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In Iran if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life. Wait, sorry, no. That's Mississippi.

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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 17 hours ago • 1003 comments

If the government were hurtling people into space without due process, people in danger of being so hurtled should be able to get an injunction saying the government can’t do that to people. The Administration’s position is that this is, in effect, what they are doing.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

When I see people posting about the "poll tax" on voters and how this hurts married women, I chafe at how much time I wasted breaking down Project 2025. Also reminder everything they are doing now, my people have had to navigate, with the added stress of lynching threats.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

This bill disenfranchises a whole lot of women, but it disproportionately disenfranchises Republican women. Married women lean Republican. Married women who change their names definitely lean Republican. Seems a little self-defeating.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, Khanna, and Frost rising to the occasion.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 615 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 1 day ago • 477 comments

@warren.senate.gov: "State attorneys general have the same opportunity to investigate, dig in, get what the facts are. So for example, Letitia James, the NY attorney general, which has jurisdiction over the stock market and the trading that happens in NY, might decide she would take a look at this."

submitted 1 day ago • 332 comments

I hope you have friends that make you literally laugh out loud in the midst of this shitshow.

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Tell your Senators right now! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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As with the EOs concerning elections, immigration and naturalization is categorically NOT an Article II power. To do this, the executive branch will undoubtedly try to hang its hat on some delegated authority by Congress. The focus now should be on clawing those delegated authorities back

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Act now in a few clicks at resist.bot/petitions/PT.... #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #SAVEAct @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

Last fall, Blue Cross got hit with a $421 million verdict after jurors found it defrauded doctors. It was one of the biggest verdicts ever outside a class action - and it revealed the inner workings of how insurers block payments. My latest. www.propublica.org/article/blue...

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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If you are a Democratic member of Congress and you’re trading stock, you are part of the reason millions of voters believe the system isn’t built to help them.

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

Trump will next sign executive orders targeting media outlets critical of him with sanctions. Those media outlets will then find out that no big law firm will represent them because either they already made a deal with Trump or they fear he will sanction them. Trump is methodically ending democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I think this is one my most important columns from last year, on why any unchecked right-wing regime will seek to eviscerate the practice of science. prospect.org/politics/202...

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Russians may soon be barred from purchasing property in Finland, following a unanimous vote in the Finnish parliament to ban Russian nationals and entities from acquiring real estate or exerting influence within the country.

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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com 1. Go see if Mr. Garcia is still alive. Bring some Rs with you. 2. Task SOMEONE with challenging the major networks to follow Mr Garcia's case & the daily updates! Low info and/or MAGA news consumers need 2B warned about losing Due Process.

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“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin

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they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

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This is one of the biggest reasons I want to get my family out of the states. Toxic air, toxic water, toxic food - nobody paying attention anymore. Nobody looking out for our lives and wellbeing. MAHA is fundamentally elitist, hyperindividualistic, and dangerously idiotic, like its leader RFK Jr.

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It's so good to see some Big Law firms fighting back.

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Historian here posting for no reason at all. U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

submitted 2 days ago • 397 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 3 days ago • 432 comments

Just astonishing incompetence. Weaponized, profound idiocy.

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This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Jared Golden doesn’t see the problem. #mepolitics

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When DOJ filed its response to Judge Xinis around 12:15 pm today, it said: “Plaintiff is in the custody of a foreign sovereign.” Drew Ensign’s name was on the brief. An hour later, at the hearing, Ensign told the judge that he didn’t have info on Garcia’s whereabouts and custodial status. ???

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

The spokesperson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China is trolling Trump.

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This would be laughable if it weren't terrifying.

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MUST WATCH: Rep. Scanlon sounded the alarm. “Authoritarian regimes crack down on those who defend the rule of law…” That’s EXACTLY what this is. Indictments, threats, purges—it’s not justice. It’s a purge in real-time.

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It's never a good sign when Erik Prince enters the chat.

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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments