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JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 hours ago • 200 comments

If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Hey everyone, just a reminder: A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature

submitted 19 hours ago • 67 comments

I’m in line to vote in the Democratic primary to select the candidate to run for the late Rep Connolly’s seat. The polls opened for early voting 30 mins ago and I am probably 30 mins from casting my ballot. There are smiles everywhere and not a complaint to be heard about the wait. Turnout!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I can sort of understand the logic of Dems like Hakeem Jeffries who don’t want to have a floor fight over an impeachment resolution, but I do not remotely understand voting against it once it’s on the floor. What are we even doing here.

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Following a rich white man to war because you didn’t like the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the stupidest things ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 222 comments

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Look up the story. SHE CO-CHAIRS THE FL HOUSE PRO-LIFE CAUCUS went to the hospital w/a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy struggled to get the care everyone deserves BLAMES "fearmongering" from PRO-ABORTION groups for the confusion re: what procedures are permitted for the delay in her care.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

submitted 1 day ago • 595 comments

This war looks like it should end up being called the “Bullshitzkrieg,” because at this point, it pretty much seems to have been performative on all sides, especially on Trump’s. We should be grateful for that, but … WTAF.

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

Of course, by lunchtime tomorrow we could find ourselves to be (and to have always been) at war with Eurasia or Eastasia (or maybe even Oceania!), and I’ll have to take this back. But I’m going with it for now.

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2003: “Mission Accomplished” 2025: “Completely and Totally Obliterated”

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

I sure would love to see all the democrats in Congress on the Capitol steps calling for impeachment in one voice. I know we can't do it without republican votes, but it sure would be nice to see a loud, unified message. I'll be calling my reps today and asking them to please do this. Join me.

submitted 2 days ago • 269 comments

I don’t know why this thought is occurring to me right now, but I believe Maureen Dowd is now obligated to take a Benedictine vow of silence. And penance for some very long time to come.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

➡️ WE DO NOT FORGET: a Trump-loving MAGA assassin murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and shot others ICE agents are kidnapping and disappearing immigrants off of the streets of America *Trump/the GOP are destroying working American families to benefit the ultra-rich

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Why push for impeachment? Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate. The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention. Performative public investigations matter

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

critical question for what comes next in iran: to what extent is iranian military leadership still capable of making rational, consolidated decisions?

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

So Republicans knew he was preparing to violate the constitution - they had advance knowledge. They knew, they remained silent. Feckless cowards or bloodthirsty warmongers. Maybe both. My god the damage they have done in five months is mind bending.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

MSM doing a bang up job right now of ignoring the fact that a criminal POTUS unilaterally declared war and instead focusing on Iran’s nuclear capabilities which had a deal w/USA until same criminal pulled out of it because it was achieved under Obama. Trump is a threat to peace.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

submitted 3 days ago • 611 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 3 days ago • 817 comments

Jeffries doesn’t call Trump’s act of war illegal or unconstitutional. The leadership of the Democratic Party is worse than useless.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

We tried to tell so many of you that electing Netanyahu’s pal would be a disaster. Congratulations, you really showed Kamala.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

All you had to do was elect two brilliant, diligent, overqualified Women.

submitted 162 days ago • 85 comments

Just as Iraq had no WMD, Iran has no nuclear weapons. America has entered another unnecessary war in the Middle East

submitted 3 days ago • 443 comments

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Which one is more likely to be the next NYT columnist

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

the accuracy (via @midheavens.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE. It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

this vainglorious vandal never saw anything beautiful he didn’t want to destroy

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Trump: We need fewer holidays! Also Trump: Why didn’t anybody come to my birthday racism parade?

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Can't California pass a state law requiring all law enforcement agents to display names and badges, barring masks, etc.?

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

I assure you, none of them are mine.

submitted 5 days ago • 256 comments

nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

I have no words. Anti-worker, anti-union, pro-child labor, anti-sick leave, anti-medical leave, anti-maternity/paternity leave, anti-livable wage… no wonder republicans refer to us as human capital stock. Fuck the oligarchs.

submitted 5 days ago • 454 comments

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments