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Buddhists stole my clarinet!
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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

1/ From a friend in Pennsylvania “This is what democracy looks like, this is what the state of US democracy looks like. Our two senators, U.S. Senator John Fetterman and Senator Dave McCormick, have been refusing to host in-person town halls so constituents are organizing "empty seat town halls”.

Elizabeth Warren on CNBC explains why Trump illegally firing Jerome Powell would wreck the economy and take the US down a fast track toward dictatorship

1/ “Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program”

1/ Musk/Trump /Republicans ARE the deep state, controlled by billionaires

Man whose tax exempt charity was shut down for embezzlement says what now?

How in the fuck do we live in a world where so many Americans care deeply about the Constitutional amendments which promise them the right to bear arms but not at all about the Constitutional amendments which promise them the right to due process under the law? #NewsCorpse

Such a surprise…

For two people. Yes...they are threatening an entire state because they refuse to discriminate against two kids. That's the fucked up place we are at.

If what the capitulating law firms told the NY Times is correct, then they are the most incompetent lawyers in America. It isn't possible that they thought that they made a deal with Donald Trump and he was getting nothing and it would not come back to bite them.

AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now. We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done. We will rally every corner of the U.S. We will not stop until they actually vote no.

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

👇🏼

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

Put a hold on all of them.

“A 64-page HHS restructuring proposal outlines sweeping cuts to US public health.” Here it is in its entirety thanks to Inside Health.

IN EL SALVADOR: Senator Van Hollen says Trump is in violation of court orders — and is paying El Salvador to imprison an innocent man. (And #KilmarÁbregoGarcía is not the only one)

Absolutely totalitarian idea. “Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, openly says that all government data should be given over for AI training & mass state surveillance.”

America, the unhealthy

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?

Trump and Republicans. Making America increasingly less safe, one day after another.

Thank you, Senator Von Hollen

Democrats. Either more of this. Or support those who are doing things.

Both sad and angering.

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

#PamBondi refuses to show any actual evidence against #KilmarAbregoGarcia—just repeats he’s “illegal” and insists he’s not coming back. When pressed, she offers court transcripts, not proof. This isn’t justice—it’s propaganda. They’re hiding the truth because it would blow up their lies.

Because she’s doing something to fight against the oncoming dictatorship.

Sanders: I come from the state of Vermont and I am here Bakersfield. Alexandria comes from New York and she is here in Bakersfield. Mr. Congressman, you live in this district, why don’t you show up…

@oliviaoftroye.com on Substack 1/ “I worry we’ll see more of this—additional executive orders, expanded “investigations,” and increasingly chilling attempts to silence truth-tellers. And the broader danger is that we normalize it. That Americans become numb to the erosion of accountability.”

I understand what Judge Xinis is doing. She is building a factual record so that that record will be crystal clear when this case gets back to the Supreme Court. But I also know it is taking too long. Two weeks is too long. Keep in mind Bukele will just kill Garcia at the last moment if he has to.

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

The Senator will be my guest tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

Yes. Churches first, please