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It’s just mindblowing and infuriating that we still don’t have any actual contempt orders against this administration. Judges, you have to enforce your orders.

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

@schumer.senate.gov @repdangoldman.bsky.social Is it a crisis yet?

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

submitted 39 days ago • 435 comments

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

submitted 52 days ago • 93 comments

Mayoral hopeful Brad Lander says he'll speed up the city's slowest-in-the-nation buses by reviving a program that was killed in 2018 by — wait for it — then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who just happens to Lander's rival in the June Democratic primary for mayor.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

He is completely insane.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Hello fellow New York City dwellers! I made a mayoral primary zine letting you know who to rank on your ballot, important dates, why ranked choice voting is good, and who NOT to rank. I posted a free download so you can print and assemble your own here: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo...

submitted 58 days ago • 24 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 57 days ago • 405 comments

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The penguins hate us for our freedom.

submitted 61 days ago • 70 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 61 days ago • 1109 comments

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

submitted 62 days ago • 335 comments

HELP! I'm being inspired against my own will! I'm feeling seen! I'm uncovering hope under layers of cynicsm! Who is this spokesperson for a self-reflective party that is committing to fight back, and what does he think he's doing??

submitted 62 days ago • 187 comments

"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

submitted 62 days ago • 67 comments

Ahead of Petey Hegseth’s visit today, the US Naval Academy removed virtually all photos of female Jewish Academy graduates to shield him from exposure to "wokeness" cooties. Story from Military Religious Freedom Foundation: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 62 days ago • 141 comments

"Every American should be asking: What happens when we normalize sending people — without hearings or trials — to cages in foreign countries known for torture? What happens when we rely on authoritarian regimes to do the dirty work we can’t legally carry out on U.S. soil?"

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc). Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email. Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

submitted 63 days ago • 109 comments

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/4bLMLo7G

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

By moving to gut Social Security and Medicaid, Musk’s actions threaten the very retirees that our pension system is supposed to protect! This is simply not someone the City of New York should be doing business with. Read more: gothamist.com/news/divest-...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

These people are dangerous clowns, which I'd argue is EVEN WORSE than regular clowns. www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Trump officials planned a military attack using an unsecured messaging app, jeopardizing American security and lives in violation of the Espionage Act. I led 4 of my colleagues in demanding AG Pam Bondi enforce the law & appoint a Special Counsel to investigate this staggering, dangerous breach.

submitted 69 days ago • 11 comments

As @anandwrites.bsky.social wrote in relation to one of the other billion horrors of this era, this administration's motto seems to be "Be the problem you want to pretend to solve in the world."

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The Signal chat itself broke numerous federal laws. Now the Signal chat participants' denials and attempts to cover up what they did will break EVEN MORE laws. Every time they open their mouths, they're incriminating themselves further. Soon they'll start pleading the Fifth.

submitted 69 days ago • 351 comments

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

submitted 69 days ago • 199 comments

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

submitted 70 days ago • 1205 comments

Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans

submitted 70 days ago • 218 comments

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 72 days ago • 190 comments

It’s going fast. Lawyers have to move in unity - law firms, civil rights, law schools, tax lawyers, prosecutors, criminal defense, family law, civil law, immigration. Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.

submitted 72 days ago • 61 comments

No matter how many EOs Trump signs, they do not become law. Only Congress can pass laws. The ADA is law. This matters to EVERYONE. If you don’t need it now, wait.

submitted 74 days ago • 24 comments

Take note -- an executive order CANNOT legally dissolve or eliminate a federal agency. This is not a power the executive has. Let's be crystal clear. Yes, he can really mess with the agency's functioning and effectiveness. But let's not concede power he doesn't have.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human." Moral clarity from M. Gessen. Why is this so hard for some to grasp?

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

New letter from us 👇👇👇

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court expressly ruled that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 76 days ago • 157 comments