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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

When it comes to Epstein, the grand jury transcripts aren’t the ones that people seeking the truth should be interested in. Prosecutors always say, “Follow the money.” That’s as true here as in any other case. Read about how it could happen: joycevance.substack.com/p/laffaire-e...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

#Argentina: PEN International is deeply alarmed by the Milei government’s escalating attacks on press freedom. We call for an immediate end to harassment and full protection of free expression. Read our statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/argenti...

Farmworkers spread out 13–16 per side and spend the entire day hunched over, picking tomatoes as fast as they can. If they’re on the far end, they run across the field to reach the trailer. The dumper checks each 25lb bucket is full. Then the puncher gives them credit. #WeFeedYou

11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥 Are we nearing the magic 3.5%?? Never forget….WE hold the power. #nokings

We feed you. They hunt us.

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

5/11/72: Cesar Chavez starts his 2nd long fast in Phoenix after AZ passes a law basically outlawing the right of farmworkers to organize. Coretta Scott King, widow of #MartinLutherKingJr, links arms w Cesar & sings “We Shall Overcome" during 24-day fast at the Santa Rita Center.

Grounded! Well done 🇩🇪💯 @germany.diplo.de

He needs to go

The #measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other vaccine in the past 50 years. 2 doses = 97% protection against the highly contagious disease. #VaccinesWork #WorldImmunizationWeek

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In March, 48 people were arrested in New Mexico, according to an ICE press release. Why is nothing known about who was arrested or their whereabouts?

Madness. Our enemies couldn’t do more damage…

The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid. “It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”

"Democrats can stand up for what’s right AND win on this issue. All they need is the courage of their convictions—and the confidence to bet that fascism isn’t popular just because Nosferatu [=Stephen Miller] insists it is." www.thebulwark.com/p/no-gavin-t...

Judge Boasberg has scheduled an emergency hearing tonight at 6:15pm in on an ACLU motion to issue a nationwide TRO to force Trump Adm to give adequate notice before removing aliens from US under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Call-in number below. (No recording or broadcasting.) /1

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Meanwhile almost no news channel in Turkey is covering this rally. They are all airing unrelated foreign news or Eid specials to distract people from what’s happening on the street. Complicit media continues to be complicit.

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

DOGE signed an agreement with Louis DeJoy to slash 10,000 jobs from the already-understaffed USPS. The USPS is the nation’s lifeline, ensuring delivery to every corner of the country. We cannot allow it to be dismantled, sold off, and handed over to billionaires for profit.

It is easy to overlook the small, but in incredibly important changes, Trump is making in our country

Shut down for the first time since 1942

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

"No matter how things go from here, we’re going to look back at this period with a lot of regret and a lot of woe. But the critical point is the time to stand up is earlier rather than later. You fight the war when you can still minimize the damage." youtube.com/shorts/gIAwi...

They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump's FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA. Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request, alleging “possible criminal violations." newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

Gina McCarthy, an Obama E.P.A. administrator, said it was “the most disastrous day in EPA history. Rolling these rules back is not just a disgrace, it’s a threat to all of us. The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans’ health and well being.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)

This is not a drill. Many will die because of aid cuts.   The pace and the scale of the funding cuts are a seismic shock to the humanitarian sector. But we will not retreat from our mission. Grateful for opportunity to brief UN press corps.

This. THIS. You guys… THIS.

NEW: Perkins Coie, the law firm targeted by Trump in an Executive Order, has now sued the Trump Administration in federal court alleging the EO is unconstitutional on several grounds, including violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CALL YOUR SENATORS Tell them to fight for the American people and not to vote for this CR unless it has guardrails for Trump and Musk. If the government is shut down over this, we will stand by them!

@schumer.senate.gov Please rally the Dems and your ground. Stop this CR!

Minority Leader Schumer: One thing @democrats.senate.gov can do now is block the ruinous MAGA budget bill that just passed the GOP House. House Democrats showed unity; it's time for Senate Democrats to do the same. I am one of your constituents and will remember your leadership (or lack of it).

Repost if you agree: Just in case any Senate Democrats are reading this: I WON’T BLAME YOU FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

He was a few months ahead of himself.

"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..." www.advocate.com/politics/hug...

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford: effective Monday Ontario is charging "25% more for electricity to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war." Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Are we winning yet? apnews.com/article/cana...