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I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned. Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

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Quite a wk- Sen Booker’s 25 hrs, Judge Crawford’s win, Trump’s tariffs & destroying our economy & the Hands Off protests.

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This seems like a bad idea

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Trump’s Tariffs would be held illegal if the Constitution’s separation of powers were taken seriously. Hell, they’d be struck down by Trump’s Supreme Court if its Major Questions Doctrine and its commitments to original meaning and textualism were consistently applied to Article I and IEEPA. 🔥

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@maddow.msnbc.com A six pack of protests across the country! HUGE turnouts all across the country! YES!

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I updated my visualization of how often Trump visits his own properties/plays golf. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news. So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social ) If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone

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Follow the money and see where it goes. Elon Musk was just awarded a $5.9 billion taxpayer-funded SpaceX contract by Trump—the largest in a new package of space deals. Trump ensured Musk got the money, fully aware he’s facing “steep personal cost.”

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Lying (ugly evil) liar. Earlier lied about not being able to fix their mistake/incompetency/disregard of humanity by ICE. We should send him to El Salvador!

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Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

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La Crosse showed up 📣 Over 1000, towards 2000. Are you listening DVO and Ron Jon??

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Ready for April 5th. Hope y’all are ready to have your voices heard 📣

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He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

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Trump tariffs and tax cuts are great for the super-rich! www.cbpp.org/charts/trump...

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While the markets were losing a record $6.6 trillion since he announced his tariffs. Trump is at his Doral Golf club having a grand ole time with his Saudi buddies. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the economy was “starting to roar”. Both are out of touch and out of their damn minds. #ProudBlue

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N Carolinians - check your vote. As ridiculous as it seems, some ppl are dirt sore losers. Don’t let them steal the election.

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“Never before has an hour of Pres rhetoric cost so many people so much,” frmr treasury sec Summers. “The best estimate of the loss from tariff policy is now [close] to $30 trillion or $300k / family of 4.” “The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history,” frmr VP Mike Pence.

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WI judge Bradley 😠

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🚨 51-48, Senate PASSES a measure to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada. Four Republicans join Democrats to deliver a rare rebuke to the president: Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Rand Paul Mitch McConnell

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The moment when @corybooker.com displaced segregationist Strom Thurmond for the longest marathon in Senate history. 24 hours, 33 minutes and counting

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They obviously didn’t, the emergency declaration is nonsense and Congress should override that declaration tomorrow.

submitted 4 days ago • 246 comments

It only makes sense if you realize that none of this is meant to help our country. It is done in service to Putin and the oligarchs.

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

Sign of the day…paid for by the government of Canada in Washington, D.C.

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YouGov poll: 74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

“The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors, fired half of the security guards and asked the rest to roll pennies. Walk right in. Take what you want. This is the golden age.” 🤯

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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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Evading Federal Records Act was the aim. Safety for our service members was the price they were willing to pay 😠

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Correct.

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 12 days ago • 1074 comments

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1937

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Trump and DOGE have fired 25,000 federal workers so far. Now Trump and DOGE have to hire them back thanks to court orders. Most workers have been placed on administrative leave — technically rehired and paid, but still unable to do vital work in our communities. "Efficiency."

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This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government. An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts. It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.

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“Making leaders wait is an old Putin power play. But, this is pretty brutal. Putin is publicly mocking Trump.” And RFK Jr, let the animals die of bird flu. Planes to El Salvador

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March 17, 2025

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The new CR …Repub majority passed it w/out input from Dems & …incr def $ by about $6 bn from prev year, cuts about $13 bn from nondefense spending, and cuts $20 bn from IRS. It forces Washington, D.C., to cut $1 billion, protects 47’s ability to mess w tariffs & gives him say in where $ goes.

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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

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1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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the nat’l econ is strong—or was just a month ago. B4 Trump took office, it was the 💪 of any economically developed country in the world. The falling market in the US today … squarely at the feet of the new pres administration, tariff war it has instigated & sweeping cuts to US govt employment

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I unironically think this "They won't talk with you so we will" line of attack is just really great, solid politics. I think most people don't realize that most Republican voters are so bubbled in socially that their only in-person interactions with Democrats are soon-to-be-estranged family members.

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.

submitted 24 days ago • 119 comments

So sad and wrong! And being done by our ‘government’ 😡🥺

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"In a town with just over 1,000 residents, hundreds of people packed Belmont's Community Building Saturday for a town hall hosted by Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan. The building was filled to capacity with people even waiting outside and peeking through the windows..." www.wkow.com/news/politic...

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Mindful Monday

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