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Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏

Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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I wish we could have snap elections, and that our general elections were limited to 51 days.

Proposals for increased involuntary commitment share a common function: expanding the state’s power to surveil, detain & 'treat' marginalized people deemed disruptive or deviant. Most impacted would be disabled, unhoused, racialized & LGBTQIA+ people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

📚Thank you, @roncharles.bsky.social: "I know you may be feeling overwhelmed by the relentless attacks on our public institutions, but please don’t sit this one out. Libraries are not a partisan issue." s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities. Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries #ForOurLibraries

I find it outrageous as well.

Today, at the Justice Department's urging, a judge dismissed a serious corruption case against the Mayor of New York. Not because there was any lack of evidence. Not because of any misconduct by the prosecutors…

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

I'm pretty sure, if we survive the next 4 years, & if Trump doesn't illegally fix, cheat or destroy the elections, that Republicans will never win elections again

I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share!

Re:DOGE rebuilding our COBOL system, they seem to have no plan for what to do with the dozens of web based programs we use that interface with the COBOL based program that is our master record. All of this will be useless if they don’t also reprogram those to properly interface with the new system.

Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this: "The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Trump ended funding to Voice of America and Radio Liberty, forcing both to stop broadcasting to countries that restrict press freedom. VOA began operations in 1942; RL started in 1951. Why did Trump silence this voice against communism, fascism and oppression? Iran, Russia and China are thrilled.

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

Apprx 22 Millions ppl. get their only income from their Soc Sec.So , if Elon crashes SS then 22 million will be on the streets, have to sell homes at a loss, and just plain devastated!! Wont that crash the econ. too??? Est, are the rest of seniors will lose 1/3 if their $$!! IS HE A CRAZY MAN!!!???

Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.” Oh. The. Irony.

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

I miss him and his VP.

It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.