This is slavery.

The giltiest man in the world. Everyone working for him is covering up sex crimes, sending people to concentration camps, or robbing the neediest to feed the oligarchs. Building a more inclusive & resilient democracy must include holding them all accountable. Every one. Happy Holidays!

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water. Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

The Kennedy Center, the Department of Defense & the US Institute of Peace can only be renamed by acts of Congress. Their names have NOT been changed. Trump's playing a sad sad but ultimately meaningless game. Erasing his shallow imprint on DC at the end of his term will be celebrated in the streets.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Faith communities have been key to the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. This holiday season, we all have a chance to support their efforts. Watch and share this powerful message with our partners @interfaithalliance.org calling on people of all backgrounds to choose LoveNotICE.org

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

Trump’s “It’s Not My Fault” speech is a mess, yes. He didn’t bother offering condolences to the recent horrific shootings or explain his unprovoked aggression in the Caribbean. But mostly it’s proof that no one in the WH has any juice or courage. All losers.

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

"Troops in the Continental Army swore to defend the country against 'King George, his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors, assistants, and adherents.'” In 1789 the oath became allegiance to the Constitution. But I like the original too. #NoKings open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

Attendees at Saturday’s Army Navy game in Baltimore will be surrounded by "Not The Mission" ads highlighting the serious risks to both our military and civil society posed by domestic deployments. Our troops volunteer to serve us all, not divide us. NotTheMission.org

Q: "You pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández…he was convicted in of drug trafficking. How is that zero tolerance on drug trafficking?" Trump: "I don't know him and I know very little about him." Q: " Do you think it could send the wrong message to drug dealers?" Trump: "No."

The last few months, I’ve been working on a major project: analyzing the Trump admin’s hostile treatment of the First Amendment. That has led to today’s release of our @freepress.bsky.social report “Chokehold.” @brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com details our findings: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/m...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This year, I set out to chronicle free speech under the Trump admin. No small feat. Trump attacks dissent & leverages the White House to go after critics constantly. But how? Read our bombshell new @freepress.bsky.social report. I'm proud & horrified: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

TODAY: Our team is at SCOTUS representing FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in her challenge to an unlawful firing by the Trump admin. The Court’s ruling could reshape dozens of independent agencies that protect us all from powerful corporate interests — impacting homes, businesses and more.

Last month: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens … for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.” www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

History suggests that things don't go well when white nationalists are warning against "civilizational erasure" in Europe

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.) And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps. I am not kidding. Look at the thread below. One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.

NEW: 34 retired admirals, generals, and service secretaries warn of the dangers of politicized domestic deployments, as the Trump admin appeals a judge's ruling that the National Guard deployment to DC is illegal. Read their brief to the D.C. Court of Appeals: protdem.org/4an4oDV

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

The Trump Administration’s smear of immigrants and asylum seekers because of one sick man’s horrific acts - a man who was trained by the CIA, it is worth noting, to fight an American war - is disgusting. We are so much better than this racist regime.

It might look like he's creating the 3rd most garish steak house in the DC metro area but the signage suggests he just can't remember where his desk is www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says." “No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.” - Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/politics/mar...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

This is fu*king outrageous! The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. apnews.com/article/utah...

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism. OK wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families." Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

NEW: A brief in our case, Trump v. Slaughter, from former GOP White House lawyers and senior officials says that no president should have the power to fire independent watchdogs at will. Read their message to SCOTUS below: protdem.org/3JX8JmK

reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery

EXCLUSIVE: The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation. Read and share the latest from @propublica.org. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social, Avi Asher-Shapiro & @amierjeski.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/andr...

We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

A handful of GOP senators want a half million bucks each because their cellphone records were lawfully subpoenaed by Jack Smith. Imagine how much they’d be demanding if they were actually victimized by government thugs

nothing to see here, just Donald Trump's top henchmen summoning members of congress to a secure room where they can't be record that is sometimes used for ordering people killed in order to persuade them not to release the Epstein files

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.