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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 10 days ago • 690 comments

Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes”, resigns: “I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes’, right for the audience.” We’re falling into fascism. — Deeper and deeper.

submitted 61 days ago • 234 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 70 days ago • 248 comments

Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX. But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.

submitted 73 days ago • 33 comments

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

submitted 76 days ago • 550 comments

WTF: “Trump’s treasury secretary Bessent seeks ‘meaningful negotiations’ with more than 50 countries”. BUT why didn’t they negotiate BEFORE imposing massive tariffs that caused market to crash, wiped out nest eggs and are ushering in a recession?! This is beyond incompetence. It’s criminal!

submitted 76 days ago • 86 comments

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

submitted 76 days ago • 393 comments

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

submitted 77 days ago • 412 comments

The Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 77 days ago • 46 comments

So many hundreds of thousands of words of ink, so many countless hours wasted, explaining how this man was secretly savvy, and it turns out he’s just dumb as a rock, clueless about basic economics, and driven by a malicious paranoia that conniving foreigners are ripping us off

submitted 77 days ago • 232 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 77 days ago • 1133 comments

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

submitted 77 days ago • 118 comments

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 77 days ago • 585 comments

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

submitted 78 days ago • 68 comments

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

submitted 77 days ago • 465 comments

Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”

submitted 78 days ago • 59 comments

The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit

submitted 80 days ago • 86 comments

Oh just Texas Congressman Keith Self directly quoting Joseph Goebbels during a congressional hearing….what planet are we on smh

submitted 81 days ago • 617 comments

The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history: 1. Trump, 3/16/20 -2,997.10 2. Trump, 3/12/20 -2,352.60 3. Trump, 3/9/20 -2,013.76 4. Trump, 6/11/20 -1,861.82 5. Trump, 4/3/25 -1,679.39 6. Trump, 3/11/20 -1,464.94 7. Trump, 03/18/20 -1,338.46 Tired of winning yet?

submitted 80 days ago • 107 comments

Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.

submitted 80 days ago • 536 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 81 days ago • 820 comments

This is a @benwikler.bsky.social appreciation post. Great job in Wisconsin. Great job on Maddow. Great job for democracy. Someday I will get a cheese hat.

submitted 81 days ago • 118 comments

Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old child.

submitted 81 days ago • 64 comments

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

submitted 81 days ago • 148 comments

Surprised to see @economist.com on the ‘politicians should be allowed to do crimes without consequences’ team. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 81 days ago • 121 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 81 days ago • 1373 comments

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

submitted 81 days ago • 3942 comments

In a world of Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman, be a Cory Booker.

submitted 82 days ago • 71 comments

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

submitted 81 days ago • 1526 comments

Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too. Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.

submitted 82 days ago • 340 comments

Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”

submitted 81 days ago • 648 comments

“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.

submitted 82 days ago • 282 comments

Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.

submitted 82 days ago • 241 comments

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

submitted 82 days ago • 909 comments

Friendly reminder: Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.

submitted 82 days ago • 344 comments