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Saturday newsletter: Habeas corpus is one of the bedrock rights of our legal system. But it has also proven to be inconvenient to a regime whose indifference to human and legal rights has become increasingly explicit. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Taking food assistance away from Americans wouldn't just hurt families — it would hurt more than 27,000 retailers in mostly rural areas, including independent grocery stores, farmers, and markets. www.americanprogress.org/article/snap...

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Putin: [Who is this doddering old fool?] Stooge 1: [Some Crypto dude] Putin: [Jesus, these people. Tell him I said hi or something.] Interpreter: President Putin offers his warmest greetings and thanks for your visit /1

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1/ I dissect Stephen Miller - Why only Congress can suspend habeas - Justice Amy Coney Barrett's helpful 2014 scholarship - How Miller goes beyond undocumented migrants - Why Miller’s remarks should be self-defeating (courts rejecting "invasion" claims) - Why this matters to everyone in the US

submitted 23 hours ago • 120 comments

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2214 comments

The Trump White House has fired three Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, essentially paralyzing the independent consumer watchdog agency as Trump seeks to take it apart.

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Senators Cantwell, Blumenthal, Markey, and Hickenlooper and I called on President Trump to reverse his decision to illegally fire three Consumer Product Safety Commissioners. This is about protecting the American people and being able to trust that products are safe.

submitted 21 hours ago • 193 comments

Here’s a preview of the coming clash with SCOTUS which has already confirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process. “Sudden deportation” violates the Constitution.

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History has warned us. This is pathologic to the Nth degree – and will only lead to a place more evil. This is Eugenics and it must be stopped.

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BREAKING: A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to pause much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.

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This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)

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MTG just announced she won’t be running for senate. Because she knows she’d get creamed. Bummer.

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ICE have become storm troopers. Surely they have been inculcated by Miller, Noem and Homan with a sense of complete impunity. It will only get worse.

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And this is why due process, and requiring the government to justify to a judge why they grabbed you off the street and stuck you in jail, matters

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Another intelligence loss for the U.S. Ally Denmark likely to stop sharing intelligence. For no gain. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

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FIXED THE HEADLINE: President Wacko, trying to cover his screwup, says China tariffs should be 80% — then punts to Bessent, who’s also a hot mess. NEWSFLASH: 80% is still many times higher than before Trump lit the trade war fuse.

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American leadership matters. We must continue to stand with Ukraine and stand up to President Putin's attacks on democracy. I spoke with Major Garrett about why the U.S. must continue our support for Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.

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Republicans in Congress are making it harder to put food on the table just so they can fund tax giveaways for their billionaire buddies.

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RI seniors pay into Social Security and Medicare their whole careers so they can enjoy a secure retirement – just to end up paying higher tax rates than billionaires. I’m pushing to make our tax code fair and protect the future of these programs. ⬇️

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In Trump’s first 100+ days we’ve seen: Declining trust in our air traffic control Cuts that will make it harder to access Social Security and VA benefits Rising costs and trade wars Cuts to cancer research

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Dems need to be Dems. Embrace their progressive values. Embrace their patriotism and defense of democracy. They need not meet fascism halfway to win nor should they follow the path of ex Republicans who helped set the stage for Trump. Believe in and fight for what is right not consultant compromises

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Some Republican lawmakers are concerned about voting for a spending bill that cuts CISA's budget. rollcall.com/2025/05/07/a... "We don’t want to be in the position, and won’t be in the position of, ‘Well, I don’t know, that’s what they said they needed.'"

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Our Madman President thinks climate change is a hoax.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

the new pope is getting Loomered

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Donald Trump has a new Social Security Commissioner. I’m pressing for answers on nearly 200 unanswered questions about his administration’s attempts to cut Americans’ benefits.

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The first American Pope -- and from the Midwest. This is a deeply meaningful moment for Catholics across the U.S.

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Elon Musk can promote all his business interests as a "special government employee" and all his government decisions serve his business purposes. This isn't just a "conflict of interest." It's a total convergence of his interests.

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Gross: The GOP is planning $5.3 TRILLION in tax cuts for their Sugar Daddy donors. And WE are going to PAY for them through tariffs and cuts to •our• healthcare. 😤 #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

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Small businesses are facing a lot of uncertainty, and now Congress is considering retroactively terminating the tax credit it promised in exchange for paying workers during the pandemic. Keep your promise. PAY ALL LEGITIMATE CLAIMS!!! #SaveSmallBusinesses

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Donald Trump's tariffs mean you could suffer higher prices and lose your job AT THE SAME TIME. Forget dolls, families will be forced to make impossible choices between necessities like food, housing, and health care.

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Yeah, take that, you freeloading newborns.

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NEW: Sen. Ossoff is investigating large, out-of-state companies buying up Georgia homes and driving up home prices. Have you been impacted? Share your story today: ossoff.senate.gov/homestory

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Thank you to everyone who wrote to me to offer support about my appearance on 60 Minutes.🙏 I will never back down or go silent. I hope that what I write might help others, especially lawyers, speak out as well. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

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Judge Sweeney blocks Trump administration's purported invocation of Alien Enemies Act 05/06: She writes that DOJ's stated assertion of presidential power over courts' authority "staggers." "It is wrong as a matter of law and attempts to read an entire provision out of the Constitution."

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BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

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The ONLY logical conclusion a rational person can conclude, is that TRUMP-MUSK-RFKjr, et. al., are deliberately, methodically, and premeditatively trying to cull Americans, en masse.

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Facts. Any objective person knows this – and, if allowed to proceed [will anybody stop them?], this is EXACTLY how history will view it.

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American farmers sell 20% of their products abroad. We should open up more and more markets, not take them away.

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Scoop: NIST's Computer Security Division — responsible for research & standards on cyber, privacy, cryptography, AI, etc. — has lost more than a dozen people, including its chief, to early retirements. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cy... The departures could imperil key work.

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It’s all a lie. Everything they have said is a lie. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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“Your family doesn’t actually need to be able to afford dolls for your kids,” is not an economic plan. Trump knows he’s driving our economy off a cliff and he just doesn’t care.

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This week, Republicans in Congress are meeting behind closed doors to decide how many people they want to kick off Medicaid. How many kids will have to lose their health care coverage to fund tax handouts for billionaires?

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How is Pete Hegseth still serving in a job he’s repeatedly shown he cannot do?

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NEW on MSNBC: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he won't support Ed Martin — the 'Stop the Steal' organizer and supporter of Jan. 6 defendants who Trump nominated to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. This likely blocks Martin's path to confirmation.

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A secret report from U.S. intelligence agencies made public severely undermines the Trump administration's rationale for deploying the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan men to El Salvador. The memo is a direct contradiction of Trump's argument for using the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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