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When I met with Mohsen Mahdawi today, we spoke about how appreciative he is to have the support of so many people in Vermont. He said one of the reasons he wanted to become a citizen was because of his belief in American democracy. He hopes that justice will prevail in his case.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 4 hours ago • 143 comments

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

submitted 17 hours ago • 230 comments

From @stuartpstevens.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/to-democra...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Judge Boasberg has found probable cause that the defendants in J.G.G. are in contempt of court for defying his TROs to temporarily stop the AEA Proclamation kidnappings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Allison Riggs, a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, is currently at the center of the nation’s sole uncalled 2024 election. She tells @dgraham.bsky.social that what is happening to her “is a real attack at the fundamentals of democracy”:

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 7 days ago • 226 comments

There should be an elected Democrat on the ground in El Salvador every minute of every day until Abrego Garcia is brought home. D's should do the work the DoJ is refusing to do. They should harass Bukele's govt, demanding answers and sending... www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-...

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 7 days ago • 673 comments

Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.

submitted 7 days ago • 428 comments

Donald Trump sent a clear message last week: You can engage in violence, vandalism, you name it. As long as it's done on his behalf, you'll get off scot-free. So much for law and order.

submitted 7 days ago • 120 comments

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

submitted 7 days ago • 925 comments

"This matter is no longer just about deportations or undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration's defiance of a Supreme Court order is a new step into presidential lawlessness," writes Adam Serwer:

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

submitted 7 days ago • 130 comments

Senators Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego have asked for "an urgent inquiry" into whether President Trump or others engaged in insider trading on advanced knowledge of his tariff policy changes.

submitted 11 days ago • 133 comments

NEW: Sen Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) requests "an accounting of which White House or Trump administration officials were part of the deliberations on the change in policy or announcement, and whether those individuals made stock transactions or communicated with financial proxies ahead of the announcement"

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

Every person working at UPenn just had their security clearance suspended, apparently. Mad king behavior.

submitted 12 days ago • 87 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 12 days ago • 313 comments

US farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump trade war. They don't deserve another bailout and should not get one

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments

WITAOD WATCH: “Amy Gleason, acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, denied responsibility for widespread government layoffs in a message to industry colleagues obtained by the Chronicle.” www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 15 days ago • 408 comments

WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)

submitted 16 days ago • 483 comments

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 17 days ago • 269 comments

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

submitted 20 days ago • 672 comments

Crawford: I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.

submitted 20 days ago • 136 comments

Elon Musk seeing Wisconsin:

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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 472 comments

Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037

submitted 25 days ago • 544 comments

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

The Atlantic and @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social are committing journalism today. They have a vetted mega-scoop. They handled it responsibly. The WH and Admin lied about it. The Atlantic called their bluff. The material released just now is even more damning for the Trump team.

submitted 26 days ago • 241 comments

Wow- Himes during a heated exchange w/Will Cain on Fox: "I'm not gonna listen to to you tell me that this about a partisan advantage...it is by the grace of God that we don't have dead pilots right now...it makes me want to throw up to hear you turn this into a partisan issue. You just need to stop"

submitted 27 days ago • 1915 comments

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 27 days ago • 1063 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 27 days ago • 5500 comments

Yes. Let's fucking go. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 28 days ago • 168 comments

The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

submitted 28 days ago • 72 comments

If you want to work for a law firm that will never bow down to Trump or stay silent when he attacks the legal system, we are hiring. www.elias.law/careers

submitted 29 days ago • 125 comments

Weingarten: If you think this is unprecedented. You’re not crazy. It is. It is. We have never faced the kind of assault on people that has happened in the last 60 plus days.

submitted 30 days ago • 185 comments

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

submitted 35 days ago • 133 comments

Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed

submitted 36 days ago • 203 comments

I just asked my good Senator, once again, to chuck Chuck and pick a new Minority Leader. I invite you to do the same.

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

Had strong sense at least the timing of Trump's illegal shuttering of Voice of America was triggered by his annoyance at a question from a VOA journo. Source flags to me that the EO was so hastily put together they literally forgot to complete the last sentence. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 37 days ago • 116 comments

Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.

submitted 37 days ago • 596 comments

Trump admin moves to deport a legal immigrant on a valid visa. Judge orders them not to. Trump does it anyway. So what’s the remedy here? www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

submitted 37 days ago • 130 comments

My message to Chuck Schumer open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...

submitted 37 days ago • 336 comments