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The government has admitted they deported him by mistake. If he was a “terrorist” why was it a mistake to deport him? They’re such malicious clowns they can’t even keep their story straight.

Not going to lie, I kinda wish I would get this kind of message. Canada is right there. My ancestral homeland could be it once more.

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

The worst thing possible for the American government is for US citizens to go to Europe and see how much better things are there. Or Japan. Or South Korea. Or Singapore. Or really any other developed country who likes and uses democracy effectively.

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

It's kinda nuts that Obama could've nominated literally anybody to fill Scalia's seat in 2016 because no one he picked was getting a vote and he somehow made a choice that was so disastrous that the domino effect of it is currently leading to the destruction of the global economy.

This is what organizing over 1,200 events in a few weeks looks like. This is what democracy looks like. Join the more than half a million of us who will be taking to the streets tomorrow to stand up against Trump’s unprecedented power grab: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

The only way this could possibly be worth it is if the economy gets to a point that Nike can no longer produce city edition uniforms anymore.

The vast majority of Americans don’t pay attention to politics or the worsening state of the country BECAUSE they can buy the new iPad, the new Cell Phone, the new video game console. It’s the bread and circuses that have kept the population from revolting since the collapse of 2007-2010’s.

Finally *liberated* from a strong economy, record stock market, and historically low unemployment.

Republicans went nuts and accused Biden of tyranny when he tried to cancel student debt. Right now, their guy just imposed the biggest tax rise on Americans in modern history by fiat, unilaterally, with no congressional or judicial approval.

Just a Mock Draft Morning

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.

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

If you all didn’t think Donald Trump was a Russian asset before today, it’s comical if you don’t today.

MAGA is a cult of personality surrounding Donald Trump. It has no long term successor. It cannot and does not translate. If/when Donnie dies, so does MAGA. The proof is in the pudding i.e Wisconsin. The richest man in the world tried to buy the election, but this happened instead:

RIP Ice Man. Fly free from cancer

Democrats: "What Booker did is just a stunt." YES. TRY MORE STUNTS.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.

How many other "accidents" like this do we not even know about? This is why we're supposed to have DUE FUCKING PROCESS.

arrest elon musk.

You might ask why an entire nation's worth of computer experts opted out of "let's rewrite the code that handles all of Social Security in a couple months" before now and merely asking the question makes you much smarter than any of the script kiddies calling themselves 'DOGE'.

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

Not gonna lie… this is kinda freaking me out.

You don't say this unless the nonviolent Tesla protests are really working. They are weakening Musk's financial position, which is the basis of all Musk's power, and he's very upset.

the democratic party playbook seems to assume that by republicans going after social security, voters will run into the arms of the democrats. it’ll definitely peel off some people but the right has been turning their voters against social security in favor of abolishing it for years now

Tomorrow, we expect Trump is going to sign an Executive Order claiming to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education. Reminder: Trump does not have the legal authority to destroy a cabinet department; reporting on the EO as if he does have that power is both inaccurate and unethical.

He's releasing the JFK files. Look for what he's trying to distract from. Like, I don't know, erasing minorities and women from Arlington National Cemetery websites.

Pure Trump baloney! LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, and Biden all used auto pens based on legal opinions from the office of legal counsel of the justice department. If Trump never used one, it would be amazing, totally inefficient! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...