Jamie Souder
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A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying'
Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”
www.huffpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 AM
A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
I’ve been carving spoons instead of doom scrolling. Excellent decision on my part!
January 30, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I’ve been carving spoons instead of doom scrolling. Excellent decision on my part!
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Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown.
Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.
Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown.
Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.
Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.
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Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
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LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
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lotttt of people not ready for that discussion. it’s part of the reason why i’m immediately suspicious when military background is supposed to be a candidate selling point.
Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves).
This was literally last year:
This was literally last year:
Army investigating social media post showing Nazi symbol
The Army opened an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo online that contained a symbol worn by Nazi SS troops.
www.militarytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
lotttt of people not ready for that discussion. it’s part of the reason why i’m immediately suspicious when military background is supposed to be a candidate selling point.
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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
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This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
At the very least, read her closing argument:
At the very least, read her closing argument:
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
At the very least, read her closing argument:
At the very least, read her closing argument:
Barb and I spent a little time in Glacier National Park. No regrets. 💚⛰️
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Barb and I spent a little time in Glacier National Park. No regrets. 💚⛰️
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Demand the video.
The FBI used hidden cameras to record Tom Homan taking a $50,000 bribe (in cold, hard cash) last year from undercover agents posing as business executives who Homan promised government contracts in a new Trump administration.
The Trump DOJ has now shut down the probe.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
The Trump DOJ has now shut down the probe.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Demand the video.
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i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!
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Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
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Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
‘Giddy’ Republicans cheer Mamdani’s impact on Democrats
Party leaders and operatives worry the leading New York City mayor candidate will hurt their chances of winning back power in Washington.
www.politico.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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When I post past revelations jn the Epstein Trump scandal, someone invariably replies “we knew this already.”
You might have known it, sure, but a lot of folks don’t.
You might have known it, sure, but a lot of folks don’t.
So I just got off the phone with my dad—a daily news reader & viewer—who thought the Epstein scandal was abt Trump's womanizing & was shocked to learn the "wonderful secret" that he is alleged to have raped children. An important reminder that we have to talk abt this stuff with friends & family.
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When I post past revelations jn the Epstein Trump scandal, someone invariably replies “we knew this already.”
You might have known it, sure, but a lot of folks don’t.
You might have known it, sure, but a lot of folks don’t.
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Andry José Hernández Romero after hugging his best friend, who had been relentless in pleading for his cause. I’ll stop posting these some day. But not today.
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Andry José Hernández Romero after hugging his best friend, who had been relentless in pleading for his cause. I’ll stop posting these some day. But not today.
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This is a BFD
“The whole game for Jonathan Mitchell is to get into federal court, both because he wants to shut down doctors in shield-law states, like everyone in the anti-abortion movement, and because he wants a federal court to weigh in on the Comstock Act.”
He’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere?
Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is going after a California doctor, Here’s why that’s terrifying.
www.motherjones.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is a BFD
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“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” The last journalists remaining in Gaza are near death from forced starvation. There is enough food at the border to feed the entire population for 3 months. This is genocide.
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” The last journalists remaining in Gaza are near death from forced starvation. There is enough food at the border to feed the entire population for 3 months. This is genocide.
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me 100%
i entered last week very skeptical about Epstein conspiracy theories and now I'm wondering if Trump personally walked into the jail and killed him
July 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
me 100%
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Can everyone share this?
July 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Can everyone share this?
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NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader.
Read here:
Read here:
Have you seen this man?
In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader.
Read here:
Read here:
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We’ve shifted money from helping people to hurting people.
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We’ve shifted money from helping people to hurting people.
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McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
July 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.