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March 18, 2025

submitted 7 hours ago • 33 comments

The head of Trump’s antisemitism taskforce retweeted a neo-Nazi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

March 17, 2025

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

A good reason to get out there and protest now is that it will serve as a rehearsal for when we'll need massive people power in the streets to fight off the imposition of a MAGA dictatorship. The courts aren't going to be enough to stop these people. We'll need you, your family and your friends.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 1316 comments

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

submitted 1 day ago • 484 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 2 days ago • 646 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 1 day ago • 608 comments

📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5. Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance. Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 1038 comments

It will take everything we have to get him out of power and years to rebuild trust and the rule of law afterwards. This is what we mean when we say elections have consequences.

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 3 days ago • 2115 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 3 days ago • 2111 comments

These are bold and wild allegations from the FBI, which is moving to criminalize organizations like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA. In a court filing, Citibank disclosed that it had been directed by the FBI to freeze the bank accounts of these groups.

submitted 4 days ago • 491 comments

We need a new Senate Minority Leader. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov DO NOT SURRENDER TO CLOTURE! #VoteNoCloture @indivisible

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

FRIGGIN' WILD: In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that the Appointments Clause of the US constitution conflicts with Trump's "inherent authority" ... EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate  talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

submitted 11 days ago • 340 comments