YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down.

And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.

JD Vance is the loser in high school who mercilessly picks on a small kid in front of a crowd to impress a bully.

Stand with Ukraine.

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Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?

It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. 

It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Ohio Senate passes higher ed overhaul bill less than a day after eight hours of opponent testimony • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio Senate passed a controversial higher education bill that would overhaul the state’s public universities during Wednesday's session. This came one day after more than 800 Ohioans submitted tes...

ICYMI: The Ohio Senate passed a controversial higher education bill that would overhaul the state’s public universities during Wednesday’s session.

This came one day after more than 800 Ohioans submitted testimony against it.

@ohiocapitaljournal.com bit.ly/43drkCn

Graphic from the New York Times called "Musk's Businesses Benefit Under Trump Shake-Up"

Understand this: Elon Musk’s wealth is tied directly to contracts and regulations from the government agencies he now controls.

He spent over $280 million to elect Trump and now he's cashing in — AND they got rid of the inspectors general who could hold him accountable.

Gross corruption.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.

Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

The courts have no actual enforcement power, even the Supreme Court, which lies with the DOJ and other entities controlled by Trump. You see there this is going. No where good.

This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Trump destroying USAID is helping China and Russia expand their power and hurting American farmers! And republicans are in support!

Hmmm? 🤔 This raises some major Red flags.

That is code for: they have their sights set on cutting Medicare and Medicaid and leaving our seniors without health care.

DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon Musk to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut waste, he'd look at the massive tax ... The REAL Waste That DOGE Should Cut

The fundamental issue that DOGE is failing to address isn’t the size of the government or how “efficient” it is — but who our government is for.

Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

For people who say they don't want values imposed on them, they are every imposing of values on people. Bad ones.

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

Great reporting for NPR. These are not very fine people, many have a history of violent behavior. Is this how the GOP "backs the blue"?

Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, source says It's an acceleration of Trump's already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce.

SCOOP: The White House will send out a memo offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, a White House official tells Axios.

Trump should rethink revoking former officials' security details, Tom Cotton says A top Republican Senate ally says that President Donald Trump should rethink his decision to remove security details from three former senior national security officials, saying their protection is no...

Dear Tom, I don't know if you knew this but, Trump only cares about himself. He doesn't care about other people's families. He doesn't care if government jobs attract "good people", only loyalist. apnews.com/article/tom-...

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s order attempting to end birthright citizenship A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

Murkowski says she's "unable to support" Hegseth "Mr. Hegseth's nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook," Murkowski wrote in a post on X.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said that she can't "in good conscience" vote for Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary.

YouTube video by MSNBC Trump accused of 'decapitating' U.S. national security by appointing 'crackpots and fools' 

If you put "crackpots and fools" in charge of national security "whose only qualifications is their deathless loyalty to Donald Trump, you are not going to get good intelligence."

@tim-weiner.bsky.social talks to @maddow.msnbc.com about Trump’s national security picks.

WATCH: youtu.be/uKKoG9tFm2w

Craig Melvin-Today Show asked Marco Rubio. They played a clip of his statement from January 2021. He refused to answer the question citing he doesn't discuss domestic issues. Savannah Gurthie pointed out in his 2021 he said other countries look to the US- making it a international issue.