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•••••••NOW••••••• A “moment of moral urgency” is upon us. History is happening NOW, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries have devoted this day to a live-streamed sit-in, featuring conversations with Americans focused on staunch opposition to the…

submitted 5 hours ago • 176 comments

Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Breaking the law is the point.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 4 days ago • 1421 comments

They know they're doing illegal shit.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Who could have guessed that alienating your company’s core customer base by being a fascist asshole dork wasn’t such a genius marketing idea, Elon?

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Wall Street still doesn't get it. Many of us would not own a Tesla if it could time travel and was free.👇 "Some analysts also have said that customers likely delayed purchases as they waited for the recent introduction of a refreshed version of Tesla’s Model Y, the company’s top seller."

submitted 5 days ago • 473 comments

HEY KID YOU WANT TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

submitted 6 days ago • 204 comments

Tom Homan on ABC does not deny that the administration's position is they have a right to grab people off the street and deport them without a hearing

submitted 7 days ago • 1110 comments

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."

submitted 7 days ago • 467 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 8 days ago • 190 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 7 days ago • 802 comments

Gettin' right with God this morning. #LegalWeed4SC #LegalizeIt

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

submitted 8 days ago • 755 comments

"Authorities say it is unclear why Klan member lit a cross."

submitted 8 days ago • 192 comments

Major scoop from @gregsargent.bsky.social: The entire basis for the Trump's refusal to return Abrego Garcia to the US from El Salvador is collapsing. newrepublic.com/article/1940...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

The Declaration of Independence lists 27 specific grievances against King George III, so I started highlighting the same offenses that Donald Trump has also committed. So far I count 10 in whole & 4 in part, while Trump is threatening/planning several more (items 5, 9, 11, 15, 20, & 23). Thoughts?

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Oh, I think I know the answer. Is it— … lemme think here … —because they’re making s**t up?

submitted 28 days ago • 193 comments

Instead of Trump serving a third term in office, let's see to it he's serving his first in prison.

submitted 28 days ago • 289 comments

Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."

submitted 30 days ago • 508 comments

DON’T LOOK AWAY. Rumeysa Ozturk is a LEGAL visa holder and graduate student worker with the SEIU Local 509 union. She was kidnapped and disappeared by masked ICE agents on Tuesday. Immigrants are working people. This isn’t a separate fight. An attack on one is an attack on ALL of us.

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

SANDRA SMITH: The market since election day is almost flat. It's only down 2% since Trump was elected president again. And since inauguration day, it's down 5.5%. ROBERT WOLF: That's a lot SMITH: That's a lot? WOLF: 5.5% is a lot

submitted 30 days ago • 155 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia GOP Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears says she doesn’t understand why people are upset about jobs being lost in her state due to DOGE and that it 'happens to everybody all the time.'

submitted 30 days ago • 1076 comments

"It’s only been eight weeks. I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year." And neither can you.

submitted 30 days ago • 97 comments

Trump in PANIC over Signalgate.. hence going after Smithsonian and another law firm. STAY FOCUSED.

submitted 30 days ago • 60 comments

“‘It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court-martialed for this,’ a defense official told CNN. ‘My most junior analysts know not to do this.’”

submitted 31 days ago • 360 comments

Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim

submitted 32 days ago • 1501 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 31 days ago • 670 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 33 days ago • 5491 comments

Oh, so let me get this straight: deciding not to buy a car now qualifies as “treason”, but beating cops with flagpoles, smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol, and trying to overthrow an election is just good old-fashioned “peaceful protest”? Give me a fucking break.

submitted 38 days ago • 305 comments

Receipts!

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

"I don't care what the judges think" seems like the kind of statement that would piss off a judge

submitted 41 days ago • 221 comments

This indicates deliberate intent to disobey court orders. US District Court Judge James Boasberg, who ordered the Trump Administration to halt deportation flights, should charge those who ignored his ruling with criminal contempt of court under Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 41 days ago • 754 comments

There’s a long list of admin officials that need to see prison if we’re to have any hope of recovering.

submitted 41 days ago • 21 comments

Trump’s latest threat against me is as real as his 'perfect' phone calls and 'biggest crowds ever.' More whining, more victimhood, zero follow-through. Either do it or keep crying, fatso. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-tantru...

submitted 41 days ago • 494 comments

Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.

submitted 42 days ago • 257 comments

Dozens of people were killed and catastrophic damage across multiple red states due to tornados & wildfires this weekend and Trump is tweeting about winning his club championship in Palm Beach and going to the awards dinner tonight. Well done, MAGA. You picked a real winner.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance went heavy on the eyeliner this morning

submitted 46 days ago • 634 comments

"DOGE’s claims are often either mathematically impossible, or, like the $50m 'condoms for Gaza' claim, simply false. This allows the administration to take a strategically ambiguous stance in hopes of shielding DOGE from judicial interference. But that strategy is failing." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

submitted 46 days ago • 84 comments

Yeah, this is exactly the way to do it. If you live in a Republican district and your congressperson is hiding from you, just hold your own town hall. Do it as many times as necessary.

submitted 46 days ago • 20 comments

1) "The measles vaccine prevents thousands of deaths each year worldwide." 2) "There have been no deaths shown to be related to the MMR vaccine in healthy people." 3) "An estimated 107,500 people [globally] died from measles in 2023." www.who.int/news-room/fa... www.idsociety.org/public-healt...

submitted 46 days ago • 52 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 46 days ago • 2675 comments