Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis.
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
Republicans love to pretend they care about veterans, but their voting records tell the truth—they don’t give a damn. Trump insults veterans, & they slash VA jobs, gutting benefits for those who served. Our veterans fought for your freedom, and this is how the GOP & MAGA repays them? Pure betrayal.
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
FOTUS plans to cut more than 70,000 staffers from the Veterans Administration, which provides healthcare to 9M US vets. They’re also halting life-saving clinical trials as well as terminating a cancer database.
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This incident is disturbing, unnecessary and indicative of tactics that are undermining the safety and security of our communities, not adding to it. Law enforcement officers should have deescalated this situation. Mayor Baraka should be immediately released.
As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.
Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁
To make matters worse, importers are leaving inventory in China ports. Waiting for tariffs to be lowered. If they are lowered enough, there will be a crush to ship them here and transport them when they get here. That will drive transportation costs way up. = More inflation, post tariffs
That means empty shelves, an economic slowdown, and layoffs, actually.
I don’t remember $80M fighter jets falling off of aircraft carriers when the US govt had DEI or when Joe Biden was President.
Hegseth and staff spending untold hours removing trans service members from the armed services while continuing ignoring the epidemic of suicide in the military tells you everything you need to know about them.
The disrespect for Congress and the law is glaring - and for our nation a threat to our public safety.
So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
Trump 2.0 made me so worried that he would again separate families at the southern border.
I was right about the fear, and wrong about the location.
He’s separating families and abducting people — everywhere.
Including right here in Massachusetts.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
#immigration
‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operation
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl’s face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation
My dude, you ruled that he was free to commit as many crimes as he wants.
Stay brave 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country.
“Our leaders must follow their example.”
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
He's defunding real police so there is no opposition to his private police sector.
This is on the heels of his administration’s cuts of over $800 million to police, prosecutors, courts and more across the country.
Trump is defunding the police to help pay for a tax cut for billionaires.
In his first 100 days, Trump targeted not only the universities driving global research but also the scientists, scholars, and students behind that progress—undermining America’s leadership in innovation and putting our future in science and discovery at risk.
Trump threatens innovation.
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.
Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months
The latest loss of an F/A-18 fighter jet occurred during a failed landing aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.
A federal judge rejected Republican efforts to throw out thousands of votes cast in the North Carolina Supreme Court race.
This comes after two recounts confirmed GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin lost to Democrat Allison Riggs by 734 votes.
Rare good news for democracy.
Egg prices are much more tolerable now that Trump has eliminated the need to buy children toys.
"The same forces that make that dolls more expensive, also make furniture more expensive, make strollers more expensive, make bottles more expensive, and so on."
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.
This is Noemi – she’s an epidemiologist whose job was keeping coal miners safe on the job. She was fired a month ago, along with the physicians who certify the lung x-rays of sick miners.
Who are Donald Trump and Elon Musk really working for?
If we see extensive Medicaid cuts in this Republican tax bill, we could see virtually every Virginia hospital west of Roanoke close down.
I’m working hard to fight it.
How many more damning revelations have to come out before my Republican colleagues find their voice to say that our servicemembers are too important to be this badly led by Pete Hegseth?
“Your family doesn’t actually need to be able to afford dolls for your kids,” is not an economic plan.
Trump knows he’s driving our economy off a cliff and he just doesn’t care.
With all the talk of product shortages , I think it should be said that products will first find their way to densely populated areas first and everywhere else, last
This certainly will hurt all those red counties. How they react to their shelves being everything will define the midterms
Love to see it !!!
I didn't hunt down terrorists around the world so that Mike Lawler could have seniors dragged out of town halls like criminals.
NY-17 deserves a real leader, not a coward.
🚨NY-17 social worker forcibly dragged out of Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall. Afterwards, Lawler told the crowd to "behave."
Elected officials are supposed to listen to their constituents—not silence and remove them. This is not democracy.
Seems like Mike Lawler had a whole police dept there to physically eject people from his town hall.
This is what Mike Lawler stands for.
This image should haunt him and his career as a nemesis moment
Is Mike Lawler having anymore Jewish women assaulted this morning?
It’s not deportations.
It’s human trafficking.
The Trump Admin celebrated the MN Small Business Person of the Year—at the same time their tariffs are devastating her business. She came to the Senate to make her case to end the Trump Tariff Tax.
(Note: She doesn’t have the President’s cell to call to get an exemption.)
RESISTANCE FIGHTER IN ACTION
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Tim Walz doesn’t miss a beat 😅😂
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Thousands showed up in Berlin, Germany to protest against fascism.
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Page One in San Francisco: California ports are ground zero for worries about the lack of incoming Chinese imports — and the empty shelves to come.
“This is going to be worse than during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
"These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace."
-Governor J.B. Pritzker
Thank you to everyone who shared their story today on the Capitol steps or online. This is how we will stop cuts to Medicaid, this is how we will stop Trump and congressional Republicans devastating agenda, this is how we will rise.
"do nothing Democrats"; holy shit.
He's talking about Schumer, for sure. (He's been reported as criticizing Schumer to his face."
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
Today would be a great day for Chuck Schumer to announce he’s stepping aside as Senate Minority Leader and isn’t going to run for reelection when his term ends.
Agree?
The fact that Schumer hasn't been pushed out of Dem leadership yet speaks to the weakness of the party.
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works — and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bending the law so they can fire thousands of Social Security workers.
They want to get rid of the people who make sure you get your monthly checks and help out if there’s a problem.
Staff at Social Security offices make sure Americans get the benefits they've paid into their entire working lives.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to shut down those offices and rip away benefits.
Trump and Musk: get your hands off Social Security.
Democrats urge Social Security Administration to keep field offices open
Lawmakers sent a letter to the agency’s acting commissioner asking to keep open field offices and demanding transparency about potential closures.
