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🎁🔗 Adam Serwer appropriately named what the Trump Administration is doing under the guise of banning “wokeness” and DEI as “The Great Resegregation”. Dismantling the civil rights movement. #NeverForget www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The descent into cruelty isn’t accidental. It’s cultivated. What began as Trump’s instinct has become MAGA’s culture, where dehumanization is a strategy and empathy is treated as weakness. That always carries a cost.
Trump Hardened MAGA Hearts With His Cruelty—It’s Finally Backfiring
Trump has trained MAGA to revel in his cruelty, but it may finally be going too far
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The descent into cruelty isn’t accidental. It’s cultivated. What began as Trump’s instinct has become MAGA’s culture, where dehumanization is a strategy and empathy is treated as weakness. That always carries a cost.
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A Supreme Court that overturns Humphrey's Executor and 90 years of precedent to enable Donald Trump's corrupt march toward oligarchy is simply not a sustainable or legitimate institution.
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A Supreme Court that overturns Humphrey's Executor and 90 years of precedent to enable Donald Trump's corrupt march toward oligarchy is simply not a sustainable or legitimate institution.
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One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
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This is going to be a hot mess. How will large swaths of the government actually function seems not to be a concern of SCOTUS, at all.
Sometimes, it's difficult to predict how #SCOTUS is going to rule based solely on how the oral argument goes.
And sometimes ... it's not.
And sometimes ... it's not.
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is going to be a hot mess. How will large swaths of the government actually function seems not to be a concern of SCOTUS, at all.
🎁🔗 Rep. Ilhan Omar’s responds to Trump’s racist attacks on her, Somali immigrants and the great state of Minnesota.
“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎁🔗 Rep. Ilhan Omar’s responds to Trump’s racist attacks on her, Somali immigrants and the great state of Minnesota.
“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
🎁🔗 Sixty years ago, the United States abolished immigration restrictions based on nationality alone. By 1965, such discrimination had become an embarrassment. The Trump administration is reviving nationality-based discrimination.
#Racism
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
#Racism
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎁🔗 Sixty years ago, the United States abolished immigration restrictions based on nationality alone. By 1965, such discrimination had become an embarrassment. The Trump administration is reviving nationality-based discrimination.
#Racism
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
#Racism
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
“The DOJ’s failure to acknowledge court rulings against Habba and Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience when they were appointed, fits into a broader pattern: the Trump administration’s callous disregard for judicial authority.”
#TrumpLawlessness
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/lin...
#TrumpLawlessness
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/lin...
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“The DOJ’s failure to acknowledge court rulings against Habba and Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience when they were appointed, fits into a broader pattern: the Trump administration’s callous disregard for judicial authority.”
#TrumpLawlessness
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/lin...
#TrumpLawlessness
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/lin...
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Trump gutted The US Institute for Peace’s staff and board. He had its president forcibly removed. Given USIP’s congressional mandate, he did not have the authority to do that. He’s now put his name on the building, but nobody knows what if any substantive work is happening inside.
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The renamed ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’ hosts first event
Trump joined leaders from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to sign an accord — and to marvel at the new name his administration gave the building.
wapo.st
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Trump gutted The US Institute for Peace’s staff and board. He had its president forcibly removed. Given USIP’s congressional mandate, he did not have the authority to do that. He’s now put his name on the building, but nobody knows what if any substantive work is happening inside.
🎁 wapo.st/3MhTlCa
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Thankfully, while their morality has no bottom their ineptitude has no bounds.
www.huffpost.com/entry/letiti...
www.huffpost.com/entry/letiti...
Grand Jury Rejects New Indictment Against Letitia James
A judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Thankfully, while their morality has no bottom their ineptitude has no bounds.
www.huffpost.com/entry/letiti...
www.huffpost.com/entry/letiti...
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“Persecution, not prosecution”: A new grand jury has declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James. Former assistant U.S. attorney @maya4rights.bsky.social joins The Weeknight to explain the significance of the move and what it reveals about the Trump Justice Department’s approach.
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Persecution, not prosecution”: A new grand jury has declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James. Former assistant U.S. attorney @maya4rights.bsky.social joins The Weeknight to explain the significance of the move and what it reveals about the Trump Justice Department’s approach.
🔗 John Robert’s decades long history of dismantling democracy.
As the Roberts #SCOTUS rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.
As the Roberts #SCOTUS rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.
Once again, this is all John Roberts' fault.
Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social on why Trump owes all his corrupt and abusive reign to the chief justice.
Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social on why Trump owes all his corrupt and abusive reign to the chief justice.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔗 John Robert’s decades long history of dismantling democracy.
As the Roberts #SCOTUS rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.
As the Roberts #SCOTUS rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.
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This is not a legitimate Supreme Court. This is a court that wants to lock in white-supremacist, right-wing rule.
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is not a legitimate Supreme Court. This is a court that wants to lock in white-supremacist, right-wing rule.
🔗 The Roberts #SCOTUS is once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power by overruling the District Court finding that Texas’ map is racially gerrymandered.
SCOTUS conservative justices upholding Texas gerrymander is yet another example of how Roberts court has greenlit the many undemocratic schemes of Trump and his party
They’ve now ruled for Trump and his allies in 90 percent of shadow docket opinions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They’ve now ruled for Trump and his allies in 90 percent of shadow docket opinions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts court just helped Trump rig the midterms
The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🔗 The Roberts #SCOTUS is once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power by overruling the District Court finding that Texas’ map is racially gerrymandered.
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As a former prosecutor, I know a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. The grand jury’s refusal today to indict Letitia James shows this case should never have been brought.
When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.
When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.
BREAKING: Federal grand jury REFUSES TO INDICT New York Attorney General Letitia James again
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As a former prosecutor, I know a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. The grand jury’s refusal today to indict Letitia James shows this case should never have been brought.
When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.
When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Public health officials warn that if If RFK Jr succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children.
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Public health officials warn that if If RFK Jr succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children.
🎁🔗 Thank you Gov. Pritzker for protecting us from the crazy conspiracy theories and misinformation from RFK Jr.
Illinois can now issue its own guidelines about when and how people should receive vaccines and what shots insurers must cover.
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Illinois can now issue its own guidelines about when and how people should receive vaccines and what shots insurers must cover.
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Illinois can set its own vaccine guidelines, bypassing Trump administration
The new law shows how blue states are trying to counter Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skeptical approach to vaccines.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎁🔗 Thank you Gov. Pritzker for protecting us from the crazy conspiracy theories and misinformation from RFK Jr.
Illinois can now issue its own guidelines about when and how people should receive vaccines and what shots insurers must cover.
wapo.st/4rSWB7x
Illinois can now issue its own guidelines about when and how people should receive vaccines and what shots insurers must cover.
wapo.st/4rSWB7x
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
🎁🔗 Lives shattered. In response to the National Guard shooting, the Trump admin stopped all asylum applications in violation of U.S. obligations under the U.N. Refugee Convention and the 1980 Refugee Act - the legal framework for protecting refugees and asylum seekers
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🎁🔗 Lives shattered. In response to the National Guard shooting, the Trump admin stopped all asylum applications in violation of U.S. obligations under the U.N. Refugee Convention and the 1980 Refugee Act - the legal framework for protecting refugees and asylum seekers
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
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The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information. n.pr/4oyViHW
'New York Times' sues Pentagon over media restrictions
The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information. n.pr/4oyViHW
🎁🔗 NYT calls Trump’s racist attack on Somali immigrants what it is.
“President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
“President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🎁🔗 NYT calls Trump’s racist attack on Somali immigrants what it is.
“President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
“President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
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🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP Advances Bill Limiting Census Counts For Congressional Seats to Citizens
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.
The crackdown on trucking schools and trainers is another attack on immigrants. “The DOT has also proposed significant new restrictions on which immigrants can get a Commercial driver’s license , but a federal appeals court put those rules on hold last month.”
i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The crackdown on trucking schools and trainers is another attack on immigrants. “The DOT has also proposed significant new restrictions on which immigrants can get a Commercial driver’s license , but a federal appeals court put those rules on hold last month.”