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In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

Wow, this verdict against Meta for harming children in violation of consumer protection laws could be a game-changer. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Welcome to America, where masked federal agents can murder you on the street and not even get investigated but journalists get cuffed and charged for filming a protest.

This should be a huge scandal, right? If the media is going to lose it's collective shit over Hunter Biden's pardon, I would think that Trump selling pardons to rich convicted felons for $6 million a pop should register as more than a blip (if mentioned at all) in the news. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/Cm9AQRb

If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...

😳 On 12/18/25, Senator Mike Lee posted: “Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer? My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque. Time to take these pirates down. 🏴‍☠️” 1/ x.com/senmikelee/s...

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

If Mr. Art of the Deal really wanted to end the shutdown and cared about federal workers, programs and services, he would be negotiating instead of building a ballroom. And if he’s too busy with the ballroom, he could allow Thune to do it since Mike Johnson is a useless fool.

Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them. Now, thanks to his shutdown, millions of Americans in at least 25 states will lose access to food stamps on November 1st. The perfect storm of cruelty.

Here we go …

Pregnant people in ICE detention have suffered severe medical neglect and abuse. ICE must identify and release all pregnant people in their custody immediately.

"The idea of a president convincing his own Justice Department to furnish him with nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer cash seems too absurd to take seriously," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/47BMPhH

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

This is fascism.

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.

Hmm. Free link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

These are the FACTS.

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout. China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina. Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers. The Art of the Deal…

There’s a pretty clear pattern in recent lower court rulings suggesting that SCOTUS has lost and respect & legitimacy not only in the eyes of the general public, but with the rest of the judiciary, which is saying so with increasing frankness. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ME: "Jesus, why does your close friend Speaker Mike Johnson relentlessly bear false witness?" JESUS: "WHO???"

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

I asked the FBI to expedite the release of the tape of "border czar" Tom Homan being bribed. FBI said it couldn't see how there wasn't an urgent need to provide the public more information about (checks notes) an active federal official taking bribes and denied expedition of the request.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Project 2025 referenced shrinking farmers access to foreign markets, restricting growth opportunities for producers. (p. 307)

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.