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“‘We’ve never seen a president so comprehensively attempt to arrogate and consolidate so much of the other branches’ power, let alone to do so in the first two months of his presidency,’ said Stephen Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.“

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The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here. When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent. 1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

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On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

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TRUMP TAKE EGG

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In case you were wondering, the function used to create a new employee to report does not require a Bearer token and can be spammed endlessly via this cURL route. Enjoy!

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I hope Democrats learn from Merrick Garland’s mistakes and the failure of Obama’s “move on” strategy vis-a-vis Bush era war crimes, and understand that all these people ultimately need to go to prison.

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My fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, has a creed you have to memorize and try to live up to called “The True Gentleman.” Curious if you think our current president is a “true gentleman”?

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A "fun" media studies project would be to catalogue every time a Trump administration official has inappropriately threatened someone. At the end of each day, you could have a "threat count" and revisit some of the day's biggest threats -- like with Olympics coverage.

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A good reason to get out there and protest now is that it will serve as a rehearsal for when we'll need massive people power in the streets to fight off the imposition of a MAGA dictatorship. The courts aren't going to be enough to stop these people. We'll need you, your family and your friends.

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In addition to everything else I just mentioned in that SSA thread, important to remember: this isn't Congress making these changes. It's certainly not reform coming from within the SSA. And it's not even really coming from MAGA, tho Trump is responsible. This is being done by a by a bunch ...

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Trump-Doge preparing to end the Keeling curve monitoring (that has tracked atmospheric CO2 since 1950). This attack on science would amount to a crime against humanity I think! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Great Indivisible meeting yesterday "protesting 101" in packed room. I feel lucky and inspired to be living among such courageous and principled people!

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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 3 days ago • 649 comments

I was at Connecticut Foodshare this morning with Senator Blumenthal to talk about the massive cuts by Trump and his billionaire friends to child food programs. Kids are going to go hungry so that billionaires can get another big tax break.

submitted 3 days ago • 126 comments

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 5 days ago • 2153 comments

Whoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

#TheIdesOfTrump

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 5 days ago • 1382 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 6 days ago • 3174 comments

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I hear people talking about Democrats needing to “take a stand” even a “moral stand”. That may be the case. But that’s not even what this is about. What Wlij and Trump are doing is super unpopular. They’re ripping apart social security, slashing veterans health care, wrecking most of the …

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Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

submitted 18 days ago • 178 comments

Good shit

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Long b4 Ds settle on tactics (how to stage press conferences, what kind of things to post on social media) their leaders, starting with Schumer & Jeffries, need to change their mindset about what it means to be in opposition. Ty @brianbeutler.bsky.social for letting me share some ideas here ↘️

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

submitted 21 days ago • 1513 comments

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays down a marker: Democrats will not be saving the Republican majority from itself. Doing so would be especially bad while the White House is working to end checks and balances by unconstitutionally usurping Congress's power of the purse.

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Stanbury: "We will not give them one single vote!"

submitted 23 days ago • 399 comments

The reckless Republican budget will be debated on the House floor today. It represents the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Children, families, seniors, hospitals and nursing homes will be devastated. House Democrats are a Hard NO.

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Young voters really don't like Elon Musk. His unfavorability is 54% with all voters. 67% with voters under 30. Feels important for a party that needs to win a much bigger share of young voters. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

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With due respect, Senator, federal employees are not “his staff.” The whole damned problem here is that federal employees in no legal sense report to Elon Musk.

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

Can’t some rich liberal pay for a series of campaign ads like this to run on US billboards?

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Young voters really don't like Elon Musk. His unfavorability is 54% with all voters. 67% with voters under 30. Feels important for a party that needs to win a much bigger share of young voters.

submitted 28 days ago • 224 comments

As a consumer of a huge amount of news, social media, podcasts, and alt media across the spectrum from far right to far left every day, I can tell you that I see Sen Chris Murphy everywhere taking on the Trump Admin, including Fox, & there are some Dem senators I never, ever see.

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Gen. CQ Brown signs off with a graceful message on LinkedIn:

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

Indivisible needs to create like a starter kit - maybe comes in a crate - for a chicken town hall. Like chicken suit, bullhorn, starter Rep in effigy.

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

submitted 24 days ago • 863 comments

Crowd at Merkley town hall was amped up. 2 questions about what the Democrats are going to do differently were spot on. 2nd one got another standing ovation. We need to keep the heat on (respectfully). Love Merkley and glad to live in the great state of OR.

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Senator Merkley town hall in OR. Woman with Defend Democracy sign gets standing O. Standing room only.

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This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

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@gtconway.bsky.social #Emails2DOGE #crawfordforwi 1) protested the overthrow of our government at Tesla dealership 2) made new friends at protest 3) donated to campaign of Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court 4) attended town hall with Senator fighting the Musk coup 5) gave group hug to wife and kids

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#Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected]

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