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surprise, you thought the constitution was a grant for liberty and self-government, but it turns out it is a grant for presidential dictatorship and an apartheid state!
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
surprise, you thought the constitution was a grant for liberty and self-government, but it turns out it is a grant for presidential dictatorship and an apartheid state!
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Minnesota last year eliminated prison gerrymandering. A law, signed by Governor Tim Walz, will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering
A new law will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
boltsmag.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Minnesota last year eliminated prison gerrymandering. A law, signed by Governor Tim Walz, will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
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This is a vile invitation for white nationalists and anti-Semites to infiltrate the U.S. military amid a surge in hate fueled by the Trump admin. Every former military officer and leader should lobby for an immediate reversal of this dangerous decision.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is a vile invitation for white nationalists and anti-Semites to infiltrate the U.S. military amid a surge in hate fueled by the Trump admin. Every former military officer and leader should lobby for an immediate reversal of this dangerous decision.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.
News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them.
Smith spoke to us on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Smith spoke to us on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns
As the head of the military’s Southern Command steps down, Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, sheds new light on the departure—and on Trump’s appalling secrecy about the bombings.
newrepublic.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.
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In May 2025, Trump ended federal oversight of the Memphis police department to stop "handcuffing local leaders." Four months later, Trump is sending the National Guard into Memphis to "fix" the "troubled city."
I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?
I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?
September 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
In May 2025, Trump ended federal oversight of the Memphis police department to stop "handcuffing local leaders." Four months later, Trump is sending the National Guard into Memphis to "fix" the "troubled city."
I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?
I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?
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Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
September 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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If we’re gonna take Mayor Muriel Bowser’s claim that crime is down due to our federal occupation at face value, let’s also calculate all the illegal arrests, detentions, and disappearances. Cause we know those are crimes too.
August 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If we’re gonna take Mayor Muriel Bowser’s claim that crime is down due to our federal occupation at face value, let’s also calculate all the illegal arrests, detentions, and disappearances. Cause we know those are crimes too.
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ICE terrorized my neighborhood of Mt Pleasant today so we reclaimed the plaza — our community living room — with joy and love and messages of resilience. Thank you to everyone who turned out, let’s do it again!! These few photos do not do it justice @freedcproject.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
ICE terrorized my neighborhood of Mt Pleasant today so we reclaimed the plaza — our community living room — with joy and love and messages of resilience. Thank you to everyone who turned out, let’s do it again!! These few photos do not do it justice @freedcproject.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social
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Last night DC neighbors showed up at a police checkpoint at 14th & V ST. NW with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid the block.
After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe
After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe
People cheer as some federal agents get in their cars and leave.
NY plates on their cars.
NY plates on their cars.
August 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Last night DC neighbors showed up at a police checkpoint at 14th & V ST. NW with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid the block.
After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe
After realizing that the community was successfully diverting all traffic, agents packed up the checkpoint and left. #WeKeepUsSafe
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DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center.
Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center.
Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
I’m so proud of our team’s work on this, alongside our colleagues at the ACLU and the rest of the litigation team. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Blocks Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Nationwide
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m so proud of our team’s work on this, alongside our colleagues at the ACLU and the rest of the litigation team. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights
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The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.
June 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.
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American Bar Association sues Trump Admin to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
American Bar Association files suit to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms
CHICAGO, June 16, 2025 — The American Bar Association today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, more than two dozen federal departments and agencies, and the heads of those departments and ag...
www.americanbar.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
American Bar Association sues Trump Admin to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”