Melissa Hendricks

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

Senator Chris Van Hollen is live! YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts.

Tune in here:

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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The president who in 2020 had unidentified federal agents deployed against protesters is now encouraging a foreign dictator to build more prisons to accommodate "homegrown" "criminals," as he ignores a court order to effect the return of a guy sent to a foreign prison without any due process.

Opinion | The historically bad timing of Trump’s war on immigrants An aging United States will need more workers. Immigrants could fill that gap — if we let them.

Oh, I just realized that I should have used the baby-having conversation to plug my look at how immigration has backstopped the economy as America skews increasingly older. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.

NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social

Why would anyone share intel with us now?

This, of course, is top secret intelligence shared in the chat.
The point being when Tulsi Gabbard testified,
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared”

she perjured herself
open and shut

The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:

“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.

Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”

BREAKING: Colorado's State Capitol releases new presidential portrait

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here is the extracted text from the image: ⸻ Key Components: Notice: Individuals must be given adequate notice of any government action that could deprive them of their life, liberty, or property. Opportunity to be Heard: Individuals must have a chance to present their case and defend their rights. Impartial Tribunal: The decision must be made by a neutral and impartial decision-maker. Fair Procedures: Legal procedures must be followed to ensure fairness and prevent prejudicial or unequal treatment.

Either everyone has a right to due process or no one does. Why? Because if you create categories of people who “aren’t entitled” to due process, all the govt has to do is SAY you’re in that category. They don’t have to be right or have evidence, and you have no chance to prove your innocence.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Jon Favreau (@jonfavs ), followed by a reply from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@...). Jon Favreau's post reads: "Un-fucking-believable. Trump is now sending LEGAL immigrants with no criminal records who already passed background checks to a foreign prison known for starvation and torture. This is our country now." Aaron Reichlin-Melnick's reply reads: "NEW: @MiamiHerald reveals that one of the people imprisoned in El Salvador HAD LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the country legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador."

Our national shame knows few bounds these days.

I am reading & laughing at many of your group chat joke posts, but has anyone else gone ice-cold with terror about how our national security is now a global punchline & we have no one protecting us against the world's bad actors, who can apparently just drunk-sext Pete Hegseth whenevs?

18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.

Carrie Bradshaw at laptop

And then I wondered … had Pete Hegseth really meant to text me the state secrets?

Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans

Maybe just maybe, the Secretary of Defense being an utterly incapable idiot and raging day-drunk is a national security problem.

Who could have guessed?

Analysis: Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder | CNN Politics I was already writing an edition of the “What Matters” newsletter Monday about how President Donald Trump’s choice of businessmen and political allies to shake up and downsize government work has also...

“Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder”

www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...

Tulsi Gabbard: "Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such."

The Trump administration just blatantly broke the law according to their own top intelligence official.

So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for…

You guessed it.

Food banks.

We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law?

To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.

Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

lmao getting fact checked irl

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you?

My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.