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submitted 49 days ago • 259 comments

It’s time to “stop arguing about when the crisis begins and start marshaling the will to end it.” @jenrubin.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Un-freaking-believable. See it for yourself at Covid.gov.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the official account of the White House - is it being run by a six year old?

submitted 51 days ago • 2477 comments

“There seems to be a change in the air.” This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 52 days ago • 904 comments

I have wondered this myself. It would certainly explain the stubborn refusal of both governments to even provide any information about him.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy

submitted 53 days ago • 105 comments

WTAF?? Watch the entire video. This was a warrantless state-sponsored kidnapping without cause and without a warrant or even a semblance of due process.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Putting this marker down.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Kilmar Abrego García, a lawful U.S. resident, was detained by ICE—then deported to El Salvador. Despite the Trump administration’s admission of error, little is being done to secure his return to the States. As Brian O’Neill explains, the authority to bring him home exists. The refusal is political.

submitted 55 days ago • 24 comments

If what Trump said in the Oval Office today doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is.

submitted 55 days ago • 32 comments

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

submitted 55 days ago • 340 comments

Yes!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 55 days ago • 1981 comments

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

submitted 55 days ago • 224 comments

“Homegrowns” = US citizens. CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like. This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets? It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 55 days ago • 1320 comments

Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. No basis? Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash. apnews.com/live/donald-...

submitted 55 days ago • 148 comments

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

submitted 55 days ago • 912 comments

🚨THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE🚨 Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis. @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.

submitted 55 days ago • 481 comments

How do you know when it’s time to leave? Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 IT IS HAPPENING HERE. The removal of Jews and other “undesirables” from German-occupied countries in the 1930s started slowly and gradually before the Nazis built a military-industrial machine to efficiently accomplish the task at scale. (Thread 1/5)

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Stocks are soaring because it's always great when someone just stops hitting you with a hammer. But when they stop, the next step is to take the hammer out of their hands. Congress needs to take back its tariff authority. And we need to keep saying it until it happens, in this Congress or the next.

submitted 60 days ago • 47 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 60 days ago • 3166 comments

“Trump’s claims that Putin wants peace were belied when Russia launched massive strikes at Ukraine as soon as Trump stopped sharing intelligence with Ukrainian forces that enabled them to shoot down incoming fire.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The United States is in a new Cold War with Russia. This one is being fought not with nuclear stockpiles, but through information technology. And this time, the President, his administration & Republicans in Congress are actively aiding & abetting the enemy. @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA: Measles Are Great Again. Yesterday saw the first US measles death in more than a decade, on same day that our Sec of HHS asserts that the spreading measles outbreak in Texas is “not unusual and happens all the time“ (false) & cancels annual conference to formulate this year‘s flu vaccine. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them. Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.

submitted 105 days ago • 714 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 107 days ago • 89 comments

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

submitted 106 days ago • 64 comments

Murphy: "Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law is unprecedented. What we are all watching right now is Donald Trump throw away the idea that laws apply to everyone equally. And it is astonishing to watch so many of my Republican colleagues fall in line."

submitted 109 days ago • 116 comments

The disturbing part of Trump declaring himself THE KING isn't that he did it, it's that his followers want him to be a king. They've completely abandoned the fundamental precepts of democracy in favor of total centralized control by a new American royal, because they both hate the same people.

submitted 109 days ago • 84 comments

A pattern of incompetence.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Posted by the official White House account on X today. (I captured it myself, so unfortunately I can attest that it is real.) Trump has anointed himself king. He’s not even pretending anymore. Every Republican legislator is complicit in the demise of U.S. democracy. x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe, just maybe, democracy is finally beginning to awaken. Gift link to the article: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments