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You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 2 hours ago • 110 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1059 comments

I'm just saying...

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

submitted 2 days ago • 528 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 1 day ago • 678 comments

It has been a long and grueling week. Thank you to everyone who offered kind words of support. If you want to follow everything happening to democracy in court, while also supporting pro-democracy independent media, please sign up for Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 20 hours ago • 558 comments

After sending over 400 ICE agents to Denver and Aurora, CO, and knocking on hundreds of Americans' doors, ICE made only one arrest. Now, Trump has removed the Acting ICE Director, Caleb Vitello. (WaPo)

submitted 23 hours ago • 204 comments

#Norway 🙋‍♀️

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I rarely rebroadcast memes, but this one seems special. So much so, in fact, that I'm typing the ENTIRE PIECE into the alt-text for this image.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 944 comments

Governor Pritzker is killing it! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 💙💙💙💙💙😬😬😬😬😬😬

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

"I can no longer be a part of what we can all plainly see is happening to our country." Somebody should collect these incredible resignation letters and make them a book. This one is from Nate Brought, resigning as director of the NIH Executive Secretariat. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

The Trump admin has told organizations that provide federally funded legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children to halt the service. "The administration's decision to suspend this program undermines due process." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World. This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars. NASA 💫💙💫💙💫💙💫

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

🧵 In 1988, on a quiet evening during the BBC program That’s Life!, Sir Nicholas Winton sat in the audience, unaware that his greatest act of heroism was about to be unveiled. As the host recounted how he had rescued 669 Jewish children from the horrors of the Holocaust, Winton’s scrapbook— /1

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

JUST IN: MTA took about 7 seconds to file suit over Trump administration's decision to revoke permission for Manhattan congestion tolls. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

🚨 Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is just over a month away, and Musk will spend over half a million dollars to support a MAGA extremist who wants to enforce a 175-year-old abortion ban. We can't match Musk's money but we have the power of the people. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

'Revoltingly un-American': Internet erupts after Trump posts photo crowning himself 'king': On Wednesday, President Donald Trump called himself a "king" on his social media platforms. Now, journalists, commentators and academics are sounding the alarm about the second-term president's apparent…

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

America will NEVER accept anyone as a king! DEFY IN ADVANCE! TAKE ACTION: Working Families Party workingfamilies.org Move On front.moveon.org Indivisible indivisible.org Mobilize www.mobilize.us Demcast demcast.com/team/ 5 Calls app 5calls.org/all/ Call your senator(s) 202-224-3121

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 3 days ago • 2654 comments

GOP Senator Says Putin Should Be In Jail 'If Not Executed' As Trump Inches Closer To Russia Trump falsely claimed Ukraine was responsible for starting a war prompted by Russia's invasion.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

submitted 3 days ago • 302 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 3 days ago • 1052 comments

Idk feels like the president declaring himself King ought to be A1 headline stuff

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

MeidasTouch just took the #1 podcast spot in the U.S., pulling in 57.7 million downloads and views, while Joe Rogan dropped 32% to 48.6 million. For years, right voices dominated, but people are finally tuning into real pro-democracy content! Fuk Fascism. www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Yesterday, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. Today, he endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. Republicans will say anything in their plot to take money from you and give it to their billionaire donors. It's all lies and broken promises. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 3 days ago • 747 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 3 days ago • 2367 comments

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

submitted 3 days ago • 527 comments