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Relief. Abrego Garcia is alive.

submitted 35 minutes ago • 36 comments

get you a senator who’ll fight for you like @vanhollen.senate.gov does (gift link: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...)

submitted 26 minutes ago • 15 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 35 minutes ago • 177 comments

I think we all know who we want running the Dem Senate caucus now. Send Chuck back to the backbenches and let the guy who got us proof of life for Kilmar start managing things. Van Hollen has initiative and guts at a time when most Senators are just there to sit in a fancy room.

submitted 13 minutes ago • 3 comments

Infinite gratitude to @vanhollen.senate.gov and everyone else who kept the pressure on to stop the Trump administration from disappearing Abrego Garcia into oblivion. Resistance works. Don’t back down. And now do bringing him and everyone else back from the hell hole.

submitted 14 minutes ago • 4 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 51 minutes ago • 110 comments

i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move

submitted 20 minutes ago • 154 comments

Oh my God. Thank God I honestly was starting to fear that he was already dead

submitted 12 minutes ago • 3 comments

Mr. Civility himself calling for a general strike, Bill Kristol calling for ICE to be abolished, and GMU libertarians posting like they want to get the GC subpeonaed. We are 83 days in.

submitted 2 hours ago • 16 comments

The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw

submitted 1 hour ago • 58 comments

The shell of what used to be the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now joining with banks to screw consumers, congrats everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s repopulation scheme comes into sharper focus.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"

submitted 2 hours ago • 75 comments

People listen to this and pass on!!

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Happening now in downtown Yonkers, NY: Flash rally to “Bring Kilmar Home!” organized by @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 2 hours ago • 788 comments

Precisely. This admission brings people together—not over politics, but over our shared humanity. If you’re scared, you know what’s happening. If you admit it, you’re taking sides. And empowering people in the process.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump’s message for worried investors: Steel and aluminum tariffs taking effect tomorrow will now be 50%, not 25%, against Canada Canada is among the U.S.’s largest suppliers of steel and aluminum

submitted 37 days ago • 47 comments

Who benefits from this? Other than the windmill-hating gnomes in Trump's head?

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

I wrote about this for my newsletter today: some useful lessons from 18th-century impressment crises on why and how to resist state kidnapping in the 21st century buttondown.com/hsnowcontact...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Full stop

submitted 2 hours ago • 20 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj3p... "Let's talk about..as of March 30th, Trump's golfing has cost us ~$26 MILLION..𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗛𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟰 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆" -Jasmine Crockett

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Make Songs About Layoffs in Allentown Again

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

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Let’s be clear - they’re not just deleting DEI policies and code words, they’re deleting actual people of color and women. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 41 comments

Let Navalny’s fate in one of Putin’s prison camps be a warning. #USDemocracy

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

submitted 3 hours ago • 182 comments

International students in WA sue Trump administration for revoking legal status

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I stand by this tweet from November 2016.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Wisconsin: "An overflow crowd Wednesday night praised commissioners for taking a stance against Trump Administration demands... "Commissioners echoed the defiance of the public saying they will do all legally possible to protect the privacy of employees and residents." www.wemu.org/wemu-news/20...

submitted 4 hours ago • 87 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

“Listen to [Trump's] own words, folks. American citizens being sent, outsourced to foreign prisons to be tortured or, God forbid, even killed with your taxpayer dollars.” @franifio.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social discuss Trump’s plan to send more people to El Salvador.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Gun violence is not inevitable. It’s a policy choice. We’ve passed real reform in MI. Legislation that would require firearms be safely secured so kids can’t get a hold of their parent’s guns. We can do it on the federal level. We just need the will.

submitted 3 hours ago • 31 comments

Yet another, this time more obviously ludicrous, thing in which his brain is permanently frozen in the 1980s.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 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 4 hours ago • 94 comments

Correct. When you've cranked up the blowtorch and applied it to the siding of your house, it's not time to call the fire department. Turn off the blow torch. Trust me. There's an elegant simplicity to my solution.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

NEW: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been gutted -- the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees have been terminated. read more from @makenakelly.bsky.social:

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

"Pro-natalist" Elon Musk returns to the plan to starve millions of babies, after pretending he wouldn't. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

If anyone wants to know what happens next, check out @deborahb.bsky.social's book "The Poison Squad," full of grisly tales of death and illness that led to the founding of the FDA over a century ago. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312067...

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

they want us poor, sick and desperate

submitted 4 hours ago • 571 comments

The Trump administration is persecuting Christians Sending them to their death on Holy week www.christianpost.com/voices/why-i...

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Every Labour leader

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm not sure if Sara Eisen is dense or whatever, but this clip really reflects the extent to which the Trump administration has successfully gotten people to believe their message that "government" is synonymous with "President" while erasing all the other branches, in a very short amount of time.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

As Radley says, every day it's something new w these guys. It can seem such a chaos it's hard to quite make sense of it all. But we can do so by considering a little history. The word President, as the structure of the word implies, was chosen because at the time it meant someone who 'presides'.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

Added layer of absurdity the article mentions: Not only did he not break the law he's charged under, a judge issued an order temporarily blocking enforcement of that law 2 weeks ago! So a man is in jail rn for not actually violating a law thats not actually in effect, i.e. no reason but racism

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

1/ Things are undoubtedly awful, folks. However, this is the first week that we feel like we've seen a spark of contagious courage break out. It's small, to be sure. 🔥

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment