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Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

Germany sends troops to Greenland. Germany has seen this movie before. They played the bad guys then. They want a different role in the sequel.

Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize

It must be made unmistakably clear from day one that everything produced by this White House-controlled prosecutorial apparatus is political. These are not good-faith law enforcement actions; they are exercises of raw power. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/jd-v...

ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

He did everything he possibly could to overturn the election & stay in power - threatening his VP, Govs & Secs of States, organizing a mob to storm the Capitol. He knew if he ordered a military coup they would’ve refused & he would’ve been tried for treason. That’s why he left.

Yesterday we visited TSA workers at the ABQ Sunport who are working without pay to keep our country safe. We’re grateful to all of our federal workers who continue to show up. It’s way past time to bring back the House and end the shutdown! The safety of our communities literally depends on it!

Damn good read.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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Cuomo had better learn how to say “Mayor Mamdani” correctly, because he got smoked last night.🔥

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Winter is coming. Is it still hot in your area? Cool off with this chilling post. We don't have much time to save democracy. You can be a hero. Volunteer or donate to the Yes on 50 campaign at stopelectionrigging.com PROP 50 MUST PASS if we want a shot at avoiding 1 party rule/autocracy.

I’ll bet I’m in better shape than these guys!

The fact GretaThunberg has hit the nerves of the 🤬🍊💩 hard and made his administration just talk about her at 22 can tell you how priceless of a human she is and how great and instrumental her work has been. Go on, Greta. You’re absolutely tremendous.💙💙💙💙💙

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

This strikes me as pretty bad

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Partisan gerrymanders may be legal, but only because SCOTUS said so. They are anti-democratic measures used by a party that fears losing power to hold onto control, a mechanism that lets parties choose their voters instead of letting voters choose who will represent them.

We’re in the midst of a government shutdown, and millions could lose access to healthcare and see their monthly insurance go THROUGH THE ROOF! Why? Trump and the GOP want to “maximize pain” and keep the government shut down. Healthcare is a human right. We need universal healthcare for all! Now.

Today I spoke with a neighbor (a reliable Democratic voter) about Prop 50. She was dead set against it, but I was able to change her mind. She didn't understand that Republicans are stealing Democratic Congressional seats across the country. Talk to your friends & tell them to vote YES on Prop50!

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I wonder if she can sue in international court?

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. 🙏

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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No, he sure as hell hasn’t.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

I’m sorry, was it the DEMOCRATS who defunded Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to give tax breaks to billionaires Nope-that was Trump With votes from MAGA Senators like Roger Marshall Now hundreds of rural hospitals will probably have to close And only the Democrats are trying to stop this