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We need to keep doing this. We need to constantly remind the media and the people that these are ordinary people, not boogie men criminals. They’re human beings being grabbed by the real monsters who are ICE.

submitted 9 hours ago • 32 comments

The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as Air Force One Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.

submitted 20 hours ago • 951 comments

Trump called price controls—which he is now pushing for pharmaceuticals—“communist” during the campaign. “It’s never worked…and it always leads to the same failure,” he said.

submitted 8 hours ago • 113 comments

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

submitted 20 hours ago • 144 comments

If Stephen Miller follows through on his tough-guy threat to suspend habeas corpus, he’ll just suffer more humiliation in court. Under the Constitution, only Congress has power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and only then in cases of Rebellion or invasion.

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"

submitted 15 hours ago • 811 comments

Respect new names for popes but throw tantrums over pronouns for neighbors. Got it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 147 comments

It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.

submitted 21 hours ago • 412 comments

#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

Apparently some people are interested in having a baby boom right now. We took to Abigail Adams’s (a revolutionary among revolutionaries) girlhood home with a few ideas of what might help make that happen; basically, respect women.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Anti-equality lawmakers continue to demonize trans people to distract from their disastrous policies. Thank you @RepJasmine.bsky.social for speaking up for our community and refusing to let us be used as scapegoats.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

This fanatic is openly talking about fabricating a reason to suspend everyone's constitutional right to due process — and Trump has given him free rein. Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

A huge fire that burned the largest shopping center in the Polish capital Warsaw to the ground a year ago was set deliberately by people acting on behalf of Russia, Donald Tusk said.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

submitted 18 hours ago • 1573 comments

To the mamas who raised us, loved us, held it down—and still manage to fix everything with a hug: we see you, we love you, we thank you. Happy Mother’s Day to the real MVPs.

submitted 12 hours ago • 101 comments

@drneilstone.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 286 comments

After the mayor of Newark was arrested for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a DHS official is threatening to arrest three members of Congress who were also present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 328 comments

AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces

submitted 20 hours ago • 714 comments

Spoke with a small business owner yesterday who told me all his suppliers are raising prices out of fear and/or greed even if they aren’t directly paying tariffs. He called it “scareflation”

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice.

submitted 20 hours ago • 829 comments

Donald Trump just ordered the Department of Homeland Security to add 20,000 officers to the country's deportation forces. You can expect more of this—in neighborhoods across America. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Ld...

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

OH! The Heights to which this will climb!!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked: -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen. It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

A Member of Congress —who was at the facility today with the Newark mayor — told Alicia Menendez on air tonight that the Newark mayor was invited into the detention facility. And then when he left, ICE arrested him for trespass!

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

So… this was all foreshadowed…

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

At this point I really need every single American to be at this level of rage. I don’t recognize this country anymore. And he hadn’t even seen the news yet of the mayor being taken and congress members being assaulted by ICE. This is appropriate levels of rage.

submitted 2 days ago • 500 comments

Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Make it make sense

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Trump promised cheaper goods, safer streets, and peace on Day One.  Instead, your 401K is a 201K, prices are up, shelves are empty, we deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer, and added a new global conflict. Americans didn’t sign up for this.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

When "required by law" becomes just a suggestion.

submitted 2 days ago • 383 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Which states could lose the most from Medicaid cuts floated by the GOP? South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee – all Trump states. Republicans seem perfectly happy throwing their own constituents under the bus to dole out tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations.

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

Nothing triggers MAGA like a Pope who follows the teachings of Christ.

submitted 2 days ago • 237 comments

The Trump administration is exploring plans to suspend habeas corpus rights for immigrants, one of the most fundamental protections in the Constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government. Congratulations to @democracyforward.org, their co-counsel and clients on their amazing work in securing this victory.

submitted 2 days ago • 280 comments

Senator Booker (who is in Nashville today) responds to Mayor Baraka’s arrest…

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1644 comments

ICE just arrested the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is presumably a US Citizen…

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

FYI: real song. I’m sharing a screenshot to avoid spreading this nonsense

submitted 3 days ago • 735 comments

James: He indicated that I was on his enemies list, along with others. All of these baseless allegations that have been refuted—it’s nothing more than retribution. It’s nothing more than the weaponization of the federal government.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

If you think suspending Habeas Corpus "just for undocumented immigrants" is acceptable, remember that there would be NO HEARINGS and NO LEGAL RECOURSE for ANYONE detained in this way So all they have to do is CLAIM that YOU are an undocumented immigrant to DISAPPEAR YOU

submitted 2 days ago • 600 comments

I’m very concerned that we’re getting close to a point where the regime commands military forces to commit unconstitutional and illegal violence against their fellow Americans. If that happens, the fate of the republic will rest on them following the constitution, and refusing the orders.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is looking into suspending people’s right to challenge their incarceration in court, to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, White House aide Stephen Miller said Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 2 days ago • 356 comments

Word is Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking records and testimony from journalists. Please be mindful of how you communicate use secure formats, follow established guidance, and above all, protect your identity at all costs.

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

Coleman: ICE is out of control. ICE thinks it can intimidate all of us. And it cannot intimidate any of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 428 comments

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

submitted 2 days ago • 904 comments

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

submitted 2 days ago • 928 comments