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If we were dealing with a remotely reasonable executive, or if the SCOTUS hadn't mistakenly held that the APA claim before Judge Boasberg was improper, we wouldn't be in this mess. The late-night, nationwide chaos and terror could be avoided ... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 7 days ago • 8512 comments

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson incident at the governor's mansion.

submitted 8 days ago • 265 comments

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

submitted 9 days ago • 677 comments

🚀🚀

submitted 9 days ago • 1663 comments

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

It'll be a good stress test, and one they will fail.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

submitted 11 days ago • 1643 comments

Are you telling me that the President of El Salvador can fly to DC to meet with Trump, but the Trump administration can't get him to return a mistakenly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Armanda Abrego Garcia, to the US? This is an insult to our intelligence and an act of contempt against the judge.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

This is wild…

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 13 days ago • 614 comments

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Alex Ovechkin scores career goal #895 setting the NHL record, the entire bench clears to celebrate

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

HE’S TALKING ABOUT HIS F*CKING GOLF GAME AS AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING

submitted 18 days ago • 485 comments

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

submitted 18 days ago • 121 comments

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 18 days ago • 720 comments

Donald Trump is a failed businessman who is crashing the American economy. None of these people are fit to govern.

submitted 20 days ago • 268 comments

Rather than attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed on his watch, Trump will be dining with his Saudi golf buddies.

submitted 21 days ago • 582 comments

Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees that if you fail to remember the past, you are doomed to repeat the Great Depression. And then you cannot blame it on President Biden, you loopy orange dipshit.

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments

Trump’s tariffs will have to be in place for a looooong time if they are meant to force companies to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. That takes years. But if Trump uses them for extortion and corruption, a whole bunch of them will be dropped with a quickness.

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

Senator Angus King: "I have to point out, Mr. Chairman, in the hour that we've been sitting here, investors in the United States stock market have lost two and a half trillion dollars."

submitted 21 days ago • 282 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 22 days ago • 958 comments

Wow, this is truly scathing.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

I’m starting to think it MIGHT have been a mistake to put the dumbest motherfuckers alive in charge of the United States government.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

submitted 23 days ago • 1348 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 23 days ago • 10913 comments

Val Kilmer, Hollywood film star known for "Top Gun" and "Batman Forever," dies at 65, New York Times reports cnn.it/4iK5Sto

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

It was/is a masterclass

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“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker

submitted 23 days ago • 59 comments

The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia.

submitted 23 days ago • 777 comments

Every network should be covering this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

submitted 23 days ago • 217 comments

@booker.senate.gov I support you and I am with you on this journey. Keep speaking truth to power!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

More Senator Booker. Less Senator Schumer. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov!

submitted 24 days ago • 325 comments

Canadians are pissed off. Cory Booker is pissed off. It's revenge of the nice people out here

submitted 24 days ago • 127 comments

Our government has spent $100,000 a person to hold migrants at the Gitmo concentration camp for less than six weeks. That's about $17,000/week for each migrant. They could have stayed at a Ritz-Carlton for that. What's this you say about government waste and efficiency, Elon?

submitted 24 days ago • 147 comments

NEW: DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.

submitted 24 days ago • 240 comments

Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

submitted 26 days ago • 94 comments

International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy. Sorry, *was.

submitted 27 days ago • 164 comments

Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

submitted 27 days ago • 947 comments

Yes, there are pictures. And yes, they are gross.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

submitted 28 days ago • 1932 comments

It appears that Kristi Noem may have worn a $60K Rolex during her visit to the El Salvadoran prison camp today.

submitted 29 days ago • 3386 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 31 days ago • 853 comments

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

submitted 31 days ago • 1978 comments