Liz Hughes

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Schiff is really good at this.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kristi Noem is in PDX today.
She brings the cameras w/ her and is desperate to incite Americans to do things she can film and edit into propaganda vids.
Do not give her what she wants.
The regime is frantic to manufacture a riot. Do not give them what they want.

"Plenary Authority" is what Hitler got from the Enablement Act. It is literally dictatorship power.

Stephen Miller knows that. He blurted out his fascist dream.

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

White House officials have zeroed in on a provision in the the law which stipulates that retroactive pay for furloughed federal workers is provided “subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse,” which they are interpreting as meaning backpay has to be appropriated by Congress.

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers and denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoi...

A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers by denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown.

How to win friends and influence people.

www.rawstory.com/trump-267416...

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ – live Tina Kotek, Oregon’s governor, says in statement she asked to meet homeland security secretary before she visited Ice field office in Portland

There is NO INSURRECTION IN OREGON.

Thanks, New Yorker

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

I guess this explains why, when folks got back to their apartments, all their belongings were gone...or at least the expensive electronics.

I think Democratic Senators need to request copies of Homan’s tax returns to see if he declared it as income.

Anyone want to bet that he did?

Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

If you were determined to devastate places like the Arkansas Delta, where I grew up, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a more destructive set of policies. It's soybeans and rice as far as the eye can see. It's not an incidental fraction of the local economy, it is the entire foundation of it.

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Josh Hawley just lied during Bondi’s hearing today.
He claimed that the Biden Administration “tapped” his phone.
What they actually did was request phone records for the time period around the J6 insurrection. Hardly the same thing.

The sitting US Attorney General came to the oversight hearing with a notebook filled w/ Russian internet propaganda.

GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley allowed Bondi to slander his colleagues with insinuations and downright lies. @judiciarydems.senate.gov

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

It wad the circus music in the background at one point that did it for me!

This is why we need more costumed protesters

Hard to cosplay as a badass when a giant frog or a dino or a big pink pig is waving its arms and thrusting its pelvis at you

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Can you imagine trying to convince the world that Portland is under siege and all we see is a man dressed up in a chicken suit & a bunch of news crews?

💀😭😂😂😂😂🫠l will never forgive this country for electing the orange demon and allowing these incompetent weirdos to take over the government.

Never

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x