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Fresh from endorsing the German far right, Musk is now defending the French far right. When people show you they are, believe them the first time.

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Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going… www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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FOX NEWS: Our new Fox News polling shows that people perhaps are concerned with how things are going. Is the president doing enough on the economy and lowering prices? LEAVITT: The president is working on this every single day and he's trying to fix the mess caused by the previous administration

submitted 22 hours ago • 536 comments

They wanted him to make things cheaper not more expensive

submitted 14 hours ago • 140 comments

If you think it’ll stop at Columbia and Harvard, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t go beyond universities to infiltrate all schools, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t demand compliance at media, medical, and non-profit organizations, you’re wrong. Fascism is here. Fight it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

OK, a lot of stuff happened last night. And yes, all DOGE-related. Let's get into it: First, DOGE is trying to gift itself at $500 million building, court filings show.

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"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 22 hours ago • 779 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 19 hours ago • 229 comments

I’m on my way to hold the floor with @booker.senate.gov and spotlight how Trump's lawlessness is hurting families in Oregon and nationwide. Tune in.

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“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 197 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/p...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...

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JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

submitted 19 hours ago • 374 comments

Massive TDOV rally expected today from 4:00-6:00 at the National Mall between 3rd and 4th streets. Go there, I know many who will be there. Be with community and show your support for transgender people. www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 143 comments

from 2017

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VICTORY: A federal judge ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 351 comments

Sen. Roger Marshall on raising taxes on rich people: "It's something we have to consider."

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Musk has so much to say about German and French and British and Ukrainian and South African internal politics but never a word about China or Russia. Strange, right? 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/elon...

submitted 22 hours ago • 226 comments

STRAP IN BABES, WE'RE DOING A FILIBUSTER. @booker.senate.gov has been going for over 13 hours and @warnock.senate.gov is up next. We could've used this energy weeks ago but it's better late than never!

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Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 294 comments

New in PN: John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him. "After all, how can the rightwing justices expect a future president — particularly a Democratic one — to accept rulings limiting the exercise of their power from a Court that served as the judicial stooge of an aspiring dictator?"

submitted 1 day ago • 963 comments

Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

submitted 19 hours ago • 1353 comments

Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

submitted 21 hours ago • 2108 comments

Sick stuff

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"Holding signs and chanting slogans, hundreds of people gathered near the entrance of the Krome Detention Center on Saturday. The protest came as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown funneled people into the Miami facility." Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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I didn’t hear about this at work… Good job DOI. Let’s support those who were put on leave! Anyone have more details?? Please reply or DM me. www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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A historic new contract for workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota gives them more than fair wages. It also shows them dignity and respect. www.afscme.org/blog/minneso...

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Trump: "We won by 36 points, the youth." (This is a completely made up number -- Trump lost among young voters.)

submitted 17 hours ago • 367 comments

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

We have screenfulls of people making calls right now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Man. There are a lot of cynics out there. If what Booker is doing doesn’t bring YOU joy, there’s no need to shit all over everyone else’s appreciation.

submitted 13 hours ago • 886 comments

This keeps getting worse and worse.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1717 comments

If you have to pay people to vote your way, it must be hard to comprehend people hating you for free.

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 10 hours ago • 832 comments

46 Democrats voted WITH Republicans for the Laken Riley Act which allows the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants simply charged with non violent offenses. Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?

submitted 11 hours ago • 92 comments

In response to the horrific deaths of multiple people waiting for arraignment in March, we’re calling on the Court Watch community to flood the court with watchers. Our goal is to have a court watcher at every single shift in the month of April, especially in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

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I should be asleep.. Not all heroes wear capes. I am in awe. www.c-span.org/clip/us-sena...

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/25/o...

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"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant

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Union workers rallied in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday days after an international graduate student was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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This is what happens in dictatorships. Lawyers, judges, and the rest of us have to stand up. We know universities won't. zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...

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imagine a wacky parallel universe where democrats took power and understood the uses of it half as well as the trump crew, we'd be living in a socialist paradise

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This is what corruption looks like.

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