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Almost every major Trump action is intentionally illegal. Trump is gambling that the US democratic system is too broken to stop him. He assumes, to adapt a phrase: "All we've got to do is kick the door in and the whole edifice will come crumbling down." The testing hour is here.

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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

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This. This. This.

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MacKenzie Scott

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Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.

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It turns out rule of law was on the ballot.

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Again: We are in the Golden Age of Corruption. newrepublic.com/post/192244/...

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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

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It’s one step away from fingers in their ears yelling la la la la

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I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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Markets falling, investors fleeing the US, retaliatory tariffs hit Trump counties, allies abandon US weapons, environmental rollbacks spark outrage, and Putin stalls peace. This weekend's bulletin is free for all—don't miss it:

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Do you know why rural and working people are listening to Walz and AOC and Bernie? Because they tell the damn truth. Because they are passionate about people. Because they are authentic. Because they care. They are the new face of the opposition.

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I strongly suspect this recent piece from Prof. David Knoll is about to be come extremely relevant and widely read. "Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there."

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A leftist party that splits the Dems could enable moderate Repubs to join the mod. libs. If the resulting ‘middle’ went on to dominate future elections, I dare say the left would influence policy more often than we do currently. And now’s a great time to get that started…

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🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.

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We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

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Education pays for itself.

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turns out the liberal democratic order relied upon a gentleman’s agreement and there are no more gentlemen standing reconstruction gonna require a metalaw: that there be law “The constitution doesn’t mean anything if no one enforces and defends it.”

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Caesar wanted to be dictator and the Roman Senators came up with a compromise to let him be dictator for the rest of his life

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ICYMI — here’s the lesson Schumer and the other Dems just taught them 👇🏽

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I really like her

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I can’t think of anything that would hurt MAGA more. Especially their political pastors.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

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Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY! That’s where we are now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

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Woke AF

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The power of someone telling you that-yes, you're being gaslit, is substantial.

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Consumers across the world are boycotting American products in protest of literally everything Donald Trump is doing.

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When conservative Americans talked about freedom they often meant their freedom to oppress others, and freedom from an “overreaching” federal government that might try to stop them. Now that such “conservatives” control the federal government and have shed all residual libertarianism, watch out.

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If only the people who prioritize good vibes and empathy were equally obsessed with controlling… Oh. Damn.

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Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

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🔥 Gov Tim Walz in red districts dropping truth bombs 💣 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHOl0mL...

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One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen. The working conditions are chaotic. No clear sense of who works there. Routine processes have been stopped. No planning can take place. *People are incredibly demoralized.

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🙃💵

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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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With the attacks on science and academia by the current administration, if those of us who have tenure don't speak up, it's really hard to continue justifying the tenure system based on academic freedom.

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imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

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My freshman roommate was a Byelorussian whose family had left just a few years earlier, essentially the moment the regime fell. As a freshman, she plowed through every literary work she could find bc, while she'd read them all before, only now could she read the unexpurgated, unedited versions.

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This is going to be important: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Hassan grills Dr Oz about promoting a bunch of scam "medical" products on TV, including "raspberry ketones." She notes that "it seems to me you are still unwilling to take accountability for your promotion of unproven snake oil remedies to millions of your viewers."

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Yesterday was a tough day. Many folks were mad as hll, disheartened & frustrated. It's easy to focus on the Senators who let us down, but let's not forget about the Senators who did the right thing. I made this graphic last night because I wanted to focus on the good Senators who fought for us. 🔊🎵

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WYDEN: Do you believe in a nursing home there should be a registered nurse available around the clock? DR OZ: As you know, that's a complicated question WYDEN: No it's not. We need a nurse in a nursing home. Not too complicated.

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The Town Hall Party

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* IT'S FINALLY HERE * The 1st episode of 'Bowman and Bush' - a unique show in which 2 outspoken ex-members of Congress pull back the curtain on how Washington works - the corruption, lobbying, special interests. In this 1st episode, they talk AIPAC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Tk...

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A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

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I asked Schumer about this last night and his answer was basically that they’re wrong.

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Pundits already trying to make Dem base outrage a left vs mods thing, when in reality Neera Tanden is out there retweeting Bernie Sanders

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“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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