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NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
The Sooknanan Monologue
The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on.

Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.The reports started earlier in the summer that Tru...
www.rawstory.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won.
Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none.
And by union, what we will can be accomplished still;
drops of water turn a mill, singly none, singly none. - preamble to a coal miner’s constitution
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights?

He wants working people to feel helpless and divided.

Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power.

Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
August 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Resistance is NOT futile.
"People tend to fetishize big... acts of “Resistance" w/o remembering that small individual acts of noncompliance are also tools that can frustrate great & evil powers. We can save a life, [ease] the suffering of a person, or can change a mind. Right now, that has to be enough of a reason to try."
On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance
At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile,
there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back.
www.thenation.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Big if true
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.”

@waiterich.bsky.social
@fortune.com #CPI
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
August 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Mail-in voting is safe. Period. Trump and Republicans know it. But they also know winning fair and square doesn’t look likely with their horrible policies and broken “promises.” That’s why they’re hell-bent on gutting voting rights. When you can’t win fair, you cheat.
August 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If you've got nothing to hide,
#ReleaseTheFiles
August 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
August 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Look what Trump and Hegseth have already made our military look like. How long can we endure this shame?
August 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The emergency is that we let this administration continue to defy norms and the laws of the land.
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.”

There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs.
There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown.
And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
August 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The bad guys are the ones wearing the masks.
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.
August 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The next Secretary of Energy.
76-year-old Irene Gilbert has filed 15 challenges to energy projects like wind turbines — more than anyone in Oregon, according to the state’s Department of Energy.

“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.

With @opb.org
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon
Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat…
www.propublica.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.
Chimpanzees pick up communication styles from their moms, not their dads
A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.
n.pr
August 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
When republicans show their True Colors, take note.
BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said Loving v. Virginia—legalizing interracial marriage—should have been left to individual states. That’s not misunderstanding, it’s blatant racism. Now he’s “walking it back.” We see your game, Gov. Watch this space, don’t let anyone forget.
August 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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“If you’re trying to erase history, you’re on the wrong side of it.”

- Tim Walz
August 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This is only going to get worse as they continue to deport the workforce…
August 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
We now have a “cruel and unusual” state.
"This is, at the moment, the official voice of the US government: a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating."
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I hope they line Putin’s route.
Yes ALASKA!!!!
#Putin getting the welcome he deserves in #Anchorage #Alaska this afternoon.
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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“We are working to get our clients out of harm’s way as much as we can, and to monitor whether the actions follow the law.”

Trump's raids on DC's homeless encampments are starting tonight. Advocates are scrambling to relocate people from tent encampments before imminent arrests.
Trump plans raids on DC's homeless tonight, sources say
Advocates are scrambling to relocate people from tent encampments before imminent arrests.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🇺🇦Yes 🇺🇦
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM