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Retired elementary teacher, enjoy photography, biking, hiking and healthy eating. Nene to a wonderful 4 year old. Concerned about what the future holds for my kids and grandson and everyone else.
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It’s not that they don’t know what the constitution says. They know what it says. Just like they knew what it said when they asked Pence to ignore it. They just don’t care. They believe it can be rewritten by bending it to their will, if enough of them decide to do it.

Ashley Babbit's family is poised to recieve 30 million dollars (from tax payers) thanks to the Dept of Justice... Mrs Sicknick just wanted a phone call and the people who assaulted her son Brian held accountable.

An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

CDC Reports 216 Child Deaths This Flu Season, The Most In 15 Years www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-re...

No lies detected! #ResistTrump

“Do not mock us.”

This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

Looks like I will be on 60 Minutes on Sunday. That is me at the end of the clip.👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ef...

Renaming Veteran’s Day and the planned “Trump Military Parade” is a playbook straight out of North Korea. Draft-dodging Trump is now flexing the might of the US Military, but its not for our enemies to fear. It’s for you. The administration wants you to fear their Dear Leader.

Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich

REPORTER: Amazon will soon display a number next to the price of each product that shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding. Isn't that a perfect demonstration that it's the American consumer who is paying for these policies? LEAVITT: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

Stop what you’re doing & listen to this!

With alarming reports of U.S. citizens being “deported” (which is … not a thing), today’s “One First” looks at the ways the government can *lawfully* revoke citizenship—and the legal and practical obstacles it would (and should) encounter if it tried to do so: www.stevevladeck.com/p/146-denatu...

The Attorney General is so unserious. If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this. Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

Accurate

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

How did I know they would completely defund Headstart? They wrote it down in Project 2025 .

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

The Justice Department has granted Elon Musk’s staffers access to one of its most sensitive immigration databases, raising serious concerns about privacy, abuse of power, and political retaliation.

Great Earth Day roundup from @bookriot.bsky.social! bookriot.com/best-childre...

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

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.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

REPORTER: There are laws on the book that make it a criminal offense to harbor illegal immigrants, like sanctuary state leaders have been doing. Do you think they should be prosecuted and possibly put in prison? HOMAN: Absolutely. And hold tight on that one, because it's coming.

DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers. Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla. The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

They’re going to accidentally deport a U.S. citizen aren’t they

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

The United States government kidnapped and disappeared Abrego Garcia and sent him to El Salvador, without due process. As of today, the DOJ is defying the judge's order asking for his whereabouts and to facilitate his immediate return. This is next level authoritarianism.

As I wrote yesterday, SCOTUS left a hole in its Abrego Garcia order and the Trump administration is trying to drive a truck through it. & h/t to @annabower.bsky.social for great reporting on this hearing. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Former Pence homeland security advisor 👇🏽

First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.

Gutting. Foster's work on the long-term consequences for people who are denied abortions, versus those who receive abortions, was so significant (& rebutted anti-abortion shibboleths like regret). We talked w/ Diana about her work on this @strictscrutiny.bsky.social ep: crooked.com/podcast/what...

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

Sanders: If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions, some of whom have worked for years, what do you think he's going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5