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Important to remind Congress everyday of facts: 1. POTUS immunity to break law, doesn't make it legal. He is still breaking the law. 2. Immunity is only protects against criminal charges in court system. 3. Impeachment is outside this, it's political, and Congress has duty to uphold Constitution.

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 147 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 17 hours ago • 212 comments

folks out there who work for the press, why aren't you HOUNDING Rubio and others?! Confronting him with these stats?! Demanding he explain, justify, or otherwise account for the decision?

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

“A better way to think about tariffs is as a key tool to achieve the core of Mr. Trump’s economic agenda: He wants to shift the tax burden away from the well-off and toward the poor and middle class — while also consolidating his power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

have been wondering about this. as long as you're a temporary govt worker, there's some logic. you don't have to upend your professional life to help on some govt task for a month or two. But now he's a top admin appointee and also CEO of major federal contractor. how is that ok?

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked. via @jackdolan.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

@JudiciaryDems wake up!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Oh

submitted 20 hours ago • 33 comments

“Fueling the decline was an unexpected drop in the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, which slumped to its lowest level in more than a year [and] showed consumers more worried over the path ahead for the economy than economists had expected.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 21 hours ago • 71 comments

Not a day went by when Biden was POTUS that Trump just sat quietly by. He attacked Biden and Dems everyday and never stopped. Very disappointed in Biden and Obama for not being front and center everyday while Trump blames Zelensky for a war he didn't start and sides with despots to enrich himself.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

Never thought we'd see someone wrest away from J. Edgar Hoover the title of Biggest Asshole to Ever Lead the FBI, but looks like we did it!

submitted 18 hours ago • 89 comments

A king and a dictator said no to Trump and he backed down www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 18 hours ago • 845 comments

same thing with the "liberal press" or "out of control woke regulators" or any of a thousand other bits of authoritarian propaganda intended to prop up the phony ass perpetual victimization complex

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is it 👇 #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

the Chinese just had the biggest and most successful hack of telecom systems in american history and our top communications regulator is busy threatening CBS with a sham investigation of 69 Minutes

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

bangs head on desk As someone who spent decades talking about the risks and problems with old electronic voting systems, and who has seen bad systems replaced with much better systems, this is particularly stupid.

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

This is how the Tea Party started, after all. They just showed up and talked angry shit for a summer & then they got a lot of money from conservative donors, ran candidates for the next Congress and voila, the groundwork laid for takeover of their party. It is far from impossible to do. Hint. Hint.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

submitted 21 hours ago • 164 comments

If you're not reading Josh Marshall, well... @joshtpm.bsky.social you should be. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 18 hours ago • 644 comments

That would be, of course, illegal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments