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(above an image of Trump) THIS WEEK, 18 DEMOCRATS JOINED REPUBLICANS TO CONFIRM 5 TRUMP NOMINEES. Bennet (CO), Coons (DE), Fetterman (PA), Callego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Hickenlooper (CO), Kaine (VA), Kelly (AZ), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Ossoff (GA), Peters (MI), Reed (RI, Rosen (NV), Shaheen (NH), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA), and Warnock (GA)

Too many members of Congress keep letting us down. This is about more than opposing Trump’s bad nominees — it’s about treating this administration like the authoritarian threat it is and using every inch of power to fight back: indivisible.org/campaign/tru...

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If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.

Paying an extortionist -- where do you think it ends? Do you think he honors his side of the supposed "deal"? Really?

Meanwhile, as Big Law ill-advisedly pays the protection racket, there's a huge need for lawyers to help regular people Trump is illegally targeting:

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Challenge to Trump’s Tariffs Funded by Groups Linked to Charles Koch and Leonard Leo The legal organization behind a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s tariffs is funded by groups linked to Charles Koch and Leonard A. Leo.

Wait til Trump figures out that the Kochs, using Leo, actually picked “Trump’s Supreme Court justices” and that Trump was the chump in the equation.

Democrats home in on trading activity before Trump flip on tariffs “Every Attorney General must immediately investigate."

Democratic lawmakers are calling for federal agencies and state attorneys general to investigate whether President Donald Trump, members of his administration, or any of his associates manipulated markets or helped enrich allies in connection with Trump’s sudden reversal on tariff polices.

Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, immigration judge rules The fight is far from over.

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that recent Columbia graduate and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported—even though Khalil has a green card, is a lawful permanent resident, and has not been charged with any crimes.

We keep hearing about "agreements" btw Trump and law firms or Trump and universities. Where are they? What are they? Are they really committed to paper? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

Privatized Commissaries? Pentagon Looking to Turn Over Retail, Recreation Services to Companies The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to...

Big one for military folks ...

Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector.

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Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Right, because Grandma is on X.

This is corruption, plain and simple.

WIRED: The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app.

Pure corruption.

House Republicans just passed a voter suppression bill that would disenfranchise millions “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials.”

Yesterday, House Republicans (with the help of four Democrats) passed a bill that would restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration.

We must speak up to stop this GOP voter suppression bill in the Senate. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Evil, evil, evil

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Inside Trump's federal "probie" purge Some federal workers are bracing to be fired for a second time after a pair of court orders this week allowed their terminations to resume.

“I get angry, I get sad, I get depressed about the country being taken apart. I’m trying to keep it together, but it’s really hard, to be honest.”

While Donald Trump throws our economy into chaos, Republicans in Congress just advanced Trump's plan to cut health care for millions of people to pay for tax handouts for billionaires and giant corporations.

We're going to fight it with everything we've got.

"Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights..."

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RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

I love this! 👇🏻

Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.

They aren't even bothering to hide it.

Warren Urges S.E.C. to Investigate Trading Around Trump’s Tariff Pause The president told his social media followers it was a “GREAT TIME TO BUY” hours before announcing a reversal on tariffs that sent markets soaring.

Did President Trump tip off big donors or family to cash in on his tariff chaos?

Today with @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats, I officially called for an SEC investigation to find out.

Presidents are not kings.

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

its crazy watching the president openly brag about using the presidency to extort law firms into working pro bono on the post-presidency legal defense he thinks he'll need when he's out of office

Judge allows Trump administration to require everyone in the country illegally to register. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe The move will have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country. The requirement goes into effect Friday.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, a SMART Union apprentice — and it’s long past time for him to be reunited with his family in Maryland.

He was wrongly deported by Donald Trump and left to rot in an El Salvador prison.

Bring him home.

Supreme Court says Trump officials should help return wrongly deported Maryland man The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

If Trump gets away with destroying Due Process for Kilmar Garcia, he’ll think he can sweep anyone off the street and ship them to a prison in an authoritarian state to escape our Constitution. We must heed the Supreme Court and get him back.

Scoop: Top Senate Dems propose emergency Social Security payment boost The Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act is a brainchild of the caucus's Social Security War Room.

Donald Trump’s disastrous on-and-off tariffs are giving cover for companies to jack up prices and evaporating people’s retirement savings.

Millions of seniors are on fixed incomes. They can’t wait for relief.

Senate Democrats have a plan to help right now.

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐