DC's sole congressional rep is too old to drive. Can she defend the city from a hostile GOP? While DC faces a budget crisis Congress created, 87-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton is struggling.

Broaching the subject of the advanced age of a member of Congress is still considered unseemly.

But at 87, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton has increasingly shown signs of significant diminishment—just when DC residents have never needed a more forceful advocate more than they do right now.

Great use of taxpayer funds.

Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

Man, fuck this guy. What a disappointment.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Double.

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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

Aaaand there it is.

So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs?

We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

We are not under invasion.

There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.

Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

Senator Booker (who is in Nashville today) responds to Mayor Baraka’s arrest…

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

Trump sycophant Stephen Miller says the White House is considering suspending Habeas Corpus.

As a human rights lawyer, let me be clear: Due process & habeas corpus is arguably the last line of defense before fascism takes permanent hold.

I cannot emphasize enough how dire this is for our nation.

A Subpoena for the White House? On April 16, I wrote to you about a hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, which is before U.S.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a motion today and it could lead to a deposition in the White House. Read about it here and be up to date. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.

In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?

P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes

M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

For Sir David: 🎂

This day keeps getting better.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

🔥 BREAKING: Bristol Myers Squibb shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals. One of the proposals called on BMS to "Cease DEI Efforts," and was rejected by shareholder vote 97-2 percent (1% abstained).

BMS Board supports "our culture of inclusion" and "all decisions are merit-based."

I'm a yes on all these except I'm even more progressive on health care. I think we should have direct government care instead of M4A - though M4A is a step in the right direction. My problem with M4A is it still relies on private providers and corporate third-party administrators.

Canadian PM Mark Carney says he asked Trump today to stop calling Canada the '51st state'.

I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.

Buckle up. I suspect this is going to be a shit show

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