So ICE held a 5 year old girl hostage so that they could disappear her father (who has an active asylum case ongoing, which means he is following the law), and the police came in and rescued her from ICE? Abolishing ICE is a pretty moderate position.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

America's leading libertarian.

The Vibe Switch is really something to behold.

As a fun fact, 18 USC 1001 says that a person who knowingly or willingly makes a material statement that is false, or fraudulent before Congress is committing a criminal offense. It does not require that the person be under oath. Swearing someone in is more symbolic than anything.

It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.

This is expressly not what the Impoundment Control Act says.

"agreed" is legitimately hilarious framing.

Communities tearing down Confederate statues is rewriting history, but rewriting history is the President's job. So it has always been, so it always will be.

Science often sounds ridiculous out of context. But that’s why NIH grantees have to painstakingly document and explain what they do and why. Writing a grant application for NIH funding is notoriously The Worst, but it’s what has to happen. The NIH knows perfectly well what that money is spent on!

Republicans have killed public broadcasting, but at least Trump gets billion dollar airplane and a gold plated ballroom.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

"making it extremely difficult"? That's what you all are going for? Sigh.

Vote blue no matter who, amiright?

From the woman who literally wrote the book on concentration camps

In a time of breathtaking lies coming at us every second of every day, this is one that still makes you stop at the audacity.

The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.

Reminder that her handwriting (see: the whiteboard) is pretty much a perfect match for the graffiti found outside her home a few years back

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Not just recessions, but illegal impoundments. I have no idea what is happening at the end of September, because Trump has shown congressional Democrats that he simply won't follow the law and fund their priorities.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

The case is so flimsy that even Tucker Carlson is dunking on it. Also, the amount of contempt that he has for Cruz is nothing short of delicious.

CNN and Jake Tapper are honestly out there saying that there was no difference between Biden being old and W. Bush lying about WMD's and sending America into a multi-decade military conflict. Far more stories were written about every Biden eye twitch than if Iraq actually had uranium.

I too feel like we are just one really, really good apology letter away from solving the problem.

The economy is a lot like Tinkerbell, we all just have to believe really, really hard for it take flight.

Not beating the drug charges here.

I feel like we don't talk enough that she had a seat to run for because Tom Harkin, who wrote the Americans with Disability Act, retired. Full 180.

Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.

Ranking Member DeLauro is the absolute GOAT.

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

What are the odds that America has been at risk with Waltz in place for the last month because Trump was too vain to have major turnover in his first 100 days?

recent polling is just a total repudiation of the idea that full spectrum opposition to trump across every area was/is a bad idea

Pretty impressive that out of the 195 countries, he has made deals with 200 of them and no one has said a thing yet.

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

If you are a Democrat, and you see Trump underwater on the economy and immigration, your reaction should be "attack" and not "appease".

Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.

Occasionally, Trump has a 24-hour period in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief. Take yesterday, for example: - threatens CBS - makes excuses for Putin - sidesteps court rulings - endorses sending Americans to Salvadoran prison - punishes Harvard www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off. Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.

New from me: the Senate plan to extend Trump's tax cuts and enact an additional $1.5 trillion in tax cuts would lower wages *so much* Americans on average would have less money even w/ the lower taxes. In other words, it reduces after-tax income. Link here: www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

Trump didn't "back off" his tariffs yesterday. The cost to consumers is *higher* than it was before his announcement - losing households $4,400 per year! And it's the highest tariff rate in around 100 years!

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

I don't think the stock market is a good measure of the economy, but Republicans do.

I got the Senate GOP budget resolution reconciliation instructions. Rs are coming for your Medicaid and food assistance - and are cutting taxes for the rich. These are one-sided requirements. You can cut the red ones MORE than the # listed. You can only increase the black ones as much as listed.

Elon Musk will be stepping back to spend more time with all our data that he stole.