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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

"Once you elect a sociopath and agree with his jaundiced view that everyone is corrupt, you've lost any chance of upholding basic values. If you treasure honesty, integrity, the rule of law, and decency, you must be prepared to reject whataboutism." www.thebulwark.com/p/whatabouti...

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

Kristi Noem, our homeland security secretary, does not know a literally 1000-year-old core legal principle. Arguably the first, foundational legal principle of a free society.

This is what I bring up when white Boomers tell me racism is dead. "You are old enough that you could've been one of the people hurling rocks."

"What did they do?" -- Trump has no idea what he's signing and has to have it explained to him

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

I keep seeing people comparing this to Watergate, but this is much worse

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.

This might be valuable information to someone who has been fighting off unionization efforts for years. Or for resale.

Trump to deport Afghanis who helped the US during the war. This is wrong on so many levels. Since the Taliban has taken over, it has targeted and killed citizens who helped the United States during the war www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g...?

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

In retrospect the MASTERFUL GAMBIT SIR joke was probably the most trenchant piece of political analysis of the last five years

Burn it all down

We're playing this album released last year by our friends in Vermont. It's free and awesome, by the way. #Irish #irishtraditionalmusic montpeliervermonttraditionalirishsession.bandcamp.com/album/the-wi...

NEW PIECE:"I have a confession to make. Two months ago I tried to crash the stock market. Let me explain." You'll want to read this one. It breaks news on the first week of the Payments Crisis while bringing crucial analysis of the current stock market crash www.crisesnotes.com/the-stock-ma...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

This should be obvious!

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

New in PN: Musk is the autopen "Trump is trying to undo Biden’s presidency by claiming he was too incompetent to exercise power while some shadowy figure was running things instead. The juxtaposition is jarring as we are daily confronted w/a POTUS who's vigorously, confidently *not doing his job*"

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Yep

“Leftists cannot tolerate other ideas” said the people who disappear their political enemies

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

Very Stable. Such Genius.

We're about to be parents any minute now, so this has an immediate and severe impact on us. The authoritarians in the White House are hurting Maine families. Weaponizing government against their opposition. Disrupting healthcare coverage for newborns.