 96 days ago • 541 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 96 days ago • 435 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 96 days ago • 863 comments

Excellent question.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 101 days ago • 625 comments