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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care
The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...
www.propublica.org
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In New Letters, DOJ Escalates Hunt For State Voter Data, Threatens Legal Action
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
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It’s obvious that Trump behaves with Putin in a way that is unique (including compared to Xi). My theory is that Putin understands knows that Trump was psychologically reliant on his father to both keep him afloat financially and build up his ego (Fred Trump used to tell DJT, “You are a king”) 1/
Pretty much this, plus he's afraid of genuinely tough men. He also fawns over Xi Jinping; does that mean Xi has a copy of the pee tape and the Epstein files?
I know people want to nail Trump on something in the worst way, but that eagerness leads to nutty conspiracy theories.
I know people want to nail Trump on something in the worst way, but that eagerness leads to nutty conspiracy theories.
People don't understand there's no need to imagine elaborate blackmail scenarios. Trump is just a sucky asshole who likes Putin and pretty much any dictator that sneers at laws and the international order.
August 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s obvious that Trump behaves with Putin in a way that is unique (including compared to Xi). My theory is that Putin understands knows that Trump was psychologically reliant on his father to both keep him afloat financially and build up his ego (Fred Trump used to tell DJT, “You are a king”) 1/
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What we saw today in Alaska is not normal.
My full statement:
My full statement:
August 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
What we saw today in Alaska is not normal.
My full statement:
My full statement:
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Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.
June 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.
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What happened to this Senator?
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
What happened to this Senator?
@jonathankarl.bsky.social saw you let Homan lie about the border and disappearing people with no due process-we are not at war w Venezuela, ICE agents aren’t reliable and your job is to defend the Constitution we have not allow him to redefine it on air
March 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
@jonathankarl.bsky.social saw you let Homan lie about the border and disappearing people with no due process-we are not at war w Venezuela, ICE agents aren’t reliable and your job is to defend the Constitution we have not allow him to redefine it on air
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This is the question we must all answer for ourselves. But if we cede democracy out of fear of Trump, things will not get better just because we cave. Freedom is worth the hard work it’s going to take.
There are only two things that stand between Trump and being a dictator -- the courts and elections. Trump wants to send a clear message to law firms that he will go after them.
It is ok to be afraid, the question is what do you do. Do you hide and cower in fear or stand tall and say it is wrong?
It is ok to be afraid, the question is what do you do. Do you hide and cower in fear or stand tall and say it is wrong?
March 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the question we must all answer for ourselves. But if we cede democracy out of fear of Trump, things will not get better just because we cave. Freedom is worth the hard work it’s going to take.
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
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IMO, the Trump administration unilaterally freezing all funding for cancer research, in violation of two federal court orders, is a big deal.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
IMO, the Trump administration unilaterally freezing all funding for cancer research, in violation of two federal court orders, is a big deal.
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
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UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
February 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
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The ethics violations at DOJ are mind-blowing.
DC's USA attended J6, represented a J6 rioter, then dismissed his case.
The Deputy AG is Trump's former lawyer. He's purging the same officials who prosecuted him.
I demanded the DOJ IG investigate these conflicts of interest.
DC's USA attended J6, represented a J6 rioter, then dismissed his case.
The Deputy AG is Trump's former lawyer. He's purging the same officials who prosecuted him.
I demanded the DOJ IG investigate these conflicts of interest.
Congressman Dan Goldman and Other Former Department of Justice Elected Officials Demand Inspector General Investigation into Top Trump Admin Justice Department Officials’ Flagrant Ethics Violations
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today led a letter with representatives Hillary Scholten (MI-03), Stacey Plaskett (VI-AL), Mikie Sherill (NJ-11), Glen Ivey (MD-04), Maggie Goodlande...
goldman.house.gov
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The ethics violations at DOJ are mind-blowing.
DC's USA attended J6, represented a J6 rioter, then dismissed his case.
The Deputy AG is Trump's former lawyer. He's purging the same officials who prosecuted him.
I demanded the DOJ IG investigate these conflicts of interest.
DC's USA attended J6, represented a J6 rioter, then dismissed his case.
The Deputy AG is Trump's former lawyer. He's purging the same officials who prosecuted him.
I demanded the DOJ IG investigate these conflicts of interest.
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Donald Trump likes to push especially authoritarian abuses late on Friday nights. Some tips for responding to these “Friday Night Massacres”:
1️⃣ Name it to tame it.
2️⃣ Be loud about how you’ll respond.
3️⃣ Don’t buy into irreversibility.
1️⃣ Name it to tame it.
2️⃣ Be loud about how you’ll respond.
3️⃣ Don’t buy into irreversibility.
How to brace for Friday Night Massacres
Getting our democracy through the next 206 weekends
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Donald Trump likes to push especially authoritarian abuses late on Friday nights. Some tips for responding to these “Friday Night Massacres”:
1️⃣ Name it to tame it.
2️⃣ Be loud about how you’ll respond.
3️⃣ Don’t buy into irreversibility.
1️⃣ Name it to tame it.
2️⃣ Be loud about how you’ll respond.
3️⃣ Don’t buy into irreversibility.
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Musk’s staffers are heading to the Pentagon, while Trump continues his attempted purge of Washington. He recently announced on Truth Social that he is appointing himself as head of the Kennedy Center and plans to remove multiple members from its board of trustees.
February 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Musk’s staffers are heading to the Pentagon, while Trump continues his attempted purge of Washington. He recently announced on Truth Social that he is appointing himself as head of the Kennedy Center and plans to remove multiple members from its board of trustees.
