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Today, we remember Uvalde. We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down. The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive. The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies. We need an assault weapons ban. Now.

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you are loved. pass it on.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Oh now he tells y’all?? After spreading lies and conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. says don’t listen to his advice—as head of HHS. Sir, we already knew. We were just waiting on you to admit you’re unqualified.

submitted 10 days ago • 761 comments

We just had to share these new beautiful photos of Fern taken at dusk! 🌅 🦕 For nearly a year, our Diplodocus has welcomed visitors in our Museum gardens! Did you know that it’s the first fully self-supporting life-size bronze Diplodocus cast? Come say hi to Fern during your next visit!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle. Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

It’s never too late open the file on that writing project you’ve been neglecting and put some more words into it. Just because you’ve put it down doesn’t mean the window has closed on picking it back up.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Happy Moms Day!

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

If you think suspending Habeas Corpus "just for undocumented immigrants" is acceptable, remember that there would be NO HEARINGS and NO LEGAL RECOURSE for ANYONE detained in this way So all they have to do is CLAIM that YOU are an undocumented immigrant to DISAPPEAR YOU

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"Trump lost against the Maine governor. He lost against Perkins Coie. He loses 80% of cases in court. Which makes those who’ve capitulated look that much more foolish, because if they’d just fought back, they would've retained what they thought they'd lose and their dignity would still be intact."

submitted 20 days ago • 244 comments

He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution. Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.” Translation: No. Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.

submitted 20 days ago • 987 comments

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 20 days ago • 249 comments

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

submitted 21 days ago • 516 comments

Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

submitted 27 days ago • 453 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 27 days ago • 876 comments

Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

submitted 29 days ago • 1498 comments

Surround yourself with the kind of people who treat the Oxford comma like the wondrous beauty that it is.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

“The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.” Rare win from the Supreme Court blocking Donald Trump’s administration from deporting immigrants under the Aliens Enemy Act! 7-2. 🍿

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 38 days ago • 1859 comments

Trust me on this one, they care about due process when it comes to red flag laws and removing guns…

submitted 37 days ago • 82 comments

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

submitted 41 days ago • 907 comments

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

submitted 45 days ago • 1405 comments

#HandsOff Palm Springs, 2000 people

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

submitted 49 days ago • 502 comments

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

submitted 49 days ago • 1420 comments

#HANDSOFF #NYC

submitted 49 days ago • 1051 comments

“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” ~The Diary of Anne Frank

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My big problem is that making a to-do list usually makes me feel productive enough that I no longer feel the need to actually do the things on the list

submitted 62 days ago • 46 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 63 days ago • 1233 comments

Truer words were never spoken.

submitted 64 days ago • 1678 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 65 days ago • 1065 comments

I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 69 days ago • 875 comments

A federal court’s jurisdiction does not stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the defendants are subject to the court order, not where the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 69 days ago • 899 comments

Trump ended funding to Voice of America and Radio Liberty, forcing both to stop broadcasting to countries that restrict press freedom. VOA began operations in 1942; RL started in 1951. Why did Trump silence this voice against communism, fascism and oppression? Iran, Russia and China are thrilled.

submitted 69 days ago • 149 comments

Oh. Trump's tariffs will impact people who voted for him more than people who didn't? Way to "own the libs," MAGA. 🍿

submitted 69 days ago • 36 comments

All speech that Donald Trump doesn’t like is under attack. You can’t say you support freedom of speech and cheer when he says speech from MSNBC, CNN, and others are “illegal” when it’s not.

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 73 days ago • 1384 comments

Despite all the chaos, it's always Tatonka Tuesday

submitted 74 days ago • 25 comments

Women's rights are human rights. They aren't negotiable on International Women's Day or any day. Here in Illinois, we celebrate the contributions of the incredible women in Illinois' history and honor them by continuing to push our state forward.

submitted 77 days ago • 215 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.

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International Women's Day!! 🫶🏽

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I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

submitted 79 days ago • 3723 comments

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

submitted 79 days ago • 226 comments

NEW: A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law and exceeded his authority by firing the chair of a board that protects the rights of federal employees without reason. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 81 days ago • 304 comments

This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.

submitted 81 days ago • 3683 comments