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Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?

I really wish people would be more careful about posting protest pics on social media. Think about how chaotic 1/6 was and how many people they were able to identify and find in that mess - and those were more or less ethical actors doing the searching

#GVerse Louisville, Kentucky Crowd is Growing #HandsOff!

Exactly. The U.S. shouldn't be handing over custody of any individuals to a different country.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Republicans in Congress are hoping you won’t pay attention to them for the next 36 hours. Why? Because they're pushing through their unpopular plan that gives tax handouts to billionaires and billionaire corporations and leaves everyone else in the dirt. youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl...

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

Pam Bondi’s brother is running for DC Bar president. Ed Martin’s deputy is running for DC Bar treasurer. If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

one thing i think the media’s surprisingly aggressive response to these tariffs shows is that in american society outrage over economic policy is seen as non-partisan (or safe, from the pov of a headline editor) in a way that outrage over equally egregious attacks on the democratic system are not.

THE FILIBOOKER: Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor and speaking for more than 14 hours to protest the "grave and urgent" threat posed by the Trump administration. He's showing no signs of stopping.

Yes! More of this plz and thnx!

This is a war crime. The targeting of hospitals and aid workers is really monstrous.

I don’t know if y’all realize this, but Toupee Fiasco is a figure head. He’s not in charge. The Project 2025 crew, Heritage Trust, and Apartheid Clyde are in charge. They let him sign the EOs, do interviews, and golf because that’s all he cares about. Oh, and not being in jail.

RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

Prices are soaring, your 401k is in the tank, Social Security phone lines are hours long. Instead of addressing any of that – this administration is picking a fight with Denmark.

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…

Day 68 into the GOP takeover: Prices are going up. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Classified info is being leaked. Social Security is being dismantled. Residents are being arrested for their political views.

Acting fast. EU is already providing €2.5mil in emergency aid for people affected by this morning’s earthquake in #Myanmar. This will help address the immediate needs of the most vulnerable. EU has activated its Copernicus satellite service to facilitate impact assessment.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

What it looks like

If they are illegally detaining legal permanent residents by month two, they will be illegally detaining citizen dissidents by year two. If you want it to stop before it reaches you, we will have to stop it here.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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This is SO much worse than Hillary‘s emails—it’s not even in the same universe. Don’t let them make that bullshit comparison. She wasn’t sharing war plans. She wasn’t in an unsecured text group sharing classified documents and state secrets. She was actually qualified for her job and not a traitor.

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

Just reminding everyone that there was a Democrat in the 2020 presidential cycle who not only rightfully named childcare as *infrastructure* she had universal childcare in her platform. It's not a new issue but it was ignored because old men sucked all of the air out of that campaign cycle.

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

I'll be on CNN at 9pm ET with Kaitlan Collins to discuss today's news of the astonishing security failure at the White House.

who did this??

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The Gang Illegally Shares U.S. War Planning Details With A Journalist

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief. Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs. What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Just go ahead and assume that literally nothing in the federal gov is secure from foreign adversaries. Or anyone! How that many people can be so dumb & when making actual life & death decisions, no less.

The reason why we were all told to hate Hillary in 2016 goes back to 1993 and Gingrich mobilizing every aspect of the American right, including powerful media figures to paint Hillary Clinton as the very bride of Satan, crawled out of hell to ruin everyone's lives by giving them healthcare.

"A white Virginia landlord who evicted 2 families from her lakefront rental property upon learning one of the family members was Black will have to pay them $750,000 after a jury awarded damages in a trial last month." --> Racist assh🫨les are paying Black Folks atlantablackstar.com/2025/03/22/p...

The measles outbreak has now entered 11 states, with more than 350 reported cases. Public health officials say the actual number is likely much higher. RFK Jr still refuses to tell people to get vaccinated. The Trump regime is so dangerous!