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VAN HOLLEN: I'm simply asking you to provide the committee with a reorganization plan, and your response is 'maybe yes, maybe no.' Am I getting that right? LUTNICK: We're going to follow the law VAN HOLLEN: The law requires to you to submit these major changes to the Senate

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🚨New Report: Hunted From Above documents Russia’s use of armed quadcopter drones to deliberately target civilians in Kherson, Ukraine. These attacks are not random—they are precise, intentional, and #WarCrimes. 🧵 www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre? McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1135 comments

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

submitted 2 days ago • 886 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 4 days ago • 862 comments

No purer, and not many more important, expression of “the guardrails are off” than Trump 1 staffing DOJ and the bench from Leonard Leo’s Rolodex and Trump 2 staffing them from the alumni of his various personal legal teams. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

When they show you who they are, believe them. speakermjohnson 🇺🇸 www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 11 days ago • 336 comments

“In this environment, we drop the rigs and buy back stock,” said Travis Stice, chief executive officer at Diamondback Energy, which recently warned investors US oil production has probably peaked. “Every single conversation I’ve had is that this oil price won’t work. www.ft.com/content/2ca6...

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 12 days ago • 1151 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 12 days ago • 762 comments

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

submitted 13 days ago • 264 comments

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

submitted 12 days ago • 699 comments

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

submitted 14 days ago • 717 comments

It’s another horrendous night in Kyiv. A ballistic earlier. Shahed drones over the city for hours. Cruise missiles launched and heading to Ukrainian airspace now. We had a few weeks of relative calm; the immediate intensification of Russian attacks after the end of Istanbul talks is sure noted.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

submitted 14 days ago • 868 comments

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

submitted 14 days ago • 1294 comments

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 14 days ago • 2079 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. By @mtredden.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

WTF

submitted 15 days ago • 2353 comments

As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

Huge credit to Karen Dunn and her partners here. There are more of these to come. The firms that bowed to Trump are going to long regret that decision as the business costs are going to continue to add up. Meanwhile Jenner and the firms that stood up are winning. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

This is real. “Suck it.” The Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security.

submitted 15 days ago • 2106 comments

Under the Trump Tax Scheme, wages fall, economic growth flatlines and the deficit balloons. Don’t believe me? Ask Trump’s alma mater. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him

submitted 15 days ago • 863 comments

Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥 Hakeem Jeffries: “I don’t work for you, sir. I work for the American people.”

submitted 15 days ago • 598 comments

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

submitted 15 days ago • 781 comments

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

submitted 15 days ago • 1520 comments

Are we great yet?

submitted 15 days ago • 1654 comments

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 17 days ago • 962 comments

Ansari: I sit on the Natural Resources Committee, where we witnessed the most anti-environment legislation go through. It includes massive giveaways to the oil and gas industry. I discovered that the chairman had purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas stocks.

submitted 16 days ago • 156 comments

🧵⬇️

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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

submitted 17 days ago • 748 comments

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

submitted 16 days ago • 422 comments

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

submitted 17 days ago • 223 comments