Kristen Simplicio

Former Presidents and Cabinet officials and retired judges need to speak out right now about the persecution of immigrants, the denial of due process, the use of CECOT, and the delay tactics, jurisdictional games, and other shenanigans the admin is pulling to delay and deny justice.

Efforts like these create the perfect opportunity for Congressional Democrats to demand statehood for DC. Just point to the absurdity of Congress’s time being spent on micromanaging the classrooms in a single, medium sized city.

I gasped in horror multiple times in reading this, and then immediately looked up how far I live from a nuclear reactor.

At least when they forced National Airport to be renamed after the other President that fired air traffic controllers, they didn’t force those same air traffic controllers to honor him in the airport codes.

Every disgusting scandal and reveal is another opportunity to take stock and wonder how you might have been drawn into something unseemly. The way we view politicians and parties is detrimental to democracy and it’s time we recognized that and made a change for the better.

Overwhelmed trying to unpack 100 pages of right wing trolling and ahistorical fictions masquerading as legal analysis all by yourself? Read this!!

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

We need court reform now. This is a disgrace.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

“The Reflecting Pool story cannot get any stupider” say the skeptics. Ha ha, wrong again.

Jesus. This has to stop.

The bill that does this has to prohibit the use of mandatory arbitration clauses and class action waivers. Unless we want the highways full of cars with huge safety defects that the manufacturers can keep hidden (like Tesla does already)

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

One hour until Supreme Court opinions.

We are not angry enough--a whistleblower provided evidence a DOGE brat stole social sec data & sold it to a Palantir contractor. Our data is used to sell services back to the govt at taxpayer expense for big profits. That is OUR data. Instead of investigating the whisteblower is threatened 😠

Really fantastic @jamellebouie.net column today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Add to the Project 2029 to do list a plan for how to rehabilitate DOJ so that it can ethically and competently prosecute this administration’s many crimes.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

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In a sane world being “tough on crime” would mean unwavering support for more money and power to CFPB and FTC to protect people from increasingly pervasive crimes like pig butchering, identity theft, and illegal gambling and investment schemes. Not overcrowding federal prisons for the benefit of CVS

Team Bulldozer, but if it were possible to prevent the next GOP administration from undoing this and turning into into a museum of lies, then maybe.

And with that, the NYT paves the way for Tucker Carlson to become a serious contender for president in 2028

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

One quick thought is that in recent decisions in Trump’s favor there’s a lot of talk about the government automatically facing irreparable harm when its policies are blocked but here all the talk from Roberts is the irreparable harm facing those challenging the plan.

Jon is absolutely right about this! B of A is planning to force its customers into mandatory arbitration, a rigged system that would make it a lot easier for the Bank to break the law and get away with it. But people can avoid this, and opt out, and they SHOULD.

ONLY 50. And what, just 2 senators?

Hegseth talks like how you’d imagine the husband in that Peloton ad talks. We are all her now.

Add “issue new social security numbers to all 300m Americans” to the ever-growing list of things that will need to do in the Post-Trump reconstruction era.

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

The betting markets are going to get us all killed.

The split in this issue illustrates why any democratic proposals for bipartisan court reform are nonstarters. We cannot invite to the table people who think this outcome is fine. Moderation of access to justice is a denial of access to justice.

Really don't understand how this isn't a bigger scandal. This is conspiracy to commit federal witness tampering (and likely witness murder) for the purpose of covering up a foreign government's deal with organized crime, a deal that has been affirmed by the DOJ.

Hmmmm, and if they don't have a valid ID, they can't vote. You do see what's going on here, right?

people, the guy who won this case is running for Attorney General of Colorado. he's been uniform in saying he will prosecute ICE & CBP agents who break the law. you should support him. @seligmanforag.bsky.social

When one of these judges gets rewarded with a SCOTUS nomination, the Democrats and media better not forget this.

The democrats should walk out. This is just unfiltered racism. There is no point in giving it audience.

On a week when the administration can’t stop complaining about how they can’t understand songs not sung in English, they somehow manage to put on a live enactment of 99 Luftballons.

I have never seen an ad that makes me not want a product as badly as this Ring ad made me not want the Ring product.

The fact that he’d pick Dulles as a place to force his name on to just shows how little he knows about the DC area, which has a proud tradition of ignoring Congressional decisions to name its airports after terrible presidents.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

genuinely stunning image

Working hard to lower your co-pay by $10 so when ICE teargasses your six children, you save on hospital bills.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

He’s a good one

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They would gladly kill you and slander you despite overwhelming evidence and footage and eyewitnesses that it was murder. This isn’t something that elections will fix. It’s going to take a massive reformation and these criminals will have to be punished.