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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
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Let’s call it what it is: Trump’s tariffs on our allies are an attack on clean energy.
We’ll be broke, boiling, and begging China for the tech we used to lead on. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
We’ll be broke, boiling, and begging China for the tech we used to lead on. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
You Will Be Hotter, Dirtier and Poorer
Trump’s tariff-palooza is part of a whole-of-government approach to reversing as much climate progress as he can in as little time as possible.
www.bloomberg.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Let’s call it what it is: Trump’s tariffs on our allies are an attack on clean energy.
We’ll be broke, boiling, and begging China for the tech we used to lead on. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
We’ll be broke, boiling, and begging China for the tech we used to lead on. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
April 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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Pointing out the obvious: the objective of this effort is to degrade the capacity of USPS, and thereby degrade its performance, and thereby bolster arguments for privatization.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.
apnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pointing out the obvious: the objective of this effort is to degrade the capacity of USPS, and thereby degrade its performance, and thereby bolster arguments for privatization.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
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This is the true story...of several strangers...choosing not to vaccinate ...to find out what happens...when people destroy herd immunity...and start getting measles..The Real World.
As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.
As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids
At least 124 people, mostly babies, children and teens, have been infected. Eighteen people have been hospitalized.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is the true story...of several strangers...choosing not to vaccinate ...to find out what happens...when people destroy herd immunity...and start getting measles..The Real World.
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.