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Donald Trump is deporting legal US residents to a foreign gulag, and he has stated publicly that he is moving on to citizens next. This is a Constitutional crisis. Will a single Republican stand up for our Constitution?

submitted 35 minutes ago • 229 comments

Imagine learning you sent an innocent man to prison and all you have to do to get him out is ask. Forget about the political context for a moment. Just imagine you know an innocent person is in prison and you have the power to get him released. Can you imagine refusing?

submitted 33 minutes ago • 8 comments

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

submitted 32 minutes ago • 124 comments

ME: I’m a pretty great guy! ME: God, that Mike sure called it! What a stunning thinker, truly a legend.

submitted 1 hour ago • 15 comments

This is the guy @ssk7.bsky.social thinks we need to appease, just to be clear. Bluesky is a worse place because of how scary it is to @mattyglesias.bsky.social!!!

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Quite the metaphor

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No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

submitted 1 hour ago • 212 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 1 hour ago • 18 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 5 hours ago • 418 comments

This once again confirms the prisoners are in El Salvador prisons at our behest and under our control.

submitted 4 hours ago • 113 comments

This is it people. This is the moment of the camps.

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

submitted 4 hours ago • 346 comments

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1459 comments

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 8 hours ago • 337 comments

This is to the shame of our country

submitted 19 hours ago • 1393 comments

We're moving down the road to tyranny very quickly here

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

Reshore jobs then make sure people can’t do them. This administration can’t count to 2, let alone create cohesive policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This is so confusing, Don

submitted 1 day ago • 589 comments

In retrospect this was such a funny weekend for Bill Maher to claim that Trump is actually calm and coherent behind the scenes

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

WATCH: “Billionaires now pay a lower effective tax rate than working Americans. One reason why? Trump’s tax cuts.” #WealthTaxNow

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

In any reality could you picture Obama or Biden turning down disaster aid money for North Carolina? Ever? But it’s OK if it’s President Tariffs McRecession?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here

submitted 1 day ago • 353 comments

I think the fact that those guys find more value in the site full of Nazis than the one with pissed off libs demonstrates why they don't offer the value you think. If anyone - ANYONE - chooses Nazis over me I don't lose a lot of sleep wondering what's wrong with me.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Now that’s how you write a headline.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 2359 comments

It’s not just not lawful. It is blatantly unconstitutional, which makes it a violation of Rubio’s oath to uphold and defend our Constitution. Call your representatives and demand an impeachment inquiry for Marco Rubio.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

An arson attempt on the Governor's home on the first night of Passover. What the hell.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

They definitely voted for this

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

IDF says it shot 14 Palestinian medics from afar, mistaking them for militants. Our investigation finds: - Shooters were close enough to see the crews: 40m at the start; later, just 12m. - Soldiers said they initially fired on a Hamas vehicle; dispatcher records indicate it was an ambulance.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

HASSETT: If you look at the latest jobs report, it was way, way above even what I expected TAPPER: You know the jobs data was from before the "liberation day"

submitted 1 day ago • 846 comments