$38,300,000,000 of your tax dollars. Not for healthcare. Not for education. Not for small businesses. But for mass-detention camps. It’s flat out UNAMERICAN. Nobody can sit on the sidelines — it will take all of us fighting back together to stop this.

$38.3 billion for a dumb and cruel immigration policy that doesn’t work. 

The next time they tell you we don’t have money for healthcare or education or actual public safety, remember it’s going to this absolute waste.

There is no excuse for reckless violence from ICE. That’s why Democrats are demanding obvious, necessary reforms.

This is a staggering loss of scientific, medical, and research knowledge from our country. More than that, it's a huge loss for all of us who benefitted from the cures and innovations these PhD experts helped to create. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone www.science.org/content/arti...

To protect the values we hold close, we need to take back control of the U.S. Senate. I have what it takes to get to work for Maine people on day one.

Trump promised tariffs would be paid by foreign countries. The truth? Americans are paying almost all of them. The New York Fed found about 90% of Trump’s tariffs fall on U.S. consumers and businesses. That means higher prices on groceries, clothes, and cars.

After two weeks of negotiations, it’s clear the Trump administration and Republicans are not serious about reining in this goon-squad violence against American citizens.

The Trump administration has begun sending funding for the Gateway Program’s Hudson Tunnel project. We're going to protect this project and the good-paying union jobs that come with it.

We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect. Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings. Not one more dime for this lawlessness.

NEWS: After a massive national outcry, a judge has ordered Trump to undo the unlawful deportation of Any Lopez Belloza. Any attempt to further prosecute, jail, or deport Any — who is an innocent American college student — is unacceptable.

If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.    If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.   And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

"[The previous owner] said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from disclosing the purchase price, when it was sold, and to which federal agency it was sold." Why does a government agency get to keep this info from the public? www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/...

After leaving Goodreads for Storygraph & then being disappointed when Storygraph began using generative AI, I've searched for a replacement. Enter #Pagebound - an app owned, created & self funded by two women who are staunchly anti-AI. Feel free to add me - @amarisskye - & let's chat about books!

It's 2029. Gavin Newsom is the 48th president and announces that the government is selling off Trump's gulag of shuttered concentration camps... ...to OpenAI for massive data centers, triggering the Energy Crisis and Great Depression of 2030

The Virginia Supreme Court has spoken and Virginia will vote on redistricting on April 21. The new maps are a temporary, emergency response to Republican power grabs that would deprive Virginia of its voice. Our full statement: https://tinyurl.com/br5kk2kk

UPDATE: The DOJ filed an amicus brief with SCOTUS, arguing the court-ordered redraw of New York's Congressional District 11 is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The redraw was ordered after the court found it diluted minority voting power.

the @timesunion.com is a goddamn treasure, they have been doing good solid bread and butter reporting in NYS for a long time

WIN: An Arkansas court blocked a state law that required signatures from at least 50 counties to be collected for an initiative to qualify to be on the ballot — a significantly higher threshold than the state constitution requires. The state may no longer enforce the measure.

🚨 GROUNDBREAKING NEWS! 🚨 The Virginia Supreme Court has decided our Redistricting Vote can move forward. Please mark your calendars ➡️ Early Voting will begin on Friday, March 6, and Election Day will be Tuesday, April 21. VOTE YES! #virginia #VoteYES #vote

NEW: In a letter to GOP congressional leaders, six Democratic secretaries of state characterized the voter suppressive MEGA and SAVE America Acts as an invitation for chaos in election administration. “A series of sweeping overhauls…is not a serious effort at improving the democratic process.”

DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:

🚨 BREAKING: In a big win for voters, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state could hold a special election on Democratic lawmakers’ redistricting plan aimed at countering Trump’s GOP gerrymanders nationwide. Virginians will get the chance to vote on the measure on April 21.

I’m beginning to think that precision in facts is not President Trump’s forte.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

I regret to inform you: I have news coming.

Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/uscis-refu...

Outstanding. DO NOT separate Kristi Noem from her blankie.

West Virginia’s GOP chief election official denied the DOJ’s demand for full access to the state’s voter roll: “State law is clear: voter lists are available in a redacted format from my office, but I’ll not be turning over any West Virginian’s protected information.”

Want to hear the dumbest encounter with military law enforcement and federal prosecution I ever came across in the Army

Finally.

I guess he can continue in his current day job of white nationalist.

Commissioner Marty Makary must testify before the Health subcommittee on his terrible leadership of the Food & Drug Administration. Trust in safety & efficacy standards is collapsing.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

This isn't a government. This is the Epstein reunion.

Flyers that say 'Howard Lutnick is in the Epstein Files — What Now?' have been posted around campus" at his alma mater, Haverford College, where a library is named for him share.inquirer.com/TlKaSn

my cousin's father and grandfather both died of colon cancer, and his doctor had to lie to help him get a colonoscopy covered at age 40 you know a system is working well when its most trusted members have to lie to get the right thing done

oh look, Tesla was caught acting as if environmental laws don't exist again www.kristv.com/news/6-inves...

I'm glad that people will vote for decency, but the question should be "who will they caucus with"

Here's a thread on John Sarcone's snakebit tenure as interim/acting/what-have-you U.S. Attorney: His public debut of sorts was a news conference where he suggested that tech companies use "algorithms" to sniff out obscene communications.

Pam Bondi asserts the Dow has reached record highs only because President Trump slept with those girls.

This is exactly why the FAA closed everything down, which seemed weird yesterday but is now revealed as the *sane* part of what happened.

DHS staged at bases in Illinois and elsewhere. It has a camp on Fort Bliss. Hegseth has sent National guard troops to guard/give some legitimacy to DHS thugs. It now got a military laser weapon. It is a wide pattern of tacit and material support

Like the admin story about “cartel drones” is so suspect that even Cruz and Cornyn are calling bullshit.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to secure long-term power agreements with coal-fired plants, framing coal as vital to grid reliability, military readiness, and national security. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

TVP World: Poland will not participate in Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, despite being invited by the U.S. President himself. The announcement was made by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...