“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” — Bruce Springsteen
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
NEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.
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Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
Barely a whispr of this in the media.
Our latest: Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it. Janet Mills wouldn’t bend the knee. Instead, she kicked the ass. The orange ass, to be specific.
Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it
Remember the Governor of Maine.
BREAKING: The USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over its transgender student athletic policies.
“I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said.
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BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issues a TRO blocking the Trump administration from "dissolv[ing]" the Institute of Museum and Library Services, placing any more employees on administrative leave, or terminating any grants in the coming days.
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On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house.
It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.
“I am saying it clear and loud: To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” Mahdawi said, per Politico
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States.
BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.
@liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown.
Details TK
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Look, all I know is that if Joe Biden had clearly fallen asleep at the state funeral for a pope, it would have dominated media coverage for days and been covered by political media as a scandal detrimental to the reputation of our country.
“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.”
Sen. Jon Ossoff
So Trump said today he was “joking” when he said he was going to end the war in 24 hours? Does he sound like he’s joking here?
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
Dear
#GOP
You are running out of time to decide if you take him down or he is the concrete shoes that drown you.
Thanks,
Sane America
Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after.
Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states.
New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute:
Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)
Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth
Just-out YouGov polling shows Trump's approval on the economy continuing to plunge — and his handling of immigration turning negative very sharply.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...Elon Musk and his arrogant little minions tried to break America.
We will send him packing and they will fail.
Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged!
www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...Criminal convictions, ABREGO GARCIA: 0
Criminal convictions, DONALD TRUMP: 34
Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."
This video Paige and I did explaining what happened in court today is going viral. Thank you for all the nice comments and to the thousands of new subscribers.
I hope you find it useful.
youtu.be/5HRmolBoM_k
BREAKING: Judge Starts Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology?
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Inside the Mind of an ICE Agent
Is this what she signed up for?
From the newscast community on Reddit: A 90 year old Holocaust survivor confronted Trump's ICE director.
Explore this post and more from the newscast community
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
I've seen enough. Donald Trump is not abiding by a lawful Supreme Court ruling. As a member of Congress, I fully support impeaching him. NOW.
Time to start impeachment proceedings.
If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy.
If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
MIT following Harvard's lead here
If you read one thing today read this new essay from
@timothysnyder.bsky.social:
"State Terror: A Brief Guide For Americans"
Previous generations of Americans fought Soviet and Nazi terror. Trump's team has decided to emulate it.
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
The Case Zablocki Act literally requires the text of any agreements the executive branch enters into with foreign states to be PUBLISHED ON THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE WEBSITE within 120 days of going into effect (thanks,
@bcfinucane.bsky.social for the reference!)
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
1 U.S. Code § 112b - United States international agreements and non-binding instruments; transparency provisions
And DOJ now advancing a variety of arguments for not disclosing these various instruments in the Abrego Garcia litigation—notwithstanding the reporting requirements of the amended Case Zablocki Act.
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Marth Stewart went to prison for insider trading on *one* stock.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought *17* stocks just before Donald Trump declared his "pause" in tariffs that caused those stocks to rise in value.
How many others were tipped off? How many stocks did Donald buy? Ivanka? Mike Johnson?
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.
Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
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NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952.
April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.
We are screwed.
All the MAGA moronic hot takes yesterday were about how Trump supposedly outmaneuvered Xi and China would be forced to surrender to the Orange Dipshit. They are far better prepared for a trade war than these incompetents in the WH, and are showing that now.
