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Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.

submitted 8 hours ago • 797 comments

@mtkonczal.bsky.social:

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Y’all know what to do

submitted 8 hours ago • 290 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 19 hours ago • 498 comments

it is not too early to start the impeachment process!! stock market goes down a few more points and maybe????

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

this was extremely foreseeable. not the specifics, but wtf did he think would happen when this batshit crazy old lunatic was elected the most powerful person in the world? that it would go well?

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we were most definitely better off 5 months ago

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We’re launching a new DNC War Room. We are going to compete in every information space and put Trump and the Republicans on the defense every day. At this very moment, Trump is actively wrecking our country. He can’t go unchallenged.

submitted 9 hours ago • 215 comments

This is their crash. This is on them, too.

submitted 10 hours ago • 61 comments

You wouldn't know it from the front pages of NYT or the Post, but a stunning 3-to-5.2 million Americans took to the streets Saturday with a simple message: "No King" Congress passed the law that enabled a dictator, and Congress can stop the madness. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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If I weren't American I wouldn't let my kids travel here

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The new Presidential advisor everyone

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

every ceo that publicly backed trump should be fired today for being a goddam idiot that willfully and actively advocated for destroying their own business

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

TODAY IS THE DAY. Welcome to the #citizensimpeachment kickoff folks, we send our letters at exactly 10:30am ET this morning. Remember to cc or bcc us per the instructions, otherwise we won't be able to see what was sent to who. Reps have one day to comment. It's gonna be a lot of emails.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

"Turning a political event into a personalized social movement that engages people emotionally as well as intellectually is key to any effort to oust autocrats."

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We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.

submitted 13 hours ago • 317 comments

The people protesting this weekend were the people who cared about more than just the price of eggs. The people who were ostensibly motivated by “economic anxiety” have been utterly silent about economic implosion. Is it possible that economics was NEVER the reason they voted for that asshole? 🫢

submitted 13 hours ago • 187 comments

Everybody stop panicking and put your faith in the insane 80 year old criminal and the team of simpering sycophants he's surrounded himself with

submitted 20 hours ago • 129 comments

Proud to be a New Yorker (except the whole Eric Adams thing)

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Wait what Congress has the power to stop this lunacy?

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The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.

submitted 1 day ago • 1061 comments

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1641 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1070 comments

🚨 Hey, North Carolina! Please search this list to see if you - or others you know - have been singled out by Jefferson Griffin. If you're one of the 60,000+ voters on this list, please TAKE ACTION. Call your county BOE ASAP! Then tell Griffin to shove it! #RiggsWon thegriffinlist.com#search-line

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

If only he had committed a novel-length list impeachable offenses we’d have a path out of this madness

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Correct. NIH, and the cancer and other medical cures it generates, is being burned to the ground. And we’d add: with that goes the whole US tech and biotech economy. Silicon Valley is in the US not elsewhere because of NSF, ARPA, NIH. That word isn’t getting out widely.

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“Photos taken by Time magazine photographer Philip Holsinger show Hernandez Romero at CECOT. Holsinger said he heard a young man say, ‘I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a stylist.’ The young man cried for his mother as he was slapped and had his head shaved, Holsinger said.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 23 hours ago • 838 comments

It's critical for people to be active, getting organized at the state level not just in conventional political ways but also to operate within and buttress their state govts for Trump's coming onslaught talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-a...

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Congress can stop this. WHY AREN'T THEY STOPPING THIS??!!

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Spread the word about the Ulines! refuseuline.com

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Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

submitted 21 hours ago • 114 comments

I'm about sick of these tech weirdos who invented a database that interfaces with your bank account acting like they are humanity-saving supergeniuses

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Swalwell: This is what kicking the shit out of fascism looks like

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The ironic thing is that competent dictatorships can host international events because they can decide to leave those visitors alone, and it will happen. And liberal democracies can host these events. But it may be hard for an incompetent, chaotic, authoritarian regime like Trump's to do so.

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“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

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💯

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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

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