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Riggs: My dad served 30 years in the military. He used his military ID to register to vote... My mom used her driver’s license when she went to vote this year.. And she doesn’t understand, and most people don’t, why a woman who showed her driver’s license is now being challenged..

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This is what election-rigging looks like.

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NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com

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It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

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We are very far over the cliff here, folks

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TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality. DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS! Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa

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This is what's happening.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Bingo

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“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Imagine complaining that the opposing candidate was "bought and paid for" when your guy literally had the richest man in the world handing out checks for a million dollars for your guy.

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It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

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🚨Cory Booker has broken the record for longest Senate speech in American history, outlasting South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s marathon filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The new record: 24 hours, 19 minutes (and counting).

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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison: The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status, but that courts are powerless to order his return. It's a lie. And without due process, this can happen to any of us.

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I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

submitted 5 days ago • 2603 comments

Basically @reidhoffman.bsky.social is sane and the other guy not so much

submitted 6 days ago • 414 comments

This is what corruption looks like.

submitted 6 days ago • 2859 comments

The people In Turkey

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Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

submitted 7 days ago • 378 comments

An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky

submitted 7 days ago • 283 comments

Bingo

submitted 7 days ago • 640 comments

Nope, they just decided to cancel her performance altogether rather than have to suffer through hearing someone speak truth to power — the media elite and Trump alike. Pathetic cowards. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

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When I was 17, I opened my first checking account w/a couple hundred bucks. I didn’t meet the min monthly deposit, so they kept charging fees until I owed them money. It stuck with me—I still won’t bank w/BofA. There’s no upside to this move for anyone who isn’t rich—just cruelty for cruelty’s sake

submitted 8 days ago • 1226 comments

👇👇

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President Trump is shaking down yet another law firm.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 9 days ago • 271 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 10 days ago • 1940 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 2109 comments

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

submitted 14 days ago • 1945 comments

I suggest Paul Weiss hire her as its new managing partner.

submitted 15 days ago • 237 comments

I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

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That’s a shame that Skadden took away Rachel Cohen’s email access. Because after I read her LinkedIn post early this morning, I sent this email to her. If anyone is in touch with her, please forward this to her. Thank you.

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This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

submitted 16 days ago • 1490 comments

I'll be getting into some good trouble this Sunday. www.villagenews.com/story/2025/0...

submitted 16 days ago • 163 comments

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 16 days ago • 2830 comments

Shameful

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if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.

submitted 18 days ago • 104 comments

The good news about all this is if the republic actually survives, anyone claiming they want to "run government like a business" from now on will be laughed all the way off the ballot.

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WIRED: “It’s a heist — real federal auditors are horrified by DOGE… DOGE has posted some of its ‘findings’ on its website, many of which have been revealed to be errors.” www.wired.com/story/federa...

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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

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The Dept of Ed helps: - 26 million children from poor families - 7.5M children w/disabilities - 5M English language learners - 9M students go to college or trade school www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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