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They make it sound like there are millions of dead people getting Social Security checks. But it's just not true.

submitted 17 days ago • 596 comments

If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president. If you are not a member, please share with others who are.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

Bookmarked for the inevitable surrender.

submitted 19 days ago • 1458 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

Are you watching @maddow.msnbc.com tonight? Cause….wow.

submitted 26 days ago • 593 comments

Pam Bondi on Fox claims Riley Gaines "made it to the Olympics" (Riley Gaines never made it to the Olympics.)

submitted 26 days ago • 1355 comments

Tariffs are taxes on consumers. His tariffs are contributing to higher prices, not lower ones.

submitted 26 days ago • 1381 comments

REPORTER: Why not show the public the evidence? BONDI: Well, he is an illegal alien who has been living illegally in our country from El Salvador ... He is not coming back to our country R: But the evidence. We're not gonna see the evidence? BONDI: We have the transcripts from the court hearings

submitted 26 days ago • 2348 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 26 days ago • 3470 comments

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

submitted 26 days ago • 570 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 26 days ago • 677 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 27 days ago • 988 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨 👀👀👀 Who had the DOGE password and user name in Russia?? Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

submitted 26 days ago • 30 comments

Anyone watching @maddow.msnbc.com? We’re fucked.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

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Thank YOU for coming out! This is exactly why we do this. One objective of these rallies has been for people in red and swing areas to start seeing and finding one another. There is power in numbers. We also bring local organizers onstage to speak and highlight local issues. It’s been great 💜

submitted 26 days ago • 492 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 26 days ago • 1267 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters have gathered outside the Maryland courthouse where Judge Xinis is holding a hearing regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia

submitted 26 days ago • 154 comments

Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.

submitted 26 days ago • 428 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 27 days ago • 1664 comments

Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah

submitted 28 days ago • 436 comments

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

submitted 33 days ago • 971 comments

Elections have consequences

submitted 33 days ago • 2506 comments

What a day. What a country! 💪

submitted 36 days ago • 1551 comments

Thank you to everyone has reached out to offer kind words of support. I will fearlessly and unapologetically continue to stand up for democracy, no matter what the president says or does. Democracy Docket will do the same. It won't back down. It will never obey. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 41 days ago • 808 comments

“Beautiful thing to watch.”

submitted 41 days ago • 1523 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 42 days ago • 7375 comments

Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

submitted 41 days ago • 1404 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

submitted 42 days ago • 2139 comments

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1296 comments

President Donald Trump issued a massive anti-voting executive order that sent lawmakers, election officials and voting rights advocates into a frenzy. And one provision looks like a bid to advance a goal that for years has been a borderline obsession for Trump: cracking down on voting by mail.

submitted 46 days ago • 142 comments

Who knew hiring cabinet members and staff who are alcoholics, heroin and ketamine addicts would lead to disaster and endanger our health and security?

submitted 48 days ago • 59 comments

But her emails...

submitted 49 days ago • 535 comments

Mohammed Hatem tells us what the situation is like on the ground, now that the ceasefire is no longer in effect. (via @wbur.org)

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Top intelligence committees need to begin an investigation into Pete Hegseth's epic Signal chat mishap. ASAP. There should be televised hearings so all Americans have transparency on how such an enormous breach of national security could take place in first place.

submitted 49 days ago • 1678 comments

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

submitted 50 days ago • 4478 comments

Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)

submitted 50 days ago • 2230 comments

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

submitted 51 days ago • 608 comments

I mean.

submitted 56 days ago • 2361 comments

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

submitted 60 days ago • 1578 comments

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

submitted 60 days ago • 1733 comments

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

submitted 62 days ago • 240 comments

One Democrat voted with Republicans to approve the bill, which includes a slight increase for defense spending and cuts to domestic programs, including some health care and veterans programs. One Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted no. Make a note of this. www.npr.org/2025/03/11/n...