Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.

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We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Please forgive my screaming into the void. PRISONS SEPARATED FROM THE JUDICIAL PROCESS ARE INTERNMENT CAMPS!!!!! LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT THE LAW PART IS TYRANNY!!!

Carl knew... and he tried to warn us...

every word of this kfor.com/news/local/w...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Re: U.S. CECOT detainees, the main q is NOT 'did they ever allegedly commit a crime?' Rather: Is the US allowed to deliver them into lifetime imprisonment in a notorious Salvadoran prison camp without charge, trial, sentencing, or consideration of international/asylum/anti-torture law? Clearly no!

@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

W.E.B. Du Bois: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel - not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

At most, if we are being generous, that "dire wolf" announcement amounts to something like this.

#MAGAMorons welcome to the future of American manufacturing.

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We are very far over the cliff here, folks

Who did this?

In case you still can't tell you're being lied to, the government thinks it's a threat to national security to write an op ed in your school paper but not to text a journalist the timing and contents of imminent air strikes.

Smiling and nodding when Elon says “if we cancel something good we’ll just put it back in like we did with ebola prevention” requires you to believe that Elon Musk both is and should be the emperor.

Save for reference.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.

Chris Murphy: "There has to be criminal investigations as well here. If the criminal code doesn't apply to powerful people, if it only applies to people without power, then we don't have rule of law in this country."

Hard to believe it has come to this. In only 2 months, Trump has destroyed 150 years of friendship and cooperation.

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This analysis by @juliettekayyem.bsky.social makes a great point: Why tf were these rando political people privy to the tactical details of a military action before it happened? Like, Stephen Miller is giving input on a strike?? What is even happening

One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.

THIS 🔥🔥 Hey Republicans

In case it gets lost in the onslaught of news, today PBS and NPR are defending themselves before Congress. If you’ve never seen this clip of Mr. Rogers advocating for PBS funding, I urge you to watch the full ~6 minutes. It’s incredibly powerful. Here’s to the helpers, indeed. #MomSky 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm going to post this every damn day (I hope you will share far and wide) and I hope Senator Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social does an update every week for us. This amount of corruption IS NOT NORMAL! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

I think that we will see a great outflow of outstanding professors from US universities to countries that care about science and research. I just hope that European universities will open their doors and wallets to eminent professors in the US so that they do not just go to China.

Just remember all this if there is a catastrophic intelligence failure under this administration. Because they will *immediately* try to crush dissent and offload blame.

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.

Thank you Jeff. Yes. This.

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#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory Even without ICE raids, 45/7's racist policies are disrupting our children's education. Colorado educators report high levels of absenteeism, growing anxiety, and increased racial slurs and bullying among students. www.rmpbs.org/blogs/educat...

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

ICE Ramps Up Warrantless, Legally Dubious Arrests, by @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

My guy Pete is pissed 😡

Circling back on this…