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submitted 22 hours ago • 616 comments

Watch Rachel Maddow's full interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder. Part 1: youtu.be/VPNp_E0a7Tk

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Overnight, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a short but satisfying bonus reply brief with SCOTUS, taking issue with two brand-new factual claims in the govt's latest brief. 🧵 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

The next steps are clear. We must ask ourselves — what is even one more tangible thing we can be doing? This will take work, grit, and determination—but this is how change happens. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something in the cause of our country.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up... So far tonight, Republicans have blocked amendments that would: – Remove tariffs hurting families – Protect disaster response and recovery - Secure Social Security benefits - Preserve federal lands (Thread 🧵)

submitted 8 days ago • 158 comments

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

submitted 10 days ago • 490 comments

Fam, remember three years ago when Cory Booker brought tears to all of our eyes when he lifted up Ketanji Brown Jackson? “You are worthy.” That’s who he is. That’s who he’s always been. @booker.senate.gov

submitted 11 days ago • 508 comments

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

submitted 11 days ago • 625 comments

Office of Management & Budget Dir. Russell Vought wants to cut federal funds with impunity—and without Congress or the public being able to see what he’s doing. On March 29, Vought announced that OMB would no longer follow the law requiring it to make apportionments public. /1 x.com/PattyMurray/...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

If you’re in Wisconsin, vote today for Susan Crawford. There are also two special elections in Florida’s 1st and 6th districts. Let’s show Elon our country isn’t for sale.

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!

submitted 12 days ago • 235 comments

"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 12 days ago • 242 comments

JUST IN: Treasury employees union seeks a court judgment barring the Trump administration from enforcing his order canceling collective bargaining agreements across the federal government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Trump said he was not joking about the possibility of seeking a third term, claiming a lot of people wanted him to pursue it. While he emphasized he was focused on the current, he hinted at the existence of methods to make it happen.

submitted 13 days ago • 344 comments

Trump Says Union Rights Are a Threat to National Security rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

y’all are wild

submitted 17 days ago • 320 comments

The federal agency on Monday restored online application forms for income-driven repayment plans. (via @kutnews.bsky.social)

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

submitted 17 days ago • 6873 comments

WOW! Jeffrey Goldberg has called their bluff and published the entire signal chat (except for the name of the undercover CIA official. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 152 comments

Trump’s attacks on the judiciary are escalating—and this week, I joined John to explain why we may be witnessing the first true constitutional crisis of the Trump 2.0 era. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

BENNET: Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were as director of the CIA participating in this thread? Were you aware of that?! RATCLIFFE: I'm not aware of that BENNET: It's am embarrassment

submitted 18 days ago • 1232 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 19 days ago • 1515 comments

Let's go Wisconsin! Vote Susan Crawford for Supreme Court

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

FINALLY!! Exclusive: Louis DeJoy Resigns as Postmaster General! time.com/7271271/loui...

submitted 19 days ago • 39 comments

🚨HAPPENING NOW: U.S. Supreme Court hears argument in Louisiana congressional redistricting case with huge implications for the Voting Rights Act. Follow along for LIVE updates: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 19 days ago • 105 comments

NEW: Judge Boasberg DENIES Trump’s motion to vacate his TRO in the Alien Enemies Act case. Since the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits because they deserve due process, the TRO is appropriate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 76 comments

As a Canadian and American citizen. I couldn’t love this more. #Never51 #elbowsup

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

submitted 21 days ago • 201 comments

Been working on this in the background for 3 months. Opened it this week. A huge step forward and all in Alba’s memory 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4R-...

submitted 21 days ago • 87 comments

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explains that elderly people who would complain about not receiving their Social Security checks are fraudsters.

submitted 22 days ago • 250 comments

The right wing tells me there is a scandal involving presidents having their staff use an autopen to sign things...

submitted 22 days ago • 335 comments

Q: “Do you think you have the authority, the power, to round up people deport them, and then you're under no obligation to a court to show the evidence against them?” Trump: “That is what the law says and what our country needs.”

submitted 22 days ago • 88 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 22 days ago • 968 comments

Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.

submitted 23 days ago • 375 comments

Unsurprisingly, Trump is going to appeal Judge Chuang's injunction forcing USAID to reverse the things DOGE did to it.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne... Group Of Predators

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