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Retired Army Intel guy. Reader, writer, music collector, sewist. FFRF & IWW member. Esperantisto. Я тоже говорю по-русски.
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"Can you imagine if a President started arresting Judges? Can you imagine if a President refused to obey orders from the Supreme Court? If that ever happened, America would become a Dictatorship overnight. There would be no dawn, only silence." - Barack Obama, 2011

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President Trump is looking for a scapegoat for the higher costs and economic damage caused by his tariff taxes. Blaming Fed Chair Powell and politicizing a critical independent institution to deflect blame is dangerous—and the American people deserve better.

I’m glad SCOTUS stepped in & stopped that plane from taking off. Deporting folks with no record & no due process isn’t justice—it’s cruelty. Meanwhile, the Republicans follow a convicted felon like he’s the Second Coming. You can’t scream “law & order” while breaking the law at every turn.

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

📌I miss the days three months ago when we had the strongest economy in the world and murderous dictators were our enemies ...

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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

Other people have already said this, but the next step is for courts to enjoin the admin from sending any more detainees abroad. There is no “oopsie we can’t” response for that. I’m not sure anyone in particular can be held in contempt in the current impasse, but that would be good too.

Call your governor -- tell them to use state police to stop ICE from detaining people without a warrant. No warrant = kidnapping. This is a fundamental 4th amendment issue.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

No administration in American history, not Jackson w/ Indian removal, not Lincoln in Merryman, not FDR over the New Deal, not Truman in Youngstown, not Nixon over the tapes, not Bush with Guantanamo, has openly defied a court order like this, much less one unanimously endorsed by the Supreme Court.

11 billion in cuts to all levels of medical research. RFK Jr. says he is not familiar with those cuts, stating they are all DEI cuts, but HE didn't fire over 10,000 health employees. SO, are they DEI cuts or don't you know? And who fired them if you didn't?These idiots have no idea what is happening

MTG Caught. AOC Renews Call to Ban Members’ Trades

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

My latest: MTG Caught “Buying The Dip” as AOC @aoc.bsky.social Renews Call to Ban Members’ Trades

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

So, is the mainstream media really just done talking about that time our Secretary of Defense drunk texted war plans to a journalist?

This isn’t a trade war against China and the rest of the world. It’s an economic war against working class America.

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

Trump is trying to strip 1 million federal workers of the right to unionize, arguing that unions are threats to national security. All the while his national security adviser is discussing war crimes in a nonsecure Signal chat and uses his personal email to conduct his work.

This is the honor and respect that Lithuania’s highest ranking officials and citizens presented American fallen soldiers while their Commander-in-Chief played golf instead.