www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

This is a moral moment in America. Sitting on the Capitol steps with Leader Hakeem Jeffries this morning to discuss what’s at stake with Trump’s budget and affirm the need for collective action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

bookshop.org/p/books/pnw-... Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day. Support your indies, not the Bromazon Republic. xokod

Buy books. But not from Amazon. Buy them from Bookshop.org, the independent site. This move by Amazon is shameful. Here is a link to my book on Bookshop.org. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-a... Terrific story telling via @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

#ICYMI, here's what flight attendants on deportation planes told us about what it's like on board:

1 in 4 children in the United States has at least one immigrant parent. Cutting safety net resources like Medicaid and SNAP means hurting millions of immigrant children and families across the country. #NotOnMyWatch

www.alreporter.com/2025/04/22/f... So proud of this library. Spent a month in this town last June doing a writing residency.

vance going to the vatican and the pope sending jeremy from human resources to meet with him is such a fucking dagger

Yes!

open.substack.com/pub/kimodonn... Scenes from a pop-up choir in Lancaster, Pa. #loveheals

This is... so grotesque. Absolute anarchy.

This assessment of President Trump's deportation policies, sending US residents and potentially American citizens to foreign prisons, was written by a federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Gift link: share.inquirer.com/vgatxB

"Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the critical pawn in a game to end American democracy for good." share.inquirer.com/4hhIUu A must-read via @willbunch.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy... Senator Chris Van Hollen's presser in El Salvador. Worth a listen.

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

This is well worth reading: "Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..." slate.com/news-and-pol...

“So many people turning out in so many, so many red states.” Thank you to @maddow.msnbc.com for her comprehensive coverage of Saturday’s nationwide #handsoff mobilizations.

Scenes from Harrisburg, Pa. + on showing up and standing up and learning that we are not alone.

apnews.com/article/trum... An actual photo essay that captures the size and scope of what happened yesterday.

This.

Protest against trump and Musk in Kutztown, PA - very red Berks County. #HandsOff

YES....

Harrisburg, Pa. represents! #handsoff

S&P 500 down 285 points. @cnbc.com ⛳️

Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section

BREAKING: Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, issues a TRO blocking Kari Lake from shutting down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty "with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation" — "even if the President has told them to do so." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Holy crap.

Good news out of Colorado! A Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries. Good work! www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

Last night I spoke to the people of Boston about our work to improve the lives of our residents and continue Boston’s historic legacy for the public good. I’m glad that the White House watched the speech, but Boston’s record does not match their reckless propaganda.

"If Lutnick's Democratic predecessor, Gina Raimondo, took such a step -- urging Americans to buy stock in a company led by Joe Biden’s top campaign contributor -- it seems likely that more than a few congressional Republicans would call for her resignation..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Miami Beach theater screening Oscar-winning doc”No Other Land” is threatened. My NPR story : www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...

Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”

The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone. How about restoring *that* focus?

We’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to avoid bricking the functionality of already-purchased devices.

When ICE Administrator Homan says "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think." - that is exactly the evidence that I would want if I were bringing a contempt motion against him. The contempt is clear. I do not know what the court's response will be - and there are only bad choices.

why aren't the headlines saying that he DEFIED the court order. That he VIOLATED the court order.

kimodonnel.substack.com/p/dear-darli... Where are you finding the light? Are you finding any light?

BREAKING: Trump illegally invokes the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants “deemed” to be members of a criminal gang, claiming extreme powers to do so without due process. Courts should reject this abusive invocation of a law intended for wartime.

Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans — and we need a Senate Democratic Leader willing to fight for us and our democracy.

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

Morning update: NO on cloture. NO on the CR. We’re fighting this bad bill that cuts Americans a terrible deal with everything we’ve got.