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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
March 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
Reposted by Ken Klaes
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov Is Senator Schumer correct? Do you agree with his strategy? If so, why did you vote no, and if not, how can you continue to support his leadership of the caucus?
Senate Dems don't get that Schumer is dragging them all down with him.
It matters that the House GOP margin is narrow. It hasn't mattered in the Senate. The Senate has done what they'd do with 100 Republicans. Same appointees confirmed, same bills passed, same pace.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
It matters that the House GOP margin is narrow. It hasn't mattered in the Senate. The Senate has done what they'd do with 100 Republicans. Same appointees confirmed, same bills passed, same pace.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
March 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov Is Senator Schumer correct? Do you agree with his strategy? If so, why did you vote no, and if not, how can you continue to support his leadership of the caucus?
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
Reposted by Ken Klaes
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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The question is what additional pressure can be brought to bear over next 18 hrs to shake this free. As noted, no on cloture Sens CAN bring pressure to bear if they really want to; reps can too. Ordinary voters can apply more pressure. I see no reason to give in until the votes r cast.
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The question is what additional pressure can be brought to bear over next 18 hrs to shake this free. As noted, no on cloture Sens CAN bring pressure to bear if they really want to; reps can too. Ordinary voters can apply more pressure. I see no reason to give in until the votes r cast.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.
February 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.
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Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX.
Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.
Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX.
Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.
Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.
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I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that
February 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that
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One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.
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One thing elected Dems could do is put this 86 year old woman on TV and have her explain how Elon Musk and the Little Eichmanns are trying to murder her. Just a thought!
NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One thing elected Dems could do is put this 86 year old woman on TV and have her explain how Elon Musk and the Little Eichmanns are trying to murder her. Just a thought!
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How is there not a single Democrat Senator or Representative who has stepped up over an entire weekend where Elon Musk is clearly unwinding American democracy inside US govt buildings???
February 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How is there not a single Democrat Senator or Representative who has stepped up over an entire weekend where Elon Musk is clearly unwinding American democracy inside US govt buildings???
Imagine this scenario: a 9.0 earthquake hits, or a dirty bomb goes off in the middle of a city. What would the response from members of Congress be? Why is the ransacking of the federal government not an emergency on the same scale, meriting the same response?
If congressional Democrats would just yell louder this would all stop
February 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Imagine this scenario: a 9.0 earthquake hits, or a dirty bomb goes off in the middle of a city. What would the response from members of Congress be? Why is the ransacking of the federal government not an emergency on the same scale, meriting the same response?
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Entire mantle of leadership for standing up for the entire country just sitting like a fastball over the plate right now for any elected who wants it
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Entire mantle of leadership for standing up for the entire country just sitting like a fastball over the plate right now for any elected who wants it
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If this happened in the U.S., we’d get an Instagram post from Chris Coons showing off the appetizers he and his wife got at Olive Garden on date night.
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 5:26 PM
If this happened in the U.S., we’d get an Instagram post from Chris Coons showing off the appetizers he and his wife got at Olive Garden on date night.