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Me and my mother Lucy! Happy birthday to me 🫰🏻🫶🏻

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and I discuss the ongoing influence of dark money in the courts, how the Trump administration is tearing apart the Justice Department and Elon Musk-led threats against judges. youtu.be/bpUSPPzHa0k

The videos showing the El Salvador prisoners makes me so sick. I can’t watch the footage. To know that the administration puts them out because Trump’s base enjoys the sadism is all we need to know. They are sick and depraved and vile people.

After the attack on Shapiro’s residence, I feel like it’s important to remind people how easy it is for people to become irrevocably radicalized online. Right wing media (both “new” and legacy) is using the same tactics we see groups like Al-Qaeda use to recruit.

New in PN: The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying "If Dems are going to defend the social safety net and even cancer research, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people."

Trump loves him some Hungary, a failing, small state in E Europe. It can foretell our future failure, if we allow it. My latest in reply: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-men...

WOW. They grabbed her off the street even while the State Department itself said that she had done nothing wrong.

In a medical report just released about Trump - a medical report - amid the grandiose descriptions of his health is a reference to golf - not that he stays active with golf but that he wins tournaments. Aggrandizement is non-stop. A cult loves it. The market doesn't. It wants America, not N Korea.

Billionaire says what?

I do wish that more stories about the El Salvador prison where Trump disappeared people would note that it’s only different from US prisons in that it’s in another country, not because of the conditions. People are tortured and put in grave danger on American soil every day in our prisons.

SPD is now doing 24/7 surveillance of the CID, Aurora North, & Belltown/Downtown. Includes people watching the camera feeds & algorithms like object recognition. ALL video is kept for 30 days, video flagged for investigation can be kept indefinitely stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/s...

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Meanwhile in Tallahassee, the Florida House is launching investigations into financial mismanagement by the DeSantis administration and the House Speaker is hinting at subpoenas after Casey DeSantis’ “charity” appears to have been exposed as a slush-fund for campaign committees.

made-in-China MAGA merch getting hit by Trump’s tariffs (H/T @saadia---m.bsky.social )

How many Republican congressmen and women have stock in this company?

One little-known company has made billions running detention camps for asylum-seekers at the border. It's now repurposing its tents to hold some of the thousands of people arrested by ICE and facing deportation. By @micarosenberg.bsky.social, @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

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.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered an impromptu speech onstage at the Coachella music festival in California on Saturday night in which he urged young people to oppose President Trump’s policies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

People who say Kilmar Abrego GarcĂ­a won't make it back to the US act like they're the only ones who thought of that possibility, they don't mention the larger implications regarding due process, and they seem to want people to give up. We can NEVER give up.

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

A+++++ post

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This is no longer left vs. right. It’s democracy vs. autocracy. Everyone must pick a side. We choose democracy. Join us on 4/19.

Dude was illegally arrested and deported to a slave prison in an unrelated country and these bastards can’t be bothered to answer for what they did or lift a finger to fix it. You’re not special (to them). When they violate your rights, it won’t go any differently. So the thing is to stop them now.

The Trump administration is actually out here arguing that their deal with Bukele is "classified." The same deal they've been publicly bragging about.

“In this arena there are hundreds of Alexandrias” Bernie calls on folks to oppose establishment candidates and run for office like @aoc.bsky.social did

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

It'll be a good stress test, and one they will fail.

Where is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia?

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Watch a major campaign being born.

Well thankfully we have a constitution and first amendment that will endure long past you fat self

ZERO posts from the President of the United States about the arson and possible attempted assassination of Governor Ben Shapiro and his family.

Wonder why that could be

Never Forget…..

"The petty tyranny of local law enforcement could, particularly in places with Republican-dominated state and local governments, reverse more than six decades of gradual progress under the civil rights regime." ICYMI @blanksslate.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/justice-de...

This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail. Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.