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This is how we win. Never cede ground on your position on ‘losing’ issues or you leave an opening for your opponent to define you

For someone who positioned themself as a fighter & being clear eyed about Trump, & now seeing Stevens, Craig and Hong all strongly support and immediately start campaigning for the Dem nominee creates serious questions about @crockett.house.gov authenticity and commitment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told officers to suspend most vehicle stops around the country, two sources briefed on the matter said, after agents fatally shot two men six days apart during stops in Texas and Maine. Reuters correspondent Kristina Cooke has more.

Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.

Trump justified his complete dismissal of the Election Assistance Commission by asserting his presidential power. But that’s not the only reason, Marc Elias says. “[Trump] doesn’t like there to be true experts who are willing to tell the truth to the American public.”

This is Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT

This is I believe the third incident where ICE has gone to arrest people, they flee, and someone is hit by a car or other vehicle and dies. In this case, ICE officers went to question some people at a gas station, they panicked, and one of them ran into the road and was hit by a truck.

Can we start a petition to nominate @hcrichardson.bsky.social for the Nobel Peace Prize? Can’t think of another person alive who, as a one woman news room, has done more to motivate a people slipping into fascism to fight back and remind us of the virtues of democracy & the history that supports it

Technology is supposed to serve people. But when it’s framed as inevitable—something you have no choice but to adopt or be replaced by—the question flips: are we serving the technology, and who is the tech then really serving?

Why did 53% of white women who voted for Trump, against their own interests? Many of these women voted not for themselves but supposedly for their sons and husbands. It’s a moral failure that we never ask ourselves why we don’t hold the expectation for those men to vote for their moms and wives

@kenmartin.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @profgalloway.com Finally! This absolutely needs to be the message of the democrats for 2026 & 2028. Dem leaders would do well to let Rep McBride lead in messaging.

Trump has made the United States a pariah state

Trump: "Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the Supreme Court, which has become a weaponized Political Organization ... They wouldn’t even call out The Rigged Election of 2020 & now it has been conclusively proven to be stolen — look what happened by allowing a grossly 'President.'"

The dude is circling the drain. He’s now calling on people in media to be imprisoned for treason if they don’t report on the war to his liking.

Trump: "The Courts treat Republicans, & me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Fed Chairman, Jerome 'Too Late' Powell, not allowed to be investigated for horrible job he does?"

Tim Dillon: "This is what we're doing? I thought the cost of groceries was gonna go down? No, no, no, we're ending the world…The price of a house is never coming down — we're ending the world.…The foreign and economic policy of our country currently right now is the rapture."

Before the Iran war it had seemed as if Russia’s oil revenues—and its economy—were at last sinking. That may be changing econ.st/4rosVNP Photo: Getty Images

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Do you know where your birth certificate is? How about your passport? Do you even have one? Millions of Americans lack ready access to these documents, which they’d need to register to vote under the SAVE Act. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4bLkoR1

Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official. 1/

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

$38 billion on the warehouses to provide "Prime, but with human beings" azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

"Amazon’s pretax U.S. profit increased by 44.5%, to $89.5 billion." www.wsj.com/business/tru...

Republicans’ new tax law decreased Amazon's taxes 87%, while the corporate giant's profits grew. The company’s U.S. taxes went $9 billion $1.2 billion. Amazon is also in the process of cutting 30,000 jobs.

MARGE TO MAGA: “What would’ve been our reaction?”

Trump has even lost Rasmussen now

Holy shit.

Shout out to those hero readers of print journalism who could make it to the third page of the national section to read about the shooting yesterday. Here’s the cover, fwiw:

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

Right again.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Some high-profile gun rights activists and groups bristled at government officials’ claims that federal agents may have been justified in killing Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday because he was carrying a pistol. "Carrying a gun is not a crime," said the head of one advocacy company.

This is ok tho

Minnesota ICE-watchers did this. By relentlessly documenting ICE/BP/DHS abuses—taking on personal risk to do so—they’ve gotten the horrors into more information streams. Got more people to pay attention, undermined Trump regime lies, and shifted the stances of some Democratic officeholders.

The NRA is condemning *progressive politicians* for Border Patrol's murder of a citizen legally recording federal agents while carrying a permitted firearm.

If you weren't tracking it, it's hard to explain how hyperventilated the NRA's rhetoric about looming government jackboots was while Barack Obama was president. It was their/LaPierre's central sales pitch.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

MAGA will always be escalating. A political party tries to court your vote. An authoritarian regime tries to keep you from voting and sow chaos and spread violence to seize control over elections.

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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "It was our country’s destiny to reflect ideals that made us an incandescent beacon for democracy," Maureen Dowd writes. "But Trump has pulverized those ideals. We are now seen as sinister, selfish, unruly and at everybody’s throats."

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