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Gov Jared Polis (D) describes himself as a libertarian. Here, an actual libertarian (and friend of the Gov) Ross Kaminsky of @koacolorado.bsky.social offers a rebuttal to Polis' latest justification of potential clemency for Tina Peters.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

BREAKING: A federal judge has thrown out the criminal indictment of James Comey, ruling that Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed and had no lawful authority to bring the case. The court found her actions violated federal law and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Pope Leo: "Someone who says 'I'm against abortion', but is in favor of the death penalty, is not really pro-life. Someone who says 'I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States', I don't know if that's pro-life."

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Trump admitted in the Oval Office he is shutting the government down. Democrats are ready to stop your health insurance costs from doubling.

Bad Bunny’s ‘No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí: Una Más’ livestream was the most watched single artist performance on Amazon Music. The performance which was streamed exclusively on Amazon Music, Prime Video and Twitch marked the grand finale of Bad Bunny’s residency in Puerto Rico.

Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed by state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Bad Bunny, whose 31-concert residency in Puerto Rico is set to end this weekend, is up for 12 Latin Grammys, including three major awards he's never won: album, song and record of the year.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

If I take my dog to the groomer, or doggie day care, proof of vaccinations are required. Just thought I’d put this out there.

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We start to lose muscle in our 30s, and the loss accelerates with age, putting us at risk of frailty later in life. But what you eat — specifically how much protein — is a big part of the solution.

We are being told to trust the government without question by the same folks who have been telling us for years that we should never trust the government.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

California congressional Republicans Young Kim, David Valadao & Ken Calvert just voted to kick millions off their healthcare. Ladies and gentlemen, we are coming for those seats.

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the needy to be treated as “parasites,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

We all love doomerism here but GOP electeds don't behave like there won't be meaningful elections in 2026...

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

Holy shit. The Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense just testified that the cost of National Guard deployment is $134 MILLION. $134 MILLION to protect a few square blocks & it’s not even working. Every taxpayer should be outraged this is what they’re spending money on.

Where is DOGE these days?

Despite targeted discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community – including recent attacks by the Trump Admin. LGBTQIA+ servicemembers & veterans have always, & continue to, put their lives on the line to defend our nation.

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Alina Habba is a partisan hack and Trump lackey who will never be confirmed as a United States Attorney.

Trump’s VA quietly ended a key program that helped Veterans avoid foreclosure. Now thousands are at risk of losing their homes—with no replacement in place. Just more proof that Trump has zero respect for those who’ve served. MORE: www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead. This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

The Pope living just long enough to have JD Vance visit the Vatican so his Secretary of State could tell Vance to his face that he doesn’t understand Catholicism is a level of hating I could only aspire to in my wildest dreams.

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

I saw this and can’t stop thinking about it

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

Senate Dem Whip Dick Durbin: "Now is the time for my Republican colleagues to step up. You can no longer stay silent in the face of a constitutional crisis. You must join Democrats in responding to this madness and demanding that Mr. Abrego Garcia is returned to the United States immediately."

July 4th is going to have special significance this year. We all should begin talking now about how to make it an important teaching tool for why we choose to build a government and country of We The People not one of kings, oligarchs and Muscovites.

Tonight, Democrats forced a vote on a simple amendment. To remove new tariffs that are increasing the cost of groceries, gas and housing. Republicans rejected it.

Leader Jeffries is threatening a lawsuit against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for holding off on calling a special election to fill a vacant House seat in Houston, which Democrats allege is a deliberate move designed to help pad the GOP's razor-thin majority.

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.

TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.