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Recent actions across government show an alarming pattern of silencing dissenting voices. We must speak out.

That’s why I’m launching a 1st Amendment Tour to Challenge Government Censorship and Control.

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‘Humiliating and scary’: German backpackers detained and deported after arriving in US from NZ Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepère flew to Hawaii from Auckland where they were detained, strip-searched, and deported despite having ESTA approval.

‘Humiliating and scary’: German backpackers detained and deported after arriving in Hawaii from New Zealand.

Why would anyone travel to the US knowing this could happen? This enrages me. Hawaii depends on tourism. Trump will destroy the economy of my home state.
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The SCOTUS order is like 4 pages, total. The opinion of the court is *3 paragraphs.* This isn’t something you just miss or overlook.

It’s a brazen, completely inexcusable misrepresentation of the Supreme Court’s order.

Who “looks forward” to attending a funeral? What a psycho.

Once again. These are human traffickings, not fucking DEPORTATIONS! Deportation means you're sent back to where you came from. After a hearing/due process. You're not sent to a foreign prison forever with no hearing whatsoever.

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

WH tweet annotating a NYT headline to insert the claim that Abrego Garcia is never coming back.

WH sharing story with AG Bondi saying Abrego Garcia is never coming back

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

The opinion by Judge Wilkinson for the Fourth Circuit denying the government’s most recent request for a stay or mandamus against Judge Xinis’s rulings in the Abrego García case is especially powerful when you consider it was written by … Judge Wilkinson:

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#BringHimHome
#KilmarAbregoGarcia
#AbolishICE
#Immigration
#Deportation
#ImpeachTrump

Signal Gate, the failed tariffs and trade, Kilmar Garcia and the attack on Harvard...all tipping points within the past two weeks.

The result of people asking questions, asking follow ups, not bending the knee, not being quiet.

The Trump regime is buckling and lashing out.

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

The founders had this thing they really cared about:

“No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

And we are now seeing why they really cared about it.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

So you can take over Greenland and Canada but can’t send a plane to pick up someone you are paying another country to hold for a year? Weird take on sovereignty.

Sanders: He now wants to take away CBS’s license because they did a story that criticized him. Oh my word, CBS criticized him! Oh, let’s drive them out of business, how terrible… If you can’t take criticism, get out of the political process. This is a democracy

It’s hard to say what’s worse—Trump enjoying leaving García rotting in an El Salvadoran prison or that he now wants to do the same to US citizens.

@schumer.senate.gov , this constitutional crisis demands a full-throated, united Democratic front—not a carefully worded press release.

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I'm just gonna say it, at a certain point we should be *grateful* he's crashing the economy too, because the timeline where he kept the Biden Bucks flowing while doing illegal deportations would have been the true one way ticket to hell.

In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?"

This is our moment. This is our time.

We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE Advocates say cutbacks hurt the agency’s already depleted field offices: “It’s like a house of cards.”

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are cutting Social Security staff, closing offices, and shutting off vital phone services.

One field office worker called it a "house of cards that's about to collapse."

This attack is hurting Americans everywhere. We will keep fighting back.

BREAKING NEWS: Senator Brian Schatz is BLOCKING over 300 Trump admin nominations by refusing to let them pass with unanimous consent. "I don't think we should make anything easy going forward,” he said.

BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!

Over 2,400 of us during the Maui Hands Off Protest. I know you’re gonna get a lot. But it has been so great!!

Thank you for sharing info about the 50501 Movement and Indivisible. Your show has been so healing for me and my moms.

Happy 26 Years to you and Susan. ❤️🌺 @maddow.msnbc.com

“I would be lying if I said I don’t worry. I do. But as I wrote last month: “Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.” — @marcelias.bsky.social (4/5/25). Me too, Marc. In solidarity, LHT

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.

People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.

America, we have a problem!

Also I hope we're all on this same page

EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole

they were ALL wrongfully deported.

I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'

but NO ONE should've been sent there

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.