Val
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Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
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If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
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UPDATE: Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for more than five hours.
Leader Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for more than three hours — using the unlimited speaking time granted to House leaders to delay final passage of Trump's tax bill.
July 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
UPDATE: Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for more than five hours.
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As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
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I'm often critical of Senate Democrats for not doing more, but in this instance they did everything we could've asked for.
senate democrats did literally everything possible to stop this bill and to draw attention to it, and they succeeded in striking several awful parts from it *and* forced two retirements, if you they could’ve done more, your argument is with arithmetic, not politics
I hate what Republicans do with the heat of a thousand suns but it takes two to do a fascism: one to act and the other to not stop him. That is why I keep saying, hey, let’s stop them. Shaking a fist is good but throwing one is better.
July 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm often critical of Senate Democrats for not doing more, but in this instance they did everything we could've asked for.
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McGovern on the new tax break for fishermen (which seems targeted for Murkowski): "Is that all it took? Boy, she's a cheap date."
July 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
McGovern on the new tax break for fishermen (which seems targeted for Murkowski): "Is that all it took? Boy, she's a cheap date."
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Republicans don’t care about you.
(h/t @thedemocrats on IG)
(h/t @thedemocrats on IG)
July 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Republicans don’t care about you.
(h/t @thedemocrats on IG)
(h/t @thedemocrats on IG)
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Stop what you’re doing and share this! It’s time for Laverne Cox on the Gay of the Day! Actress, activist and glass ceiling breaker. #lgbtq #pride #lgbt #history #transgender #representationmatters
June 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stop what you’re doing and share this! It’s time for Laverne Cox on the Gay of the Day! Actress, activist and glass ceiling breaker. #lgbtq #pride #lgbt #history #transgender #representationmatters
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The extraordinary lengths to which the government has gone to pursue this flimsy case speaks volumes: they’d rather keep actually dangerous, deportable people on the streets than admit a simple mistake.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The extraordinary lengths to which the government has gone to pursue this flimsy case speaks volumes: they’d rather keep actually dangerous, deportable people on the streets than admit a simple mistake.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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It's fascinating to watch people who aren't running for reelection anymore suddenly grow a spine.
Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?
June 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It's fascinating to watch people who aren't running for reelection anymore suddenly grow a spine.
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On tonight's @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited @savmargaret.bsky.social's reporting about the bureaucratic hurdles and technical glitches Georgians have faced under the state's Medicaid work mandate, as the GOP rushes to implement a national work requirement: propub.li/4kfg2SE
June 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
On tonight's @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited @savmargaret.bsky.social's reporting about the bureaucratic hurdles and technical glitches Georgians have faced under the state's Medicaid work mandate, as the GOP rushes to implement a national work requirement: propub.li/4kfg2SE
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Keep Calling
Keep the pressure on
202 224-3121
Calling your Senators
Keep the pressure on
202 224-3121
Calling your Senators
June 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Keep Calling
Keep the pressure on
202 224-3121
Calling your Senators
Keep the pressure on
202 224-3121
Calling your Senators
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Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden:
They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.
5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.
5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
June 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden:
They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.
5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.
5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
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Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
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It’s Ally Fridays on Gay of the Day! Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are showing up, speaking out and championing their daughter Zaya Wade and the trans community every chance they get. They are learning as they go along just like we all are. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️ #pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia
June 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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What the court has now said is that Trump could now start rounding up people without due process, throwing them into concentration camps and executing them and only those with the means and opportunity to sue could defend their rights under the Constitution, one by one, individual case by case.
June 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What the court has now said is that Trump could now start rounding up people without due process, throwing them into concentration camps and executing them and only those with the means and opportunity to sue could defend their rights under the Constitution, one by one, individual case by case.
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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
First #SCOTUS ruling today is birthright citizenship.
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.