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Oh my god this is so funny and a very good thing to happen. He's making Vance wear the tariffs because he doesn't want to--a fall guy--but he's currently the one set up to take over from Trump, and much more effectively!

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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

submitted 1 hour ago • 354 comments

Defiance of court order. Purging Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. New by Judge Amy Berman Jackson: Court has reason to believe Trump officials "are thumbing their nose at both this Court and the Court of Appeals." "dressing their RIF in new clothes" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 28 minutes ago • 35 comments

To paraphrase “The American President” pretty soon Trump is going to have everyone in the SCOTUS press corps looking up the meaning of the word “petard.” (As in: “the court that gave Trump immunity will be hoisted by their own petard when they want to hold him in contempt and he says ‘fuck off.’”)

submitted 14 minutes ago • 3 comments

as we've seen by now, they start with immigrants won't be stretch for them to building master databases for surveillance of lgbtq people, young women, progressives, targeted religions etc that might have sounded conspiratorial a couple months ago...but here we are

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NEW: The NYT reports that Abrego Garcia was actually moved to a lower security detention center 9 days ago, but the Trump Administration signed a sworn declaration 6 days ago that he was at CECOT. Here's a gift link to the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 1 hour ago • 60 comments

One step that Chris Van Hollen floated in his press conference: Boycott El Salvador. El Salvador has seen an increase in tourism due its tropical climate and historical attractions. So now it’s time to hit Bukele where it hurts, which is his tourism industry.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

NEW: The National Intelligence Council determined in a secret assessment early this month that Venezuela is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts Trump’s public statements www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

This is: (a) correct; (b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized; (c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.

submitted 2 hours ago • 44 comments

New on MSNBC: All AmeriCorps volunteers have been sent home and pulled from projects across the country. California Gov. Gavin Newsom says his state will be suing to stop the termination of the volunteer program.

submitted 6 hours ago • 87 comments

OPINION | One hundred days of Trump's second administration has wrought chaos and destruction, but at least we are getting a clearer view of who is really responsible, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Memorize their faces.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

advancing #corrutrumption

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Marco Rubio is not Secretary of State. Scott Bessent is not Treasury Secretary. Kristi Noem does not run DHS. Our USTR is just a bit player on trade policy. Pete Hegseth is assistant secretary of defense for racism. I'm not even sure Trump's the boss. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-pow...

submitted 2 hours ago • 16 comments

Don’t be fooled by the fancy titles. The people running the show in Trumpworld aren’t always the ones we expected would be just a few months ago. My latest.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

How can our president subvert the rule of law so flagrantly, and dismantle the institutions at the bedrock of our democracy? @normornstein.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social are back to break down everything from the past week and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

New criteria (among many many) for blocking someone. If you say you say both sides are the same and therefore you don’t get engaged in politics or don’t vote, instablock. You are part of the problem and I’ve got nothing for you.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

The Trump Admin is doing a lot of damage but on its big goals—mass deportation, ending war in Ukraine, energizing the economy—it is failing across the board.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

This would of course be another step deeper into authoritarianism. And of course, it would be illegal and challenged. But it could do great damage to fund-raising and operations for these institutions even if ultimately reversed.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

"I’ve heard from reliable sources that the administration is planning to launch next week a first wave of attacks on think tanks and philanthropies it dislikes by moving to revoke their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status." via @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social here:

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Bukele is making a play with the assistance of the US to turn the outsourcing of human rights violations into a source of foreign exchange for El Salvador, a new export category in much the same way educating the world has long been a top US export. Until now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

This is nonsense. A weak and transparent negotiating tactic born out of pique…and a deep unwillingness to acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor and only one who can end this and that the US refuses to pressure them.

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

And right wing propaganda outlets like the New York Post immediately fell for it and promoted the false narrative. Almost as if it had all been coordinated in advance.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Let them eat data.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 78 comments

Chris Van Hollen just secured himself a place in the ‘2025 Do Something Democrats’ Hall of Fame, right alongside Cory Booker, AOC, Tim Walz, Chris Murphy and others. To other Democrats who would like to join this winner’s circle, now is your chance. Step up and fight.

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

I expect and demand this from every single member of Congress. This is not a partisan issue. You either defend your oath to the constitution or start counting your days in office. This is where the rubber meets the road, my fellow citizens. Tolerate NO defense of this by anyone, ever!

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Credit to Sen. Van Hollen. As do all decent people, I hope it is a step toward winning back this man's freedom.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 1 day ago • 1171 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8428 comments

Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals. So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Dear Leader is a genius. (Check out the looks on their faces...)

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is. Signal: annabower.24 Email: anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

The speech police.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Breaking News: A Trump official asked the IRS to look into concerns from Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur, that he "may have been inappropriately targeted" for an audit, according to an email seen by The New York Times.

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

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🚨 Update: The same Treasury official sent a nearly identical email to IRS asking to review an audit of a group run by Kansas state Sen. Rick Kloos. So now two emails that we know of reflecting Treasury intervening in tax investigations of Trump's "high profile friends."

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

He cannot legally fire Powell. If he does it anyway and no one stops him, the economy is not the only thing that'll be destroyed.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Why is the Supreme Court granting oral argument in the birthright citizenship EO cases a big deal? Well, for one, it’s a case that came to SCOTUS on the so-called shadow docket, a loose collection of “emergency” applications that don’t go through the usual full appellate process. 1/

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The opinion by Judge Wilkinson for the Fourth Circuit denying the government’s most recent request for a stay or mandamus against Judge Xinis’s rulings in the Abrego García case is especially powerful when you consider it was written by … Judge Wilkinson: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

“We’ll have to find out what the truth is” What a great idea! We should invent some sort of “process” that allows us all to discover that truth

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments