The biggest threat to D.C residents is this hated MAGA Administration. Can’t wait till this orange stain is gone.

ICE got involved and now a toddler is dead. This isn’t an isolated incident; many American children who have a parent detained by ICE have ended up in foster care or without proper supervision. We shouldn’t give a cent more to ICE to continue this cruelty.

This is what happens when the FBI director is always nursing a hangover.

Fuck David Ellison and everyone at CBS who is responsible for canceling The Late Show. David Letterman built something magnificent for you, and Stephen Colbert expertly brought it into the modern era. And you threw it all away in an instant because Dear Leader cannot take a joke.

People really need to be prosecuted and sent to prison for all these deaths.

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

DOJ should be charging the killers of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti. And the killers of immigrants in detention rather than Castro. What a waste of our taxpayer money.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Dude. Resign and go eff couches again.

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

It should not be difficult for Democrats to put out a statement today saying that if you touch a single dime of this money you'll be investigated and prosecuted after November. People want to vote for a party that will be merciless in going after corruption.

NEW: More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

We’re starving the country to force surrender and we are surprised the regime in power is potentially planning a response? Also, seriously Axios?

Democrats should start talking about concrete ways to indict Trump administration officials. And once again, they should ignore any blanket pardons issued before indictments.

“This administration’s immigration policy demonstrates a lack of humanity. The denial of a permit for Kevin’s parents to say goodbye highlights an inflexible system. Even when Kevin’s doctors in Chicago advocated with immigration authorities, their calls for compassion were ignored.”

id get fired if something i wrote or edited had an error in it that i willfully ignored because my entire point relied on the error

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Happy Mother’s Day from the Trump administration.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

One especially infuriating part of this ruling is that past GOP gerrymandering may have enabled it. Democrats narrowly lost Virginia’s House in 2021 using the prior GOP-drawn map. That gave the GOP the power to appoint two justices under Gov. Glenn Youngkin—one of whom was in the 4-3 majority here

The majority's holding is: "election" doesn't mean what it says in the Virginia Code and how it has always been interpreted, it has a new amorphous meaning we sharked up from every other source we could imagine.

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

Infuriating beyond belief.

So Tennessee republicans can blatantly strip majority-Black Memphis of representation 9-0, but virginia voters VOTE to redistrict and it gets struck down? What a country. 🇺🇸

Can we at least all come together on Anthony Starr winning all the acting awards?!

⚠️ Louise Lucus is one of the architects of Virginia's successful redistricting effort, so it’s almost certain this is politically motivated:

They really hate black women who stand up to their fascism.

The Republican Majority of the Roberts SCOTUS is essentially operating as the judicial branch of the Republican Party doing what they can to help their party win elections. Their actions at this point speak for themselves.

Supreme Court agrees to issue the judgment in Callais sooner than normal, so Louisiana and Republicans can start to make mischief in time for the midterms. Jackson issues blistering dissent, prompting dyspeptic response from Alito. It’s an utter clusterfuck. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p....

A bunch of christofascists.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

DC statehood should be a litmus test for every democratic candidate going forward and some prominent democrats running this year are already failing that test

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

“More than five months after Elsa Sanchez submitted her #DACA renewal request, she is still waiting for an answer. When the deadline passed at the beginning of April, she was put on leave at her job at a healthcare IT company and now, as a single mother of a college freshman, has no income.”

And that's why every Democrat who is serious about welding power by 2028 must prepare a Reconstruction 3.0 blitzkrieg that can be rolled out and enforced in hours to overwhelm the well-funded, well-connected, and well-armed racists

Never let up on wanting everyone in this admin prosecuted for crimes.

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

The Supreme Court's Republicans just gutted the Voting Rights Act, severely weakening democracy. By 2028, Republicans could erase many VRA congressional seats and entrench state legislative supermajorities across the South—and oust Black, Latino, & Native officials from local governments nationwide

Breaking: Supreme Court invalidates second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, effectively gutting last remaining part of Voting Rights Act

If Democrats do not immediately expand and rebalance the Supreme Court at their first opportunity, nothing else they do to rebuild democracy will survive and MAGA rule will remain entrenched.

Things are going well.

This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they can’t stay and must go… somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

Good!

Insanity. And also insane that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social doesn’t believe impeaching the orange goon after the midterms is priority.

The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history, but for Trump’s $400 million gold-plated ballroom suddenly we’re flush with cash. Absolutely surreal, cartoon supervillain levels of greed.

January 6 has entered the chat.🙄

Others have noted it, but it really is strange that Donald Trump, who obsesses over the slightest perceived insult to him, has never to my knowledge once discussed the actual man who took a shot at him in Butler, PA.