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1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview

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Nicole Wallace is right. Where are the former FBI directors and generals? General Mattis General Milley Christopher Wray Merrick Garland Now is the time

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 2 days ago • 613 comments

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

submitted 5 days ago • 1359 comments

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

submitted 4 days ago • 663 comments

Germany arrests 2 alleged Russian spies accused of scouting U.S. military facilities for sabotage - CBS News

submitted 6 days ago • 395 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 597 comments

You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

submitted 6 days ago • 2216 comments

What a mess

submitted 6 days ago • 2517 comments

People are mad at Trump for gutting childhood cancer research, but it seems he has a different plan to end child cancer in the US. Deportation.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Critics Call Rubio’s Overhaul Plan a Blow to U.S. Values ... betrayed every principle he claimed to have www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

Absolutely brutal.

submitted 9 days ago • 425 comments

Look at this sweet, innocent baby —small, scared, utterly alone in a courtroom. No lawyer. No protection. No justice. Trump cut legal aid for migrant children, tearing away their last lifeline. They say they care about families. But this? This is sanctioned cruelty. @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 188 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 10 days ago • 1648 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 11 days ago • 1247 comments

Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

submitted 12 days ago • 423 comments

Caitlin Everett # 8566 Alexander Everett #8565 Sgt Jacob Briskey #6824 Jason Marchione #8490 Sgt Scott Bach #6711 Sgt Detective Michael Settle #6625 Share so these F’ers can’t hide. They #FAFO so now they need to pay the consequences! #notofascism

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth shared the Houthi attacks in a second private signal chat that included his wife and brother. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 695 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 12 days ago • 1363 comments

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

submitted 12 days ago • 801 comments

@lorikerseywv.bsky.social @caitycoyne.bsky.social #TruthBomb

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

In an embarrassing meltdown, Rep. Nancy Mace ripped into a constituent in the middle of a makeup store—and posted it all on social media.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

We are Warriors for democracy

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Americans in big cities-and little towns-all across the country are protesting Donald Trump’s tyranny Because the United States isn’t ruled by a king Constitutional rights like due process and free speech aren’t optional And we’re going to take back our democracy-by any nonviolent means necessary

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

NEW: I've read a lot of court documents in my time, but this is one of my new favorites. How a Judge tells a President to F**k Off. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...

submitted 15 days ago • 226 comments

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you. Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.)

submitted 14 days ago • 103 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 15 days ago • 1938 comments

Donald Should Be Held Accountable!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Where is our tax money going instead? Why doesn't the press hammer this?

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

Trump's "Counterterrorism Czar," Sebastian Gorka (a card-carrying Nazi) is now saying that anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Garcia is "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and could be looking at being federally charged. This is what fascism looks like.

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 15 days ago • 252 comments

U.S. Court of Appeals denies the White House appeal of 'shocking' Abrego Garcia deportation case. #AbregoGarcia #deportation www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is how to respond to the Abrego Garcia issue! Thank you, Mayor Pete!

submitted 15 days ago • 232 comments

The Trump regime keeps upping its Big Lie about wrongly deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia because their entire dictatorial enterprise hinges on proving their ability to crush this one human Until Kilmar is free, no one in America is free. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

submitted 15 days ago • 1334 comments

The wires cover news for all the outlets - newspapers, radio, TV, magazines - that cannot, for reasons of cost or simply space, send someone to cover it themselves. The wires have relayed DC news to the nation and world for almost 200 years. This must not stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 17 days ago • 528 comments

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

submitted 17 days ago • 1803 comments

I’m grateful the Shapiro family is safe. It’s despicable for this to happen as the Jewish community is celebrating Passover. Political violence has no place in our country.

submitted 19 days ago • 137 comments

The “manosphere” was created to not only attack women - but lure them into their spaces. Because the easiest route to diminishing feminism - is to convince women that abandoning their rights is the foundation of “family values”. Hold steady, ladies. news.un.org/en/story/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Several months in, extraordinary laziness and incoherence - not "strength" - remain the principal, constantly recurring, attributes of the Trump Regime -- which has catastrophically failed more rapidly than any presidency in the Nation's history.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

New Jersey w/ better ballots & choices🎉 Electing an experienced & resourceful mayor will bring NJ the direction we need. The other candidates 4 GOV, who are legislators are not as qualified as mayor @stevenfulop.bsky.social He is our best choice 4 NJ GOV #DemocratsForChange down ballot. #DemVoice1

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

How was your day? I listened to Joan Baez sing Imagine to 36,000 people and tell us all how this moment in time is more important than Woodstock.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments