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"Surprise, Surprise, Surprise." What a brave guy.

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

"To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill about tariffs

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

JUST IN: @aclu and @democracyfwd ask Boasberg to reimpose nationwide TRO on Alien Enemjes Act deportations. They also want to refile habeas corpus claims in DC for the roughly 130 men deported March 15 despite Boasberg's order to turn planes around. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

Saturday April 19th, mass protests across the United States. Find a protest near you and be there. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy #fiftyfiftyone

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

Sen. Van Hollen says the Salvadoran government will NOT facilitate a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and that it doesn't plan to release him because "the Trump administration is paying … the government of El Salvador."

submitted 19 hours ago • 99 comments

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 22 hours ago • 369 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 19 hours ago • 543 comments

People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

My bff’s son works for Americorps and received a decommissioning letter today. DOGE is gutting the program. I’m so angry and disappointed DOGE would go after a program that does such good work. @marisakabas.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Democrat Nathan Sage was born to a working class family in Mason City, Iowa. @sageforiowa.bsky.social is a mechanic, US Marine, Iraq War veteran, sports broadcaster, Knoxville Chamber of Commerce president, husband and father — who’s going to beat Joni Ernst in 2026! Watch this video to learn more!

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

This was never ever about anti-semitism

submitted 17 hours ago • 131 comments

New in PN: SCOTUS puts constitutional crisis in America's Easter basket "Thanks to the Court’s fecklessness, the judiciary is now back on a collision course with a Trump-shaped iceberg. But this time, instead of planeloads of faceless migrants, the case involves just one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia."

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 19 hours ago • 242 comments

Senator Van Hollen was denied access to into CECOT in El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia. Meanwhile, GOP officials staged photo ops inside the same facility just earlier this week. This is at minimum a state-sponsored disappearance. Not unreasonable to suspect worse. Demand proof of life!

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

(Reuters) - One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

DC Bar Members - Remember to submit your ballots for the elections. Stop Bondi's takeover. Brad

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

The single most important thing you can do right now is make the protests so big that they truly shock the world. Pass it on.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother, Bradley Bondi, and a top deputy to Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., are vying for leadership roles at the D.C. Bar Association. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

🔔 NEW! We've built a timeline tracking DOGE actions since inception—accessing sensitive data, unjustified staff removals, and reckless "efficiency" moves. Transparency matters. See how a scalpel beats a sledgehammer every time: https://wethebuilders.org/timeline

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

We don't know who wrote this but it resonates. Keep holding on to that ember of hope. Goodnight friends. Get some rest. We rise to fight again tomorrow.

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submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

submitted 2 days ago • 898 comments

El Salvador is a very small impoverished country that consistently produces refugees and organized crime, Bukele is a very wealthy man that’s pushed for cryptocurrency. Bought over 34 new luxury properties. Crypto is favoured by organized crime to launder money. You do the math.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

When a government claims to save money by betraying its citizens, cutting health and welfare research, and deepening inequality, it is not saving — it is building a system where only the wealthy access care. This undermines the very purpose of a nation.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 4 days ago • 948 comments

#ICYMI: Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

ICYMI, this week WIRED broke the news that DOGE is being audited by the Government Accountability Office, an independent auditing, research, and investigative agency for Congress.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Here’s the bottom line - we need to take power out of Republican hands. Wherever we can. However we can. Independent Dan Osborn can do that in Nebraska. And WE can help. There is a real chance to flip a red district, IF the Osborn campaign has the resources. So LFG. 👇 actl.ink/daosbsen4325...

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

My friend Cathy Feingold is speaking at this event to fight to save DOL. (🧵1/3)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“.. it won’t take much for the PBOC to smash the safe-haven status of the US dollar and bonds. .. Trump’s chaotic policymaking exposed his core weakness. Now his own backyard is on fire.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Will just leave this clip here of Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings talking about what’s wrong with America from a 1991 interview and it’s still all very true today

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

submitted 4 days ago • 883 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 5 days ago • 1654 comments

“He’s not a monster. He just plays one in the White House.” Whether it’s Bill Maher’s obsequious attempt to normalize Trump, or Tucker Carlson’s fawning over Putin, weak men have been capitulating to power since the beginning of time.

submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments