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What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 194 comments

Horrifying thread

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Important thread! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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“If we normalize this, there’s no end.” This is what @schumer.senate.gov said he was waiting for. Defying court orders. We are there. Now what?

submitted 7 hours ago • 289 comments

What a twist 🤣😡

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On Friday, Judge Hollander asked SSA Administrator Dudek to appear at a hearing on April 15. (Left) Tonight, the Trump administration says it will decline to make him available (right) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 hours ago • 67 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 5 hours ago • 189 comments

Over the last nine Presidential elections, men vote red by about 10 points, and women are the opposite. So, MAGAs Are Banning Women From Voting Because Women Vote Blue If your path to ‘win’ is voter suppression, it isn’t democracy you support, it’s dictatorship. www.qasimrashid.com/p/magas-are-...

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This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

submitted 11 hours ago • 188 comments

➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie. ➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact. ➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie. ➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true. 🔄 Repeat

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

“This moment did not come out of nowhere,” AOC told the crowd. “The destruction of our rights and democracy is directly tied to the growing and extreme wealth inequality that has been growing for years in America.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

You are not worried enough about this

submitted 11 hours ago • 199 comments

Surely, it won't be lost on the courts that if Donald Trump has the influence over El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to persuade Bukele to get on a plane to come to the United States, he has the influence over Bukele to get him to put a kidnapped prisoner on a plane to come to the United States.

submitted 12 hours ago • 92 comments

At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.

submitted 13 hours ago • 514 comments

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

submitted 12 hours ago • 392 comments

At least a handful of DOGE staffers hold jobs across multiple federal agencies. The unorthodox practice affords trusted acolytes of billionaire Elon Musk authority across broad swaths of government, as well as access to an array of confidential information.

submitted 17 hours ago • 40 comments

Don't let Donald's tariff stupidity distract you from talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon that put our troops in danger. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not. And we can multitask our criticisms.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Turns out autocracy is bad for business

submitted 18 hours ago • 393 comments

"Lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States, despite a court order to do so." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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As Tennessee loses HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to DOGE cuts, @GovBillLee’s office “sidestepped questions re: Tennesseeans who have lost their jobs and impacts to programs (like infant mortality) — saying Tennessee is a "willing partner” Politics over people. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

submitted 1 day ago • 1334 comments

Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.

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[The arrested Harrisburg man] said he was “angry with the governor and would have beaten him with a hammer if confronted, according to an affidavit filed early Monday.” He has since been charged with attempted murder, aggravated arson, terrorism and other charges. www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 268 comments

New images from the arson attack on Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro (D) and his family — the alleged attacker’s anti-Biden pro-Trump posts are surfacing also. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Arson at the most prominent Jewish US governor's mansion on Passover while Marco Rubio and ICE are checking visa holders' social media for "antisemitism"

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When an attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris immediately issued statements condemning the shooting and all political violence. The fact that Donald Trump hasn’t said a word about the arson attack on Gov. Shapiro and his family tells you all you need to know.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

submitted 1 day ago • 781 comments

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

submitted 1 day ago • 263 comments

This is to the shame of our country

submitted 1 day ago • 1411 comments

The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

they’re literally just working off Canary Mission’s list

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Just trying to imagine a president prior to 2016 ordering the revocation of a network’s broadcast license.

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

They never don't look painfully stupid

submitted 2 days ago • 2768 comments

Whaaa....?!!

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 1 day ago • 1207 comments

This man is utterly unhinged.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

But no thoughts for the hostages that you and Noem put in El Salvador??

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Read this. Incarcerated citizens are still citizens, still people. And the US has a bad habit of disproportionately imprisoning black and brown folk. Do not let incarcerated people be disappeared to foreign prisons and forgotten.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If you haven't read @timothysnyder.bsky.social '"On Tyranny" yet - do it! In the meantime, listen to Lithgow.

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#WritingCommmunity

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Their parents fight for our 1st amendment rights but the students are punished for exercising theirs. #resist @maddow.msnbc.com @msnbc.com

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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 2 days ago • 1400 comments

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

When did billionaires’ wallets matter more than public safety, science, and our parks? We can fund vital services — we just need the courage to tax extreme wealth. People over profits. Workers over millionaires. Government for all, not just the 1%.

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Something my mind cannot stop thinking about is that in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump admin ADMITTED that he was wrongfully deported and they they still are fighting as hard as they can to not bring an innocent man home because it will make them look bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 466 comments

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

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AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

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