"The version of Christianity that Trump's most devout supporters embrace (and he pretends to) has no room for Christ’s actual teachings. Anyone who references Jesus’s declarations to aid the sick, poor, and vulnerable is quickly labeled a socialist and/or antifa."

The SAVE Act is bad. While lots of people are talking about the ID portion, It creates a criminal cause of action to put election workers in prison for (even accidentally) registering someone to vote without ID. campaignlegal.org/update/what-...

"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

Donald Trump has produced the lowest GDP growth of any President in the last 80 years.

On all the outrage toward Bad Bunny’s halftime performance

📊 Poll: YouGov asked Americans whether the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was justified. 🔵 Democrats: 83% say not justified ⚪ Independents: 50% say not justified 🔴 Republicans: 13% say not justified

RFK Jr. and Mike Tyson want you to believe that MAHA is just about eating healthier. But in reality, MAHA has been focused on firing the food and medical research experts who actually make America healthy.

If the US did what the French are doing right now, the effects on Twitter and Facebook would be enormous.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

This is why they can't stand Bad Bunny.

After giving Argentina $60 bn to bail out its wannabe dictator, Trump has now ordered the purchase of $1 bn in Argentine beef to flood US markets with less expensive meat. A disaster for US cattlemen. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...

New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."

“We are in a period not of transition but of rupture. Europe will soon be fully responsible for its own security, and we’ll also have to begin thinking much more strategically about how to wield power in the world.” Excellent read:

The Trump regime is plotting to convert commercial warehouses to massive ICE detention centers. Private prison corporations, who just so happened to donate to Trump, are already raking in billions. How many more private companies are going to cash in on this cruelty?

This is what oligarchy looks like: Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.

Are you smarter than Mike Johnson? All signs point to yes.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469. Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by. Hello?

Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms. In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections. We must mobilize to protect our democracy.

The two CBP federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been on the job for 11 and 7 years respectively. It’s not a lack of training issue, it’s a culture of violence and lawlessness issue. If you’re still voting to fund this, you’re condoning it. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...

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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

I love MN

Arresting journalists. Seizing ballots. Murdering protesters. Detaining children. It’s time to decide what your red line is.

It's not an either/or. Noem and Miller should both be gone. They earned that result since at least March 15, 2025.

Greg Bovino getting pulled out of Minnesota to terrorize another community is not accountability. At all.

Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."

Calls to split the DHS funding from the current 6-bill minibus aren’t calls for a shutdown. The other 5 bills+ the already enacted bills provide 95%+ of total discretionary $. The other 5 bills have solid bipartisan support in both houses & should move on their own.

Trump Administration officials have also used Social Security data to spread false claims about noncitzens voting, undermining confidence in the integrity of our elections. www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

This is not an abstract fear. Last week DOJ admitted that DOGE operatives at the Social Security Administration entered a secret data-sharing agreement with a group seeking to overturn state election results. www.npr.org/2026/01/23/n...

Mood in minneapolis right now

Early eugenicists claimed that people from certain countries were a burden due to disability (whether or not they had one). Now, Trump is doing the same by stopping immigrant visas from those from 75 countries. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This couple spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention and received a pardon from the Republican governor of Missouri.

The government’s lies need to be called out and legacy media are not doing that. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

MAGA never actually believed in the 2nd Amendment for all Americans. They were only for arming white supremacists.

Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.

“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.”

Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem. "Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."

From the state who yells and moans about state's rights, comes giving away their state's rights to the federal government. Bend that knee for fascism, TX.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I want to talk about something bigger than just Republicans suddenly forgetting their commitment to the 2nd Amendment, because they're also forgetting their commitment to the 1st Amendment. Alex Peretti had free speech rights to be out there protesting."

Authoritarianism prevails not because people stop believing the truth, but because they stop saying it aloud. If we wish to remain free, we must refuse that silence. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/lies...

Members of Congress should not be trading stocks while serving in office. It’s an obvious conflict, and any real ban should apply to Presidents and Supreme Court Justices as well. Republicans don't want to allow a vote on that kind of bill. So today I signed a discharge petition to force one.

We represent the Lollipop Guild The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild And in the name of the Lollipop Guild We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face