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"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Ed Martin, Trump's pick for D.C. U.S. District Attorney, ghostwrote online attacks against an Illinois judge with whom he was in a legal dispute. We obtained emails that show Martin bought a laptop for the woman who made the posts and coached her on how to make them look organic: propub.li/4d1aut5

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

This is chilling!!! Trump gave the Pentagon control of 170 square miles of U.S. land—now a militarized zone called the “New Mexico National Defense Area.” This move walks the line of Posse Comitatus and edges toward the Insurrection Act—to go after migrants. But it doesn’t have to stop there.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 4 days ago • 564 comments

“There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, former dir of the National Counterintelligence & Security Center, said in an interview. “He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 14 days ago • 1868 comments

“It’s been 100 days. They’ve hit labor, treasury systems, veterans affairs, HHS, cloud services used by federal agencies. etc. etc. They likely have hundreds of terabytes of data already in their control. To answer your question, he has what he needs and they can do this without him now.”

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..

submitted 5 days ago • 275 comments

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov where is the ABA?! We don’t allow AG’s to go after a co-equal branch. DO NOT SIT BACK AND WRING YOUR HANDS! Get in the fight!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent in the elevator with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance. The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.

submitted 5 days ago • 382 comments

URGENT: This is not a crime A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997... PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint

submitted 5 days ago • 276 comments

If it’s true that their only “evidence” against this judge is that she advised someone to leave out a side door, this is complete banana republic bullshit and should be unequivocally condemned by both parties.

submitted 5 days ago • 352 comments

Arresting judges. Disappearing people. Punishing law firms. The Supreme needs to come down on him like a ton of judicial bricks now, not later, when it could be too late. Authoritarians get more dangerous the longer they are accommodated.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Good for house Dems

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

submitted 6 days ago • 1295 comments

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

submitted 11 days ago • 1050 comments

Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker. www.mediaite.com/politics/the...

submitted 11 days ago • 963 comments

Odd, how the United States doesn't have enough money to give sick veterans healthcare, impoverished seniors Social Security, or hungry schoolkids lunches, but it does have enough money to pay a Central American dictator millions to torture American residents in his brutal concentration camp.

submitted 12 days ago • 481 comments

We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.

submitted 13 days ago • 340 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 918 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 16 days ago • 918 comments

The remedy for this blatantly unconstitutional attitude - that they can do whatever they want to Abrego Garcia - is for senators to stand up and be senators and judges to stand up and be judges. And for us to keep insisting on it. Trump wants you to think they’re powerless but they’re not.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

After the attack on Shapiro’s residence, I feel like it’s important to remind people how easy it is for people to become irrevocably radicalized online. Right wing media (both “new” and legacy) is using the same tactics we see groups like Al-Qaeda use to recruit.

submitted 16 days ago • 202 comments

“We’ve never gone through anything like this, but this is what I do want to say. Despair is not an option. Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable. The stakes are just too high.” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

Cathy Newman can hardly disguise her smile in this interview and she's right to feel this way. Victor Gao is clear and blunt. The US will be crushed in this trade war. China DGAF.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This part

submitted 18 days ago • 646 comments

If I was the judge, I'd be holding Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller in contempt of court in jail for every day until Kilmar Garcia was returned to the United States. Good for the goose.

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

submitted 20 days ago • 1367 comments

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

submitted 21 days ago • 264 comments

Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 804 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 20 days ago • 1804 comments

What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trump’s tweet wasn’t random—it was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money. “This entire White House is one giant grift.” —Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social shining a spotlight on it! 🔥

submitted 21 days ago • 206 comments

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

submitted 21 days ago • 1896 comments

At this point, you can’t convince me they aren’t manipulating the market. As soon as the indexes started peaking today, the White House started talking about tariffs on China, and everything is in the red again.

submitted 22 days ago • 1110 comments

he did this just after going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 23 days ago • 1889 comments

Call to Action: Nationwide protests for April 19th. Events information will be announced between now and then. #3E #FiftyFiftyOne #Handsoff

submitted 24 days ago • 115 comments

The economy is in free fall. The markets are collapsing. Our soldiers are dying. Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail. Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons. And Trump is fucking golfing.

submitted 24 days ago • 588 comments

This man is a mendacious clown. Let’s be clear he has always been one.

submitted 24 days ago • 1791 comments

While Republicans hide, Cory Booker shows up and gives his constituents a voice. Who’s cutting onions?

submitted 24 days ago • 294 comments

The reason Republicans wrongly believe the Hands Off protestors are paid is because Republican donors ABSOLUTELY pay protestors to show up at school board meetings and pay people to attend Trump events.

submitted 24 days ago • 251 comments

Dear, Elon Best wishes from Wisconsin

submitted 25 days ago • 415 comments

This is a very big deal. Trump is systematically dismantling the protections against foreign (e.g. Russian) interference in our elections.

submitted 25 days ago • 238 comments

Keep downplaying the protests at your own peril. Keep threatening Americans. The protests will only get bigger. Trump is hated. Musk is hated. The political winds have shifted. People are fed up. This is only the beginning.

submitted 25 days ago • 1804 comments

Swalwell: To Trump I say: Get your ass off the golf course and face the people

submitted 25 days ago • 206 comments