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Buckle up, folks. This is a constitutional crisis unfolding before our eyes.

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal—convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. He is lying, and he is manipulating the stock market too. At his best, he enriches himself, the billionaires who back him, and the members of Congress who trade with him. Not you. Not me. Not the people.

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

2024 Town hall Question: How do people go to Congress and become multimillionaires.. Greene: I do not know. I haven’t found that money tree up there.. that they all seem to have.. Pelosi supposedly has some great stock tips

Fiorentini: And I love how they’re just reverse-engineering everything. It’s like saying, 'Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs'—except then you serve a Pop-Tart that fell on the ground

AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

AOC: The crumbling of our rights and protections. Understand that all of this is what it means and what it feels like to be governed by billionaires. This is what oligarchy feels like.. it is this system that has brought us the most corrupt administration in American history..

Sanders: Unbelievable… they are people half a mile away

Sanders: You know why we have all these great musicians here today? We're going to make our revolution with joy. We're going to sing and dance our way to victory against hatred and divisiveness.

Sanders: There are some 36,000 of you… The largest rally we have had. Your presence here today is making Donald Trump and Elon Musk very nervous

Sanders: Elon Musk announced most of the people were paid organizers. Anybody here get paid to come today? Crowd: No

Sanders: And Trump, very envious of sizes, he said Bernie has rallies of two or three thousand people, can’t compete with Trump…. he lied…

Sanders: Instead of spending $1 trillion a year on the military, let’s build 5 million units of low income and affordable housing..

Sanders: When Trump looks out at this crowd… they pay attention to this stuff, Elon Musk does. You are scaring the hell out of them. Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

Khanna: You know what I think? Instead of giving $4 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk, how about in this country we start taxing the billionaires?

Jayapal: How the hell are you gonna buy a house when the rent is already too damn high and Donald Trump is hiking up the prices of lumber and drywall..

Frost: They're the ones hoarding wealth beyond imagination. We have to tell people the reason you can't pay your rent has nothing to do with trans people. The reason you don't have healthcare has nothing to do with immigrants. It has to do with billionaires like Elon Musk.

Frost: I come from Florida. See, Project 2025 is Florida 2024. We’ve seen this, but we also know how to deal with it. When they disappear, a college student, you take to the streets. When they steal your Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, you take to the streets.

Hernandez: This administration wants you to believe that the reason you can't buy eggs is because of your immigrant neighbor, they want you to blame trans folks for your troubles, blame unhoused people for the housing crisis. You know what I say to that? Bullshit.

Hernandez: Why is there always money to bomb children in Gaza, but not enough to make sure every kid has a safe place to sleep in this country. We don't have a budget crisis. We have a crisis of our values

Gomez: They got a simple plan defund, defraud, and lie. They're gonna defund Social Security, Medicaid, education, anything that helps the man and woman who's trying to get by to put food on the table or to pay rent. And then they're going to lie about it.

Gomez: It doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z. We are now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Gomez: Fuck around Crowd: Find out

Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

Rep. Maria Salazar on tariffs: "It's good for the economy. The president is right on target. He is the master of the deal when he was in construction, so he knows how to put together a good business."

Ric Grenell on the Kennedy Center: "We don't need to be booing Republicans like when the vice president shows up. People need to be able to sit in chairs and enjoy the arts without trying to figure out what the person next to you believes or who they voted for."

The dream is dead

New in PN: Tom Suozzi on fighting MAGA in a district Trump won “They do these things to try to get people all excited, meanwhile they’re trying to cut Social Security and Medicaid and give tax cuts to the rich. The big issue is, how are the things they're doing going to affect people's lives?”

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake

Homan: "It seems like every time Crockett opens her mouth, she shows how not smart she is."

Sununu: Congress doesn't want them to get touched. Americans will accept it… Let’s move the retirement age. 62 or 64 or whatever it is? That’s insane. No young person thinks retirement should be in their mid 60s

Casar: At the end of the day, this is about taking your hard-earned money and giving it to themselves—or funneling it to their friends. That’s all this is about.

Governor Murphy responds to Alina Habba: For whatever reason, I missed my normal Hannity show last night.

Gomez: He always said, “Oh, these are going to be easy to win.” Easy to win? Not when the opposition starts firing back. And that’s exactly what started happening.

Rep. Riley Moore: "This is gonna be the biggest deal any president has closed since the Louisiana Purchase under Thomas Jefferson. It's gonna reorient the United States in that big of a manner. It's gonna be huge. It's gonna save states like West Virginia."

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

Byron Donalds: "We have to cut mandatory spending, it is not an option, for the future health of the United States ... there is waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid."