“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...
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This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Remarkable.
"Americans today are less safe under your watch! Children are dying of diseases that we thought we had eradicated! You can smirk, Sir, but ... you should be ashamed, you should resign, and if you refuse, Congress should remove you from office!"
Rep. Haley Stevens
CD-11, MI
A budget is a declaration of priorities. Trump has made clear that you and your family aren't one of his.
brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie
When quoting Bible verses it is helpful to use words from an actual Bible, instead of using a FAKE Bible quote from Pulp Fiction! A self-identified Christian, who can’t even correctly quote from the Bible & this is something he wants us to believe he’s good at. He is incompetent at everything.
Rev. Pete at the Pentagon
"He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink
He drinks a cider drink"
-- Chumbawamba 19:97
Striking detail from groundbreaking state charges against an ICE agent: The victims say they didn't know the defendant was an officer when he pointed a gun at them.
Interview with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and full story. buff.ly/xjnp6nV
Really getting tired of these faux Christians defaming my religion. Not only is Hegseth misquoting Bible passages to justify military aggression, he apparently has not read the New Testament at all.
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A red social media graphic featuring images of House Republicans who voted down a bill to stop Trump's war with Iran. White text on screen reads, "Nearly every Republican in the House voted to kill another bill to stop Trump’s Iran war."
Yesterday, Senate Republicans killed a Democratic bill to stop Trump’s war with Iran.
Today, House Republicans did the same thing.
Republicans are making their position clear: They support Trump’s war with Iran.
Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it.
Hasn't our state suffered enough?
www.savetheboundarywaters.org
SENATORS HOLD THE FLOOR IN PROTEST OF COPPER-NICKEL MINING NEAR THE BOUNDARY WATERS
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Klobuchar pulled hard on Minnesota history while holding the floor, noting she is standing at the desk of Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the bill that was later signed to protect the Boundary Waters.
U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
The Boundary Waters wouldn’t just lose its protections tonight. It would lose them permanently.
And if it passes? It’s not just a setback you can undo in four years. The Congressional Review Act has a poison pill once a protection is overturned this way, no future president can ever issue a similar one again without a brand new act of Congress.
Here’s what makes this especially infuriating: the mine would be operated by Twin Metals a subsidiary of a Chilean company with a deal to smelt the copper in China. Foreign company with foreign profits. American wilderness destroyed. China gets the copper. We get the pollution.
The vote is happening as you read this. The resolution is H.J. Res. 140. It uses the Congressional Review Act to strip a 20-year mining ban protecting 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest that feeds directly into the Boundary Waters watershed.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota 1.1 million acres of pristine lakes, rivers, and forest. The most visited wilderness in the entire country. And tonight, the Senate is voting on whether to open it to copper mining.
THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW!
Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
This Tax Day, every American should know:
Because of Trump, Amazon avoided paying over 90% of the taxes it owed.
That's $17.5 billion that should be going to health care, schools, child care, and more.
But instead, Jeff Bezos gets wealthier.
Congress needs to tax the rich.
A red social media graphic featuring images of Senate Republicans who voted down a bill to stop Trump's war with Iran. White text on screen reads, "51 Senate Republicans kill Democrats' bill to stop Trump's war with Iran."
Senate Democrats have introduced four bills to rein in Trump and his war—and Republicans blocked each one.
I keep saying, as a Trump biographer, that this man holds deeply deranged beliefs—on almost every subject—he cannot be talked out of by experts, to the point that it can accurately be said that he lives in his own warped reality.
25th this man immediately.
They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.
Honestly, how much more nonsense are we going to have to go through before the people around Trump grasp that he is mentally sick, a danger to America and the world--and he needs to be removed from office?
It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
"The President is not well" says former federal prosecutor @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
