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Favorite movie line: “Nazis! I hate those guys.” French history PhD. Food history. WWI. Life-long Democrat. Pro-democracy everywhere. Boomer. Cancer survivor.
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The Constitutional crisis all Americans fear is here. A battle between the executive and judicial branches is underway. The Trump regime defiantly refused to meet another court-issued deadline in the case of Kilmar Abrego García. Dismissed was a federal judge’s deadline to disclose steps…

NO KINGS. EVER.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “….to appease Trump.”

Shake up in the White House. Moron Peter Navarro has been sidelined after causing a world wide economic panic. Navarro is the top advocate for tariffs and is the one who validated Trump’s tariff fetish. Scott Bessent will take over all economic policy while Lutnick is demoted to “bad cop” #ProudBlue

While the economy crumbles, the only thing on Donald Trump's schedule today is his ridiculously long "physical" at Walter Reed before going to Mar-a-Lago to golf this weekend. This is a joke.

Oh, the irony 😂—talk about paid protesters! MAGA has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk in Pennsylvania, alleging he failed to pay individuals who gathered signatures for a petition during the 2024 presidential campaign.

I can’t imagine the kind of monster you would be to deny children of a dead parent their Social Security survivor benefits. The depths of this administration‘s depravity is immeasurable. And so is every single one of their sycophants. Pure evil.

Yet another plane crash. A small plane crashed in Boca Raton, Florida. There are reports of casualties, sadly. Is that guy from The Real World still babbling about water pressure and appliances?

Wow! Consumer sentiment is the second-lowest in the survey's history going back to 1952. The University of Michigan consumer survey's mid-month reading on sentiment fell to 50.8.

Will Jared Golden be paying women $180 reimbursement for having to get passports now to vote, because of the SAVE Act he voted for? No, he won’t. Don’t donate to him. Don’t vote for him #VotingRights

I missed this yesterday. Trump is considering offering all 57,000 Greenland residents a stipend of 10 grand a year to join the United States. That would cost the US $570 million a year. (Gift link 🎁) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Gov. Janet Mills staring down the Dorito Dictator: “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness. I am unfazed by loud men." 🔥

Queen.

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump isn’t some sort of 3-D chess playing business genius. Got it now MAGA?

“I’m very very worried about what it means for democracy if Republicans are just able to outright steal a state supreme court election in North Carolina” I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social. “What happens in North Carolina won’t stop there” www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQU...

I hope some real Democrats can pick off these 4 seats.

Trump trying to take over a private university is truly an authoritarian measure.

I don’t normally do my sober birthday announcements — but, a good friend reminded me here how important it is to really celebrate these monumental accomplishments. She knows who she is. ❤️‍🩹💜🌙 And so, yesterday, 4/8/25, I made it to 5 years with absolutely NO ALCOHOL!

BREAKING: An American Airlines flight had its wing clipped by another plane at DCA. No one was injured, but 5 lawmakers members of Congress were on board. One of the planes involved was reportedly operated by Republic Airways, whose CEO is set to become FAA administrator.

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

Exactly. He’s a malignant narcissist, a narcissistic sociopath, a megalomaniac. It’s all about this. Some of us tried to warn everyone.

Overnight, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a short but satisfying bonus reply brief with SCOTUS, taking issue with two brand-new factual claims in the govt's latest brief. 🧵 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

I strongly doubt the rest of the planet's 7 billion citizens are going to tolerate allowing one insane grandpa to do this to all of them for much longer.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

Fantastic

Raskin: Perhaps he could have yelled fore on the greenway so tens of millions of Americans could have taken our retirement savings out of the stock market before he hit us in the head with a golf ball

Ahhhhh coal, the future of nothing