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I forgot how much I love this place.

submitted 17 hours ago • 89 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 1712 comments

I’m kind of loving that one of the three equal branches—conservative judges included—is assuming the role of Adult in a government that’s now overrun by Aryan edgelords, dull-witted traitors, plastic fembots, Russian trolls, and drooling, genuflecting cult members.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wrote about Gavin Newsom acting like it's savvy to not be furious about the government disappearing people to a foreign gulag

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Amazing news. The next week is going to be very interesting.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 3 days ago • 949 comments

Concur. - Holocaust Historian

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

“We’ll have to find out what the truth is” What a great idea! We should invent some sort of “process” that allows us all to discover that truth

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

“.. If the IRS can go after you because of your beliefs, we'd no longer live in a free country,” Vance, in a resurfaced clip, says to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.” @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

submitted 2 days ago • 608 comments

I didn't include my favorite contempt fact here, which is that English judges back in the day would sometimes order contemnors' hands to be amputated and displayed outside the courthouse digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcont...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Same here. "Overly dramatic" is another one I used to hear. Now, though, people are just quiet.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The American Nazi Party demands the right to kidnap you and send you to a death camp, and if you say that's not right, then you get kidnapped to a death camp as well.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

If I were to put in words that which I’m thinking, I’d lose my account. However: 👮‍♂️🇺🇸✝️👱‍♀️💵💋🍊💩🤡

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

submitted 3 days ago • 1105 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 328 comments

I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

submitted 3 days ago • 1942 comments

See the vile stunt Karoline Leavitt pulled today? Dragged the mom of a murder victim in front of the WH press corps, who cried & said how dare Senator Hollen use her taxe$ to fly to El Salvador to see a violent murderer--he shld protect Americans No word on Noem's photo op or GOP Rep. Riley Moore's

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

El Salvador allowed Republican Rep. Riley Moore to tour CECOT yesterday—but denied access to Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen today. What could they possibly be hiding that only the GOP is willing to overlook?

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

Pam Bondi, You know there are only 5 trans athletes in women's sports. But there are over 20 million guns in the US that go by the preferred name of AR-15 instead of its given name, ArmaLite Rifle. In 2024, 40,886 Americans DIED from guns. No one died from trans athletes.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Chris Krebs, the former CISA director targeted in a Trump executive order for calling the 2020 election secure, has resigned from security company SentinelOne and lawyered up. He joins Harvard, Maine, and Steve Kerr in standing up to the administration.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is monstrous. All the love to those of you whose lives are impacted by this ruling. And, as ever, fuck JK Rowling, who helped float this evil balloon through the UK media consciousness.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Dem Sen. Chris Van Hollen: El Salvador Government Just Refused To Let Me Visit Wrongly Deported Man "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he spoke with the American embassy in El Salvador today and they said that they’d never been told to in any way facilitate the court ordered return of Mr Abrego. That sure sounds like evidence of criminal contempt to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 918 comments

Replace ‘Harvard’ with ‘churches’ and he’s onto something…

submitted 4 days ago • 659 comments

Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

submitted 4 days ago • 625 comments

This is the crowd for Bernie and AOC in a state that voted for Trump by over 36% last year.

submitted 4 days ago • 258 comments

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 5 days ago • 1991 comments

Look at these tourism/visitor numbers. Marco Rubio pushes policy that compounds harm to the economy & citizens of his own state--Florida--as we are simultaneously hammered by soaring grocery & housing prices; stock market crashes; bond market instability; DeSantis kicking kids off Medicare. Ureal.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

IDEA: Legislation to make US passports free to all applicants, incudling mailing costs, and for those who need it, assistance w/getting photos or obtaining support documents like birth certificates. Funded by our tax dollars. Helps all Americans, not one party in particular. + Encourages travel!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Free Rümeysa Öztürk. Say it loud; say it often. This is an outrage. This is a violation of our Constitution. #DueProcess #FreeSpeech #1stAmendment #5thAmendment #14thAmendment www.propublica.org/article/rume...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

After masked agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk in Mass., they took her that night to NH, then VE that same night. Then, to Louisiana in morning All in less than 24hrs "Immigration attorneys say the late-night hopscotch was an ICE tactic to complicate jurisdiction" www.propublica.org/article/rume...

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Free Kseniia Petrova. NOW. Indefinite imprisonment without due process is an affront to our Constitution. Understand this: If immigrants w/visas and even permanent legal resident status (green cards) aren't safe from being disappeared, NONE OF US IS SAFE. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Similarly, when I went through my US citizenship interviews, I was asked 3 TIMES if I was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. I was never asked--not ONE SINGLE TIME--if I was or had ever been a White Supremacist or a member of the Nazi Party. Conclusion: Nazis are welcome in the US?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is at once heartbreaking and terrifying. The US wants to deport this man because of his SPEECH. They have no evidence whatsoever linking him to any (rhymes with bear-oh-wrist) organization. He opposes genocide. Which all decent human beings should do: oppose genocide. FFS.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, today: I can confirm the President is in very good shape. The President, a few days ago:

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments