Lisa

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trump’s tweet wasn’t random—it was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money.

“This entire White House is one giant grift.”
—Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social shining a spotlight on it! 🔥

Elon Musk is grifting off the American taxpayers. The government waste and fraud are right here.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

America is, currently, the bad guys

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.

And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

The CFPB has:

-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse

Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

True.

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

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

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Asteroid's chances of hitting Earth have nearly doubled in a week, ESA scientist warns An steroid up to 300ft wide now has a 2.2% chance of colliding into Earth. It could prompt a space mission to intercept it.

It really says a lot about the state of the world when this is one of the least alarming headlines I've read all day.

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

Please, Don't Normalize This Madness Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma.

This is not at all normal.

And the greatest collective and individual sin of those of us witnessing it all, would be to let it become normal.

So, sustain your anger, hold on to your soul, and refuse to grow comfortable with this madness.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-don...

No cooperation.

No collaboration.

No compromise.

Maximum resistance.

Maximum disruption.

Start there and get tougher.

We passed a law. They don’t get to force people to petition the king for mercy. We are still a democracy and this will be found illegal.

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

I’ve done this, especially on the cute and folksy posts that are completely tone deaf in a national emergency. All that happens are more out of touch posts 🙄

Tag them and call them out publicly on every social media platform
This is not the time to be disappointed this is the time to hold them accountable

Slotkin and Peters can’t be bothered to answer.

Press needs to ask every single Republican representing Central CA to explain how this lie works.
And then ask every single Republican representing Los Angeles to verify that this is a lie.

It's clear that we're heading towards at least one major catastrophe -- economic collapse, government failure, health crisis, maybe all of them -- and it's baffling to me that some Senate Democrats seem downright *eager* to claim their share of responsibility for the coming wreck.

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Trump order to dismantle the education department in the works, sources say President Trump could soon sign an executive order directing the secretary of education to dismantle the federal Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

Bad reporting here. Trump is not “sending education back to the states,” because a) it’s mostly already there; b) his patriot education EO is one of the biggest acts of federal education overreach in history. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.