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We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account. Watch Mark Blumberg and Brad Adams launch this new initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.

Garden of Eden in Maine.

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics

Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he’s a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: “They slammed me on the ground.” Welcome to america the land of the free.

A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white Trump supremacists prepare to march on the streets of D.C. Look how proud she is to show her face while they are all too ashamed to show theirs. She’s a hero, they are all cowards….

These PACs are justifiably afraid of Mainers. They know we don’t want them in our beautiful state.

Wonder who’s paying for all those attack ads you see? Hint: It isn't Mainers.

Inspired by Graham Platner on this spectacular Maine afternoon! Let’s all get behind him!

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They always insist on helping to change the sheets.

WTF School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat The bomb threat was emailed to several schools in the Columbia Heights Public School district after Liam Conejo Ramos returned home from Texas on Sunday night. www.ms.now/news/school-...

👀 @hannahpingree.bsky.social sharing this quote she is hearing from Mainers in reaction to Susan Collins feckless “untenable” position on ICE/DHS funding “The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.” Call your senators at 202-224-3121 today.

I’ve been struggling to square the Christianity I grew up with and the Christian Nationalism pushed by the far-right. How compassion & care for the least of us is Woke, while power & blind allegiance are Christian. Highly recommend this book- lays out all the ways they’ve corrupted & ignored Jesus.

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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

My husband hasn’t been paid in a month, some of my clients aren’t able to pay me due to their own pay cuts, some are hurting due to SNAP cuts, and I’m not going to see my dad for his 80th birthday due to flight cancellations, but I will be furious if @chuck.senate.gov caves on health care.

What should I be doing to prepare for the insurrection act? Due to location, I don’t expect to be immediately impacted but I certainly want to be in a position to help others, and to ensure my family’s safety.

I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases. As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors. (No paywall) www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.

CNN just now: Here’s how an UNsuccessful summit in Alaska could be good for Trump.

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

On the upside, with all this doge theft of private government data, it’ll be a lot easier to have public gun registries cross-referenced with white nationalists.

106 days down... out of 1,461. 1,355 days to go. sigh I want a divorce.

The 5 pencils thing cracks me up. My kids have been talking for weeks about running a black market at their middle school because kids lose so many pencils every day. We stocked up, and I’ll say this: pencil tariffs are going to make my kids RICH! 🤑

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

The heartbreak. Trump claims USAID is bankrupting America—it’s less than 1% of the budget. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is gutting the largest food aid provider. He could end world hunger & still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Not just greed. We’re watching evil at work.

I called Governor Mills to thank her for standing up to tyranny. Absolutely proud to be a Mainer today!

In probably the only ‘good’ thing to come out of all this, I’ve just completed a massive purge of my closet. In case we need to move quickly.

What would be the downsides to Putin falling out a window?

My sixth-grader is doing a democracy vs dictatorship project and it’s making me tearful. Hits different this year.

God do I hope there’s a deep state.

I never posted on twitter, but I’m going to give it a try here. I used to work in national security, and now I have a little criminal law practice in Maine. I’ll be hibernating for a few more weeks but then I think I’ll want to reengage. Glad to find inspiration and camaraderie here!