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I'm struggling to get over what we saw today. The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office. That's traumatizing.

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what a day

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Fuck Donald Trump Fuck JD Vance Fuck Marco Rubio Fuck Lindsey Graham Fuck ALL the spineless, hypocritical, lying, worthless, traitorous Republican bastards.

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100%! I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦💪 … oh, and tRUMP… GFY🖕

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Damn straight!

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Democracies stand with Ukraine.

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Make it so!

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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holy shit this is WILD

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Back sliding into fascism just 80 years after World War II is like failing an open book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being read out loud over a loudspeaker l

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If you haven’t seen this yet, please do. Because this morning something awesome happened that I’m going to say more about soon…. Hint: Georgia…. Town hall. It’s happening…. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

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How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

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The leopards are eating faces, and people who were only told by everyone alive on Earth that that would happen are steamed about it They were railroaded! Yes—everyone on Earth told them this would happen—but what about all the people on Mars, Venus and Proxima Centuri! Why did they hide the truth!

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An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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We are still going to need big men (and women) with badges and guns to hold them accountable. Talk ain't getting it done.

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The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy has removed all web pages highlighting women’s military service. Army and navy veterans Sound off. Now this photo is my mother, who is a navy veteran 22 years in us Navy #WomeninTheMilitary🇺🇸💪 #Demcast #Proudblue #StandWithwithWomenIntheMilitary #Resistancemilitary

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"Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect." --SCOTUS (1975)

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“The Special Counsel may be removed from that term ‘by the President only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office’…The constitutionality of that protection is dictated by nearly a century of binding Supreme Court precedent upholding materially identical restrictions.”

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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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Sens. Schumer and Peters have just launched an online portal for whistleblowers to submit complaints in an effort to oversee the Trump administration: www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

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The Resistance is Here open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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Pandemics do not begin with official announcements. They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern." Pay attention.

submitted 23 days ago • 291 comments

Rump’s plans for a new air traffic control system. He can’t even change his own diaper. This is a disaster, waiting to happen tinyurl.com/34fk4xc9

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Is it wrong for me to laugh at my own tweets? 😎

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Our office is receiving thousands of calls from concerned Californians. Keep 'em coming. Senate phones are having tech issues, so we're working to resolve the "voicemail full" note that you may be hearing. You can also reach us anytime at ➡️ schiff.senate.gov/contact/

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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

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A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.

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I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

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A new Congressional Research Service report says plainly that "the president does not have the authority to abolish [USAID]; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID." punchbowl.news/in12500/

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The Alliance for Retired Americans filed a lawsuit against Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary for disclosing information and treasury data to DOGE. A hearing on the restraining order is at 3:00. 🍿

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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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At what point does the military step in? Isn’t that what often happens in dictatorships where the dictator goes insane? Isn’t the US military supposed to have a plan for everything?

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Rumors are flying that Musk and his DOGE dickheads have appeared at the Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in DC. They are about to fuck 16 million veterans.

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Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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202-224-3121 Call this number, follow the prompts that apply to you and simply say you want Musk removed, stopped, detained, etc. It takes literally 2 minutes. Flood the phones now.

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🤬🖕

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Great tool to track Legal Challenges to Trump Admin Actions! www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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Amen!

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Still searching myself…

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Pay attention Don't distract from this....

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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass