Fucking spineless cowards.
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Fucking spineless cowards.
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This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.
Good people: we should address supply and build more housing to lower housing costs
Evil people: we should reduce demand and kick out immigrants to lower housing costs
stupid people: we already have enough housing the problem is vacant units
Don’t let this fade away.
Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?
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![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu)
@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu)
Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.
Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.
And GOP senators and representatives are okay with it
Hey, are you a university president? Or scholarly society?
The number of your colleagues joining this "solidarity" letter, via @aacu.org and AAAS, goes up by the hour. (Around 180 this morning. Around 240 now.)
Keep it going. It's not too late to sign on.
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Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
NYT: “.. end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours ..
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
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My expert analysis of this order:
Judge Xinis big mad
I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
Senate Democrats attempt to build a firewall -- and stop confirmation of Trump choice for lead prosecutor in Wash. D.C.
The nominee is a former "Stop the Steal" figure who called 2020 election "rigged" and was outside Capitol on Jan 6
Just filed ===>
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This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.
“Dumber than a sack of bricks” doing a ton of work here. 🤡
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Crucial context here: @adamisacson.com suggests that there may be as many as 31 people imprisoned in CECOT whose names have never been made public.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."
Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal.
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Mic drop
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
"Dismissed."
This commander murdered more people in cold blood than Charles Manson — nearly as many as Jeffrey Dahmer — and they're still debating whether to charge him criminally.
His current punishment is *losing his job.* That's not justice.
All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.
Tom Emmer refuses three times to answer a question about if Trump has legal authority to deport American citizens
(the answer is "no")
The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline: High school graduates in prison Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
💯 if El Salvador wants to turn itself into a for profit N Korea, Americans should treat it like N Korea
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