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Chicago we need you to step up and step out on June 14th! Whether you're outraged by attacks on civil rights, skyrocketing costs, abductions and disappearances, the gutting of essential services, or the assault on free speech—this moment is for you. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @chirpradio.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Chicago we need you to step up and step out on June 14th! Whether you're outraged by attacks on civil rights, skyrocketing costs, abductions and disappearances, the gutting of essential services, or the assault on free speech—this moment is for you. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @chirpradio.org
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Giving political donors “dedicated VIP experiences” with the US military is not only corrupt, it will damagingly make Americans think of our military as partisan. Congress should prevent this.
Exclusive | Donors Promised ‘VIP Experience’ at Military Events With Trump
Top donors to a committee supporting events celebrating America’s 250th birthday will receive special access to a military parade and other festivities.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Giving political donors “dedicated VIP experiences” with the US military is not only corrupt, it will damagingly make Americans think of our military as partisan. Congress should prevent this.
Hell yes.
GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hell yes.
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While Occupant Trump dismantles our agencies, attacks federal workers & veterans, and guts essential programs like Medicaid & SNAP—my GOP colleagues just voted on the Gulf of America Act.
Republicans aren’t serious about governing or doing the people’s work.
Republicans aren’t serious about governing or doing the people’s work.
May 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
While Occupant Trump dismantles our agencies, attacks federal workers & veterans, and guts essential programs like Medicaid & SNAP—my GOP colleagues just voted on the Gulf of America Act.
Republicans aren’t serious about governing or doing the people’s work.
Republicans aren’t serious about governing or doing the people’s work.
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Trump’s State Department found no evidence linking Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitic activity or terrorism, but ICE snatched her off the street and dispatched her to a prison 1,000 miles away with no hearing. This is a hallmark of fascist regimes and utterly incompatible with Due Process.
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Trump’s State Department found no evidence linking Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitic activity or terrorism, but ICE snatched her off the street and dispatched her to a prison 1,000 miles away with no hearing. This is a hallmark of fascist regimes and utterly incompatible with Due Process.
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The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the Trump regime must facilitate the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?
How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?
April 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the Trump regime must facilitate the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?
How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?
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Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.
The consistent lack of due process is the thing that keeps me up at night. This is fascism.
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The consistent lack of due process is the thing that keeps me up at night. This is fascism.
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The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy.
So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.
So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy.
So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.
So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced there will be no election to replace Sylvester Turner, a prominent Black Democrat in Congress, until November. That leaves the largely Black and Hispanic district unrepresented in the US House of Representatives for Abbott’s personal political gain.
Texas Republicans Stiff Black People
YouTube video by The Keith Boykin Channel
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April 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced there will be no election to replace Sylvester Turner, a prominent Black Democrat in Congress, until November. That leaves the largely Black and Hispanic district unrepresented in the US House of Representatives for Abbott’s personal political gain.
WTF?
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
April 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
WTF?
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Elon’s DOGE is expected to come for Homeland Security next — with cuts to critical agencies like the Secret Service and FEMA. Our national security is NOT a game, and Elon sure as hell shouldn’t be the one playing it.
Elon’s DOGE is expected to come for Homeland Security next — with cuts to critical agencies like the Secret Service and FEMA. Our national security is NOT a game, and Elon sure as hell shouldn’t be the one playing it.
DOGE expected to take aim at DHS with staffing cuts, including at US Secret Service | CNN Politics
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is expected to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security in the coming days, seeking potentially major cuts to personnel across its agencies, incl...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Elon’s DOGE is expected to come for Homeland Security next — with cuts to critical agencies like the Secret Service and FEMA. Our national security is NOT a game, and Elon sure as hell shouldn’t be the one playing it.
Elon’s DOGE is expected to come for Homeland Security next — with cuts to critical agencies like the Secret Service and FEMA. Our national security is NOT a game, and Elon sure as hell shouldn’t be the one playing it.
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This is what election-rigging looks like.
Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is what election-rigging looks like.
Holy sh*t
The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice
Breaking: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to cancel $65 million in teaching grants.
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Holy sh*t
I’m surprised the WaPo allowed negative reporting on the current administration!
"highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict..."
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m surprised the WaPo allowed negative reporting on the current administration!
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NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary.
Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."
Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary.
Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."
Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."
Lets keep amplifying this. Hes doing an amazong job (and being aided by some pretty great allies). Thank you, Senator Booker.
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
WATCH LIVE: Sen. Cory Booker protests Trump’s agenda in marathon Senate speech
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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April 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Lets keep amplifying this. Hes doing an amazong job (and being aided by some pretty great allies). Thank you, Senator Booker.
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
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“this will lead to worse health outcomes, greater risks to the US public, and will contribute to the decline in US life expectancy.”
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“this will lead to worse health outcomes, greater risks to the US public, and will contribute to the decline in US life expectancy.”
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Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.
I've come along to this take after kneekerk cynicism. Doing stuff that grabs attention is good. Not every action has to accomplish everything. You can praise and be happy about a step forward. We're going to need many steps forward.
yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
April 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.
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Flight bookings from Canada to the U.S. have plunged by more than 70 percent under Trump. Last year, Canadians made more than 20 million visits to the US and contributed about $20.5 billion to the U.S. economy.
Flight bookings from Canada to the US plummet over 70%
Amid rising trade tensions, boycotts and travel advisories, Canadians appear to be foregoing trips to the U.S.
www.newsweek.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Flight bookings from Canada to the U.S. have plunged by more than 70 percent under Trump. Last year, Canadians made more than 20 million visits to the US and contributed about $20.5 billion to the U.S. economy.
Fascism much?
Trump’s vision of “free speech” comes at the expense of press freedom.
Trump on MSNBC and CNN: "I think they're gonna be turned off."
March 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Fascism much?
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Wisconsin voters: Early voting is now underway!
Have you voted yet? Or made a voting plan? If not, do it now. If you care about democracy, it’s time to cast your ballot and recruit friends to vote for Susan Crawford.
Find your polling place for early in-person voting at wisdems.org/vote
Have you voted yet? Or made a voting plan? If not, do it now. If you care about democracy, it’s time to cast your ballot and recruit friends to vote for Susan Crawford.
Find your polling place for early in-person voting at wisdems.org/vote
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This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
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March 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wisconsin voters: Early voting is now underway!
Have you voted yet? Or made a voting plan? If not, do it now. If you care about democracy, it’s time to cast your ballot and recruit friends to vote for Susan Crawford.
Find your polling place for early in-person voting at wisdems.org/vote
Have you voted yet? Or made a voting plan? If not, do it now. If you care about democracy, it’s time to cast your ballot and recruit friends to vote for Susan Crawford.
Find your polling place for early in-person voting at wisdems.org/vote
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Also, historical note: When President Lincoln *actually suspended* habeas corpus under the Suspension Act of 1863, he was required to provide lists of all people detained who were not POWs to the circuit court. He complied. While prosecuting an *actual war*. (This is Milligan)
March 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Also, historical note: When President Lincoln *actually suspended* habeas corpus under the Suspension Act of 1863, he was required to provide lists of all people detained who were not POWs to the circuit court. He complied. While prosecuting an *actual war*. (This is Milligan)