Imperative reading. "[M]ost Republicans [in Congress] know exactly what’s happening... but fear of Trump’s wrath silences them more effectively than their conservative ideology ever unified them."

Call your congresscritters every day. Demand they impeach and convict him.

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BREAKING: Senior White House official placed in straitjacket, hustled into van by men in white coats. (snark, if anyone actually wondered)

HARTFORD VISIBILITY BRIGADE today. Honoring MLK.

Definitely don't call the phone numbers or bother the nazis or share their information or hack them.

@kenmartin.bsky.social The DNC should appoint a Shadow Cabinet whose members give frequent statements and press conferences to counteract Republican lies and lawlessness. Several prominent figures have called for this, including Tim Walz, Elissa Slotkin, Timothy Snyder, and Thom Hartmann.

If you live in a Republican district (as I do), call your representative today and demand that they oppose this bill, which cuts Medicaid & essential services in order to let the wealthy avoid paying their fair share. Then call them again tomorrow!

Latest idiocy from the infantile orange clown.

Republicans Block Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Because It Doesn't Take Healthcare Away From Enough People https://twp.ai/4innmy

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

When shooting your dog in the face isn’t the worst thing you ever did.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Starts in one hour. "In this one-hour zoom, we will discuss Truth Bombs – a simple new, non-confrontational, social-media-based weapon to add to our arsenal." www.mobilize.us/civicsundays...

"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a 'minimal quality of life' is out of reach." This explains so much about our current political divisions. The right wing has championed this situation, but Democrats have been complicit and complacent. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a 'minimal quality of life' is out of reach." This explains so much about our current political divisions. The right wing has championed this situation, but Democrats have been complicit and complacent. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

More proof that his mental age is 10.

Next week's cover of @newyorker.com, out this morning.

Ya think 🤔

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

🧵 Case in point… they create a narrative out of thin air… and it’s easy to do. If you do an image search for “ms13 knuckle tattoos”, this is what you’ll see. Kilmar’s tattoo has no connection to gang affiliation, it’s just symbols meaningful to him, and it’s a very common trend at the moment.

Yes, because if they can assert Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang member and ship him to a concentration camp without having to prove anything in court, they can do it to you and me too. The (lack of due) process is exactly the same.

Thou shalt march on Washington by the millions and not leave until the Mad King is deposed.

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

•••••BREAKING••••• The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU. The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention…

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five... "And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze."

“We’re headed towards…” is a phrase that is no longer acceptable as it relates to authoritarianism. We arrived weeks ago. apple.news/Afn5usfmGRcq...

In case you needed proof that the disastrous Citizens United decision put a for sale sign on our democracy. 👇

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

Trump goes to war with the Fed https://twp.ai/4ilfoP

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you. Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.)

DISMANTLING CFPB: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has called a 10am hearing on whether the Trump administration violated her order against large-scale dismantling of the agency. She is seeking details of a purported reduction in force and the order to implement it.

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"Every step he takes is aimed at concentrating the power of government in his own hands as he seeks to intimidate opponents and move aggressively to eliminate alternative sources of public influence in the legal system, the universities, and the media." newrepublic.com/article/1940...

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“The government is not a car company.”

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In 2000, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. His opponents, led by a student movement called Otpor! (‘resistance’), attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage inspired others to join the fight.

Lawrence Tribe asks whether SCOTUS will stand up to Trump. I ask whether Republicans in Congress will grow a spine and honor their oath to support and defend the Constitution. They should have convicted him in 2021, but the next best time to impeach and convict is now.

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

These monsters have found yet another way bully us into submission by threatening to criminalize free speech. Who are the real terrorists?

"It’s hard to think that this is anything less than state-sanctioned kidnapping." "Using the right language here would make a great difference in how the US public understands what’s happening."

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

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