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NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers | grist.org/culture/the-...

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

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A Supreme Court precedent that was reaffirmed just last year may not bode well for the immigration officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, according to a legal expert.

A pair of Egyptian Goose today at Burton Mere RSPB England today for #BirdsSeenIn2026

Legal experts smacked down Stephen Miller’s ominous message to ICE agents that they enjoy “federal immunity” and argued that he might have just opened himself up to impeachment proceedings.

Donald Trump's voter base is starting to turn on him as his biggest supporters question his reasoning for a potential invasion of a foreign ally.

Trump Winery bringing in more foreign workers while paying them less per hour than they did in previous years

Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!

Terrific, detailed report by Block Club Chicago about how Homeland Security has lied its ass off about its immigration crackdown in Chicago. Nothing that Homeland Security says should be believed.

NYT: Is the President tired? Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?

This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it? Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean. He served for 37 years.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Yet another shake down by 47: Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

‘A self-inflicted tragedy’: Congress approves reversal of US climate policy | grist.org/politics/a-s...

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Our military is run by Christofascists who have declared war on their own people.

“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us."

Stop the @bsky.app bashing. We’re all under a tremendous strain. We’re not perfect. I block when I need to, but ignore most foolishness. Don’t become goaded into leaving a platform that’s doing almost all the right things. To organize for 2026, we need to stay in communication w/each other.

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More than 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps service workers were terminated in a sweeping budget cut. The move was one of the biggest government cutbacks since the Trump administration took office, but went largely unnoticed. Here’s why:

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What an idiot. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The graying of the U.S. And I don't mean hair color. 47's attacks on culture will result in less color & brightness, as poverty, inequality, lies, misinformation & anti-woke stupidity spreads, as science & climate research are deterred, cultural institutions shuttered,etc. lithub.com/on-the-lates...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses Defense Department firings by saying the Trump regime won’t tolerate leaking to the mainstream media about “sensitive information.” But, um, didn’t Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leak military secrets to the editor of The Atlantic?

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

Do not obey

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Incredibly cruel. This has to be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Unless the president changes course or is forced to do so, these tariffs will hurt — and the pain is going to get worse,” the New York Times editorial board writes.

They are obviously slow learners

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As Trump drives our economy over the cliff, I'm re-upping a piece I wrote last month. Why won't the media report the obvious fact that Trump is mentally unfit to be president? They had no problem raising questions about Biden, whose sin was old age, not greed, pathological lying and megalomania.

Yup!

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.

Drugmakers' stocks in Europe and India slipped after US President Donald Trump reiterated plans for a ‘major’ tariff on all pharmaceutical imports, and as ‘reciprocal’ tariffs kicking in led to a further carnage in global markets reut.rs/4jiCBGa

Tariffs on produce and products, like coffee, that can't be grown in the U. S. are incredibly stupid. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...