April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

April 1, 2025

The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.

“If we live in a country where judges’ orders can be ignored by an Administration bent on amassing unchecked power, we no longer live in a democracy.”
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Is there any recourse for staffers at Voice of America and other gutted U.S. broadcasters? The American Foreign Service Mission says "unilaterally stripping a congressionally established agency of its core functions amounts to an affront to the constitutional balance of powers." 🧵

Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

March 16, 2025 Yesterday, President Donald Trump reached back to 1798 for authority to expel five people he claims are members of a Venezuelan gang.

March 16, 2025

Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights "This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win."

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Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.

"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."

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The flood of Executive Orders from the White House is overwhelming, outpacing the lawsuits that call many of these acts illegal. Think: Is this by design? Chaos-creating demoralizes people and clouds opposition. Keep clear-headed: Lies don’t justify breaking the law! #TruthBrigade

Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic…

Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.

March 8, 2025 Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.

March 8, 2025

US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009 | CNN Business The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoffs last month, new data showed Thursday.

"It’s the 12th highest monthly job cuts total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking them.

"The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..."

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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

At Least Now We Know the Truth It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

POTUS and VPOTUS “showed the U.S.-led alliance something it needed urgently to know: The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.”

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Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.

An image featuring Admiral Lisa Franchetti in her formal Navy uniform saluting, alongside text highlighting her distinguished 40-year naval career, including commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The text then contrasts her extensive experience with her reported firing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, identified as a Fox News weekend host. The source of the information is credited to the New York Times, with "COURIER" branding in the top right corner. The highlighted portion of the text emphasizes the contrast between her career and the circumstances of her dismissal.

Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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Opinion | ‘​The World Is There for the Carving’: Two Columnists on the Trump-Putin Alliance We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.

“We now have a president of the U.S. who subscribes to the same worldview of coercive conquest as the president of Russia.” And one who tramples the Constitution domestically. It’s not too late to turn this around. But the 2026 midterms are our last best hope

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Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
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Good to see the power of the people is still alive. We the people govern ourselves in a democracy.

I joined the good folks at the DC 50501 protest this afternoon and it was a blast.

We don't have kings in this country, and we don't bow to billionaires.

We don't work for them. They work for us.

Here is the oath all executive branch employees take. It is to support and defend the Constitution, not to “implement the president’s agenda.” If the two purposes diverge, the Constitution prevails.

Presidents May Not Unilaterally Dismantle Government Agencies That’s not how separation of powers works under the U.S. Constitution.

This would’ve seemed too obvious to require stating explicitly until the Musk/Trump wrecking ball was wheeled into place
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Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.

We are in a constitutional crisis right here and now
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Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.

Stop Elon's Billionaire Grift: Hands off the CFPB · Indivisible Join Indivisible, Progressive Change Institute, MoveOn, and Americans for Financial Reform to Rally at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Senator Elizabeth Warren to fight back against Elon...

Just confirmed minutes ago: Elizabeth Warren will be joining us tomorrow at the CFPB. Details below. Please come if you can, and please do register because it helps with planning for crowd size. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours.

More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

Constituents have a message for their NY Senators 👇👇👇

Exactly. No is a complete sentence

On his second day in office, Trump summarily fired every member of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee as part of dismembering the Department of Homeland Security.

Maybe it was just more convenient to blame DEI without any evidence.

The American people deserve an intelligence chief that will stand up to Donald Trump if he gives them a directive to illegally gut funds from watchdogs that oversee intelligence agencies. Tulsi Gabbard refused to answer, which tells you everything you need to know.