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And just to be obvious, if this isn’t the moment to use every parliamentary procedure possible to hold the legislative branch hostage until the executive branch is brought under control, then there is no point to having a legislature at all

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 8 days ago • 618 comments

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson has quit The Washington Post over billionaire owner Jeff Bezos' reimagining of the opinion page. www.thedailybeast.com/pulitzer-win...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in NY rejects Trump administration effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging DOGE directed a massive breach of OPM data affecting millions of people. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors children in immigration proceedings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

Cory Booker has come the closest of any Democrat this year to being the leader of the party, and maybe other Democrats will step up with as much verve and creativity to convince me otherwise.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

submitted 12 days ago • 1305 comments

Sit down @schumer.senate.gov. You don't deserve to be in the same room with @booker.senate.gov.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The Booker thing is fine; good even. It's better than anything Senate Dems have done to date. If theyd be doing stuff like this and using unanimous consent and other objections to slow nominations from day 1 we'd be in a better place as a country.

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

The issue of immigration has always been the center of gravity for Trump and MAGA. The conventional advice to Democrats has been to duck the issue. I think that's been wrong--but in any case there's now no choice. Democrats need to directly take on Trump's cruel and lawless attacks on immigrants.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Every Democratic Senator should be doing what @booker.senate.gov is doing right now, back-to-back, nonstop.

submitted 12 days ago • 121 comments

Hey @schumer.senate.gov - one more reason you should resign now. Today. You’ve lost the bubble.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

REP. BRYAN STEIL: It shouldn't be lost on your viewers that George Soros has poured millions of dollars in BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.

submitted 12 days ago • 272 comments

Booker: 19 hours now

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!

submitted 12 days ago • 234 comments

It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.

submitted 12 days ago • 4298 comments

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

submitted 13 days ago • 588 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

submitted 13 days ago • 2159 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 1250 comments

Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day.

submitted 17 days ago • 542 comments

Any member of the House can, by invoking Rule IX, force a floor vote on anything relating to impeachment. Johnson can't stop it. At most he can intervene with a resolution of his own to do something else with it, but that then requires a floor vote also, which becomes effectively the same thing.

submitted 17 days ago • 102 comments

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.

submitted 17 days ago • 351 comments

There's no gaslighting your way out of this.

submitted 18 days ago • 839 comments

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

submitted 18 days ago • 1251 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

submitted 18 days ago • 1168 comments

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

submitted 18 days ago • 2425 comments

Hegseth sent operational details - very closely held. He and Gabbard said otherwise to Senate Intel. BOTH must resign immediately. If not, file articles of impeachment.

submitted 18 days ago • 331 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 18 days ago • 2087 comments

THREAD: Trump just signed an EO about voter registration, but in 2023 the super-conservative Chief Judge Pryor in the 11th Circuit penned an opinion as to why Mark Meadows (and the president) have no role in supervising state elections, and therefore, cannot have his case moved to federal court. 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 20 days ago • 3691 comments

“The reality is that a mass movement is not going to arise around protecting institutions. The way for us to actually protect our institutions is to rally together behind leaders who commit to reforming them.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Retweeting this for no particular reason @annecaprara.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 298 comments

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg rejects Trump administration call to rescind his restraining order, saying the Venezuelans marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win — because they are entitled to individual hearings/due process. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 24 days ago • 909 comments

Dropkick Murphys’ lead singer, Ken Casey: Dropkick Murphys has always been about standing with your friends, your family, and the things you believe in. Trump is the exact opposite of everything we sing about. He’s turned on America’s friends and allies—he’s a rat and a coward.

submitted 27 days ago • 122 comments