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Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband have both died.

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“No Kings Day is about standing up for our democracy. Standing up for our rights, our liberties and making sure that we are sending a strong message that we are going to have a free and fair democracy,” Deirdre Schifeling, the ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer, told Democracy Docket.

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History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

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@padilla.senate.gov: "We’re a co-equal branch of government, our job is oversight and accountability... If there's an opportunity for me to ask a question in-person at a press conference in my home state, that's me doing my job."

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I would say he follows her around like a puppy dog but so far he has survived.

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Pete Hegseth was different after Signalgate, according to six people in a position to know. He was more prone to anger and less likely to be clean-shaven in the morning. He seemed reluctant to make decisions; scared of doing the wrong thing, paralyzed as he awaited orders from the White House.

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@skyeperryman.bsky.social was recently featured as part of MSNBC’s & @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social's Know Your Value series. “My call to action is for people and women in particular to refuse to be isolated, to defy suggestions that your voice doesn’t matter and to build community with each other.”

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“As a veteran my oath was to uphold the constitution,” he said. “That’s what I’m here to do... "If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.” www.wave3.com/2025/06/10/t...

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Trumpism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos. Each time a new one is broken, the previous one is normalized, made to look not so bad by comparison. The manhandling and cuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla was a red-line moment.

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""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

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If they can do that to a United States senator... think about how little they care about what they do to us.

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DC federal judge REFUSES to give into the gov & stay her order that it was illegal for Trump admin to fire federal labor relations board head Her decision stands--another success for the rule of law Another @democracydefendersaction.org litigation win!

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This is what she was saying right as Sen. Padilla interrupted with a question. As he should have!

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The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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Dubbed “No Kings Day,” the over 2,000 planned demonstrations are set to kick off Saturday morning, June 14. The protests have been organized by hundreds of organizations and grass-roots groups, including the ACLU, Public Citizen, Indivisible and 50501. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Yesterday, our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social testified on attacks on our democracy before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. As Skye said: "Our work demonstrates that the U.S. Constitution is here for everyone."

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This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.

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🚨BREAKING: Maine court rejects right wing lawsuit challenging the wording of anti-voting ballot question. A big victory for our clients DSCC, DCCC, DGA and the voters of Maine. www.democracydocket.com/cases/maine-...

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As an exercise, try to imagine Ron Johnson being wrestled to the ground in Wisconsin; or Tommy Tuberville in Alabama; or Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Yeah, neither can I. charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...

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www.salon.com/2025/06/05/h...

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“‘There’s nobody in the SecDef’s office at this point that has any … sophistication. They don’t have the experience.’ One source described a longtime Pentagon employee discussing the lack of readiness in the office, ‘close to tears,’ saying ‘the department is so fucked.’”

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There are zillions of rooms in DC this weekend available for a normal-to-low $150-$200 per night. The Glorious Leader Likes Big Tanks Parade is not drawing in the masses.

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This.👇

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@jvl.bsky.social: "Having a mass of popular opposition to Trump visible this weekend is vitally important....If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?" www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

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"Experts say the FAQ's citations distort some legitimate studies and cite others that are disputed and unpublished. "In two instances, the HHS memo makes claims about dangers to pregnant women that are actively refuted by the papers it cites to back them up..." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

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Deirdre Schifeling, the ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer, joined Democracy Docket's Jacob Knutson to discuss the protests, President Trump's deployment of military personnel in California, the state of democracy and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6u2...

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"The exodus of partners could decimate Willkie’s San Francisco office, which it opened six years ago to cater to California’s technology industry..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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It wasn’t enough that federal security manhandled and cuffed Sen. Alex Padilla for daring to interrupt Kristi Noem’s press conference with a question. The White House had to double down and blame HIM for the incident, lying through its teeth about what happened. My write up in the replies.

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<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

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She is right. The Trump admin is literally doing this. They terminated humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of people who came here LEGALLY through a government program, and they are calling all those people "illegal aliens."

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The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

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WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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We filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Institute of Peace back in April and here’s what we just got back.

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We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

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Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

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Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social delivered a message to the House Oversight Committee: "The American people are in danger and our democracy is in crisis."

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House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

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