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I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

@therickwilson.bsky.social: If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe. WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=cEqM...

Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing. #ProudBlue

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

📹 “Go for the people with the phones.” That’s what an ICE agent allegedly said before firing tear gas at peaceful protesters. This is how authoritarian regimes control the story – by silencing the witnesses. Don’t let them hide how they're escalating the chaos in L.A.

Truly few things enrapture my sports-loving heart more than a riveting tennis match. If you are not dialed in, Alcaraz just crawled out of his grave to force a fifth set in Paris against Sinner with the French Open on the line. On TNT.

TACO! Trump Always Chickens Out

BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Donald's campaign merch is from China and his jet engines are from England. He's laughing at you when you think he really cares about "America First."

SCOOP: Less than 3 weeks before Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1M/head fundraiser with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for MAGA Inc. Walczak's pardon application emphasized Fago's financial support for Trump, & her connection to a plot to publicize Ashley Biden's diary.

The corruption is clear as day. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

If Putin doesn’t watch out, Trump might be forced to go ALL CAPS on him.

Our current president is severely mentally unwell, and the media needs to cover it now.

Exactly

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

The Trump administration keeps Losing in court because they want to do illegal stuff

Honestly, there should be little doubt that the Trump administration wants to kill us all.

Indianapolis, Indiana. Crummy day, great crowd.

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

1 I kept noticing ICE was sending detained immigrants from all over—Alabama, Georgia, you name it—to Louisiana. Why? Because Louisiana has become a detention-for-profit machine, where immigrant and Black and brown bodies keep the money flowing. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

Boo fucking hoo. This motherfucker has fired literally thousands of people and fought tooth and nail not to pay them. Fuck off all the way into the sun.

I feel like this tweet did not get enough attention this week

Brad Schimel encouraged others to attend the Alliance Defending Freedom conference. The group wants to outlaw abortion and same-sex marriage.

Trump is issuing a bizarre executive order and going after a fourth law firm tonight. Let me explain what he is doing. These are shiny coins - look over there, not at Signalgate, which is making Trump and his regime look like the incompetent fools they are. These are distractions!

No matter what you think of the courageous Khalil or his political views…remember this: 1. They haven’t charged him with a crime. 2. He’s 100% correct when he says this is against ALL anti-Trump dissent… & that they WILL come for the rest of us in the too-near future.

Lee Gelernt: "We don't know for sure who is who because the government did this all in secret. But I would just caution people not to buy in immediately to the government's characterization of all these people." We only have Trump's word on these latest deportations, and we know what that's worth.

Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.

Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.

A US judge blocks the deportation of Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and sets a hearing for Wednesday after his arrest over protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gt5ocf

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.