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URGENT: This is not a crime A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997... PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 8 days ago • 8506 comments

Tonight! Senator Chris Van Hollen will be Rachel’s guest live from El Salvador. 9pmET on MSNBC

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

!!! The NC Board of Elections reveals that EVEN IF it throws out all the votes contested by Jefferson Griffin and the state Supreme Court, Justice Allison Riggs is STILL on track to narrowly win the race. HUGE news from @bryanranderson.bsky.social: andersonalerts.substack.com/p/riggs-supr...

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

When you accept that politics is a game with real life consequence then there should be no other choice but to vote for harm reduction. This is why Black voters get it right most of the time. The gift of discernment is often overruled by bigotry and thats how you end up with idiots like Trump.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Do you know how contemptible, fascistic and without regard for basic human rights you have to be for Justices Alito and Thomas to join with their seven colleagues in ordering redress? We do now.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

I feel like tomorrow is going to be a bad day so let me just go ahead and say this right now so that everybody can be mad that's going to be mad

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

This thread!!

submitted 20 days ago • 164 comments

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

submitted 20 days ago • 915 comments

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.

submitted 22 days ago • 1057 comments

A great night for Democrats: 1. Susan Crawford beats Schimel/Musk/Trump is Wisconsin and appears to be on track for a landslide. 2. Cory Booker delivers historic motivation. 3. +17 swing toward Dems in FL-01 from November 4. +19 swing toward Dems in FL-06 from November Damn good night for Dems.

submitted 24 days ago • 44 comments

YES!!!! ❤️💙❤️💙❤️

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I know folks are disappointed about Josh Weil losing this special House election in Florida, but let the big picture give you optimism: Republicans won this seat by +33 points just five months ago. We're likely looking at a +20 point swing in support toward Democrats. This is enormous. This is GOOD.

submitted 24 days ago • 63 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 24 days ago • 196 comments

Strom Thurmond's record is 24 hours and 18 minutes which was done against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & in defense of segregation. Cory Booker, a Black senator from Jersey, breaking his record to speak out against a white supremacist President would be poetic justice.

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 26 days ago • 7400 comments

BOOM! Two big wins for Democrats in Pennsylvania special elections per @votehub.com: HD 35: 🔵 Dan Goughnour (D): 63.4% 🔴 Charles Davis (R): 35.0% 13 point overperformance for Dems from 2024 SD 36: 🔵 James Malone (D): 50.0% 🔴 Josh Parsons (R): 49.1% 16 point overperformance for Dems from 2024

submitted 31 days ago • 203 comments

That's not how States Secret privilege works at all (and I've litigated several). Executive Branch does not get to shut down judiciary inquiry. Quite the opposite, per Supreme Court. Trump Administration is proceeding at its own peril.

submitted 32 days ago • 63 comments

After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. Trump wants to boil the frog... ...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

submitted 36 days ago • 472 comments

In a stunning legal rebuke, a federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk and officials from the Department of Government Efficiency must reinstate nearly all functions of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

submitted 39 days ago • 650 comments

Take a moment to read the goodbye letter from @team18f.bsky.social. Before they were fired by M*sk, they were working to make the govt work for YOU by "improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport..., supporting free tax filing with the IRS" 18f.org

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

This weekend, I published an article about how the right wing bullshit machine works (in large part due to participatory dynamics that integrate the collaborative work of online audience). If anyone wants to see that BS machine in action, just check the comments: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/to-u...

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

As to Donald Trump’s foreign policy, this is it. This is the shibboleth. If you understand where the Trump Doctrine comes from, you understand exactly what is happening right now and why. Every American should read this, and so should every European diplomat. From a bestselling Trump biographer:

submitted 57 days ago • 127 comments

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

submitted 58 days ago • 749 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 59 days ago • 1218 comments

Terrific, accessible thread on the budget process and points of potential intervention.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: An oligarch is taking a chainsaw to the federal government, firing thousands of civil servants every day, shutting down agencies, blocking funds for cancer research, stealing your medicaid and social security... ...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.

submitted 60 days ago • 148 comments

The City of Coeur d'Alene has revoked the business license of Lear Asset Management, the security goons who dragged a woman out of a town hall with lawmakers over the weekend.

submitted 60 days ago • 84 comments

Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

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A brief timeline of the 5 bullets email: Saturday: -Musk tweets about it -OPM sends it to all feds -Panic/chaos ensue Sunday: -Agencies scramble to verify, start sending conflicting advice Monday: -Most agencies told to respond -Later guidance is revised—response voluntary, jobs not threatened

submitted 61 days ago • 62 comments

If all that McDonalds and Ketamine could hurry it up a little bit, we'd be forever grateful.

submitted 61 days ago • 312 comments

Dear manager: This week, 1. I put my left foot in 2 I took my left foot out 3. I put my left foot in and 4. I shook it all about. 5. I did the Hokey Pokey. That’s what it’s all about.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

German elections, summarized: Vance and Musk cheered on the Nazis, that didn't move the needle a bit, Trump praised the winning center-right conservative party and tried to take credit, the new conservative German chancellor dunked on Trump and compared the United States to Russia. Great job, MAGA.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Apropos of nothing: I’m genuinely not surprised at all that so many evil people turn out to be actually fucking stupid, because being evil has always been the easier option.

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submitted 62 days ago • 638 comments

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

submitted 62 days ago • 370 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 62 days ago • 619 comments

🚨 JUST IN: Canada DEFEATS the USA 3-2 to take home the #4Nations Championship

submitted 64 days ago • 1343 comments

Trump, Musk and their band of tech bros are like vampires. They are sucking the lifeblood out of the U.S. and brick-by-brick dismantling our institutions and norms. The very institutions who made us the most powerful and productive country in the world. Every morning I wake up to more destruction.

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 65 days ago • 1106 comments

🚨BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses lower court decision and DISMISSES voter suppression lawsuit. A big victory for our clients the WI Alliance for Retired Americans and voting rights in Wisconsin. Another stinging loss for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

submitted 67 days ago • 997 comments

Unfortunately, institutional & individualized racism will never be eradicated, especially not in the U.S., a nation founded on the savage institution of slavery; the effects of the climate crisis will render Earth uninhabitable way sooner than the time it would take white people to dismantle racism.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: A blockbuster ruling in Wisconsin hands vote suppressors a big loss. A victory for voting rights! Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXur...

submitted 66 days ago • 372 comments