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In Maryland? Send an email urging your electeds to draw congressional maps that will counteract MAGA Republican efforts to avoid accountability in the midterms:
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Maryland Should Fight Trump’s Election Rigging Scheme
While Trump works to rig the rules in his favor, Maryland is one of the few states where Democratic elected officials can fight back.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:43 PM
In Maryland? Send an email urging your electeds to draw congressional maps that will counteract MAGA Republican efforts to avoid accountability in the midterms:
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I want to share with you a piece from a German documentarian on the chilling parallels between ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts (reproduced with his permission). Please read and share.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts
Trump’s ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts
Lessons From Two Eras
robertreich.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I want to share with you a piece from a German documentarian on the chilling parallels between ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts (reproduced with his permission). Please read and share.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts
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Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies called on their employers to lobby the White House to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures.
Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House' over ICE raids
A public letter signed by hundreds of tech workers said CEOs must “pick up the phone” to press Trump to pull back ICE deployments.
washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies called on their employers to lobby the White House to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures.
For weeks, the talk on Wall Street was how markets have been unusually subdued at the start of the year. Not any more
Wall Street’s Calm Shattered by Greenland and Japan Shocks
For weeks on Wall Street, markets were unusually subdued as President Donald Trump threatened the post-war order by asserting US dominance of the Western hemisphere.
bloom.bg
January 20, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Gov. Sherrill: We're facing an affordability crisis. You want costs to come down today. You don't want a strongly worded letter, a 10-year study, or empty words. Before I even finish this speech, I'm going to sign a series of executive orders to declare a state of emergency on utility costs
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Gov. Sherrill: We're facing an affordability crisis. You want costs to come down today. You don't want a strongly worded letter, a 10-year study, or empty words. Before I even finish this speech, I'm going to sign a series of executive orders to declare a state of emergency on utility costs
Why don’t we hear this from the @mayorbowser.dc.gov administration?
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Why don’t we hear this from the @mayorbowser.dc.gov administration?
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Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
January 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
January 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
One gets the impression that Stephen Miller is speed running a hyper-violent, uber-militarized operation of unabashed ethnic cleansing while getting grandpa (who wants everyone to love him) to agree to it by telling him it's only "the bad guys" they're getting, with the occasional innocent mistake.
Trump not happy with the public backlash to ICE's conduct, says DHS needs to step up the propaganda
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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A day will come when Donald Trump no longer dominates our politics.
Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind.
The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.
Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind.
The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.
January 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A day will come when Donald Trump no longer dominates our politics.
Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind.
The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.
Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind.
The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement https://theonion.com/stephen-miller-reminds-picky-eater-son-that-there-starving-kids-in-basement/
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
@senatepress.bsky.social @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @foxnews-mun-1.bsky.social @foxnewspolitics.bsky.social @whitehouse-47.bsky.social
Quinnipiac Poll, Jan 8-12 - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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HE’S INSANE!!!
ARE THEY LOST?!
ARE THEY LOST?!
WHERE THE HELL IS CONGRESS?!
Has anyone seen them?
www.thegodpodcast.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:41 PM
HE’S INSANE!!!
ARE THEY LOST?!
ARE THEY LOST?!
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WATCH: Ahead of his public testimony before Congress on Thursday, Jan. 22, watch former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s eight-hour closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.
Watch the full, closed-door Jack Smith testimony about Trump I MS NOW
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
WATCH: Ahead of his public testimony before Congress on Thursday, Jan. 22, watch former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s eight-hour closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.
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Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States
The Steady State | by J, William Leonard
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
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To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
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I think national security is serious business, and life or death decisions should be taken seriously, rather than treated as entertainment for anti-speech activists on social media.
I also know that, for the regime and its fans, people like me objecting to gleeful war crimes adds to their enjoyment.
I also know that, for the regime and its fans, people like me objecting to gleeful war crimes adds to their enjoyment.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I think national security is serious business, and life or death decisions should be taken seriously, rather than treated as entertainment for anti-speech activists on social media.
I also know that, for the regime and its fans, people like me objecting to gleeful war crimes adds to their enjoyment.
I also know that, for the regime and its fans, people like me objecting to gleeful war crimes adds to their enjoyment.
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Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.
What con-artists are the GOP collaborators on the Supreme Court! In a league with Mitch McConnell.
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What con-artists are the GOP collaborators on the Supreme Court! In a league with Mitch McConnell.
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The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it
Hegseth and Trump remind me of Rumpelstiltskin.
The US military carried out a strike on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people on board, according to a social media post from US Southern Command. https://cnn.it/4av0Z63
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hegseth and Trump remind me of Rumpelstiltskin.
Will Bondi make this stick, or will @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social pardon this would-be murderer too?
Federal agents arrested a 30-year-old man from Prince William County, Virginia, on Thursday. The suspect is accused of planting two pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot. nyti.ms/3MbWBPD
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Will Bondi make this stick, or will @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social pardon this would-be murderer too?
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Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social and Hegseth obviously want to rub our noses in their filth.
That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
this is just murder, and pointless murder at that.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social and Hegseth obviously want to rub our noses in their filth.
The blatant use of false, inaccurate histories to arrive at a decision the majority of the Court clearly wanted regardless of the facts is a feature of both Dred Scott and Dobbs. It’s an apt comparison. 🗃️
If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM