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This is who we are now?!

submitted 3 days ago • 330 comments

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

submitted 5 days ago • 509 comments

The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

submitted 8 days ago • 2058 comments

@epiellie.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

submitted 7 days ago • 1915 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 9 days ago • 274 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 9 days ago • 3479 comments

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

submitted 9 days ago • 1031 comments

How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?

submitted 9 days ago • 747 comments

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

So, the Trump admin was able to bring astronauts stuck in space back down to earth, but it won’t lift a finger to bring a Maryland dad they “oopsie” imprisoned in a gulag back from El Salvador? Do I have that just about right?

submitted 12 days ago • 282 comments

We’re doomed.

submitted 15 days ago • 436 comments

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

submitted 15 days ago • 1225 comments

Oh I WON’T FORGET or FORGIVE!

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 184 comments

👇👇

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

submitted 15 days ago • 3201 comments

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

submitted 15 days ago • 608 comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 15 days ago • 1246 comments

🎶 Because the list (the list) does not exist Because the list does not exist 🎶 ~ Hall and Oates on tariff deals

submitted 15 days ago • 576 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 15 days ago • 882 comments

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

submitted 18 days ago • 2824 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 18 days ago • 826 comments

Someone got called into the principals office

submitted 18 days ago • 1084 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

submitted 18 days ago • 729 comments

. If you think the world’s just gonna hug it out with the U.S. after he’s gone, you’re dreaming. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…” Well, America’s credit score just dropped to global subprime. .

submitted 19 days ago • 159 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

This is the truth. Republicans could put an immediate end to this insanity. They own this.

submitted 19 days ago • 184 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 93 comments

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

submitted 19 days ago • 515 comments

Asian markets open in free fall from 5-9% before auto circuit breakers kicked in in Tokyo. HK, Singapore are all past 9% AT THE OPEN Black Monday is going to be very very black.

submitted 19 days ago • 222 comments

Not joking: as of today Donald Trump is the absolute greatest destroyer of wealth the country has ever had

submitted 19 days ago • 729 comments

See you again, on April 19th…👇 Be there, and bring a friend this time. 😎 Hands. Off. Continues. ✨

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.

submitted 19 days ago • 243 comments

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

submitted 19 days ago • 407 comments

This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

submitted 19 days ago • 262 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 19 days ago • 1669 comments

It’s time for Congress to reign in the Mad King. These tariffs haven’t even hit for real and the world is off the rails. Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.

submitted 19 days ago • 1643 comments

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

submitted 19 days ago • 183 comments

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.” —Victor Hugo We’re entering the “worse” phase.

submitted 19 days ago • 143 comments

#HandsOffProtests

submitted 19 days ago • 459 comments