Rob Duffey

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

Democrats defend another candidate handcuffed for ICE protest Democrats are calling Brad Lander’s arrest in New York City “tyranny.” Republicans are mocking it as self-promotion.

Democrats rallied around New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, condemning his arrest by ICE officers after the mayoral candidate attempted to walk a migrant out of a federal building.
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Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

"Senior described Schmidt being 'violently interrogated' at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card" www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

If Democrats won't act like an opposition party, we will.

Opinion | No one knows what will finally stop Trump. So Black leaders are trying everything. Resistance to the president should include lawsuits, boycotts, marches — and not forgetting history.

From the Civil War era to the civil rights era to the Black Power movement...whenever things have hit a chord for us as Black people, we’ve been able to mobilize and organize the conscience of the entire country.
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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

Behold! Biggest Liar in New York wants to be mayor Hailing from the wilds of Albany, this is a conniving colossus of canards, a freak of fabrication, a behemoth of balderdash. We call it Andrew Cuomo.

Whew! NY Post editorial board calls Cuomo “a conniving colossus of canards, a freak of fabrication, a behemoth of balderdash.” nypost.com/2025/03/01/o...

💥It’s @replsimon.bsky.social's moment.

Honored to announce my friend and working class champion, Rep. Lateefah Simon will deliver @workingfamilies.org's official SOTU response address on March 4.

Sign up to watch: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU

“I’m not going to tell you I will never touch Social Security:” Rep. Pete Sessions, a longtime GOP member of Congress from Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

Translation: The richest men in the world are going to give themselves giant tax cuts, and they are coming for your social security & healthcare to pay for it.

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

Not coincidentally a strategy often deployed by abusers

This is a full-throated attack on American consumers on behalf of monied corporate interests. It’s wildly illegal and directly in Elon Musk’s personal interests.

Furious anti-Trump callers bombard Democrats' phones with demands to "fight harder" "I can't recall ever receiving this many calls," said one senior lawmaker who has been in Congress since 1997.

We spent all of Dec and Jan telling every Dem who would listen that their "we'll work with Trump" posture was badly out of touch with folks on the ground, that they were burning trust, and that there would be a reaction.

Now it's here! Maybe next time listen earlier! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...

It's a beautiful day to organize the working class, and there's nothing the oligarchs and their allies can do to stop us ❤️

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

This is a takeover of the federal government by an unelected billionaire.

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.

Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”

We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Messaging About How DOGE Will "Steal From You" to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks Performs Better With Independent Voters Than Just Benefit Cuts. Description: Supporters of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) say it will benefit Americans by cutting wasteful spending and reducing burdensome regulations. They say this will help taxpayers and small businesses. Steal From You Split A: Critics of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) say it is being run by billionaire Elon Musk in order to steal from you by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and veterans health care to give tax breaks to giant corporations and billionaires like Musk. Cut Essential Programs Split B: Critics of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) say it is being run by billionaire Elon Musk in order to cut Social Security, Medicare, and veterans health care. Based on what you know now, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Department of Government Efficiency? All likely voters — Favorable: 39%, Unfavorable: 43% Democrat — Favorable: 21%, Unfavorable: 65% Independent / Third party — Favorable: 30%, Unfavorable: 49% Republican — Favorable: 60%, Unfavorable: 20% All likely voters — Favorable: 40%, Unfavorable: 42% Democrat — Favorable: 24%, Unfavorable: 63% Independent / Third party — Favorable: 40%, Unfavorable: 35% Republican — Favorable: 58%, Unfavorable: 23% January 10–11, 2025 survey of 1,201 U.S. likely voters.

NEW with: @boldprogressives.org PCI:

Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.

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Trump and his billionaire friends thought they could cause pain to millions of working people and we’d take it lying down.

They learned the hard way that if they come after our Medicaid, child care, and SNAP benefits...there will be a price to pay.

This election wasn't a mandate for migrant concentration camps in Cuba.

Ask yourself: how does this policy make your life better?

Lower the price of groceries or pay the hospital bills?

January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

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Let's be clear about what's happening.

Trump is freeing the violent paramilitary wing of his movement from prison in order to:

1) demonstrate that violence committed in service of his objectives will go unpunished, and

2) facilitate future acts of violence in service of his regime.