Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Trump’s attacks on immigrants are morally horrifying, bad for our economy, unconstitutional, and hurt our national security. At every single level, these cruel and illegal policies are harming our country. We can and must do better.

It's hard to prove anything electorally. But I think the @adambonica.bsky.social plan for the Democratic Party is electorally superior to abundance, fighting oligarchy and Third Way-ism and still could include the best policy ideas from the first two. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

H1B fee increase will hurt the very voters that Trump claims to represent. Hospitals, already poorly staffed in rural counties, will feel the brunt. Turns out a few finance bros making sweeping changes to immigration policy isn’t a good idea. Hat tip: @nickmark.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

There is a class of Democrats who have completely given up on being able to persuade voters on (checks notes) very popular positions.

I had a blast kicking off early voting with @abigailspanberger.com and @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social in Fairfax this afternoon. Virginians are fired up to elect Democrats up and down the ballot this year!

How important is immigration? Here are charts of the population by age in 2000 (pink) and 2024 (purple) with: 1. Everyone 2. No immigrants 3. No immigrants and no children of immigrants Look how the age distribution shifts. www.pbump.net/o/another-vi...

Political violence has no place in our country. And neither should guns.

We’re thrilled to endorse @drtinashahnj.bsky.social for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th District! 🎉 If elected, Dr. Shah would become the first South Asian ever to represent NJ in Congress—a historic milestone in a state with one of the largest South Asian populations in the country.

Donald Trump's "Big Ugly Bill" will take health care away from millions of Americans. As a doctor, I know just how devastating the ripple effects of this bill will be — from shuttered rural hospitals to seniors losing the nursing home care they rely on.

Pour one out for the so-called deficit hawks folks.

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

Senator Hashmi is the fighter we need for our families. Onwards to November! Let's go win!!

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

We stand in full support of @padilla.senate.gov. When even U.S. Senators are forcibly removed and handcuffed for seeking the truth, the message is clear: no one is safe. This isn’t about politics. It’s about a repressive, lawless agenda targeting immigrants and silencing dissent.We won’t stand by.

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Proud to be on #TeamRaja. @rajaforil.bsky.social will be the fighter Illinois families need in the Senate. Let's go win!! 👏🏾

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

Who else do we think he tipped off? Putin, MBS, his kids, Elon? Possible Trump made a whole bunch of people very, very rich today, illegally, of course.

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

It's Liberation Day from the penguins. Too long they have taken advantage of Americans. No more.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Based on the group chat texts, it's not clear that the Commander-in-Chief made the final decision. "The core thing that was supposed to happen in these decision-making procedures clearly didn't happen," says Hayes.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

There should be a full investigation. But this much is already clear, Hegseth, Waltz, Rubio, Gabbard, Ratcliffe discussed plans for an military mission on an unsecure channel. They clearly broke operational security. That's not in question. They should resign, be fired, or impeached. Demand that.

This is what happens when you staff the government with unqualified sycophants. This is a massive breach of national security. Secretary Hegseth should be fired immediately and Congress should conduct a full investigation. Everyone needs to be held accountable.

Trump is already defying the courts. He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court. Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.

Putting an academic department is receivership literally allows the government to dictate what Columbia University professors are allowed to teach and research. It’s the textbook definition of fascist control over education and what people are allowed to know.

I still don't think it's been adequately acknowledged how much this could impact the U.S. economy

Trump's campaign of hate and terror against immigrant communities continues. A legal resident, a student, was disappeared. He isn't accused of committing any crimes and has not been afforded due process. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Bhutanese refugees who hold legal residency have been disappeared as part of a coordinated campaign of fear against immigrant communities. This is not about safety, this is a hate campaign - coming directly from the highest office in the country. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Beshear: When I vetoed the nastiest anti-LGBTQ+ bill during my election year, I explained why I did it. My faith teaches me that all children are children of God. I wanted those children, who were being hated on, to know their governor cares for them… my faith tells me that’s my job

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

The constitutional crisis is already here. Trump isn't a just wannabe dictator. He is acting like one. Now, the question for all of us who believe in Democracy is how will he meet this challenge. www.axios.com/2025/03/16/t...

This is part of a coordinated effort to delegitimize the constitutional check the federal courts provide on the executiven branch. This is right from the authoritarian playbook.

The Trump regime is deporting students on valid student visas, disappearing Americans with valid green cards, and removing doctors on work visas. This is not about public safety, this is plainly oppression of minorities by the Trump regime. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

To be clear, Ranjani's student visa was revoked because of her political views. She committed no crimes, and was not afforded due process. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

Thank you Senator @kaine.senate.gov for your leadership.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Look to be fair, back in 2018 the Eagles just hadn't seen enough out of Trump. Jan 6 and the subsequent authoritarian start to the second Admin, showed them he's their cup of tea. www.nytimes.com/athletic/616...

Trans kids didn’t hike your rent. Billionaires did. Immigrants didn’t make your groceries more expensive. Billionaires did. Federal workers didn’t take away your health care. Billionaires did.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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Elon Musk doesn't have some grand theory or grand plan on how to make government work better for all Americans. His motive has been clear for anyone who hasn't been ignoring it -- he's trying to enrich himself. Elon Musk is the only person Elon Musk cares about.

Separately, on Musk's email, a point I think is not being made enough is that federal payroll makes up less than 5% of US government spending. Federal workers are 1.4% of all workers, but they're responsible for how 25% of US GDP is spent. This has *nothing* to do with saving money

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Funding for DOGE has reached $40 million. Elon Musk's corrupt and illegal maneuvers are costing Americans huge sums as he exaggerates "savings" and cuts funding to crucial services. From @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/doge...