Rumblin' Rose

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Absolutely 💯

Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources

So Qatar gifts Trump a $400M luxury jet and instead of saying hell no, his team twists the law like a balloon animal to make it fit.

The Constitution says no foreign gifts without Congress.
Trump says, “Unless it’s gold-plated.”

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s corruption wrapped in jet fuel.

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.

This right here......

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.

Your daily reminder that it is our judicial system that decides if someone is a criminal, not the criminal President or his minions in the executive branch.

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.

Publications | Intelligence Committee

Be honest, seriously how many of you do not know this???

"Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards."

www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications...

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.

Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

Democrats should stand together and use our power to fix the GENIUS Act before the vote tomorrow. There is no excuse to facilitate Trump's crypto corruption.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true?

BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country


Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?

BONDI: *leaves*

This is what corruption looks like.

Read the ICE document for yourself that Karoline Leavitt refused to answer questions about. It says exactly what @AndrewFeinberg said; all it takes is "8 points" on a made-up rubric, and that can be just a tattoo (4 points) and displaying "logos" or "symbols" (4 points).

How to Save a Democracy Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections Learn more here.

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.

A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him. The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation.

New in PN: John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him.

"After all, how can the rightwing justices expect a future president — particularly a Democratic one — to accept rulings limiting the exercise of their power from a Court that served as the judicial stooge of an aspiring dictator?"

Clyburn: "People better get serious about this. When he says he's not joking about throwing away the Constitution, which is what he'd have to do to have a third term, and we are not gonna rise up in opposition to that? I think it's time for us all to wake up."

Spelling and grammar are woke.

To everyone saying to “ignore” what he’s saying because “it will never happen”…you are why we lose.

@marcelias.bsky.social on Trump's 3rd term threats: "He's saying he's not joking, so everyone in the legacy media: wake the fuck up."

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Where was the president?’ Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat

Based on the group chat, it's not clear that the Commander-in-Chief made the final decision for the United States to bomb another country. "The core thing that was supposed to happen in these decision-making procedures clearly didn't happen," says Hayes.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Based on the group chat texts, it's not clear that the Commander-in-Chief made the final decision.

"The core thing that was supposed to happen in these decision-making procedures clearly didn't happen," says Hayes.

At a Time When Lawyers Feared Defending Government Enemies, One Law Firm Stood Up A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth.

During the Red Scare, Arnold & Porter was one of the only firms to defend people accused of disloyalty. Their courage is a lesson for today. Here’s their story: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a...

Guessing you saw this today:

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/m...

MY THESIS

Musk is Donald Trump’s Russian handler, and he is working alongside JD Vance to destroy Europe, and with Trump to end democracy, abolish the Constitutional Republic, and invade at least all of Central and North America, which he intends to rule as Dictator.

m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Russian Olympic champion turned lawmaker dead after falling from window Buvaisar Saitiev, a former State Duma deputy of Chechen descent, was found dead in Moscow on Sunday.

Another Putin critic falls out a window.

3-time Russian Olympic freestyle wrestling champion fell to his death.

Putin's signature assassination technique.

He was a one time member of Putin's ruling party.

But speak out against Putin & you plunge.