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If these allegations are true, the FBI is being weaponized for political retribution, exactly as we warned.
Agents must be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, or Americans will pay the price with our security and safety.
Agents must be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, or Americans will pay the price with our security and safety.
September 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If these allegations are true, the FBI is being weaponized for political retribution, exactly as we warned.
Agents must be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, or Americans will pay the price with our security and safety.
Agents must be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, or Americans will pay the price with our security and safety.
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Make no mistake: the Republican's Big Ugly Bill guts programs that Americans rely on, all to give even more money to the rich.
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Make no mistake: the Republican's Big Ugly Bill guts programs that Americans rely on, all to give even more money to the rich.
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will force the Senate clerk to read out loud Trump’s big, ugly bill in its entirety, a procedural act that will take about 12 hours.
Live updates: Tensions mount as GOP eyes Trump megabill vote, Dems seek delay
The Senate is still eyeing a Saturday procedural vote to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after Democrats announced they will immediately seek to delay its final passage. Senate Minorit...
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June 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will force the Senate clerk to read out loud Trump’s big, ugly bill in its entirety, a procedural act that will take about 12 hours.
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The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.
June 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.
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Pretty much confirmation that Trump was guilty as hell in Impeachment 1 of threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine unless they did what he wanted in a court case, because here he is brazenly doing it again out in the open this time.
June 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Pretty much confirmation that Trump was guilty as hell in Impeachment 1 of threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine unless they did what he wanted in a court case, because here he is brazenly doing it again out in the open this time.
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The data speaks volumes over the political rhetoric.
June 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The data speaks volumes over the political rhetoric.
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If Republicans think we will just get over it, they are wrong! #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid nearly a trillion in cuts so billionaires can get more tax cuts. Shame on Republicans
June 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If Republicans think we will just get over it, they are wrong! #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid nearly a trillion in cuts so billionaires can get more tax cuts. Shame on Republicans
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Starting this fall, Oklahoma high school students will be expected to study so-called “discrepancies” from the 2020 presidential election — essentially conspiracy theories about a stolen election that have been thoroughly discredited by courts and President Donald Trump’s own Department of Justice.
Oklahoma Set to Teach Trump’s Election Lies in Public Schools as Parents and Teachers Push Back
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Starting this fall, Oklahoma high school students will be expected to study so-called “discrepancies” from the 2020 presidential election — essentially conspiracy theories about a stolen election that have been thoroughly discredited by courts and President Donald Trump’s own Department of Justice.
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I know damn well the Republicans haven't read this bill.
So, we’re going to make them.
So, we’re going to make them.
June 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I know damn well the Republicans haven't read this bill.
So, we’re going to make them.
So, we’re going to make them.
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If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.
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Any argument that starts & ends with inflation is driven by gvmnt spending on safety net programs because businesses will inherently raise prices knowing more money is available so we shouldn’t spend, is one that accepts mass poverty as a given, and is therefore a weak argument.
June 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Any argument that starts & ends with inflation is driven by gvmnt spending on safety net programs because businesses will inherently raise prices knowing more money is available so we shouldn’t spend, is one that accepts mass poverty as a given, and is therefore a weak argument.
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More Jan 6 prosecutors have been fired. Per a memo sent to one of them .. the termination is “effective immediately”
(Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)
(Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
More Jan 6 prosecutors have been fired. Per a memo sent to one of them .. the termination is “effective immediately”
(Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)
(Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.
June 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.
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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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June 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨
June 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨
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Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves.
If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such.
🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car
If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such.
🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car
June 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves.
If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such.
🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car
If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such.
🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car
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Today marks seven years since we lost Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, and Wendi Winters to a senseless, horrific act of gun violence at the Capital Gazette.
We will never forget them — and we can never stop fighting for a world without these terrible tragedies.
We will never forget them — and we can never stop fighting for a world without these terrible tragedies.
June 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Today marks seven years since we lost Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, and Wendi Winters to a senseless, horrific act of gun violence at the Capital Gazette.
We will never forget them — and we can never stop fighting for a world without these terrible tragedies.
We will never forget them — and we can never stop fighting for a world without these terrible tragedies.
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Outrageous. Yesterday the Trump admin announced $30 million for GHF — the shadowy group at the center of the scheme to replace humanitarian aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries, leading to the killing of starving civilians trying to collect food.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this outrage.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this outrage.
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Outrageous. Yesterday the Trump admin announced $30 million for GHF — the shadowy group at the center of the scheme to replace humanitarian aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries, leading to the killing of starving civilians trying to collect food.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this outrage.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this outrage.
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god damn he's cooking
June 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
god damn he's cooking
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench:
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench:
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
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"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation-in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so." --SCOTUS
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation-in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so." --SCOTUS
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