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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 14 days ago • 1907 comments

The jokes write themselves

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

submitted 34 days ago • 827 comments

No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.

submitted 34 days ago • 1456 comments

That part! Literally.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

submitted 41 days ago • 453 comments

As it should be.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 55 days ago • 1608 comments

If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president. If you are not a member, please share with others who are.

submitted 55 days ago • 68 comments

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

submitted 57 days ago • 653 comments

CALLING ALL D.C. LAWYERS The integrity of our legal profession is on the ballot in this year's bar election. Please cast your vote by Jun 4 www.directvote.net/DCBA - TN

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Hitler used tariffs to “liberate” Germany from a globalized world order—careening the economy backwards, Timothy W. Ryback writes.

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

This

submitted 58 days ago • 907 comments

"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities." - Pope Francis

submitted 57 days ago • 132 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 58 days ago • 1348 comments

imagine being a four star general fired after Pete Hegseth questioned your job competence and opening up literally any national newspaper

submitted 58 days ago • 148 comments

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him..." www.azpm.org/p/headlines/...

submitted 57 days ago • 525 comments

www.thefp.com/p/im-a-soybe...

submitted 60 days ago • 5064 comments

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 61 days ago • 921 comments

This happened because of our outrage. Keeping screaming!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump’s tariffs are a tax on working families in the US.

submitted 62 days ago • 21 comments

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

submitted 62 days ago • 64 comments

boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

submitted 62 days ago • 293 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 62 days ago • 660 comments

I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

submitted 62 days ago • 991 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 62 days ago • 3461 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 131 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 63 days ago • 1940 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 63 days ago • 1480 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 64 days ago • 1190 comments

Facism is here. They, the current U.S. government, is using the same fascism playbook.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA demands for viewpoint diversity at Harvard are what the Nazis attempted: Every faculty and student screened for ideological acceptability, every unit (math, chemistry, English, sociology) to be "individually viewpoint diverse" among teachers and students. It's a fascist wet dream.

submitted 64 days ago • 10 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 64 days ago • 591 comments

That’s right! Stand on business!

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

So we’re gonna screw over the Etsy businesses but Apple gets exempted.

submitted 67 days ago • 99 comments

Beyond idiotic. If this is his belief, he should quit being a high skilled tech worker and jump on the assembly line.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments