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"Among those detained was Ernesto Campos, a U.S. citizen and owner of a Bakersfield landscaping company. Agents stopped Campos’ truck and slashed his tires when he refused to hand over his keys." Many, many documented examples here. Excellent piece.

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A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS JUST SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, AND REVOKED DEGREES FROM 22 STUDENTS FOR PROTESTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE

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THIS!! Thread.

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DHS searched student dorms tonight. This is insane.

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Immigrants allegedly getting disappeared by Trump based on accusations that they are gang members without any due process, under an act that hadn’t been used since Japanese internment camps. 👇🏽🧵 This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending. x.com/l_toczylowsk...

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Just so that we’re all clear what’s happening here: The United States is deporting people without due process, sending them to labor camps in El Salvador, and paying the Salvadoran government for it.

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Not a profound or nuanced observation, obviously, but I am really struggling with how fucking evil everything is every day. Everything I love and admire about this stupid and amazing country just constantly getting vandalized and brutalized by people who hate all those things. Not digging it.

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"It is unclear what would happen to operations at the observatory if the office were to close. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to comment, writing in an email, 'As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.' " www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

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Not great

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These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

submitted 4 days ago • 367 comments

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

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The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen wapo.st/4isEBv8

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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The 10 Senate Democrats who voted with Trump to advance MAGA funding bill: -Catherine Cortez Masto -Dick Durbin -John Fetterman -Kirsten Gillibrand -Maggie Hassan -Angus King -Gary Peters -Brian Schatz -Chuck Schumer -Jeanne Shaheen Primary them all & elect a new Senate leader or start a new party.

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On the final bill, only TWO democrats voted yes; Shaheen and King. But TEN voted for cloture allowing the bill to pass with a simple majority. Disastrous for the country and for the Democratic party. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 4 days ago • 258 comments

Women already being prevented from voting in NH. This could happen throughout the country if the SAVE Act becomes law. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

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WYDEN: Do you believe in a nursing home there should be a registered nurse available around the clock? DR OZ: As you know, that's a complicated question WYDEN: No it's not. We need a nurse in a nursing home. Not too complicated.

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@schumer.senate.gov

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AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

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"Dems will be able to say, it’s Musk and Trump who are shutting down Social Security offices all over the country. It's Musk and Trump who are shutting down VA centers. It's Musk and Trump who are shutting down NOAA. It’s Musk and Trump who are shutting down all foreign aid around the world."

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

The USPS is the nation’s lifeline, ensuring delivery to every corner of the country. We cannot allow it to be dismantled, sold off, and handed over to Wall Street billionaires for profit. Privatization would increase costs, reduce access, and be an utter disaster.

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Elon Musk reiterated his intention to destroy programs like Social Security, which he has called a Ponzi scheme: "Most of the federal spending is entitlements... that’s the big one to eliminate."

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DHS just tore up a settled, signed union contract with TSA employees, which is straightforwardly, unambiguously illegal. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...

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@senatedem.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @texasdemocrats.bsky.social Can you not do anything? Do you have no power, no influence?

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While Trump & Musk DOGE cut the federal workforce and federal contracts leaving THOUSANDS of Americans UNEMPLOYED, Elon Musk & his family are flying for FREE on Air Force. MUSK is a BILLIONAIRE!! Why are OUR taxes paying for this? THIS is fraud, waste, & abuse. tribune.com.pk/story/253234...

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NEW: this new lawsuit piggybacks on the good work done by Hampton Dellinger before he left his job, and the folks at the MSPB. LFG!!! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Goldman on Musk: "Notable, somehow none of his $13 billion of government contracts he has determined to be waste, fraud, and abuse."

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The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

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Outstanding webinar this afternoon with Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg. Three, among many, take-aways: 1) We need to put pressure on our elected leaders. 2) We need to act out. Trump hates protests. 3) We are are stronger than we know. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @simonwdc.bsky.social

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A bill banning gene-based vaccines, like some forms of the COVID-19 vaccine, received approval from a Senate subcommittee Monday. via @iowacapitaldispatch.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bill...

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1. Trump declares tariffs that tank the stock market. 2. Trump and Musk buy cheaper stocks. 3. Trump rescinds tariffs, reviving the stock market. 4. Trump and Musk sell more expensive stocks.

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He’s doing it for free? Nope. Follow the money and see where it goes. Elon Musk is spearheading the overhaul of the $42 billion broadband program—directly benefiting himself and Starlink.

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Hearing from the NIH clinical center: "NIH has a freeze on all purchasing cards [as of yesterday]. No exceptions for most hospital supplies. Clinical center ran out of cups and now is having patients wash down their pills with water from tiny medicine cups."

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There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

submitted 15 days ago • 1175 comments

Third Way Dems reliably produce one result and one result only: Hard Right Republicans in charge. Third Way is a losing strategy. Anyone who says otherwise has made it their religion.

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“Don’t believe the career experts who showed their work. Believe the partisan idiots with an agenda who won’t show their ‘proof’”

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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Trump wanted to treat Gavin Newsom the same way as Zelensky when he flew out there. But Gavin met him on the tarmac and bodied him. And that was that. Because face to face, man to man, no bros around to back him up, Trump is the biggest coward on earth.

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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial. Small trial, but the data is very good. Note that there is currently a GOP bill in Congress that would effectively ban ALL mRNA vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One. Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

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