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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: 'Tariff scrooge' Trump is already killing U.S. jobs and has the worst 100-day polling ever youtu.be/UDzSs5vKZWI?...

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As a journal editor myself, this is absolutely chilling. To quote an actual lawyer: "A publication's editorial decisions are none of the government's business, whether it's a newspaper or a medical journal." - JT Morris, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

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I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

submitted 7 days ago • 356 comments

Breaking News: Pope Francis is dead at 88. The first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff, he championed a more inclusive Catholic Church.

submitted 10 days ago • 88 comments

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, has died. https://www.wcvb.com/article/pope-francis-dies-at-88/64537158

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 11 days ago • 249 comments

On this 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride, I keep thinking of a few lines from the last stanza of Longfellow’s poem: “And so through the night went his cry of alarm… A cry of defiance and not of fear…” “In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear…”

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

7 out of the 9 Supreme Court justices believe in rule of law and due process and constraining executive power at least a bit, which is better than 4 out of 9 but is still not great

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court. Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.

submitted 12 days ago • 141 comments

Can we please not forget that ALL the people sent to the El Salvadoran prison deserve due fucking process? ALL of them. Every single one of them.

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

(HERE is the bench slap I've been looking for) HITTING THE DOCKET: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals DENIES the Trump Administration's request for an emergency stay pending appeal & DENIES its request for a writ of mandamus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 109 comments

Deporting America citizens to a foreign gulag seems…dictatory.

submitted 16 days ago • 789 comments

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

“Home-growns”mean any of us. And with no guarantee of due process and administrative incompetence, this could be life sentences in El Salvador for any of us.

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Mass. attorney says DHS told her to self-deport, despite U.S. citizenship | Click on the image to read the full story

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

If you’re okay with a woman being snatched off the street for free speech and peaceful protest and detained with no due process …you have fully lost the plot on what AMERICA is supposed to be.

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

Amazing from last week on @maddow.msnbc.com Where trump got this tarriff thing starts at 6:18mark "Ron Vara doesn’t exist.He never has. The expert Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he’s so gung-ho on tariffs, this, Ron Vara,is a MADE-UP PERSON..anagram of Navarro" youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...

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I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people. Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...

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6 months ago

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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 24 days ago • 408 comments

"I am very concerned that if these cuts are not rescinded, these will have an effect for decades." Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, is losing confidence that the damage Donald Trump is doing to the United States is fixable.

submitted 28 days ago • 52 comments

BOSTON

submitted 25 days ago • 54 comments

What a day. What a country! 💪

submitted 25 days ago • 1556 comments

Goal achieved: An unusual number of people in an unusual number of places. 1,300 globally. There were probably more than 10,000 speakers alone at rallies today. Baffling to think about this scale!

submitted 25 days ago • 84 comments

Are people hearing @maddow.msnbc.com describe where Trump got the idea of tariffs as economic policy?? I can’t….I really can’t.

submitted 26 days ago • 42 comments

Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs. Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm

submitted 26 days ago • 147 comments

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.

submitted 27 days ago • 1057 comments

Wow. Firing Christine Grady is a terrible mistake and certainly will not make America great or healthy.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

NEWS: I have confirmed that Shaheena Simons, the chief of DOJ's Civil Rights Division Educational Opportunities Section for nearly a decade, resigned earlier this week. Simons had been at DOJ since 2007 and had been the section chief since 2016.

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Most political leaders try to fix the pothole so you don't wreck your car on the road. What Donald Trump did yesterday is not only build a pothole but he took out the entire road that the American economy is on. You better buckle up And prepare for an economic crash.

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: After Cory Booker's 25-hour Senate speech, the odds don't seem so impossible anymore youtu.be/V1Awb38U9os?...

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

MORE LIKE THIS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

And also Florida... let's put it into perspective... In November those districts went for Trump +30, to shrink that to +10 in a matter of 4 months, great job Florida dems! Change is incremental. We must keep our foot on the gas! 🫶🏽🖤

submitted 29 days ago • 59 comments

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

submitted 29 days ago • 1350 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 29 days ago • 1022 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 30 days ago • 7389 comments

Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics. "Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 51 comments