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Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

submitted 2 days ago • 895 comments

BREAKING: DOGE tried a fast one to get around our Appointments Clause preliminary injunction—moving a DOGE person to USAID staff Judge just called BS, rightly so 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

submitted 2 days ago • 839 comments

The whitewashing of US history continues at Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 3 days ago • 936 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school.. When you arbitrarily rip up trade agreements, threaten a country, and say you’re going to break it, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.

submitted 3 days ago • 753 comments

Here is a round up of this week’s television and radio appearances and a recording of a deeply satisfying conversation with my old DOJ colleague Joyce Vance.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

It’s death by a thousand cuts for Social Security. And Musk is holding the knife. youtu.be/82Eg3mcZdcw

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I’ll be on @allinwithchris.bsky.social tonight @ 8:25pm ET to discuss @sddfund.bsky.social's latest court victory re: USAID Musk—who I’ll remind you is an unelected advisor—thought he could usurp federal authority The courts just proved him wrong - TN

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 3 days ago • 3349 comments

oh this is a big mystery

submitted 5 days ago • 1235 comments

Are we on the brink of a constitutional crisis? No—we’re already in one, and have been for two decades. Here, I explain how even progressive legal experts have enabled this coup, and how we can start to reclaim our own power to decide constitutional meaning. www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

The Resistance is strong! #Resist

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed

submitted 6 days ago • 208 comments

It gets worse. Schumer isn’t just going on a book tour—he’s charging for tickets. Absolute insanity. While Americans are scared and in crisis mode, he’s basically saying, let them eat cake. @schumer.senate.gov Step Down.

submitted 7 days ago • 2529 comments

Shut down for the first time since 1942

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

Nurses in nursing homes…or tax cuts for billionaires? The Trump team is on the side of the billionaires.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Senator Mark Kelly ditches his Tesla after Elon Musk calls him a traitor.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

submitted 8 days ago • 1058 comments

I've been at DOJ for so many important speeches & presentations. Today, my heart is filled with sadness for my former colleagues & our country as a convicted felon who doesn't understand justice or the meaning of the rule of law & why both are essential to our democracy stands there.

submitted 8 days ago • 492 comments

Trump deports 10-year-old U.S. citizen recovering from brain cancer to Mexico www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

ACTION: 3 minutes to fill out 3 forms WHY: We must protect passport access for transgender Americans! Let's go, allies! We need to step up for our family and friends.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 9 days ago • 1295 comments

Last month, Trump banned @apnews.com from the WH for refusing to acknowledge his bogus “Gulf of America” We, @sddfund.bsky.social, joined a group of fmr. conservative officials in filing an amicus brief to defend AP’s access The integrity of the First Amendment & fourth estate is on the line

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

I introduced legislation to help state and local governments invest in road safety efforts—in memory of Sarah Langenkamp, a fine diplomat, an amazing mother and a beloved friend. I'm grateful to her family for working with me to make our streets and community safer.

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

Rep John Larson - Connecticut:

submitted 10 days ago • 333 comments

NEW: Perkins Coie, the law firm targeted by Trump in an Executive Order, has now sued the Trump Administration in federal court alleging the EO is unconstitutional on several grounds, including violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 143 comments

“Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 10 days ago • 770 comments

Let’s be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities. Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.

submitted 11 days ago • 196 comments

Too bad she’s not focused on making sure all Americans can vote, not just new parents in Congress.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

This breaks my heart. We fought so hard to get EPA to look at environmental justice issues in an area of Birmingham called Collegeville hit, faced, massive health challenges. I’m sure there are similar areas all across the country. archive.epa.gov/epa/north-bi...

submitted 11 days ago • 134 comments

I was pleased to meet today with Dr. Tedros, head of the World Health Organization. In order to combat future pandemics there must be global cooperation. Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO puts us, and people around the world, at greater risk of preventable deaths.

submitted 11 days ago • 88 comments

The courts, global leaders & Americans are holding the delicate line against Trump’s autocracy—& we’re covering it all @contrariannews.org Today’s featured voices include @joshlevs.bsky.social, @elizaorlins.bsky.social, @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social + many, many more Stay engaged. Stay informed - TN

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Protest outside the NYC ICE office now demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..." www.advocate.com/politics/hug...

submitted 13 days ago • 336 comments

More bombshells from my Social Security Administration informant. 🤯 (Screenshots of deposition below.)

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Elon Musk owns a 12% stake in Tesla. Thanks to nationwide protests and international boycotts, Tesla stocks have plummeted in recent weeks, reducing his net worth by over $100 billion. We can do better.

submitted 13 days ago • 201 comments

Trump is beating up Zelenskyy to force him to take a "ceasefire" that would permanently give 20% of Ukraine to Russia. Imagine, Mr. Trump, if Mexico demanded 20% of the US starting with Florida and Mar-a-Lago? Would you say I'll take that deal?

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

I couldn't love the work the Visibility Brigade is doing more. THIS is what we need to see everywhere! And fortunately they have a toolkit to show your group how!

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Weingarten: It’s really only the Congress that can abolish the Department of Education. So, what the president can do is make government basically ineffective—not work—by a thousand cuts. And that’s what they’re doing.

submitted 14 days ago • 348 comments

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death. People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable. EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

submitted 15 days ago • 129 comments

Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

submitted 14 days ago • 454 comments

Tadaa.

submitted 15 days ago • 1496 comments

My Joint Address guest Dr. Lauren McGee is a NIH cancer biologist who was summarily fired by a DOGE worker she never met during Elon Musk's Valentine's Day assault on the federal workforce. This MD-08 Local Hero was doing pathbreaking research to treat pediatric cancer.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

submitted 15 days ago • 1906 comments

I have talked to veterans all over the country. They’re not happy that, when the VA is already understaffed, Musk wants to dismember the VA by laying off 83,000 employees. A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.

submitted 15 days ago • 181 comments

Today in Rhode Island, a federal judge told Trump to stop impounding funds allocated by Congress. It’s about more than just the money; it’s about making sure the president doesn’t make a grab for powers that belong to Congress under the Constitution. joycevance.substack.com/p/courts-to-...

submitted 15 days ago • 180 comments

Musk and Trump are working feverishly to cut Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, public education, nutrition and other programs. Why? So Musk and other billionaires can get a huge tax break. Together, we’re not going to let them get away with that.

submitted 16 days ago • 193 comments

Ahead of the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I'm joining Rep. Terri Sewell to reintroduce the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect the right of all Americans to vote without tricks & laws of suppression. Let's summon the moral purpose of the great Congressman Lewis.

submitted 16 days ago • 110 comments