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A refugee from a torn and broken land suffering under the iron fist of a mad despot.
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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

Gomez: They got a simple plan defund, defraud, and lie. They're gonna defund Social Security, Medicaid, education, anything that helps the man and woman who's trying to get by to put food on the table or to pay rent. And then they're going to lie about it.

Remember headlines like this from a couple of years ago? I think they were talking about these jerks from DOGE and tools they’re deploying.

I don't really know what to do about stuff like "rural people voted for Trump because they think Biden refused to give aid to western North Carolina" when Biden gave the aid and Trump denied it.

Frost: They're the ones hoarding wealth beyond imagination. We have to tell people the reason you can't pay your rent has nothing to do with trans people. The reason you don't have healthcare has nothing to do with immigrants. It has to do with billionaires like Elon Musk.

Jfc

i think reasonable people can disagree about the optimal strategy for dems right now, especially in regards to dealing with the coming economic shocks. i don’t think reasonable people can disagree that the strategy followed by dems thus far has been very bad, and not recognizable as strategy at all

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

After Wisconsin Elon lost his standing privileges

new york times article a year from now, probably

Sanders: You know why we have all these great musicians here today? We're going to make our revolution with joy. We're going to sing and dance our way to victory against hatred and divisiveness.

Darth Vader being “gracious” and “not fake.” Everything we’ve ever not liked about him is absent in this scene.

RIP

Woohoo! Stands and cowboys!

CDC unable to respond to lead crisis due to funding cuts.

It’s always veep

I gave the rottweiler who killed all of my friends' babies a big, juicy steak and I'm here to tell you that you're all being a little melodramatic about Murderer the Rottweiler.

Got a great shot of AOC today.

NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fuck Planned Parenthood

Is the part about sending people to mines hitting anyone else in a particular way? Is it because I'm Indigenous that the horror of that jumps out at me?

And it’s TRUE…👇

*approaching retired secret agent as he chops wood outside his idyllic and isolated woodland home* you’re a man to find hard. hard man to find. FUCK

this woman was considered one of the frontrunners for the next standard bearer of the Democratic Party, Trump won her state by 1.5%, and she’s decided to throw it all away to join the Capitulation Caucus tremendously disappointing, especially with Pritzker right next door

lol. lmao. I only heard stories about these reply guys, but turned out they do exist.

NEW: Blue Cross authorized mastectomies & breast reconstructions at one hospital, then refused to pay the full doctors' bills. BUT... The insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross execs signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

What you can expect to see in a land that believes life must be earned.

In need of dollars again to eat and live and other such extravagant things if you have anything to spare <3 $LaurenMcKenziest 💜 ca, v, pp

a better world is possible

This right here 🔥 “If there was market manipulation, it is a crime. Someone needs to go to jail… I want the documents. I want the Signal chats too, because I don’t trust them — that they weren’t sharing all this information across their Signal chats.” – @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal—convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. He is lying, and he is manipulating the stock market too. At his best, he enriches himself, the billionaires who back him, and the members of Congress who trade with him. Not you. Not me. Not the people.

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

C’mon Simpsons.

He’s got a point. After his stint working in the government I’d like him to go work in the mines.

Wow. That sure is one hell of a sentence

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.