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Good & scary empty wheel thread

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WATCH: “MCCARTHYISM ON STEROIDS.” Senator @edmarkey sounds the alarm about Trump grabbing people who are here legally and shipping them to prisons with no charges, simply for writing op-Eds or protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza — and says everyone should be standing up against it.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Oh, my heart!💔 Get this poor bird to a rehab!

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Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.” He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.” Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up. Marriott still has my business.

submitted 2 days ago • 962 comments

Breaking Reuters: The Trump admin moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge had issued an order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania or the U.S., according to court records. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 23 hours ago • 123 comments

I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 116 comments

In Orwell's 1984, when the regime changed course, its propagandists rewrote history to pretend nothing had changed. Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. And that's what's happening in the United States now, as Trump's propagandists lie about his trade war. This short video exposes the lies.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

submitted 2 days ago • 408 comments

🎵 🔥 MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — a banger from @protectouraquifer on protecting the Memphis water supply (especially from Musk’s supercomputer) Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/DIwOBCX...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."

submitted 6 days ago • 286 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

submitted 3 days ago • 2481 comments

This framing is disingenuous. The government became dependent on universities to produce science, social science & technology. This was never a charity relationship. Government invest in what is useful to it. It’s not mysterious & govt has frankly gotten a good deal.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This post and the repost - the whole thing!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No, it won't happen "overnight," but it is starting. People are rising up

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

They can do both and still have the high ground to point out Bobby Kennedy is trying to kill us.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

A thread - a scary, but informative, thread

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Watch this whole exchange. It neatly captures the absurdity of where we are on this case (and not just because it cites our reporting, I swear!)

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Looks good! (Reposting to remember)

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Ed Martin’s appearances on Russian state television should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 8 days ago • 242 comments

The DC attorney nominee has appeared dozens of times on Russian state media www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

"There is little precedent for the situation we find ourselves in, and obsessively trying to relitigate and rewin 2024, or 2016, is pointless and dangerous. Democrats need to fight for democracy; they need to fight Trump. The alternative is not an election loss. The alternative is fascism"

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

!!! The NC Board of Elections reveals that EVEN IF it throws out all the votes contested by Jefferson Griffin and the state Supreme Court, Justice Allison Riggs is STILL on track to narrowly win the race. HUGE news from @bryanranderson.bsky.social: andersonalerts.substack.com/p/riggs-supr...

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

This is what I was talking about before - the WH has been letting in more softball MAGA reporters who just want to help them advance their message. And it no longer publishes transcripts so to see how lazy and easy the Qs are you need to strap in and watch.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

I agree. Slo-mo, ongoing, with an administration engaged in frog-boiling

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

Adding to @daveweigel.bsky.social that I like @crow.house.gov but Congressman I'd suggest that the Q isn't, "should we talk about issues like 'insider trading' and 'Signalgate' in those precise phrases," it's whether Ds will stand as a party against rampant lawlessness & world historical corruption

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Insider trading.

submitted 17 days ago • 96 comments

Wheeeeee!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

they could call everyone back to Washington and impeach him before the markets open just saying

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Given Trump’s flagrant lawlessness, in a sane country we would’ve been talking about impeachment and removal weeks ago.

submitted 18 days ago • 186 comments

Again!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A win!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. The honor society Phi Theta Kappa is trying to prevent a critic named Toni Market from publishing a free book. They just got this bizarre order from a Texas judge prior-restraining it. /1 www.andthenshespokeup.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )

submitted 21 days ago • 83 comments

Trump’s suggestion that he could run for a third term—and Republican’s tacit openness to the prospect despite its clear unconstitutionality—is a low-key admission they don’t know how to put together a winning coalition without him directly in the ballot. See also: Wisconsin.

submitted 23 days ago • 59 comments

"First they came for..." Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

submitted 23 days ago • 386 comments

Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.

submitted 28 days ago • 151 comments

This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment. /1 www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

submitted 29 days ago • 52 comments

Whoever has JD in their phone as VP better change it before they ‘accidentally’ add Putin to their next war plan chat. Incompetent clown show.

submitted 29 days ago • 56 comments

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

submitted 29 days ago • 102 comments

At some point normal people are going to notice that Trump is disassembling the federal government, right?

submitted 34 days ago • 884 comments

This whole thread, in the context of rationalism and the tech world (an extreme example being the Zizians omny.fm/shows/behind... and www.wired.com/story/deliri...), is very alarming.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments