Lying liars who lie lie to everyone, including other lying liars who lie www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Lying liars who lie lie to everyone, including other lying liars who lie www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: āWe cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired."
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
Our hearts are with the victims of yet another tragic shooting. āThoughts and prayersā wonāt stop bullets ā and they wonāt pass reform. FFRF urges citizens and policymakers to replace empty platitudes with meaningful action.
Weāre going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes weāre bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: āThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.ā
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceriesāand we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health careāand instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
Itās the first week of school for manyāa time that should be filled with joy, not grief. Those children in Minnesota were at Mass when their lives were stolen. My heart goes out to all impacted by this act of violence. Gun violence has no place in our schools, our churches, or our communities.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others ā Congress, the courts, the American people ā from having a say or even knowing what heās going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
āYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.ā ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. š
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is headed to the Ocean State, likely to spout talking points about how Trump is āputting workers first.ā She should try telling that to the thousands of union workers who Trump just fired through his stop-work order on a nearly complete wind farm in Rhode Island.
You do what you can live with and I hope US citizens can live with the danger of doing what is right when the TACO FOTUS Regime, Greedy Oligarch Party and Project 2025 are taking over our country.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
In years to come, we will (hopefully) look back at this era ā in which we allowed, even encouraged, morally bankrupt huckster propagandists to get rich by lying to credulously followers ā with the requisite disgust
Psaki: I felt a mixture of angerāa lot of angerāand emotional exhaustion about this today, as Iām sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
Itās outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director ā after only a few weeks on the job ā for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Donald Trump can try to stop offshore wind. But he will not succeed.
Letās be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no senseāitās not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
not only the Nutlick, butt tossing the salad as well
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"The best businessman in the United States" You mean the same dipshit who bankrupted 5 casinos? That businessman?
He doesn't really have an ideology, aside from tyranny.
Intel can be manipulated in far more devious ways than produce and baked goods can. Trumpās move is potentially more fascist than socialist.
We don't need government to own businesses. Socialism
Everything you need to know about this admin in this one sentence. Praise Maxwell deport Garcia
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) swiftly pushed back, saying Illinois never asked for federal troops and that Trump has no legal authority to unilaterally seize control of the Illinois National Guard. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
šØBREAKING: 3rd Circuit REJECTS RNC motion to pause ruling requiring Pennsylvania counties to count undated/wrongly dated ballots. This means counties cannot reject undated and wrongly dated ballots while the case continues on appeal. Congrats to our clients DSCC and DCCC!
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
I was not aware of this story or her suicide. Clemens belongs no where near the hall
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Fired based on mere allegationsāanother step on the slide towards a banana republic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Dems are apparently "looking for a platform" when the answer is right there: Stop running away from thing that actually help people. Food, housing, healthcare, no genocides, everyone's rights and bodily autonomy protected, a livable world, and all of those things viciously, deftly defended, always.
This is 100% correct.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Stephen Miller is completely full of shit, and he knows it. He's selling hatred of cities to people who do not live in cities and are scared of them.
Schiff on the Bolton raid: "They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition in an effort to intimidate them. That's what this is about. It's not about Bolton per se. It's about anyone else that like Bolton might stand up to the president."
The 90M eligible voters who didnāt arenāt the center, theyāre the sidelines. We need to motivate more than moderate.
Who wouldāve thought Americans wouldnāt want to live in a military state? Oh thatās right, all Americans. Another negative impact of the military crackdown in DC small businesses are struggling to make sales. Restaurant reservations have dropped by nearly 30% compared with last year, and some owners
I cannot express how infuriating this story is. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
Thereās literally no chance in hell heās going to make four years. š„
Did you hear. Jasmine Crockett is going to run for another district that is even easier for her to win. You can't silence the queen of Texas. #USDemocracy
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
Trump administration seems like itās just daring the courts to tell it no on this one.
When an experienced FBI agent describes the current FBI as purely political, it clearly indicates how far American justice has deteriorated in just a few months. Life in America may not be ānormal again for generations.
We are moving dangerously close to martial law. Trump openly said he intends to āgo afterā Chicago and New York in his next federal crackdown, saying heās prepared to deploy U.S. troops against civilians.
I expect major movement in Texas tomorrow. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New in PN: Trumpās targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence "Trump has never even pretended heās the president for the entire United States. Heās the ruler of an overwhelmingly white sub-nation that seeks to subdue the countryās racially diverse urban centers."
It's worth reiterating that the administration has never wavered from the position that it sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison by accident. Everything they've done since is calculated to obscure that and punish him for existing as an example of their own stupidity and callousness.
I think the World Cup should seriously reconsider having their event in the USA.
A win! A federal judge has expanded a ruling that stops the Trump administration from cutting off federal money to cities that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement.
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
If weāre setting the precedent of nationalizing businesses, I have some candidates in mind, and the number one entry rhymes with āThe Trump Organizationā
Go Marc!
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washingtonās? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
This is what Trump's Solicitor General told the Supreme Court about Maxwell last month. Unless it's withdrawn, this is the official position of DOJ and the United States.
š„ The NFL is stoked to be woke. āAll 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: āEnd Racism,ā āStop Hate,ā āChoose Loveā or āInspire Change.ā africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they donāt get a serious seat at the table to decide how theyāre governed. D.C. statehood now.
Itās my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef JosĆ© AndrĆ©s) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
I feel like the U.S. government shouldn't be allowed to deport people to any random country in the world that it feels like sending them to
Oh man. Embarrassing for Dean Cain. ICE posting his training session like itās some kind of āMan of Steelā flex. Although it tracks with the incompetent, undertrained ICE agents weāre seeing on the streets.
This regime never stops. Court records filed Saturday reveal that immigration officials intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he rejected a deal that would have sent him to Costa Rica in exchange for staying in custody and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.
Frost: He knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat. The same thing he's done his entire life. But I'll tell you something else I feel really good about, is what California's doing. They're saying we're not gonna let you do this without a fight.
"Mr Trump, then 50, was reported to have flown Ms De Georgiou and Ms Maxwell, to Florida for a weekend and arranged for Ms De Georgiou to stay in an apartment he owned in New York. They met after he began dating the model Melania Knauss, now the first lady, but before they married."
Trump has replaced justice with retribution and the raid on John Bolton's house and office raises the stakes greatly. My latest for Democracy Docket premium members explains this and what we need to do about it. Join now! hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Continuing from the last post, letās be blunt. None of it makes sense. No one should be taking the word of someone convicted of sex trafficking minors. Sheās lounging in a āvacation prisonā after everything she did.
This is how itās done.
Every Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 needs to commit to expanding/reforming the US Supreme Court. Absent that the person is full of crap.
Two word: Epstein Files. Watch, enjoy, share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEh...
Lol, keep gaslighting
Netanyahu says Albaneseās reputation āforever tarnishedā I laughed and laughed.... A war criminal says 'forever tarnished'.....hysterical
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
Lol
After Donald Trump lashed out against voting by mail, a few Republican officials disagreed ā politely! ā with the presidentās plans for an unconstitutional executive order. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"If you are looking for someone to launch 1,000 pointless investigations that stick it to 'woke' and make Fox News hosts clap like giddy seals, then Andrew Bailey might be just the man for the job. It's terrible for democracy, but great for content."
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hopeānot because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
Ossoff: "Let me just say this about Vance, bc he was supposed to be this avatar of a new GOP that was for working class people. His legacy forever now is casting the decisive vote to throw millions off healthcare, throw seniors out of nursing home beds all to serve the wealthiest ppl in the country"
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Components from Rumfordās igus, Inc. can be found in everything from soda machines to the Space Station. Now, Trumpās chaotic tariffs are throwing a wrench in their expansion plans. Similar stories are playing out across RI with manufacturers big and small.
I don't think you can really say that Dems walking out of Texas and going back was pointless when it seems to have given California the time to move the ball on their retaliatory measures.
As the son, grandson and nephew of foreign service officers, I will second his emotion. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
As the lawyer who helped lead the effort to defeat Donald Trump's bogus lawsuits after the 2020 election, I try to imagine how different it would be right now if Fox News had said at the time that Trump lost, period. We wouldn't be dealing with election deniers staffing the White House and DOJ.
Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.
Stephen Miller has definitely been stuffed in a locker several times during his high school days.
For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They canāt. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.