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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.

...like a fiddle

Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."

It’s obvious that Trump behaves with Putin in a way that is unique (including compared to Xi). My theory is that Putin understands knows that Trump was psychologically reliant on his father to both keep him afloat financially and build up his ego (Fred Trump used to tell DJT, “You are a king”) 1/

What we saw today in Alaska is not normal. My full statement:

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

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What happened to this Senator?

@jonathankarl.bsky.social saw you let Homan lie about the border and disappearing people with no due process-we are not at war w Venezuela, ICE agents aren’t reliable and your job is to defend the Constitution we have not allow him to redefine it on air

This is the question we must all answer for ourselves. But if we cede democracy out of fear of Trump, things will not get better just because we cave. Freedom is worth the hard work it’s going to take.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

IMO, the Trump administration unilaterally freezing all funding for cancer research, in violation of two federal court orders, is a big deal.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

The ethics violations at DOJ are mind-blowing. DC's USA attended J6, represented a J6 rioter, then dismissed his case. The Deputy AG is Trump's former lawyer. He's purging the same officials who prosecuted him. I demanded the DOJ IG investigate these conflicts of interest.

Donald Trump likes to push especially authoritarian abuses late on Friday nights. Some tips for responding to these “Friday Night Massacres”: 1️⃣ Name it to tame it. 2️⃣ Be loud about how you’ll respond. 3️⃣ Don’t buy into irreversibility.

Musk’s staffers are heading to the Pentagon, while Trump continues his attempted purge of Washington. He recently announced on Truth Social that he is appointing himself as head of the Kennedy Center and plans to remove multiple members from its board of trustees.

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