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BREAKING: if the Supreme Court wants a class action to hold Trump's birthright citizenship unconstitutional nationwide, we will give them one! We @democracydefendersaction.org just filed with our wonderful partners @aclu.org, NAACP LDF, LULAC & more assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

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Gift link to a chilling report from Haaretz that everyone should read. Even if only a fraction of this (and some of the paper’s previous detailed reporting on possible war crimes) is true, we should all be deeply saddened and sickened, as I am right now. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

submitted 16 days ago • 165 comments

Incidentally, the Whiskey Pete hearing was lit today. Some highlights? The Fort Bragg [sic] event was ... a problem, bc Caine said you can't enforce loyalty oaths and Whiskey Pete [claimed to be] unaware loyalty oaths were required. Whiskey Pete doesn't know what Kalininagrad is. 👀

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 16 days ago • 807 comments

Read? The Gazpacho Police and Peachtree Dish lady?

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Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

submitted 30 days ago • 560 comments

Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.

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Seven of the cited sources in the MAHA report don’t appear to exist at all. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes told NOTUS via email. www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Making up "scientific studies" to further prove your conspiracy theories is disqualifying. RFK must resign.

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

We should NOT cut food assistance in America so that Trump can pad the pockets of billionaires and giant corporations. If Republicans won’t listen to common sense and common decency—then we are going to get a megaphone and shout it from the rooftops: HANDS OFF SNAP.

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

NYT: Trump pardoned a tax cheat after his mother attended a $1 million dinner. The pardon application of Paul Walcazk — who pleaded guilty to tax crimes — cited his mother's support for Trump, including raising millions and a connection to a Biden family diary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

As Budget Chair I got constant Republican lectures to ignore looming climate disaster because of the debt. “The debt, the debt, the DEBT!!” Now they’re in charge and they’re hiking debt limit $4 trillion for tax breaks, mostly to the richest. What a sham.

submitted 36 days ago • 77 comments

Donald Trump's retaliation has been tested in court 150+ times Harvard will call his bluff & it will not stand in court I discussed @erinburnett.bsky.social @cnn.com

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments

Shira Perlmutter's suit against Todd Blanche for illegally firing her at Copyright notes that Karoline Leavitt just made up a bullshit DEI claim to excuse the firing of Carla Hayden. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

Republicans talk a lot about Medicaid fraud to justify their cuts to the program. But they never want to admit where the fraud is really coming from.

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Nothing Hunter Biden did comes even close to this level of open corruption.

submitted 37 days ago • 54 comments

I shared the story of Natalie, a mom from WA state with stage 4 colorectal cancer enrolled in an NIH clinical trial, but she was told her care was delayed because of RFK Jr.'s staffing cuts. He admitted NIH cuts, "are gonna hurt." It's unacceptable. I'm demanding accountability.

submitted 45 days ago • 171 comments

Cleveland didn’t take it home with him. BTW, Congress voted to accept the gift. It was hardly a bribe.

submitted 46 days ago • 164 comments

The Trumpster takeover attempt of LOC would put the executive branch in charge of our legislative research. Pretty obvious problem. Good news: when Trumpsters showed up at LOC to take over, Library staff refused. That took guts. Librarians rule!

submitted 46 days ago • 53 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Dan Goldman demands AG Pam Bondi come clean on if she is covering up the release of the Epstein Files to protect Donald Trump. In a blistering letter, Goldman demands answers on the unexplained delay.

submitted 47 days ago • 315 comments

Trump caught in major corruption scheme plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trump-caug...

submitted 48 days ago • 78 comments

HUMILIATED ON LIVE TV: In a desperate smear, Marjorie Taylor Greene cropped a photo to make it look like a committee witness flipped her off - but he really held up TWO fingers. Rep. Rep. Melanie Stansbury brought receipts and it was epic. Watch Kimmel rip MTG to shreds:

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It has been maddening watching some elected Democrats try to have it both ways with Trump, condemning him as a fascist threat to democracy and then voting for his nominees or, in some cases, even more embarrassing and confusing moves.

submitted 56 days ago • 30 comments

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” ‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬

submitted 56 days ago • 261 comments

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 60 days ago • 1480 comments

Jeff Damir, COO of SwaddleDesigns, talks about the impact of tariffs on his business: “We have a container that's right now sitting in China, ready to ship. That container would cost us $300,000 of extra tariffs, given the 145%. Obviously, that container is going to stay in China.”

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"Overcoming the division of power the Fuehrer is not only the legislator and executioner of power, but also the supreme judge. Theoretically the authority to pass judgment is therefore only his." - Hans H. Lammers (1942).

submitted 64 days ago • 59 comments

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

submitted 64 days ago • 1715 comments

To keep up their lies about Social Security, Musk and DOGE are wrongly marking people dead who are very much alive. It's stopping their car payments, their credit, & an already overworked staff has to fix it. This is either unacceptable incompetence or malicious sabotage.

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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 64 days ago • 383 comments

So this is where we are now? This nation was founded on checks and balances. The Trump regime is deliberately trying to undercut these founding principles as it unleashes an authoritarian power grab.

submitted 64 days ago • 142 comments

Bravo, Japan. The free world should seize Russia’s frozen assets and transfer them to Ukraine at $20 billion a month until Russia stops its lawless invasion.

submitted 64 days ago • 53 comments

After Abrego Garcia was deported, the administration initially scrambled to try to figure out how to bring him home, admitting that his alleged gang ties were tenuous, at best. Then the negative coverage started and they decided the fight would be a political win. Disgusting.

submitted 64 days ago • 142 comments

Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process. More of this.

submitted 66 days ago • 375 comments

#econsky www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/u...

submitted 73 days ago • 1021 comments