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"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous." open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

Every state needs to do this ASAP

submitted 6 days ago • 690 comments

Another Trump Administration defeat in court Federal judge in DC orders the Voice of America to return fired workers back to the job and to restore Voice of America's programming ... pending further order of the court storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Kamala Harris didn't kill any popes when she was Vice President.

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

- 🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasFeedYourHead that decades of research have repeatedly documented that women are BETTER at a lot, like better newscasters, loan officers, spies, gamblers, students, hedge fund managers, investors, doctors, drivers, pilots, and more, than men. - www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/w...

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submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

“Total Chaos at the Pentagon.” Simply shocking. Who could have ever predicted that putting an unqualified abusive alcoholic Fox News host in charge of the military might not go swimmingly? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

The Opposition Continues To Grow! We Rise Up Against Fascism! #Resist #DumpTrump #MomSky

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 808 comments

Any politician or pundit telling us to stop advocating for due process for the men in CECOT because it's not "politically expedient" needs to go,

submitted 10 days ago • 383 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 11 days ago • 912 comments

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

submitted 12 days ago • 978 comments

On reddit, a user on the r/USCIS subreddit says a friend of theirs is detained at Eloy (an ICE detention center in Arizona) and is looking for help. Buried in the post is a claim that there's been a recent death there that ICE is covering up. Unleashing this one on the border reporters.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

The same money that installed Trump as president installed the majority on the Supreme Court. I doubt they'd part ways.

submitted 12 days ago • 107 comments

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

submitted 12 days ago • 872 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1160 comments

From FB and Twitter

submitted 14 days ago • 65 comments

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Judge Xinis to DOJ lawyer: “Cancel vacation. Cancel other appointments. I’m usually pretty good about this in my courtroom, but not this time.” She also agreed to allow the plaintiffs to depose up to 6 administration officials. Good first step, but need accountability.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 14 days ago • 528 comments

Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

submitted 14 days ago • 625 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 14 days ago • 1659 comments

Shout out to Berine, to AOC, to Corey Booker, to Jamie Raskin, to Chris Van Hollen, to Jasmie Crockett, to Chris Murphy and a few others... When you show you are willing to fight for us, we will rally behind you! Keep it up! This moment calls for fighters, not career "politicians" #FORTHEPEOPLE

submitted 14 days ago • 317 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 16 days ago • 607 comments

It’s time for this again

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

submitted 18 days ago • 1888 comments

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

submitted 20 days ago • 1384 comments

Big shout out to those House Republicans who stood alongside Democrats today and helped bring a halt to dangerous legislative action including limiting the power of federal judges and the SAVE Act, which will disenfranchise millions of voters, particularly women. #MomSky

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

I'm just going to throw this out there: the US government should not be selling human beings to prisons in other countries whether or not they have committed a crime.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

submitted 27 days ago • 977 comments

What @booker.senate.gov is doing right now is so good. There are currently tens of thousands of people watching across platforms as he’s live streamed on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, & more! Everyone will be talking about this tomorrow AM leading into a big special Election Day!

submitted 28 days ago • 55 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 28 days ago • 1085 comments

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

submitted 31 days ago • 886 comments

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

submitted 31 days ago • 746 comments