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Raskin: The lowest 100 day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda. He controlled the House, the Senate— he’s got everything going for him and his numbers are in the gutter

Unsurprisingly, President Trump is still far from achieving his promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history." “Their daily average is simply 10 percent lower” than former President Joe Biden’s deportation rate.

You broke it, you bought it. t.co/hHXdks6ejw

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

They didn’t just send Abrego Garcia “back to El Salvador”, they sent him to a fucking torture prison. They didn’t send him “back to where he was from.” They sent him to his death. They cannot prove he was a “terrorist”. They took him by “mistake.” And they do not fucking care.

To everyone who told me to “calm down” in 2016 - The sociopathic sexual predator business fraud felon you put back in the office he tried to steal just stood in the White House & said that he wants to send American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. So, fuck you.

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

Democrats are bashing Trump for sharing market advice with his Truth Social followers hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most of his sweeping tariffs, elevating calls for a ban on congressional stock trading. Rep. Mike Levin questioned on social media, "How is this not market manipulation?"

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.

And then there's this.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is in some ways an unlikely figure to articulate a searing case against President Trump’s agenda. But he’s issuing a stark warning to fellow Republicans that Trump’s tariff policies could lead to a generational political loss for the party.

US appeals court blocks Trump from removing Democrats from labor boards reut.rs/4iZ05jZ

Please enjoy my OOO reply

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸 😕 www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

On April 2nd, 4 US Army Soldiers died in a training accident in Lithuania. 🕊️ The Lithuania Govt. showed more respect than our own govt Staff Sgt. Knutson-Collins, 28, Michigan Sgt. Duenez Jr., 25, Illinois Sgt. Franco, 25, California. Pfc. Taitano, 21, Guam. Much Respect 🙏🏻 🇺🇸 #SheShed

Banger today with @gtconway.bsky.social.

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

“The President’s desires cannot be ignored”

This is a pretty good record, no matter how Trump attempts to twist it. It's especially good considering that Trump's economic efforts preceded it and now trailed it, and look at the chaos he has caused all over the world.

Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too. Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!

This would be entertaining.

There needs to be push back to this right away

So, the guy who was gonna end all wars has bombed Yemen, threatened to bomb Iran, and threatened to invade Greenland. Did I get that right?

This is so powerful. Our traditional partners & allies need to see us protesting this evil regime.

Do it

Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians. It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.

EUROPE REACTS “Vance and his mates clearly aren’t fit to run a group chat, let alone the world’s strongest military force” They “loathe Europe (as they try to extort money out of it)” “It has to make our security services nervous about the intelligence we’re sharing with them” wapo.st/41VIW3e

Circling back on this…

Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

An investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal found that more than 52,000 former police guns resurfaced in crimes between 2006 and 2022. Since then, over a dozen law enforcement agencies have stopped reselling their used guns or reconsidered the practice.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where