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That which does not kill me makes me stranger. (Not a typo. 😊) Lifelong Democrat. Facts matter.
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Imagine the chaos if Putin had warned New York City to immediately evacuate at 3 a.m.

The 25th Amendment exists.

After his wrongful arrest by ICE, @bradlander.bsky.social is free and speaking with supporters at Foley Square.

Mike and these extremist right Christians clamoring to obliterate Iran want to start a middle east war to jump start the Rapture. That's their goal. It's fucking insane.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says “the charges have been dropped” against Brad Lander.

One of Kristi Noem's now innumerable violations of federal law. Indeed, when members of Congress come to these facilities, they are pushed, shoved, assaulted and arrested by Noem's employees, with her blessing.

Today, Joe and Jill Biden celebrate 48 years of marriage! 💙 Still going strong — such a sweet and loving couple. 🥰✨

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

And THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why it is utter madness to put religious zealots in government positions.

Trump's biographer has revealed how the president is privately justifying the assault on Sen. Padilla by suggesting that he “looked like an illegal.”

Cities with sanctuary policies should stop letting the feds take advantage of their courthouses to make arrests of immigrants. That’s clear commandeering under the 10th amendment. The feds like it because prospective arrestees pass through the magnetometers. No requirement they land that hand.

JUST IN: Federal judge orders that Minnesota student & pro-Palestinian activist Mohammed Hoque must remain released, was targeted for 1st Amendment-protected speech. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Republicans are trying to obfuscate the facts. Vance Boelter is a hardcore Christian nationalist, anti abortion, registered Republican, die-hard Trump follower. This was an assassination. MAGA is an evil, bloodthirsty cult.

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Trump says he won’t call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the targeted shootings of two Democratic state lawmakers because it would “waste time.” One of the lawmakers and her husband were killed. Trump said Walz is “slick” and “whacked out” and said, “I’m not calling him.” Trump is low-life scum.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Amazing.

Also just going to note again that yesterday the actual current president publicly confused the EU & the UK, & neither Jake Tapper nor anyone else in the national media seems to think it is a story today.

COLLINS: Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon TRUMP: I don't care what she said

Alaska's historic heat advisory is a serious warning for a state where most people don’t have the coping mechanisms taken for granted elsewhere—shaded porches, central air, even knowing the signs of heatstroke.

Trump’s excuse for not calling Walz after the Minnesota assassination: The governor is “whacked out.”

NEW: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) speaks on Senate floor at 1230pm eastern about his "forcible removal from Dept of Homeland Security press conference", per advisory

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

ICYMI — this was how South Carolina state senator Tom Fernandez (R) greeted the protestors… classy…

He has always been and will forever remain a scummy coward.

Two new polls from KFF and Washington Post-Ipsos out today both finding negative views of the GOP budget bill: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

Last night was a good example of how CNN fails stridently when covering Trump. They breathlessly accepted his narrative that he was leaving G7 because of some pending attack on Tehran. He was leaving because he’s lazy and got embarrassed. His ‘evacuate’ post was him being an ass.

‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities The Reagan-appointed judge ordered the NIH to restore funds for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people. By Kyle Cheney and Danny Nguyen 06/16/2025 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Either the Director of National Intelligence lied in her testimony before Congress, or Trump is lying now. It is that simple. Will any Republicans in Congress say a word? Nope. Will media splash huge stories about it and lead with it? Nope. Just another day in Trump’s America.

Trump is not running our government. First, Elon was calling the shots. Now Miller is. Did YOU vote for Miller to be acting president? Me either. 😡

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The low turnout will force MAGA to go to great lengths to spin a clear flop as a success. Trump wanted badly for this to be a grand, raucous, March on Washington-level event and it just wasn’t close. https://trib.al/C3sbrWh

For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Four years after Gov. Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.

Republicans never do anything that isn't self serving and Texas RepubliCONS are really the best at it. www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...

NEW: President Trump is returning to DC tonight -- he was originally supposed to be back from the G7 summit Wednesday

Sigh.

A huge amount of catastrophic policy right now is being driven by the fact that Stephen Miller grew up in Santa Monica and was furious when a life change pushed him into a school district where he had to share a classroom with Hispanic kids he despised. This is his revenge tour.