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FLASH: Federal judge blocks RIFs/Trump administration reorganization plans for 20 federal agencies. SF-based Judge Susan Illston (Clinton) says they appear to exceed executive branch authority to implement without Congressional approval. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, bars the CFPB from terminations pending appellate review of a district court injunction. Judge Pillard (Obama) and Katsas (Trump) take the action over the disset of Judge Rao (Trump).

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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

submitted 16 days ago • 669 comments

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that had distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states had depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

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

submitted 18 days ago • 696 comments

👏👏

submitted 19 days ago • 133 comments

JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 days ago • 286 comments

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

submitted 19 days ago • 717 comments

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

submitted 20 days ago • 450 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

submitted 19 days ago • 1200 comments

New research links false measles claims to lower vaccination rates via @jennifershutt.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/23/r...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 20 days ago • 860 comments

I will say it again: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

submitted 20 days ago • 482 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 33 days ago • 1519 comments

Trump’s new tariffs don’t make economic sense — and that’s the point. These tariffs are designed to cause widespread pain so that Trump can use the power of relief as a form of extortion: indivisible.org/tariffs

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

I love this! 👇🏻

submitted 33 days ago • 285 comments

Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing.

submitted 33 days ago • 976 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed supporters at a rally, emphasizing his government's commitment to countering U.S. tariffs with retaliatory measures aimed at minimizing impact on Canada while inflicting ‘maximum pain’ in the United States.

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

Any night in which Stephen Miller is big mad is a good night for America.

submitted 33 days ago • 248 comments

I get that you are frustrated at the Trump administration. They're doing awful shit. But I have gone through about a thousand times how pointless and harmful it is to presume they won't comply with court orders. NO! If they don't, they must be held accountable, but don't give in preemptively.

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

When I started Democracy Docket in 2020 my theory was to obsessively focus on democracy and the courts. No games, no lifestyle features, no false neutrality. Now with 400,000 subscribers that has become a reality. I hope you check it out and sign-up. newsletters.democracydocket.com/all-newsletters

submitted 34 days ago • 52 comments

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.

submitted 33 days ago • 932 comments

PPP: "Alaskans are known for having an independent streak and... he's perceived to be overly loyal to the White House." US Sen. Dan Sullivan has a 38% job performance; he doesn't give a hoot about the damage from tariffs at the Alaska border. www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/changi...

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 33 days ago • 403 comments

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

submitted 34 days ago • 263 comments

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.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

submitted 34 days ago • 840 comments

NEW: Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

submitted 37 days ago • 2761 comments

Trump has been president for 74 days

submitted 39 days ago • 55 comments

“Are you worried?” That is always the first question. “Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”

submitted 39 days ago • 247 comments

Elon takes a beating. It’s a bright spot. www.mediaite.com/news/tesla-d...

submitted 39 days ago • 252 comments

From a source connected to CDC: “The day of the massacre staff in the [director’s office] spent most of the day getting the staff who feed the animals in the labs reinstated. They had all been fired.” www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

submitted 39 days ago • 209 comments

Canada will impose a 25% tariff on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Prime Minister Mark Carney said reut.rs/3FT41nH

submitted 40 days ago • 38 comments

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

submitted 50 days ago • 1671 comments

This should alarm all of us: the Congressional Budget Office released a new report showing that Trump's plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would raise costs for working people & make our economy worse, not better. @AmericanProgress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/exte...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk's so-called "DOGE" continues to operate in secret, making unlawful decisions that impact every single American. We're suing to force transparency on their requests for agencies to dramatically reduce their workforces. democracyforward.org/updates/foia...

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

i think they've got it

submitted 75 days ago • 51 comments

🚨BREAKING: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Maryland State Board of Elections’ (MDSBE) administration of voter rolls and voting machines. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 98 days ago • 157 comments

🚨BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association files federal court lawsuit against Department of Justice over the improper targeting of agents previously involved in politically sensitive investigation. For more details follow @democracydocket.com. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 98 days ago • 505 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 98 days ago • 4267 comments

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

submitted 103 days ago • 3394 comments