BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."
27.10.2025 15:22 β π 29222 π 9510 π¬ 665 π 383It's not about drugs. #TrumpLies
26.10.2025 13:59 β π 362 π 124 π¬ 17 π 2Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
26.10.2025 14:28 β π 33757 π 10707 π¬ 812 π 518i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
08.10.2025 14:59 β π 14409 π 5198 π¬ 282 π 357CNN: βAn older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 β 30% of their income.β π³#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax
This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.
Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
02.10.2025 15:37 β π 44246 π 10018 π¬ 1025 π 503This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.
03.10.2025 18:37 β π 8764 π 2886 π¬ 280 π 137Soβ¦let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?
29.09.2025 22:21 β π 14562 π 4491 π¬ 791 π 304Missing this guy today
23.09.2025 17:16 β π 24009 π 2168 π¬ 1047 π 112More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canβt find them and theyβve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
23.09.2025 17:39 β π 32191 π 19518 π¬ 1228 π 1800genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
22.09.2025 18:26 β π 7938 π 1194 π¬ 213 π 79If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirkβs murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump βfascistβ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: βBut Trump called Harris a fascist!β
22.09.2025 05:49 β π 5219 π 1165 π¬ 209 π 41Sarah Despres @sarahdespres X.com I see @SecKennedy was able to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. It's unfortunate the Secretary of HHS was not able to attend the funeral of Officer David Rose who was killed in the senseless attack on the CDC, one of the agencies within @hhs. 6:56 PM β’ 9/21/25 β’ 808 Views
Former counselor to RFK Jrβs predecessor:
22.09.2025 01:15 β π 8970 π 2389 π¬ 57 π 42At the Nuremberg trials, Karl DΓΆnitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.
22.09.2025 12:26 β π 6919 π 2582 π¬ 144 π 76Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people?
That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago.
He still has his job.
Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. πΊπΈ π
21.09.2025 19:08 β π 53662 π 13744 π¬ 2877 π 932Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
22.09.2025 02:27 β π 30836 π 6760 π¬ 535 π 165Rand Paul argues to Will Cain that killing people withou process is bad: "Let's say there's a house in your neighborhood & they're selling fentanyl & thousands of people have died & you're mad, do you go over there and just kill them or burn them? No, you go to a judge and you get a warrant."
09.09.2025 20:56 β π 12869 π 2683 π¬ 785 π 270Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
11.09.2025 00:28 β π 84302 π 21052 π¬ 2297 π 1818A "communist," in the typical American usage, is someone who...does the kinds of things Trump is doing www.thebulwark.com/p/no-zohran-...
11.09.2025 00:15 β π 708 π 155 π¬ 22 π 2Trump made the comment while alleging domestic violence reports were falsely inflating crime statistics in Washington, D.C.
08.09.2025 18:45 β π 90 π 49 π¬ 38 π 12SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."
07.09.2025 15:17 β π 29124 π 8539 π¬ 928 π 420Man, they REALLY donβt want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6.
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More of this.
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