So we got 218 votes for a discharge petition to release the Epstein files for Congress to unanimously pass them? Why wasn’t there unanimous backing for the original discharge petition?

The Senate passes Epstein bill via unanimous consent as soon as it’s transmitted from the House. Next stop, Trump’s desk. If those files only name Democrats, then we need to bring on the witnesses. #ReleaseTheFiles

The GOP’s unanimous vote suggests their stalling tactics worked - the files are likely heavily redacted.

! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.

In the Senate, unanimous consent for Lex Epstein

The U.S. Senate has agreed (by unanimous consent) to pass the Epstein files bill once it is sent over. It will then be sent to Trump’s desk. (apnews.com/article/epstei…)

“.. On social media, Karni wrote, “This means [the vote] is likely unanimous.’” @mediaite.com #Epstein www.mediaite.com/media/news/l...

Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day

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Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

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leftists: if jesus was alive today he’d be a socialist jesus alive today:

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We are determined to bury the reckless Republican budget in the ground. Never to rise again.

It's Official: somehow the world's biggest briber, lying, chain-sawing, Katamine-engorging, Nazi-saluting oligarch has become a huge net liability politically. The-bigger-they-are/the-harder-they-fall. Elon, time to get outta DOGE

@markgreenny.bsky.social This is a great time for Mark Green to run for Mayor of New York City. #MarkGreenNYCMayor2025

Trump is a human pathogen that the Congressional GOP and SCOTUS GOP refuse to diagnose as contagious.

Bondi's DoJ today said it couldn't quickly comply w/SCOTUS 9-0 ruling to return mistakingly seized Venezuelan man back to US. That because she's so focused on the nat'l crisis over Tesla dealerships & getting ready to memorize her talking points on her daily Fox appearances?

Donald Trump is Baghdad Bob. Remember him? Trump famously told Billy Bush "if you just say something, people believe it. They just do." So as this heirhead squanders U.S. primacy built over 2 centuries, he & his North Korean Cabinet blithly announce that we'll soon enter a new "Golden Age." Ok.

In one day Trump ignored two court decisions - getting deported Maryland man home for hearing + allowing AP into oval presser. Dear Courts: next time you apply law to a known criminal & compulsive liar, stop providing loopholes as a courtesy to slip through. Or he'll dominate all Three Branches.

A vile Trump berates Collins for supporting a "criminal" when the Q is if the person had "due process"...like Trump did when found to be a actual criminal. And he mocks Zelensky for starting a war agst an enemy 100x larger - when of course Putin started it & Russia has 3.5x population of UKR.

Like DebtClock & DoomsdayClock, we need a DictatorClock, measuring weekly how much closer we are to Putinism. 4/15: *Harvard Set DictatorClock back 10 minutes by refusing Trump bid to seize control. *Trump-Collins advanced it 20 minutes by stacking room w/pro-Gulag aides as he stiff-armed SCOTUS.

.@NYTimes astonishing today. Two news articles, not commentaries - on RFK + Trump aides mistakenly deporting Maryland man - document a dozen times they flat-out lied. This ever happened before in Paper of Record? What can @NYTimes do when Team#47 juz ignores all that? TIME for Dictator Clock?