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He shouldn’t have taken the post down. He’s a reporter. And he was reporting facts.

For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

This is so wrong. All to feed the ego of a mad tyrant who never had the balls to serve. This is not what we do in America. This is so fucking wrong. Makes me so sad. And so angry.👇

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

🚨 After months of defiance of court orders (and the Supreme Court) and claims under oath from cabinet level officials that they would never bring him back, the Trump admin blinks; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the U.S., where he can finally get some due process.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

The GOP Tax Scam rips healthcare away from millions of everyday Americans. Yes, that’s a disgusting abomination.

Tesla Takedown in Boston.

“People will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so," House Speaker Mike Johnson said. Several experts and organizations expose this for the lie that it is.

Also, that time Justice Thomas sat on the Trump v. U.S. case where the Court gave Trump broad criminal immunity in a 6-3 decision, even though Thomas' wife had been *very* pro-Jan 6 protests. How quickly a president's crazy makes a country forget joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-must...

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty...

The migratory instincts of the ninth SpaceX Starship. Sound on! 🔊

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If "mental anguish" from watching the news is an actionable tort WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE RICH, BOYS!

Canada welcomes the U.S. Court of International Trade’s decision on the United States’ tariffs. It confirmed what we’ve always held: that the American tariffs against Canadian goods are unlawful and unjustified.

5 years after the brutal murder of George Floyd police kill more people each year than ever before, even as violent crime has dropped. Police brutality must be included in our democracy discussions.

Vote the bastards out! 🗳️🇺🇸

FED WATCH: “.. 25 percent tariffs on iPhones raise Apple's credit risk .. this latest tariff move has narrowed the difference between 10Y $AAPL and Treasuries within less than 40 basis points. Markets see political interference as a sovereign and corporate risk that is getting conflated.”

Sometimes I'm surprised by the ideas I need to explain, but I'll still happily do it. Bankruptcy can work well when you're running a company, but it doesn't work when you're running a country.

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

If you want democrats to stop bringing knives to a gunfight, arm them with a MAJORITY in 2026 😀💙

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS allows Trump to fire members of NLRB and MSPB pending full appeal; doesn’t say whether it’s overruling Humphrey’s Executor; and asserts that the Federal Reserve can be distinguished. Three Democratic appointees publicly dissent in a feisty opinion by Justice Kagan, link to come.

Easily over a thousand extra deaths a year here.

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

This is kind of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, someone from whom I have learned for decades. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/staying-with...

A HAPPY UPDATE! Mahmoud Khalil was allowed a "contact" visit—without plexiglass divider—with his wife and newborn son this morning before his immigration hearing, ACLU tells me, so I think we can safely assume that he was finally able to hold his child for the first time.

Same.

Timeline cleanse: Bewicks wren feeding one of its nestlings in one of our backyard nest boxes, which in years past was used by chestnut backed chickadees.

🚨Hot off the presses: the CBO Score for the 2025 GOP tax scam to be heard in Rules tonight. Key takeaway—the wealthiest Americans will get more $$$, while those with the least will lose almost 4% of their income.

The Zelens’kyi ambush was antisemitic, and this one was racist. Good presentation here by NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Despicable behavior yet again by the current WH occupant towards the duly elected leader of a sovereign country.

Our country’s original sin.

They’ve even argued the same in court in order to wiggle out from under lawsuits. The “Fox News Channel” (sic) ain’t news. It’s bad entertainment catering to folks who enjoy such drivel.

Holding a hearing at 1:00 AM? What is it? They’re hiding? Good opportunity for us to all set our alarms and get up for a little midnight popcorn & airing of the truth.