Karoline Leavitt: "Trump has every right to express how he feels about these people who literally tried to ruin his life. He wants to see accountability"

This is political retribution, plain and simple.

Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

First Trump ordered baseless investigations of Tish James & Jim Comey--now it's OSF

The efforts to manufacture criminal charges vs OSF violate the rule of law, the 1st Amend. & fundamental Constitutional principles

We must speak out before it too late

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Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

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Two of my faves together for one event! I can't wait to hear what @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @redwineblueusa.bsky.social say about the elections this fall, and how to resist authoritarianism right now, both in D.C. and in our own neighborhoods. Sign up with me! social.redwine.blue/s/cvMI43oh

Resistance That Goes the Distance Do one thing this week. Even if it's just one, that's still resistance. Stay in the fight.

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End Taxation without Representation in DC “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people,” President Trump announced last month.

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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state

Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Black graphic with a quote in white text: "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." In red text, the quote is attributed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Dissenting in Noem v. Perdomo

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.

This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.

END #Trumpflation Trump promised to lower costs, but we're all seeing sky high costs around us.

Trump promised to lower the cost of living, but things have gotten even harder! Coffee is up 33%. Vegetables are up 40%. Washing machines cost 12% more. @momsrising.org is gathering #Trumpflation stories about high prices - do you have one to share? trumpflation.momsrising.org #MomSky

Grateful to visit with Bill Nye the Science Guy of the Planetary Society about the proposed cuts to NASA and NOAA— we’re fighting every step of the way to stop the cuts & protect these vital scientific institutions!

"Yes, Brett, it’s just a friendly conversation with your local masked jackboot. Just a totally polite and harmless conversation where, as long as you answer the questions correctly, you do not end up on a plane to a concentration camp in Uganda. What could possibly go wrong?"

(I love Elie Mystal ⚖️)

I run two bars in DC. Trump turned them into ghost towns. What it’s like on the frontlines of this president’s war against the city.

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No Kings Day in June may have been the biggest day of protests in US history.

October 18 is going to be even bigger: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

Texas loves its bounty hunters and hates its women The state finds new ways to target women's reproductive health and autonomy and inspires other states to enact their own draconian laws.

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One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.

Our guardrails are failing us But with discipline, Democrats can get the message out.

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The Cartoon Columbus Who Shrugs at Slavery History class, rewritten by talk show hosts

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Advocates sound the alarm on funding cuts to Crater Lake National Park National parks advocates met near Crater Lake over the weekend to raise concerns about the impact of federal funding cuts to the National Park Service.

"Biologists and historians are cleaning bathrooms or running front desks. Without our staff, our parks don't run — not day to day, and definitely not long term."

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Breaking: Trump Targets Mail-In Ballots, Electronic Voting — Bongino on His Way Out Mail-in ballots, voting machines, redistricting, and Epstein’s history—all part of a single plan to rewrite America’s future—Project 2025.

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Very important read

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

NEW: "I have seen first-hand how sustained federal investment—channeled through agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF)—powers the collaborations that link universities, government laboratories, and industry.”

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

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Breaking: The Next 24 Hours Could Decide the Fate of Democracy As bombs fall on Ukraine and soldiers patrol D.C., Trump and his enablers prepare to rewrite history. Here’s what they don’t want you to know.

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Big Law Recruited Me, Celebrated Me, Then Fired Me The cost of speaking out in the Trump era.

Ryan lost his job in Big Law because he refused to stay silent:

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."

Exclusive: The Alaska Meeting Exposed The body double, the drone strikes, the lessons in dictatorship — here’s what really happened.

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Political corruption erodes democracy: Michael Beckel on dark money & graft in politics "This administration feels like a powder keg of corruption scandals waiting to explode."

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Important listen

Scripture Doesn’t Have a Low Opinion of Women. But Pete Hegseth Does. No one could have predicted what lay ahead that day: a teenage girl living under Roman occupation sang a revolution into existence.

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We are not bystanders! We have agency!- Gavin Newsom

Will Work for Food The price of groceries

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