42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

Sen. Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined his Republican colleagues in voting to sink a Democrat-led bid to stop Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold.

The expenses were “enough to fund Medicaid for 500,000 people for an entire year.”

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

lol are we really still doing ticking time bomb fanfic in the year of our Lord 2026??

Great new stat from @senatebudget.bsky.social: of the $140 billion that Trump & Republicans gave ICE & CBP in the Big Beautiful Bill, $103 billion is still unobligated as of the end of March. Now they’re asking for another $70 billion even though about 75% of the OBBBA money still remains unused.

Thank goodness they provided some context by skipping over lots of history.

this should be good www.state.gov/releases/off...

The Iranian-flagged cargo ship ignored “repeated warnings” because the U.S. blockade is an illegal and illegitimate act of war. This is arguably piracy.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

What's that?? Dems gave up exactly the right amount of votes to sink one of these AGAIN?? Such a crazy coincidence how that keeps happening.

The murder spree continues. The death toll is now up to 178.

We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

UPDATE: 36 Senators vote to block $150M of 1000-lb bombs to Israel. Another record high, after 40 voted to block bulldozers. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Peters, Reed, Rosen, Schumer, Warner, and Whitehouse voted with Republicans.

Grease 2 is a better movie than the original

the problem, of course, is that this ad could only be effective if the Democratic party were to commit to slashing the Pentagon budget and ramping up spending on universal benefits instead, and they have been happily doing the opposite alongside Trump

It was great to join On the Mark Podcast to talk empire + Trump. Listen/watch: youtu.be/IX-31DYBd2c?...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

This WV girl is elated to share that this paper is forthcoming in West Virginia Law Review! I explore how post-9/11 precedent paved the way for the Trump administration's abuse of the law to target cartels in international waters and to effectuate its mass deportation campaign.

World War Trump An analysis by The Intercept reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars. theintercept.com/2026/03/30/t...

Folks in DE/PA/NJ/etc, if you're looking for a great conversation on human dignity in current times, come to Delaware Law School's Dignity Law Symposium - The Role of the State in Protecting Human Dignity - on Friday April 10! succeed.widener.edu/register/?id...

If you need a fascist paramilitary to protect you from Canada I think you might be a little bit of a scaredy cat

I guess we should expect people to get bodyslammed or shot for not putting their laptops in a separate bin now

Remembering the meme's in this moment of sadness. He did nothing, accomplished less & wasted all our time, but it made a lot of centrist libs a load of podcasting money. In the end he really was an american hero. (outside of everything he did as FBI head under Bush & Obama to Muslims and activists)

don't leave out of your Mueller obits the part where he rounded up thousands of Muslim men suspected of no wrongdoing for secret detention and abuse as FBI Director 👍

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I really hate foreign policy discourse that describes any US action as "giving the green light" to Bad Country to do Bad Thing. We don't own the traffic lights! Green lights aren't ours to give!

The war is burning through roughly $11,500 to $23,000 per second. per second! PER SECOND!

Really hope at least some people learn from this experience that despite opportunistic rhetoric about peace, fascism does in fact mean war.

This is an important victory after a hard fight. Congrats and thanks to @ccrjustice.org. They do such important work--please support them if you can. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Truly a perfect news alert

it's not just the Trump administration that's been saying that though

girl what

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

lol remember DOGE

Democratic members of Congress need to attack this war as a crime, because that’s what it is. “The president did not plan out his war of aggression as well as he could have” is a foolish and self-defeating position to take.

I do think it's about time for Dem electeds to wrap up the "he doesn't have a plan!" Iran war complaints. Yes, for sure. This clown car never has a real plan. But even if this was the best-planned, well-briefed Iran war imaginable - it's still catastrophically bad and needs unequivocal opposition!

destroying Iran's what? (they don't have a nuclear weapons program)

I have so far avoided understanding who Clavicular is. Please help keep it this way. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is what ecocide looks like.

“Best money ever spent,” said Lindsey Graham of the $1 billion dollars a day it is costing for the war on Iran. The senator went on to brag that the U.S. is going to “make a ton of money” off of the war that has already killed 1,205 civilians.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

BECAUSE THEY AGREE WITH HIM THIS ISN'T HARD www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's going so well they need more money for their extremely well-planned illegal war www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

For a president who ran for office promising to keep the United States out of wars, Trump has already launched attacks during his second term in: Ecuador Iran Iraq Nigeria Somalia Syria Venezuela Yemen and on civilians in boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.