“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

The govt doesn't track how often immigration agents detain Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count: -170+ citizens -including nearly 20 kids—2 with cancer -50+ held after agents questioned their citizenship—nearly all Latino By @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

I don't think Donald Trump understands what the word "peace" means.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Trump promised to lower costs on Day 1. 9 months later, families are paying more for groceries and electricity, and soon they’ll be paying DOUBLE for health care premiums. House Republicans must report back to work and negotiate a compromise to prevent a health care crisis.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

If Biden had pulled 10% of the stuff that Trump has pulled, Republicans would have foamed at the mouth calling for his impeachment. Imagine if Biden had sent federal troops into Texas.

Be kind. That's all.

One of these pictures shows a violent insurrection. The other picture is Portland Oregon.

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

The Supreme Court is failing to understand how dangerous Donald Trump is. They are failing to understand where this all leads.

Republicans want a shutdown. They want chaos because their leader wants chaos. This is a Republican shutdown.

Yesterday I got my COVID booster and flu shot. Every year I’m thankful to science for access to both.

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Spot on.

Our little tree.

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

If only Jeffrey Epstein had unexpectedly stopped an escalator. Then we'd see a full investigation.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

GOP Last Week: "We control everything." Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

The Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. They may try to blame Democrats for the shutdown, but EVERYONE knows it's the Republicans' fault.

Oregon AG Dan Rayfield: "California, DC, Memphis, potentially Illinois, now Oregon - this normalization that you can use the US military in our cities. That is un-American & every place that it happens, you will see Democratic attorneys general standing up, drawing a line in the sand & saying, 'No'"

Release the original Epstein Files!

Leave Portland, Oregon alone.

The Republicans control the White House, the Congress, and the Senate. If the government shuts down, it is 100% the Republican's fault.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

There you go, Republicans are the problem.

Portland is one of the friendliest cities you'll ever visit. It's not "War ravaged" or "under siege" by anyone. FACTS.

If MAGA actually listened to Kimmel's first monolog after coming back, they would be hard pressed to find anything in it to disagree with.

War-ravaged Portland