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I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 725 comments

Paul Revere's ride...250 years ago tomorrow. Raise the alarm. Light the way. Understand the moment. See Angus King's conversation with Heather Cox Richardson today. Excellent conversation.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 8 hours ago • 319 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 2 days ago • 1489 comments

I don't care how many junior staffs Hegseth or others throw under the bus. Hegseth HIMSELF was on the Signal group chat. He used his fingers to enter the sensitive military info into the chat. He bears 100% full responsibility for that -- no matter how many scapegoats he finds.

submitted 2 days ago • 365 comments

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

submitted 2 days ago • 1791 comments

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump and Bukele claim they can't release anyone from CECOT BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE: at least 9 detainees El Salvador released back to the US in the last 3 months NINE other people freed. Why not Abrego Garcia, who's there on an "administrative error"? DEMAND HIS FREEDOM NOW

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Trump is now talking about shipping U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador. Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons. This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.

submitted 2 days ago • 304 comments

🧾 A+ read by @brianbeutler.bsky.social confirms: timid Dems let us down in this dark hour. Ideas are brewing... "It’s become clear that some Dems on Capitol Hill want to do more, & have ideas about how to do more, but feel stymied by the leadership, which wants to proceed cautiously." is.gd/a1tktf

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Probably a good time to remind everyone that the majority of German concentration camps were, in fact, NOT located in Germany, and our piece of dog shit president told the dog shit president of El Salvador to build 5 more "prisons" for homegrown U.S. citizens. The time for civility is OVER.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

People are disappearing… today… right now. In the very state you live in, if not the very community, there are people who quite recently were there but no longer are—and not because they chose to leave. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 4 days ago • 188 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

submitted 4 days ago • 2369 comments

Warren: "Congress has a job right now, and that is to step up and take this authority away from Donald Trump."

submitted 4 days ago • 230 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

submitted 10 days ago • 552 comments

If you stand and cheer while everything you've ever loved about your country is being raped and murdered, take down your flag and stop calling yourself a patriot. You're a traitor.

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

I called my senators today and told them I want Cory Booker to be the senate minority leader. We can’t hold hearings. We don’t have subpoena power. We can’t pass budgets. But we CAN filibuster, and we CAN change party leadership.

submitted 15 days ago • 1008 comments

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

submitted 16 days ago • 606 comments

👇🎯 The only solution now fully consistent with being an actual democracy & not having this remain a weaponized tool of mass voter suppression/disenfranchisement is automatic universal voter registration & free passports for every US citizen.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I'm seeing a lot of people write off Cory Booker's speech as “merely performative.” Of course in a sense it is a performance and doesn't achieve anything on its own, but the whole point here is to get people paying attention and involved, given the disastrous approval rating of the Democratic Party.

submitted 15 days ago • 691 comments

This idea that ICE rounds up people in blue states and then pre-deports them to a red state because they're not hung up on due process or evidence or any of that old-fashioned stuff really reveals to what extent we seem to have already had a civil war without calling it one.

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

submitted 17 days ago • 295 comments

To everyone saying to “ignore” what he’s saying because “it will never happen”…you are why we lose.

submitted 17 days ago • 584 comments

What an amazing coincidence that the chair of Wisconsin College Republicans got one of Elon Musk's $1 million checks in Musk's most-likely-illegal stunt to bribe the voters. MAGA Republicans are con artists trolling for easy marks. Don't be one, Wisconsinites.

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 17 days ago • 793 comments

I’m not going anywhere. I’m not soft-pedaling my rhetoric or refusing to say what I think. This is a time when we need to build informed communities who will not bow down to these fascists who despise our country. I hope you’ll join us and subscribe (free or paid). www.americaamerica.news

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submitted 19 days ago • 232 comments

BoooFukk'inwhooo! You didn't think about who you were hurting, messing w our programs, mass firings of Vets, stealing our SS, (we worked our lives for, with our blood, sweat & tears!) You deserve it!🤖 Cry me a damn, 🍊💩🤡 river, you sick, egotistical, gov't contract abuser🤖! Deport, now! Banned 🇺🇸!!!

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

It’s time for this dude to step down… we need Democrats that are fighters, not his weak s**t! www.change.org/p/boycott-co...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Actually, the Senate Dems just lost three seats. And he just caved during the shutdown debate. And he hasn't pushed back against the litany of attacks on the federal government. If you call that winning, I'd hate to think what you call losing. It's clear that Schumer needs to step aside.

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 58 comments

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

submitted 19 days ago • 886 comments

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

submitted 22 days ago • 225 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

🚨ALERT: Elon Musk is now trying to buy a seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1. Right before he endorsed Brad Schimel, Tesla SUED Wisconsin. He’s not buying a judge. He’s buying a ruling. Why aren’t more Democrats talking about this??

submitted 21 days ago • 93 comments

Hey Night Owl 🦉 A recent poll suggested that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seen as the new leader of the Democratic Party. Raise your hand 🤚🏾 and Repost if you agree! #BlueCrew #StrongerTogether #AOC

submitted 28 days ago • 282 comments

The White House reportedly wants to recruit corporate sponsors for its annual Easter Egg Roll. The financial backers could spend as much as $200,000 on a "sponsorship" and gain exclusive access to the Oval Office. Is there anything that's not for sale under Trump?

submitted 24 days ago • 419 comments

The wonderful @gregolear.bsky.social hits another homerun with this lovely piece that brought tears to my eyes, too. Thank you for your thoughtful work, as always.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 🚨 “Will we even have future elections?” The trap A 🧵 It comes up regularly in meetings and zoom calls I’ve participated in. Sometimes as a throwaway line. Sometimes more seriously. “Will we even have elections?” 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

I keep hearing comments that elected Dems don’t know what to do because they are in the minority. How many smallish-audience podcasts did you do this week with Dems working hard to build up their audiences? If you want an alternative media universe, you have to help create it.

submitted 27 days ago • 365 comments

It bears repeating…. @elienyc.bsky.social is right.

submitted 26 days ago • 88 comments

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

submitted 27 days ago • 1762 comments

A power which, as it happens, presidents don’t have. But never mind. He no longer views himself as a president. (Note to SCOTUS: You did this. Giving a megalomaniacal sociopath immunity inevitably led to this.)

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

Trump shuts down the Department of Education. Why is Linda McMahon taking tax payer dollars as Secretary of Education? Also, Chuck Schumer, how do you feel about helping the GOP pass their bill? Did it stop them? RESIGN.

submitted 29 days ago • 93 comments

It’s time for the US to accept Trump’s election was a foreign funded coup d’état and that they are experiencing the seeding of a dictatorship.

submitted 29 days ago • 341 comments