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Churches across the U.S. marked the 250th anniversary of the start of the American revolution by ringing bells this evening. On Saturday, Americans at over 1000 rallies will make clear that they haven't changed their mind about kings.

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Mark Paoletta is the guy at the center of the Harlan Crow painting with Clarence Thomas, sitting on the pedestal of the weird Native American statue.

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In any other time in American history, 1/10th of this scandal would be the end of a presidency. But this is just like a day that ends in Y. This is our life now.

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“If you had assumed we were incompetent, you wouldn’t be in this mess”

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Nothing to see here, move along: wapo.st/4jEmUJI

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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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when she was florida’s atty general, trump “donated” $25k to her campaign and she suddenly dropped a fraud case against trump university. someone check her price tag for this and we’ll scape it together.

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

Pam Bondi on Fox claims Riley Gaines "made it to the Olympics" (Riley Gaines never made it to the Olympics.)

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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.

submitted 9 days ago • 1853 comments

So proud that this is one of my Senators. Use what power you have. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Ed Martin cannot be confirmed.

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Biden laid into the GOP, saying they are “willing to hurt the middle class, and the working class, in order to deliver significant greater wealth to the already very wealthy. Who in the hell do they think they are?” More here:

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One of the most anti-democratic countries in Europe is a friend to US. Very revealing.

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This bill disenfranchises a whole lot of women, but it disproportionately disenfranchises Republican women. Married women lean Republican. Married women who change their names definitely lean Republican. Seems a little self-defeating.

submitted 14 days ago • 85 comments

My latest on Substack: Republicans just want to believe in their Wizard... www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-...

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Trump took his tariff insider trading scheme to Congress and made Marjorie Taylor Greene an offer she couldn’t refuse. MTG is now a gleeful participant in Trump’s crime spree.

submitted 15 days ago • 107 comments

Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady scheme involving tariff maneuvers. He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…

submitted 14 days ago • 71 comments

Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?

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When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

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the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

submitted 15 days ago • 281 comments

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

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••••••••BREAKING•••••••• SOCIAL SECURITY UPDATES Public outrage and demands by lawmakers seem to have resulted in telephone access to Social Security services being restored. An internal memo reveals the Trump regime and DOGE have suddenly ditched their plans to force people awarded retirement,…

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“So, back to where it always was,” said one Indiana field office employee. “What a waste of our time.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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If you don't follow this stuff: The WH pool ensures that there is always a reporter covering the president and filing concise, factual information on what he's saying and doing. This chips away at that. I hope someone (WHCA?) is holding onto the reports and can pub them elsewhere.

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What the hell has Donald Trump been up to? Yet more corruption, no doubt. Senator Adam Schiff is demanding a congressional investigation into the distinct possibility that Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused his sweeping tariffs — a move that sent…

submitted 15 days ago • 151 comments

"Foreign agent disclosures already down more than 30% After the Trump administration said it won't make enforcing the law a priority, the results are coming in" Ben Freeman and Nick Cleveland-Stout for Responsible Statecraft

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Trump’s direction to DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor because he doesn’t like what they said is an unprecedented abuse of power by a President of the United States. I call on all Congressional Republicans to condemn this egregious weaponization of the government.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE goons have been busy crashing the Social Security Administration website. Even more disturbing, the crashes have been occurring for weeks — as DOGE demands cuts to the IT staff responsible for the SSA website. The ever-worsening problems can be traced directly to…

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Never forget Trump pardoned 1,500 convicted Jan 6 insurrectionists, many sentenced to long prison terms. They attacked police officers. People died. Trump is NOT the law and order president. He’s a criminal too #Voices4Victory m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ry...

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Sanders: We look to these law firms who have hundreds of well-paid lawyers to defend the constitution, to defend the rule of law. They were more interested in getting millions of dollars from their lobbying.. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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“Women are regularly being killed by abortion bans.” Why won’t media report that? A new study of pulmonary and critical care outcomes proves that women are suffering and dying because of Republican abortion bans. Republicans are killing women. It’s #femicide. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

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Fun fact: Of the ten largest single-day point drops in Dow Jones history, Donald Trump was president for nine of them.

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I was on with @nicollewallace.bsky.social today when news broke that Trump was targeting Kris Krebs for investigation simply for saying the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. It’s insane.

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House Republicans just postponed a vote on Trump's budget plan after facing opposition from Republican members.

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The GOP Tax Scam takes food out of the mouths of children to reward their billionaire donors like Elon Musk. Democrats will strongly oppose this reckless budget. And we can defeat it tomorrow on the House floor if just four Republicans join us.

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Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said, putting Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past in jeopardy and further undermining their trust in facts

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This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

submitted 20 days ago • 61 comments

Sen Warner condemns Trump’s extension of TikTok deadline in violation of federal law. National security should not be “tradable.” Risk of going dark was part of Congress’s strategy to pressure a sale.

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

This was prevented by the post-Watergate legislation: lobbying, campaign finance, foreign interference, the budget. On the watchtowers, we fell asleep. The lawyers and lobbyists burrowed and darted from shadow to shadow. The rich man's money won out. Every reform was undermined or gone.

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Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.

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Update: President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the number of Russian air attacks on Ukraine has increased, demonstrating a lack of international pressure on Moscow.

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•••••••BREAKING.••••••• The measles outbreak in western Texas has hit 481 cases, with 59 new infections confirmed in just the last 3 days. In Texas alone, at least 56 measles patients — mostly children — have been hospitalized thus far. Based upon the steady, often rapid increase in the number..

submitted 20 days ago • 118 comments

A drug smuggler whose prison sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child.

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Republicans have completely abandoned veterans. Total abandonment. Do not let them ever claim to be patriots again. www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...

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With TikTok, Trump is brazenly usurping the power of Congress to make and amend federal laws. That’s the Article I power. He heads up Article II. But who cares about the Constitution of the United States? Certainly not Donald J. Trump. He told us he’d trash the Constitution if he chose to.

submitted 21 days ago • 68 comments

Not sure what's worse, the reporter asking a softball "do you want to weigh in on that" [Signalgate] or the reporter immediately moving onto another topic when Trump demands, like a little baby, that she doesn't "bring that up again". Our media is failing us. Again. zeteo.com/subscribe

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