I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Two federal judges in one day order rehiring of fired federal workers across the government. Good news to end the evening. 🌙😴
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it.

The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness

You don't often see a complaint with an epigraph, let alone an epigraph with an epithet. (This is AP's amended complaint over its exclusion from the WH press pool, filed late last night. It's excellent.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trudeau says Canadians are “perplexed why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.” He adds: “I don’t think there’s a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning, saying ‘Oh, damn, Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada.’” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

It's too bad the only powers Chuck Schumer has as Senate Minority Leader is typing out milquetoast posts on social media.

Finally left the other site. Hoping this place isn’t as bad as advertised…twt

One day I will convince liberal friends to just make one minute of video content complaining about Republicans in the time they spend complaining about Democratic inability to stop Republicans from making the world worse. The problem is the Republicans!