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Just gonna leave this here…

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

CIA Ops Veteran Calls Signal Scandal “the tip of the iceberg” open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

Wut?? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he will continue to revoke visas for “people that are supportive of movements that run counter to the foreign policy of the United States.” This is new. And it doesn’t feel like freedom

Congress Where is the risk assessment on this? @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov Protect SSA from Elon Musk and DOGE programmers

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

All The News That's Fit To Print (on a NJ overpass) @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @njindivisible.bsky.social @joltusa.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov@kim.senate.gov @stevenfulop.bsky.social #hegseth #nationalsecurity #signalgate #resist

Government abductions are unconstitutional. Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional. If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute… They’ll get to you soon enough.

Kristi Noem: “I’m going undercover as a spy to find the culprit who leaked the classified war plans.”

This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

Hey Ohio Miss Sherrod Brown yet? Hey Montana Miss Jon Tester yet? They would have STOPPED Elon Musk and DOGE's destruction of our government Our government serves us not just the wealthy It's a Nation of, for, and by the people Not A Nation of, for, and by the Oligarchs #DemCast #DemVoice1

To be clear, because apparently I’m popping on the Twitter machine I’m still locked out: YES, I think it would be easier for Dems to win elections if everyone who is eligible to vote was also allowed to vote. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, Charlie Kirk. Ask your pal Gavin if I stuttered.

Goldberg: I've never experienced this.. these are these are life and death issues and you don’t just put out specific targeting information, specific timings of attacks that have not yet taken place into a commercial messaging app.

I'll be on CNN at 9pm ET with Kaitlan Collins to discuss today's news of the astonishing security failure at the White House.

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Nobody is safe If you challenge anything he says Oppose anything he does Assert your Constitutional rights in any way he deems inappropriate You risk persecution-even if you have a presidential pardon If you ever asked yourself, "what would I do if faced with a tyrant You're about to find out

Timeline: Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process ACLU sues Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

Democratic Governors and AGs are on the frontlines fighting back the Trump agenda. Democrats need to clearly communicate we’re winning in the courts and have the working class’s back. www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/p...

Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review. It's corruption. And it's dangerous. Fire Elon Musk. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Sunday sillies: Blinded me with science edition

This statement from AG Bondi is a disgrace. The judge did not “support” terrorists. He decided a case, based on facts and law, finding the requirements of the Alien Enemy Act lacking.

Again: They 💰 don’t 💰 actually 💰 care 💰 about 💰 the 💰 debt Tax cuts for the rich. That’s the game.

My district #CA03 @kkiley.bsky.social voted to cut Medicaid for 190,105 Medicaid pays for long-term care for Seniors How many in our district will be affected by these cuts? I plan to ask him Will he take my questions Monday March 17th at 6:30pm on his Teletown Hall call?

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

I searched this and just wow, there are tons of stories of Rogers' heroism & service but now the official DoD site not only says "not found" but the text is "deimedal" | see Congressional Medal of Honor list www.cmohs.org/recipients/c...

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

ICYMI — Trump’s social security commissioner sounds the alarm about SS being in peril from DOGE, and again says millions of dead people are not getting checks despite what Trump & Musk have said. www.propublica.org/article/reco...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

I’m not just talking about Trump. TV channels should do real-time fact-checking for all major political speeches. They should’ve done it for Biden, who sometimes said things that weren’t true. But of course, Biden’s level of disinformation was a drizzle. Trump’s is a Cat 5 hurricane. 5/6 🧵

Real-time fact-checking is the only effective fact-checking. Doing it 2 hours later or simultaneously on a separate platform such as a blog is COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE. Journalists are supposed to be in the truth business. They must try to disarm lies, not just pretend they’re fighting back. 4/6 🧵

We definitely need to get rid of Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Maybe they can be banished to any of the countries where there are no vaccines for deadly diseases because USAID resources were cut. I’m sure there are better ideas out there…

Medicaid and CHIP help many of Jack Bergman's rural northern Michigan and UP constituents stay healthy. It's too bad he abandoned them to give trillions in tax cuts to billionaires that don't even live in MI01.