Why were these people confirmed in the first place? There is a cancer on the heart of the presidency, to quote from the Watergate era, and it’s infecting all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-will-...

Let it begin.

March 22, 2025 Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...

Quoting ME Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2...

Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends. Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.

1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

Actually no. There are no questions about this. A court order is a court order.

So where, exactly, do Dems draw the line?

‘The Only Practical Check That’s Left Is the Power of the Purse.’ In the baffling haze of dealing with ‘everything, all the time,' a few clear signals of where to take a stand. Let's start with Democrats all voting NO on a blank check for Elon Musk.

I'm not the world's most pinko rabble-rousing guy.

But to me, this budget vote was where Dems *had* to draw the line. (As argued yesterday, below.)

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If not now, when?

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

It is time for all Democrats to take a stand. If not now, when?

This is the time for Democrats to take a stand. If not now, when?

At what point do Democrats take a stand? If not now, when?

This is a lie

Ordered, looking forward to reading this.

2/2

Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?"

Answer will become obvious.

This is all, of course, lies

What Krugman said

It appears our stock market is undergoing an unscheduled rapid disassembly today.

March 7, 2025 Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.

March 7, 2025

Please read this thread

Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump’s direction knew it wouldn’t reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.

Was it a lawful order? Sure. Was it a destructive and senseless order? Also sure.

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What could possibly go wrong?

(Lots. Lots could possibly go wrong.)

Honestly I feel like I’m losing my mind

The lying ALONE is monumental (and politicians are already known for having issues with the truth...so it takes a lot to move that needle). But this is Orwellian levels of "flooding the zone with shit". Impossible to even begin to fact check.

As it was designed to be.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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Speaking for myself (and probably the whole company, but I don't want to speak for them). I support Ukraine.

I SUPPORT UKRAINE.

Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.