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Retired English teacher, political and news junkie, feminist, children's book writer, progressive Dem, defender of Democracy. No DMs, please.
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Nonsense.

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Buckle up, folks. This is a constitutional crisis unfolding before our eyes.

“.. On Friday, Status filed a notice in the New York Supreme Court asking the court not to seal a trove of documents set to be filed in election technology company Smartmatic’s closely watched lawsuit against Fox News.” @passantino.bsky.social @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...

Well this is not good. Higher prices for everyone! We are definitely in a recession, and we jumped into way too fast. Thanks tRUmp!!!🤬

China has offloaded $50 Billion in US Treasury bonds & limited further purchase of Dollars. Meanwhile, an anonymous buyer is purchasing European Bonds.

The Trump administration doesn’t want to bring him back. The Supreme Court knows this, and could have been explicit about what they have to do, and didn’t ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

📌All of this surrendering and capitulation by “marquee” Democrats points to a larger problem within the party itself. People are sick and tired of their sick and tired act. 📌Either you believe the grotesque Trump is an extreme threat to America and the values you claim to care about, or you don’t.

Chuck is running to unseat Virginia Foxx — please follow, support, amplify 👏🏼 @chuck.hubbardforcongress.com

Life in New America: Masked f*ckers smashing car windows, kidnapping people in broad daylight, in front of their traumatized children. 🤬 Who's the "enemy" here? Elsy - who remained calm, dignified, & reassuring the whole time for the sake of her daughter? Or masked thugs?

Truth from LBJ.

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A lot of this can be traced directly to America's failed War on Terror and demonization of Muslim and Arab Americans. The Patriot Act, the creation of ICE, and the voluntary removal of our freedoms for the brief feeling of safety. We warned it would be used against us all. Voila.

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

Today’s episode of “Pictures Trump Hates.”

I believe Wired reporting.

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Trump admin has exempted electronics (laptops, phones, tablets) from the “reciprocal” tariffs. The exclusions were published late Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

A refresher on Donald Trump’s Rules for Governing: Step 1: Create crisis Step 2: Blame Democrats Step 3: Rant on Truth Social Step 4: Profit from crisis Step 5: Claim to resolve crisis Step 6: Declare victory Step 7: Golf Step 8: Repeat

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past, Phillip Atiba Solomon writes.

I just watched the interview segment with the Judge who lost her son to a person posing as a pizza delivery - he was shot to death at the door of his home. Invite to attend this event on April 15th. Register in advance here 👇🏻👇🏻 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue www.prnewswire.com/news-release....

This is wild! Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts. @lisalsong.bsky.social

Anyone who wears that pin should go to jail.

Trump: billions are being collected via tariffs US Customs: Nope, not a dime.