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Imagine if another country’s president was cracking down on the opposition party’s fundraising mechanism “to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure” Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Feels like this isn’t hitting like the bombshell it should be. Has the Times or the Post even covered it yet? abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...

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I was just thinking that when Dems have control someday they should pass a strong bill asserting that the judiciary at every level is fully independent and then I remembered that we have that bill and it's The Constitution

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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal authorities may once again seek reporters’ phone records and compel their testimony in leak investigations, reversing a policy that was designed to protect journalists from intrusive government efforts to identify and prosecute sources.

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Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

submitted 23 hours ago • 709 comments

NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...

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FBI arrest of a sitting judge is a big deal, but the looming question is what type of warrant was ICE executing: judicial or administrative. Judge Dugan is now front & center in the ongoing escalation of ICE's ready fire aim method of law enforcement.

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

submitted 12 hours ago • 368 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 11 hours ago • 63 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 12 hours ago • 457 comments

WTF? FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday, accusing her of shielding an immigrant from federal authorities. The allegation? That Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” someone they were pursuing, according to a now-deleted post by Mr. Patel.

submitted 11 hours ago • 558 comments

Our cover this week.

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 8 days ago • 1943 comments

Real American leadership right here.

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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

submitted 21 days ago • 805 comments

We are very far over the cliff here, folks

submitted 21 days ago • 1204 comments

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh.

submitted 21 days ago • 865 comments

Heaven forbid that this simple-minded buffoon would allow his crashing the United State's economy, or the return of the remains of four people killed in our military, to interfere with yet one more stupid golf game for this superficial scam-artist to cheat at.

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Calling Congress can't be the only thing we do but it is one action we can and should take to stand up to Trump's illegal attack on unions. Please take 5 minutes to call this week. We are so grateful for your support 🙏

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

If she was that confident, she wouldn’t object to due process.

submitted 25 days ago • 1512 comments

“Beautiful thing to watch.”

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This

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

submitted 30 days ago • 1449 comments

Bravo to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social for his bravery and journalistic integrity.

submitted 30 days ago • 579 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 2088 comments

10 years ago, if group of miscellaneous people were hauled out of bedrooms, work & off the street & flown without hearing to brutal prison in El Salvador, you would have said must be in Chile or Russia or China, not US. "Can't happen here." It is happening here . Why are you now allowing it?

submitted 30 days ago • 52 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 30 days ago • 1711 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 34 days ago • 1168 comments

"My cars are wildly unpopular right now! What is the one spokesperson I could pick to make them look even less cool?"

submitted 35 days ago • 1038 comments

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape? Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

submitted 34 days ago • 83 comments

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

submitted 35 days ago • 518 comments

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

submitted 35 days ago • 1566 comments

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

submitted 35 days ago • 553 comments

Books

submitted 34 days ago • 543 comments