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Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities.

That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.

We deserve better, she’s gotta go.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

Indeed it should — but don’t hold your breath. Most of our newspapers are feckless, intimidated and cowardly!

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it.

I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.

All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.

My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was *exactly* my answer

Maybe the conservatives in my replies will believe me now.

ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES

U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.

It's the third highest monthly total on record.

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

I'm faxing this to Cory's offices

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes.

The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

ECONOMY IN FREE FALL 📉

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDPNow model now estimates real GDP growth for Q1 2025 in the United States to be -3.7% — plunging from its previous estimate of -2.8% on March 28.

Tax. The. Church. ALL of them!

YouTube video by Billy Simons Jr. We Are Great Again

We need more revolutionary music like this right now.

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RFK Jr. moves to close Administration for Community Living The shutdown will mean "more people forced into institutional settings."

RFK Jr has moved to eliminate HHS’s Administration for Community Living, a subsidiary established in 2012 to support disabled and aging people.

The shutdown, part of wider cuts, will mean “more people forced into institutional settings.”

We support our Transgender Community here on Bluesky. INTERNATIONAL TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY MARCH 31

I see you and I support you. The trans community matters to me. Today and every day.

How is this legal???!!!

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

A reminder for this Transgender Day of Visibility:

Trans people have always existed, and we always will. 

No president, politician, or court can change that.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Abduction of a Tufts student in broad daylight by an American plainclothes gestapo drunk on power. This is a student from Turkey, who has been disappeared. Even her attorney doesn't know where she is.

THIS. IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.

A side-by-side comparison of two images. On the left, a historical black and white photograph shows emaciated concentration camp prisoners wearing striped uniforms, confined in wooden bunk beds, looking out from their cramped spaces. On the right, a modern color photograph shows a woman wearing a white shirt and a dark cap with an emblem, standing in front of a prison cell filled with tattooed, shirtless inmates wearing white pants and face masks. The prisoners behind the bars are tightly packed, looking towards the camera. The two images are juxtaposed, possibly to draw a visual or thematic comparison.

They're the same picture.

Not just fired though…they need to be imprisoned.

Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server?

Seems kinda, small today, doesn’t it?

Parents deported to Mexico while seeking brain cancer treatment for young American daughter | CNN The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico say they are desperately seeking a way for either of them to return to the US with the girl so she can continue ...

If you supported a 10 year old American child with brain cancer, on her way to medical treatment, being deported because her parents are undocumented (but have no criminal records), then you’re a horrific person and I’m not sure how you sleep at night.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

The first U.S. execution by firing squad since 2010 took place today in the state of South Carolina. Saturday morning’s News Notes column will have complete coverage.