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Absolutely brutal.

submitted 8 hours ago • 322 comments

“Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 81 comments

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

submitted 1 day ago • 642 comments

CIA Veterans Alarmed by Rubio Plan to Close US Embassies in Africa www.spytalk.co/p/cia-vetera...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

•••••BREAKING••••• Rep. Don Bacon, a prominent Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is now the first sitting GOP lawmaker to state publicly that Trump should fire Pete Hegseth. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

Sullivan: It’s amazing when someone who describes themselves as your friend, your supporter, someone who actually came in to work for you—leaves and, within 100 days of you taking office, writes an op-ed describing a total meltdown, utter chaos, and essentially calls on President Trump to fire you.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Homeland Security Secretary can’t secure her own purse.

submitted 2 days ago • 715 comments

Jasmine Crockett: ''I’m glad the Supreme Court stepped in and stopped that plane from taking off last night. Because deporting folks with no criminal record and no due process isn’t justice—it’s cruelty. You can’t scream 'law and order' while breaking the law at every turn.''

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right

submitted 2 days ago • 3223 comments

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

submitted 2 days ago • 2481 comments

This is a very, very complex and exceedingly thorough process that involves extensive use of the president’s TiVo remote, so please, please, everyone, give it time www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 2061 comments

Primarying candidates who've already shown they can win isn't searching for "effective" candidates, it's searching for candidates certain kinds of activists prefer.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

The Senate seats that the Dems saved even in states where Trump won were gained exactly by appealing to the center.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

People post this stuff as if 2018, 2020, and the Senate and House wins in 2024 never happened. It's the Blue MAGA equivalent of denying reality that's right in front of you.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Tea-party purity testing actually cost the Republicans winnable seats. I know history can be anything you want it to be, but Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Christine O'Donnell and others might be instructive examples here.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Confirmed tornado NOW, just NE of Ada. Debris being lofted into the radar signal just S of Francis. #okwx

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Like Lindsey Graham before him, Marco Rubio is currently defining what it means to abandon absolutely every principle one used to hold dear. Today he shrugged at the idea that we might need to “move on” from supporting Ukraine. But here’s how he used to sound:

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 5 days ago • 1354 comments

Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime

submitted 5 days ago • 2207 comments

“If you had assumed we were incompetent, you wouldn’t be in this mess”

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

been waiting for this it’s still a gut punch…literally www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

And many are outright geniuses, and engage in more productive activity in an hour than RFK Jr. will in his entire life.

submitted 6 days ago • 758 comments

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

submitted 7 days ago • 193 comments

Excellent. Here’s the habeas lawsuit filed in DC for all the men disappeared to CECOT we were waiting for.

submitted 7 days ago • 203 comments

Now imagine that, but everything the administration touches.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

It’s almost as though everyone in Trump’s orbit, inside and outside government, gets together on a (non-secure) Zoom call to decide “What’s the most corrupt and illegal thing we can do today? And on some days they can’t reach consensus so they just go ahead and do them all.

submitted 7 days ago • 343 comments

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 7 days ago • 388 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 7 days ago • 1871 comments

They should be more concerned

submitted 8 days ago • 572 comments

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 8 days ago • 153 comments

You cannot legally send Americans to an El Salvadorian prison no matter what they have done. Plain and simple.

submitted 8 days ago • 409 comments

My bff’s son works for Americorps and received a decommissioning letter today. DOGE is gutting the program. I’m so angry and disappointed DOGE would go after a program that does such good work. @marisakabas.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

A federal judge just ordered intensive expedited discovery into Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia. The latest:

submitted 8 days ago • 304 comments

This was honestly the most disturbing day yet. And I’m including J6.

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

I'll say it again: in a country where due process is individually denied and then broadly eroded and eventually eliminated, being a citizen will not protect you from the terror of this administration.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 9 days ago • 720 comments

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

submitted 8 days ago • 814 comments

I have to believe at this point that Alito and Thomas are pleased that things are finally happening the way they've always wanted them to

submitted 9 days ago • 197 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 9 days ago • 1332 comments

BREAKING: U.S. businesses sue to block Trump tariffs, say trade deficits are not an emergency. 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

submitted 9 days ago • 720 comments

So, if I understand correctly, the President of the United States is saying that the Supreme Court of the United States consists of nine “sick people,” including three whom he appointed. apple.news/AMHDqIFcpRxi...

submitted 9 days ago • 1401 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 days ago • 134 comments

We found in our recent experimental study that politicians who talk about ending "anti-Christian bias" are often heard by White Christians as promising to stamp out anti-WHITE bias. It's a racial dog whistle, a less offensive way of saying "I'll stick up for White people." doi.org/10.1177/0956...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I’m angry about many, many, aspects of Trumpism. And it’s not the top of my list, but I hate the amount of media (and mental) space occupied by absolute cranks, racists, and fools who have been promot because of their venality stupidity. If this is “meritocracy,” it is a meritocray of monsters.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

He's manufacturing chaos because he has nothing to offer. No vision. No ideas. No interest in building anything. Just tearing down what others have built.

submitted 10 days ago • 796 comments