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The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 594 comments

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

submitted 9 days ago • 3103 comments

what if Biden - who is actually Catholic - had done this? Or any politician anywhere on the planet, for that matter, while the church is still in mourning for the late Pope

submitted 10 days ago • 201 comments

This week was definitive proof that pushback works, just like it did during the first trump administration. You may think “resistance” is cringe but it WORKED.

submitted 23 days ago • 115 comments

Thanks to @meidastouch.bsky.social for sharing stories of the resistance on both sides of the border. #elbowsup

submitted 24 days ago • 411 comments

The President of the United States fears only those who do not fear him.

submitted 25 days ago • 419 comments

Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 25 days ago • 337 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 28 days ago • 1267 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 1199 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 28 days ago • 717 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 28 days ago • 670 comments

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

submitted 30 days ago • 1103 comments

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

submitted 32 days ago • 1879 comments

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

submitted 33 days ago • 606 comments

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

submitted 35 days ago • 2809 comments

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...

submitted 36 days ago • 465 comments

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

submitted 36 days ago • 2357 comments

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

submitted 36 days ago • 1723 comments

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

submitted 36 days ago • 101 comments

How is this real?

submitted 38 days ago • 199 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 427 comments

Congress (this weekend) could cancel Trump’s tariffs which are clearly destroying the USA’s (nay, the World’s) economy. It only takes a veto proof resolution by the House and Senate:

submitted 38 days ago • 22 comments

TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

submitted 39 days ago • 1221 comments

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

submitted 45 days ago • 861 comments

🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”: Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!

submitted 47 days ago • 207 comments

Marco Rubio has become the Fidel Castro of the U.S. - snatching people, spewing lies, etc.

submitted 46 days ago • 161 comments

Yesterday, more than 1,000 lawyers and legal groups signed a letter calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to defend the Federal Judiciary, the Rule of Law, and the legal profession from the President’s vicious and palpably unconstitutional attacks.

submitted 46 days ago • 351 comments

Oligarchs buying elections with million dollar giveaways. Hopefully people in Wisconsin won’t allow the South African to purchase a seat on your Supreme Court just like he bought the US federal government.

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Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz are responsible for an egregious mishandling of classified information that put our troops in danger — and they've refused to acknowledge the gravity of this breach. They need to be fired or do the right thing and resign. Now.

submitted 47 days ago • 86 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 48 days ago • 691 comments

Here’s the thing: It was a major league fuck up. And it’s a major league fuck up that involves national security and the safety of our service members. And it’s a major league fuck up that the American people understand. And don’t like.

submitted 48 days ago • 73 comments

This must go VIRAL! Start now!!!

submitted 48 days ago • 44 comments

I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.

submitted 55 days ago • 191 comments

I’m with Marc Elias

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Prime Minister Mark Carney is asked to respond to Marco Rubio suggesting today that Canada join the United States: "It's crazy. His point is crazy. That's it."

submitted 60 days ago • 273 comments

We won’t take an oath to any king or dictator

submitted 60 days ago • 84 comments

I've been at DOJ for so many important speeches & presentations. Today, my heart is filled with sadness for my former colleagues & our country as a convicted felon who doesn't understand justice or the meaning of the rule of law & why both are essential to our democracy stands there.

submitted 60 days ago • 485 comments

Go ahead and stay silent. Let fear rule you. Watch injustice happen. Just don’t act like you did not know and accept that you are the latest in a long line of cowards who learned nothing from the past. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

submitted 61 days ago • 506 comments

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 61 days ago • 1538 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.

submitted 63 days ago • 176 comments

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 62 days ago • 1282 comments

I have talked to veterans all over the country. They’re not happy that, when the VA is already understaffed, Musk wants to dismember the VA by laying off 83,000 employees. A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.

submitted 67 days ago • 180 comments

Slotkin: While we are on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who's comfortable with him and his gang using his own computer servers to poke to your tax returns, your health information, your bank accounts?

submitted 69 days ago • 280 comments

“From its start, the list has been full of errors: claims that confused billions with millions, triple-counted the same cancellation, or claimed credit for contracts that had ended years or even decades before.” . . . But who’s counting? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

submitted 70 days ago • 72 comments

Having a hard time understanding why Elon Musk thinks its a good odea to degrade NOAA’s ability to give us lifesaving early warnings for Hurricanes & Tornadoes. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

submitted 70 days ago • 696 comments

Last week’s staged disrespect of Zelenskyy was a pretext for Donald Trump’s effort to appease Vladimir Putin. Abandoning allies, bowing down to dictators, and putting democracy at risk – all to what end? This isn’t leadership, this is cowardice.

submitted 70 days ago • 218 comments

Don’t overthink it. The President of the United States stands with Putin. He always has. And bcuz he’s the leader of 1 of America’s political parties, and bcuz he’s turned that political party into a cult, that entire American political party now stands with Putin and stands against the free world.

submitted 71 days ago • 63 comments

submitted 71 days ago • 1588 comments

Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world.

submitted 72 days ago • 397 comments