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Between Noem doing Leni Riefenstahl videos of herself in front of overcrowded prisoners in El Salvador prison and ICE daily disappearing people, the U.S. executive branch is a moral abomination.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

The lawlessness, incompetence and brutality are accelerating as the Republic tips toward dictatorship. Senate Democrats, under Schumer's leadership, are useless and essentially collaborators. Democratic governors need to get straight on what the plan is.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

submitted 2 days ago • 347 comments

Top White House officials used disappearing messages on Signal for top-secret national security discussions—violating federal law & risking our security. Even worse? A participant was in Moscow. Congress must investigate. This betrayal cannot stand . adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-signal...

submitted 2 days ago • 1116 comments

Once again I ask: Do you get it yet, law firms? These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner. They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession. You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next. Say something. Do something.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

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 2 days ago • 1044 comments

To recap, in the past 24 hours Trump’s team: - Denied the existence of the Signal chat - Admitted it exists but called the story a hoax - Claimed nothing confidential was shared - Has refused to release the messages - Now blames journalists for hacking it

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 2 days ago • 1697 comments

1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians. It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 261 comments

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 193 comments

The fact that Democrats are still voting to confirm Trump nominees, while emailing me to ask for $5 in response to The Atlantic story, is more evidence that this party must be purged and rebuilt from the ground up. It's a party of political zombies.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

We DO NOT NEED HEARINGS. We DO NOT NEED INVESTIGATIONS. More information is not necessary. There is nothing to discuss. Call for the RESIGNATION of every person on that Signal thread. For very serious national security reasons. This is fucking outrageous and every Democrat should say so. NOW.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 16 days ago • 1102 comments

Showed up early to do some reporting in Glens Falls, NY—an Adirondack town in Trump territory—at en “empty chair” town hall for their GOP Rep Elise Stefanik, and it’s already standing room only with more people on the street.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

Where is the mainstream news media on all this? Is this even getting coverage in state/local press?

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

Schumer's plan is to literally do nothing until the White House defies the Supreme Court. By then, it may well be too late. He is unfit to lead in this moment and needs to go.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 206 comments

Shut the fuck up and start obstructing. You are literally just reposting headlines and saying “this is bad”.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans: 1. Please buy Tesla stock to help poor Elon Musk. 2. Shut up and don’t complain when you don’t get your Social Security check.

submitted 6 days ago • 535 comments

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

submitted 6 days ago • 1782 comments

Democrats have only about 18 hours to put statements out before they go silent again for two straight days over the weekend (while the WH and DOGE keep working)

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 6 days ago • 1261 comments

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 7 days ago • 1476 comments

This story is fucking bonkers

submitted 7 days ago • 298 comments

WIN WHAT MOTHERFUCKER THERE'S NOTHING TO WIN RIGHT NOW, YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON STOPPING WHAT IS HAPPENING THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE GODDAMN 2026 ELECTIONS

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

I thought this quote had to be a little out of context, but no. Every second of this is completely insane. @schumer.senate.gov is so determined to do NOTHING to influence public opinion—to "roll over and play dead"—that he will give Trump permission to ignore every federal court except SCOTUS.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Schumer needs to quit. He’s useless. Completely clueless.

submitted 8 days ago • 590 comments

This.

submitted 34 days ago • 368 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

submitted 9 days ago • 261 comments

Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger murdered this kid on Musk’s orders.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

It’s well past time for Obama, BClinton, and Bush43 to get off their asses and defend our Constitution. A joint presser would amplify various Trump critiques, and Trump/Vance/Musk would blow a gasket in response—magnifying the critiques. Only the country that trio once led is at stake. LFG!

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

submitted 11 days ago • 1710 comments

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.

submitted 12 days ago • 2147 comments

If you think the goal/inflection point is the midterms…start listening to the people—journalists, historians, nat sec experts—who say we do not have that time.

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

Goodbye Tesla Boy, your car brand and stocks are going bankrupt even if you are the richest ypur money will deplete sooner. 🤨🤨🤨😠😠😠😠😠😠☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 13 days ago • 6045 comments