The umpteenth example of "free speech for me, but not for thee."

Chris Smalls—a Black American labor leader—was trying to feed Palestinians being starved in Gaza. The IDF detained and beat him for it. This assault must not go unnoticed and he must be freed immediately. Israel must be held to account. Let aid through. End the genocide.

A million people are about to die of starvation in Gaza because of the Israeli government's genocidal policies, fully backed by the US, and I just want to say that I am going to remember each and every person who never spoke out publicly. I will never forget or forgive.

This is the kind of thing that would be immediately obvious if you’ve ever spoken with a “low information voter.” Democrats didn’t go too far left. The people on the bottom thought they went too soft against the people on top.

State College, PA says #NoKings. The crowd was much bigger than expected, despite the rain, and people were upbeat and having fun.

Hotline for Immigrant Law Defenders: 213-833-8283 Legal representative line for CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles): 213-201-3797 ACLU Rapid Response Hotline for LA County: 888-624-4752

I just met with Mohsen Mahdawi where he’s being held in Vermont. He was detained when he showed up for his citizenship interview. He should be released so he can become a citizen.

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

Trump's counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka suggests opposition to their immigration policy is "aiding and abetting" terrorists. "And you have to ask yourself: are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute."

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is a US Citizen. His mom showed up to court house with his birth certificate AND his ss card but he is still being detained.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

Dial 202-224-3121 and ask for your Democratic senator(s) and tell them they have a chance to hold the line for the Constitution by voting against the Republican continuing resolution, or vote for it and support the death of Congress as a coequal branch. These calls matter.

If Trump wanted to weaken America from within, this is the way: tanking our economy and destroying our relationship with our closest friend and neighbor, as well as the stability that comes from the longest unsecured border in the world.

The world's richest man is illegally shutting down the government while the president is disappearing people for speech he doesn't like and the vice president is telling Congress that the president won't respect the funding levels they set anyway. Insane moment for any Dem to be business as usual.

This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.

It's a standard authoritarian playbook to target the most marginalized groups with the least institutional support first. But Trump won't stop there. He will expand these illegal arrests, detentions and deportations to include anyone whose speech he doesn't like, including U.S. citizens.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Every lawmaker needs to go on record: Do you support using immigration status as a weapon against political dissent? Green card holders have due process rights—the president can’t just strip someone’s status bc they don’t like what they say. This is unconstitutional & authoritarian, full stop.

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

The new deputy director of the FBI recently said Trump should “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions”

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"Maybe Republicans will save us" is not an adequate strategy for this moment!

Let’s not pretend this is some complex legal question only special elites like JD Vance can understand. Everyone can see what Trump and Musk are claiming power to do — raze the federal bureaucracy to the ground in contravention of the congressional statutes that build, regulate, and protect it.

So much evidence mounting that this is, in fact, a coup. The courts won’t save us.

Vance is pushing idea that Trump is a king with unchecked power, not even accountable to courts and the rulings of judges. This is setting up the Trump administration to break with court rulings, creating a constitutional crisis and pushing the US into full blown dictatorship.

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

So Musk and his team did already try to use the Treasury portal to (illegally) block payments. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.

This Treasury letter does not contradict reporting by WIRED & TPM. It says "Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause" have read-only access, and "all operational processes" are conducted by Treasury staff. That doesn't deny DOGE has admin and altered code. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

As if on cue. These illegal impoundments are still happening. This is not at the level of theory. bsky.app/profile/wyde...

I’m on my way to the Treasury Dept to demand answers. Billionaire-in-Chief Elon Musk has been given illegal access to Americans’ private info, including Social Security numbers. Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.

NEW: After consulting former Treasury staff, the Progressive Change Institute just released a memo outlining the worst case scenarios of Musk's hostile takeover. This is nothing more than an economic coup.

Beyond bonkers. There is no tech company in the world that would push major code changes to a massive code base without testing them righteously in a dev environment, especially not the work of a single 25yo coder with less than 2 weeks of access to the system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

Key: "The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked...They have looked extensively into the categories and identity of payees to see how certain payments can be blocked."

“I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame.” archive.ph/z8Gae

🚨A 25-year-old Musk intern has access to the code of our nation's most sensitive and important payment systems. Not to mention access to the data of every single American -- bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, etc. *** Emergency protest at Treasury tonight, 5 p.m. ***

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

The Government Accountability Project has a very good handbook on whistleblowing and retaliation that some federal employees may find helpful right now: whistleblower.org/caught-betwe...

The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress. Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional. The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Musk claims the authority to personally destroy an independent federal agency.

He's always announcing his crimes in the midst of committing them, like a Batman villain. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Some fed employees have been advised to download their Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) because they're hearing OPM is planning to cut off access tomorrow. The folder includes all personal identifying info, performance reviews, benefits selections, raises. Unclear why they'd do this.

New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away. It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.

Now, with alt text, to ensure everyone fully understands exactly what we're dealing with with the 19-yo Canadian calling himself Big Balls who, along with a few other nerds, seem to have had exclusive control over the United States Treasury Department since Friday