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Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide. That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 2 days ago • 714 comments

Of all the pathetic things about this administration, this might be the pathetic-ist.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: ICE deleted their openly fascist post about stopping “ideas” from coming into 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

Seriously. WTF is this.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies

submitted 7 days ago • 404 comments

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

I went to the anti-Trump protest. People were united around something I hadn't expected: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-went-to-...

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 11 days ago • 612 comments

Wow that’s a lot of paid protestors. Maybe we shouldn’t listen to any fucking idiot who says shit like that about anything ever again?

submitted 11 days ago • 133 comments

Bizarro FDR

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Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 12 days ago • 465 comments

It’s obscene to cut aid to kids in public schools so Donald Trump and Elon Musk can give tax cuts to billionaires. I’m fighting to put a stop to it. Public education is the foundation of our future. We have a moral responsibility to defend it.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Yesterday, every single Republican & 30 Democrats supported Trump's $8.8 billion bomb shipment to help Netanyahu continue his annihilation of the Palestinian people. That isn't what the American people want. Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

submitted 12 days ago • 212 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 14 days ago • 963 comments

Updated just now. Six pages so far. The breadth of destruction is staggering.

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

the lying is so over the top it feels gratuitous to debunk it

submitted 14 days ago • 893 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 14 days ago • 471 comments

"the council of economic advisers"

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 14 days ago • 302 comments

Turns out the world‘s richest man is just not that popular, maybe that would change if he gave money to things like childhood cancer research instead of cutting it

submitted 15 days ago • 518 comments

The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia.

submitted 15 days ago • 781 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 15 days ago • 1026 comments

Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes).

submitted 15 days ago • 321 comments

Cory Booker just now as he closes in on 15 hours of his filibuster speech on the Senate floor: “How can you, in good conscience, if you’re a fiscal hawk, if you’re a Christian conservative, how could you hurt the weak to benefit the rich and powerful?”

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Trump’s ICE just “mistakenly” kidnapped a man with protected status and no record married to a U.S. citizen with a disabled child who is a citizen and sent him to an El Salvadoran hard labor prison — and say they can’t do anything about it In our names 🇺🇸

submitted 16 days ago • 215 comments

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 16 days ago • 11247 comments

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

submitted 18 days ago • 183 comments

An absolutely incredible night. Overwhelmed. What a joyful collection of humans.

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 19 days ago • 402 comments

Courts willing to follow the Constitution and the law are the only things standing between us and Stephen Miller’s dystopia right now. And he isn’t happy about it.

submitted 19 days ago • 2454 comments

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.

submitted 20 days ago • 80 comments

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 727 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 22 days ago • 1070 comments

Trump’s ’proof of citizenship’ exec order explained

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

"Creating a ruckus" is his euphemism for wrote an op-ed in a newspaper. The Constitution protects all people under U.S. jurisdiction (not just citizens) from government actions penalizing them for speech, use of the free press, or peaceful assembly.

submitted 20 days ago • 226 comments

Gabbard claims "there was no classified materials that was shared in that Signal chat."

submitted 22 days ago • 888 comments

Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content

submitted 22 days ago • 1749 comments

‘Hacks’ star Hannah Einbeinder did not hold back.

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

Hey. Focus. The Oscar-winning co-director of NO OTHER LAND was just "lynched" by settlers and abducted by IDF soldiers in the West Bank. This was witnessed first-hand by his co-director.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

submitted 23 days ago • 320 comments

Comedian Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, which David Letterman called "the most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever."

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

Nearly every reply to this post is some version of sarcastically saying, “Descending? We’re already there!” And I get it, but I want to comment that I feel this article does a very thorough job of succinctly describing where we are 2 months in.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments