Paul Throne

Speaker Johnson, your stalling tactics are suppressing the voices of Arizonans who elected Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva in September. The American people deserve representation and the final vote to release the Epstein files. (1/2)

Opinion | I resigned from the military because of Trump I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.

"I voluntarily gave up my rank as the president suggested...I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country."
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To play politics with that is unconscionable. It would be one thing if these were cases of underperformance, but many of those being laid off have stellar reviews and decades of service. This isn’t reform; it’s retribution. And it’s wrong.

Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.

Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy Behind talk of “vermin” and “enemies,” Trump’s administration is mobilizing the tools of state power against its own citizens.

Trump’s rhetoric has crossed a line — from “Deep State” conspiracy to open fascist playbook.

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Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.

"The history of these attacks is instructive. It shows that no matter what lawmakers do to exclude illegal immigrants from a program, the GOP will find a way to claim that some of the money will go to these immigrants."

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The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story It is a great challenge to pay sustained attention to any one of the onslaught of moral or legal indignities unfolding in this moment.

“The crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and those who participated in them is a decades long abdication of institutional and personal responsibility, brought to light by a handful of dedicated journalists and the breathtaking bravery of once isolated, ignored vulnerable women.”

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Pam Bondi's shameless stonewalling of the Senate Judiciary Committee today is of course a total negation of Congressional oversight. "Oversight" is impossible if they won't let you see anything.

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

"But what is an illegal order?

A legal body tells you it’s illegal. Maybe it’s a more senior officer. Maybe it’s someone from the JAG corps.

Which is why the Trump administration’s moves to push out senior officers and dismantle the JAG corps are so troubling."

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The Emerging Shape of American Politics Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

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Update from the war zone in Portland.

Declaring that unless state governments *do the job of the federal government* it is "insurrection" is a wild take inasmuch as it's the diametrical opposite of everything Republicans said over the last 100+ years

As I've said before, if you want to know what MAGAs believe in, it's literally nothing

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote The U.S.

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
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Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad

On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

Share this far and wide. It will only get worse.

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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."

--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.