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submitted 1 hour ago • 66 comments

Don't let the last words said by Americans before our country completely collapses be "We were just following orders."

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What a joke: Trump officials claimed the letter sent to Harvard with a list of demands was a "mistake" sent w/o authorization. Because Harvard defended themselves, the White House announced they were freezing funding and Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt status anyway. What a shit show.

submitted 55 minutes ago • 181 comments

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that. Oops! Day one funding freeze Oops! Ebola Oops! Nuclear security workers Oops! Bird flu Oops! PEPFAR Oops! HHS firings And on and on and on... Now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 10 minutes ago • 79 comments

I was told Trump would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/e...

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Lil Marco is learning that diplomacy is difficult, despite the fact that his boss promised to end this war in 24 hours with one phone call & said it “wouldn’t even be that hard to do.” What he won’t say is this isn’t getting done because Putin WANTS war.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1550 comments

Lisa Murkowski once again shows courage and this time by telling the truth. This president is focused on revenge and retribution, and if enough people stand up in the face of this intimidation, democracy survives.

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Popok: This is not just about Abrego Garcia—and they’re right. It’s not about whether he is or isn’t MS-13. This is about the rule of law and our co-equal branches of government. This is about greater principles.

submitted 22 hours ago • 225 comments

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you. Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.)

submitted 20 hours ago • 99 comments

A Reagan-appointed judge just issued a scathing rebuke of the government’s actions in the Abrego Garcia case, warning of a constitutional crisis and executive overreach. This ruling is stunning—because it had to be. #WilkinsonDecision #RuleOfLaw #AbregoGarcia #FourthCircuit #LegalNews

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Maybe Senator Van Hollen should be President, since Trump says he's not really involved with the situation, doesn't really know what's going on, and can't do anything. Who needs such a flaccid executive?

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

The ramifications and power of this moment and these images cannot be overstated. We must use this momentum to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is a crime. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

submitted 23 hours ago • 118 comments

As incredibly incompetent and prone to saying outrageous lies as Pam Bondi is, she owes Robert Kennedy Jr. a gift basket for allowing her to avoid the title of "The Worst Person in Trump's Cabinet." Although, in fairness, there are a lot of other people who are actively helping, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Senator Van Hollen is a hero.

submitted 1 day ago • 998 comments

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 1 day ago • 830 comments

NEW: Senator Van Hollen has met with Abrego Garcia.

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

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First they came for everyone they kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador and I said Fuck you, you convicted felon traitor. Fuck you criminal terroristic Nazi regime. We stand against you. You do not represent the American people. You do not represent the United States of America.

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The convicted felon psychopath’s and this regime’s lawlessness will be their undoing.

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(HERE is the bench slap I've been looking for) HITTING THE DOCKET: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals DENIES the Trump Administration's request for an emergency stay pending appeal & DENIES its request for a writ of mandamus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

BREAKING: read this from the latest, striking, 4th Circuit decision rejecting Trump Admin's efforts in Abrego-Garcia case. substack.com/@ghost22/not...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Elizabeth Warren on CNBC explains why Trump illegally firing Jerome Powell would wreck the economy and take the US down a fast track toward dictatorship

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Fourth circuit rebuffs, emphatically, administration’s attempt to appeal Xinis order in Abrego-Garcia case. Not unexpected, but really heartening. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

What is there to hear? The it’s in the fucking constitution

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 1 day ago • 1895 comments

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This is our 15th lawsuit since Trump got back into office. We sued the Trump administration saying that he does not have the unilateral authority to impose these tariffs. And we think we're on very, very firm ground." -@governor.ca.gov

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Trump doesn't understand how trade works: "With Biden we were losing a fortune on trade."

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

Without due process for everyone there is no due process for anyone. When they scoop you up and don't give you a chance to prove you're a citizen before shipping you to El Salvador you are going to suddenly understand the entire fucking point.

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Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."

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