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Trump's rambling press conference with workers standing around him is producing some great looks on their faces. They get it.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Understand this: Trump’s attacks on the NIH aren’t just hurting NIH workers and its HQ in Maryland — they’re grinding lifesaving medical research to a halt nationwide. We cannot let them get away with this assault on public health.

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Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 1 day ago • 253 comments

What an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net -- here's a gift link so you can read it without the paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

They’re not even bothering with the fake ICE costumes anymore. This should feel unacceptable to every single person in America.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This is the energy we need. Thank you Senator Duckworth. @duckworth.senate.gov

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Hard to believe this isn’t already the law.

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

National Guard Will Remain in L.A. Until a Legal Challenge Is Heard Judge Charles Breyer ordered the administration to return control of the National Guard to the California governor, but an appeals court stayed the extraordinary decision Thursday night. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Bukele and Trump are complicit in an illegal scheme to use US taxpayer dollars to ship people to El Salvador in violation of their constitutional rights. Today we introduced sanctions against the Bukele regime to fight this cash-for-collusion deal & assault on our Constitution:

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

DOJ lawyer called failure to comply with statute requiring activation of National Guard “through” the governor a “foot fault.” Cringe. I’d call that argument an unforced error. No surprise the judge ended up waving around a pocket copy of the Constitution. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

submitted 6 days ago • 1269 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 6 days ago • 811 comments

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.

submitted 6 days ago • 986 comments

House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

submitted 6 days ago • 1582 comments

ICYMI: Federal judge GRANTS California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov’s Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, telling Trump he ILLEGALLY deployed the California National Guard to LA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

Read these words from Senator Murray, who has said it so well tonight. We’re in danger of losing democracy. Don’t ignore what’s happening. joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-a-d...

submitted 6 days ago • 255 comments

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp.

submitted 6 days ago • 231 comments

Senator Murray didn't say "misrepresentation of the facts". She said LIE!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Put this on a billboard.

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

The Israelis are calling this a "preemptive" strike. Whether you agree or disagree with this attack, these are not - from what we know tonight - "preemptive" strikes. The Israelis are using that word for a reason. Read on. /1

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

1/ In the middle of everything today, a little good news: a fed'l judge has ruled that challenged parts of Trump's executive order on voting are invalid. It would have required, among other things, proof of citizenship before people could register to vote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

I predict Texas will welcome this robotaxi functionality, even though it's less efficient than use of automatic weapons in school shootings.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?

submitted 6 days ago • 219 comments

Tomorrow, we will be demonstrating across this country against our wannabe king and his decision to destroy the constitutional rights that Americans fought long and hard to secure. We will show solidarity — and we will do it peacefully. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrow-is-no-kings-day

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

I get that these guys have no shame, but that doesn’t mean we should give them a pass for it. Shame on Johnson and shame on the Republican Party that won’t call this out even though they know it’s wrong.

submitted 6 days ago • 199 comments

Judge Breyer found not only that Trump Admin failed to follow lawful procedure in activating National Guard in LA, but also failed to show a “rebellion” or inability to execute federal law. In other words, as I read it, order was based on a pretext. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.

submitted 6 days ago • 209 comments

The Netanyahu government’s decision to attack Iran only makes a very dangerous situation worse. Instead of bringing wars to an end, Trump is facilitating them — leading to civilian deaths and threatening American lives. This is a moment that requires real American leadership.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

👇👇👇

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

Another disturbing episode with this arrest at a time when Jewish people in MoCo and across America have been subjected to antisemitic attacks and vitriol. Grateful to the MoCo police who quickly apprehended the suspect and kept the students safe.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 5 days ago • 398 comments

"Interest has dramatically picked up in recent days. Sign-ups surpassed 5,000 — the capacity for the plaza where the rally is scheduled — and organizers are working with law enforcement to potentially close roads to ensure the safety of a larger crowd..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯

submitted 6 days ago • 367 comments

My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

WTF? Trump is now threatening the American people. He warned protesters to stay away from his birthday/military parade in D.C. this Saturday, claiming anyone who shows up to protest “hates our country” and will be met with “very heavy force.” This is authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

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The Trump admin has illegally fired THOUSANDS of federal employees who work every day to deliver for the American people. People like Keri in MD — whose work promoted US manufacturing & jobs, until she was fired. I shared her story in a hearing with Sec. Lutnick this morning:

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Republicans like to call their legislation a “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Today the nonpartisan CBO showed us the truth: their bill would kick almost 11 million people off their health insurance & balloon the deficit by $2.4T. That’s not “beautiful”—it’s the Great Betrayal in action.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: In the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, Judge Xinis grants the plaintiff’s request to file a motion for sanctions. Motion due June 11.

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments