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Defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.
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A two-term Michigan state representative backed by the progressive group Justice Democrats is launching a primary challenge against Rep. Shri Thanedar on Monday, setting the stage for a significant fight over the Detroit-area House seat.
Rep. Shri Thanedar draws a Democratic primary challenge as the left seeks to flex its muscle in Michigan
A state representative backed by the Justice Democrats will take on Thanedar in a Detroit-area Democratic House primary next year.
nbcnews.to
April 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A two-term Michigan state representative backed by the progressive group Justice Democrats is launching a primary challenge against Rep. Shri Thanedar on Monday, setting the stage for a significant fight over the Detroit-area House seat.
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This ruling must not stand. Please join me in supporting Good Law Project's challenge.
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
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Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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April 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”
April 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”
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State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.
Disability protection groups in two states pause services after missing federal funds
"We are fighting for our very survival."
www.motherjones.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.
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As the federal govt considers “investigating” ActBlue, I can report that i sat through meeting where they literally patterned their version of it, called WinRed as identical. They even follow me (screenshot for when they unfollow in a panic soon:
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As the federal govt considers “investigating” ActBlue, I can report that i sat through meeting where they literally patterned their version of it, called WinRed as identical. They even follow me (screenshot for when they unfollow in a panic soon:
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
April 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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Another day, another Trump executive order—this time, it’s a full-blown attack on education:
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI
The directives include new efforts to curtail DEI programs at colleges, and discipline guidance for public schools.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another day, another Trump executive order—this time, it’s a full-blown attack on education:
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
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While Elon claimed to be “cutting waste” was he really just lining his pockets?
youtube.com/shorts/HDygX...
youtube.com/shorts/HDygX...
🚀 Musk's $438 Million Taxpayer Funded Payday 💸 #elonmusk #shortsfeed #spacex
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
youtube.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
While Elon claimed to be “cutting waste” was he really just lining his pockets?
youtube.com/shorts/HDygX...
youtube.com/shorts/HDygX...
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Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Bessent got into a shouting match last week about the IRS
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
April 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Bessent got into a shouting match last week about the IRS
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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"The privileged can buy their way out of trouble by giving Trump money. Corporations can exploit and defraud consumers with increasing impunity. But if you’re a regular person? You’re not just on your own. These days, you’re a target." — @snipy.bsky.social
Laws are for the little people
For Trump's friends, everything; for his enemies, Pam Bondi.
www.publicnotice.co
April 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"The privileged can buy their way out of trouble by giving Trump money. Corporations can exploit and defraud consumers with increasing impunity. But if you’re a regular person? You’re not just on your own. These days, you’re a target." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
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BREAKING: Four Democratic lawmakers are in El Salvador today to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-live-updates-rcna202056/rcrd77392?canonicalCard=true
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-live-updates-rcna202056/rcrd77392?canonicalCard=true
April 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
BREAKING: Four Democratic lawmakers are in El Salvador today to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-live-updates-rcna202056/rcrd77392?canonicalCard=true
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-live-updates-rcna202056/rcrd77392?canonicalCard=true
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OPINION by @stevebenen.com:
“Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.”
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
“Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.”
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Trump’s Pentagon as Hegseth faces fresh Signal chat allegations
As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces new fallout from Signal chat, the Pentagon's former spokesperson said there's “total chaos” at the DOD.
www.msnbc.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
OPINION by @stevebenen.com:
“Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.”
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
“Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.”
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Pete Hegseth shared information ahead of Yemen strikes in a Signal chat with wife and brother
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
April 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Pete Hegseth shared information ahead of Yemen strikes in a Signal chat with wife and brother
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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National security ain’t supposed to be a family affair, but apparently Pete Hegseth missed that memo.
Leaking classified military plans—TWICE—the second time on a personal Signal chat to friends and family? That man has no business being Defense Secretary. He’s a threat, not a leader.
Leaking classified military plans—TWICE—the second time on a personal Signal chat to friends and family? That man has no business being Defense Secretary. He’s a threat, not a leader.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
April 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
National security ain’t supposed to be a family affair, but apparently Pete Hegseth missed that memo.
Leaking classified military plans—TWICE—the second time on a personal Signal chat to friends and family? That man has no business being Defense Secretary. He’s a threat, not a leader.
Leaking classified military plans—TWICE—the second time on a personal Signal chat to friends and family? That man has no business being Defense Secretary. He’s a threat, not a leader.
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BREAKING: Sen. Chris Van Hollen confirmed that he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump administration said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
April 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
BREAKING: Sen. Chris Van Hollen confirmed that he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump administration said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Grateful to my friend and MD colleague @ChrisVanHollen for traveling to El Salvador to try to check on Abrego Garcia’s condition. We will not let up the pressure on the self-proclaimed dictator of El Salvador or the aspiring dictator here. We will continue the fight to bring Abrego Garcia home.
April 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Grateful to my friend and MD colleague @ChrisVanHollen for traveling to El Salvador to try to check on Abrego Garcia’s condition. We will not let up the pressure on the self-proclaimed dictator of El Salvador or the aspiring dictator here. We will continue the fight to bring Abrego Garcia home.
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How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
April 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
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"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Former AG Eric Holder tells @maddow.msnbc.com that he's been disappointed by some legal professionals concerning their interactions with the Trump administration. "Unless we as lawyers stand up... we will lose that which defines this nation, that which makes this nation exceptional," he says.
April 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Former AG Eric Holder tells @maddow.msnbc.com that he's been disappointed by some legal professionals concerning their interactions with the Trump administration. "Unless we as lawyers stand up... we will lose that which defines this nation, that which makes this nation exceptional," he says.