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Normalize punching Nazis.

I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

Governor Josh Shapiro is back in action just days after the horrific attack

Going to bed before I say something and get myself in trouble.. I’ll leave you with this: This is our moment in history, what you do now, will be remembered.. Are we the French resistance and the Dutch underground.. Or are we Vidkun Queisling, the Vichy government and the silent Germans?

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Sending people to concentration camps and using the word extermination is not a mistake

Group nap. #CatsOfBluesky #Cats

A Professor at the University of Houston is being unjustly deported by Trump & his goons literally weeks before finals. The man had a visa, he has a family, he was here legally. If it can happen to him, it can happen to you or your family next.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

Lacking both accountability and humanity.

AP journalists held out of White House events despite judge’s ruling - The Washington Post

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship — Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has **not been charged with a crime.** www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

I'm not sure I mentioned this lately, but Trump is a genuinely terrible, shit-tier President.

Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.

Hey reporters: it’s not “mistakenly deported,” it’s “kidnapped and disappeared within an overseas prison camp.” You have a responsibility to get it right, not to avoid hurting people’s feelings with the truth.

NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.

Send that list to SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543 I wrote 5 of the justices and said he’s a sociopath and has frontotemporal dementia . . . They intentionally made him a king and they need to hear from US

Again, if the idea is that when someone in custody leaves the nation’s airspace there’s no way for a court to compel the state to return them—or exert any jurisdiction at all—then you’re simply saying whoever’s in power can fly people 100 miles offshore and push them out of helicopters into the sea.

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?” I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

Read Heather today — and weep. Triump’s defiance of SCOTUS has begun and the rule of law ended. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Everything is as bad as some predicted and magnitudes worse than the majority of people were told by the mainstream media. It is not hyperbolic to say that the history, stability and trust destroyed by this administration will be felt for generations, long after many of its worst members are gone.

Deporting America citizens to a foreign gulag seems…dictatory.

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

Sanders: We’re here in so-called conservative Utah, and tomorrow we’ll be in Idaho—because we believe that in every state in this country, people are prepared to stand up and fight back

My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

"This has been a tough week for those who believe diversity is our strength, immigration built America, we should take pride in our capacity for generosity and decency, and free speech and due process are at the heart of our commitment to democracy & justice." www.americaamerica.news/p/whose-amer...

Huge crowd tonight on Vancouver Island to see MP Charlie Angus speak at the “Canada Resistance Tour”—and an amazing shoutout to MeidasTouch from the Maple Meidas in Cumberland, Port Alberni, K’ómoks First Nation, Nanaimo, and the Comox Valley.

The great Volodymyr Yermolenko and his UkraineWorld project are very worthy of support. Here we are launching my freedom book, underground, in Kharkiv last September. @ukraineworld.bsky.social ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...

I have a lot of friends and family urging me to go back to Canada given that being a green card holder is increasingly precarious in this country. But here’s the thing: I’ve been here for 33 years. The financial, professional, and personal costs of doing so would be immense.

Meet ‘Betty’: she’s having a hard time with Donald Trump’s tariffs. They threaten to raise prices on everything from cars to homes, and it’s becoming harder for her to support her 16-year-old son, Bobby. #Velshi

Trump’s tariffs are not “the art of the deal” – no matter what the White House says. @jimacosta.bsky.social & @michaelrstrain.bsky.social discuss how voters are having “buyer’s remorse” & global investors are reacting to the “incompetence” of the Trump admin’s economic policy. #Velshi

Trump’s tariffs are not “the art of the deal” – no matter what the White House says. @jimacosta.bsky.social & @michaelrstrain.bsky.social discuss how voters are having “buyer’s remorse” & global investors are reacting to the “incompetence” of the Trump admin’s economic policy. #Velshi

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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.

It is disgraceful that the Trump administration is using their “Ideological Deportation Policy” to silence students and faculty for their political beliefs. I’m co-leading a group of AGs in calling on the courts to block this dangerous policy and protect university communities.

happy bday German writer/feminist Johanna Elberskirchen, b.1864, activist for "rights of women, gays and lesbians as well as blue-collar workers."

47 MISUSES EXECUTIVE ORDERS As one Congresswoman noted yesterday, why has the media failed to even question, how the President used two executive orders to investigate two people involved in providing information during his impeachment trials in his previous administration? Chris Crebbs