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Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

Very, very exciting!

I just don't understand why D leadership is dead set against impeachment. he's shredding the constitution! his approval is in the toilet! impeachment investigations generally cause presidential approval to fall even more. like, what are they afraid of?

This is not the time for Democrats to lay down and stop their tit-for-tat redistricting.

The only way we will ever get rid of gerrymandering is if it hurts Republicans more than it hurts Democrats.

Full speed ahead.

You still haven’t advanced your own platform. You’ve just tried to silence critiques of your own party, which is at record high unpopularity. It’s sad. Gonna leave this thread and go back to organizing your friends out of office!

Given her age, her mind likely has many difficulties by now

Young voters will ensure your generation’s mistakes are wiped away. To do so, we will remove you from power.

I always hear that from Blue MAGA. Remember: average voters know way less than I do! And they are mad. The vibes show Dem leaders are weak. Your knowledge cannot save the weak Dem leaders from their own voters.

liam neeson sucks.

Zionists like Brad Lander are incredible coalition partners who stand against apartheid.

What is the centrist platform for affordability? For dealing with the supreme court? You’re using the 2016 strategy of calling me bigoted, but you aren’t answering questions on where the party should go

“The adults here.” The American people don’t care about that! They want their housing, childcare, groceries, and utilities to be more affordable. Centrists have no plans to make good on that!

Her answer was that it applied to federal judges. It does not! It shows she is as out of touch as Democratic leadership

Again, the identitarianism eats away at you. Centrists use rhetoric like this to shield from the truth. Democratic leaders have failed us, continuously. We will force them out. Blue MAGA folks like you will reluctantly vote for our new leaders, like Cuomo voters switched to Mamdani

We replace Chuck with AOC, who is better in every way. We primary the weak Dem leaders who got us here. That’s the answer. No more Blue MAGA attitude for me

I hope you don’t vote for him!

Great! But Schumer needs to go, he’s too old. Newsom is leading the polls. Do you think he should be trusted, given his scapegoating of trans folks?

I hope so! Do you think Gavin Newsom, who has been throwing trans folks under the bus, can be trusted to do that?

I spent 4 years watching Biden fail to govern and become more unpopular than Trump. Now the Dem base wants action, and Dem leaders aren’t delivering.

What about when the centrists like Mills and Schumer refuse to kill the filibuster?

What is your plan to win a majority that abolishes the filibuster? Genuinely asking!

This kind of reductionism reveals your commitment to never winning.

It’s not obviously better. But the advantages of killing the filibuster are undeniable. If dems ever take back the senate, the odds that they eliminate the filibuster are very low, which means no reconstruction, and the next Trump rises in 4 years or less

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.

They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
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Baltimore Deals a Blow to the Housing Crisis With 4 Major Reforms | Strong Towns Baltimore just took a major step towards making housing more attainable and affordable.

Single-stair reform up to six-stories in Baltimore now. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...

Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.

Farmers are literally the ruling class. They are extremely wealthy landowners.

LOG IN US News Metro Long Island Politics World News METRO Gov. Hochul sees ‘no problem’ with Zohran Mamdani’s controversial ‘how to’ video on thwarting ICE By Vaughn Golden and David Propper Published Dec. 8, 2025 Updated Dec. 8, 2025, 3:08 p.m. ET

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Inclusionary zoning is a way of transfering the cost of social housing from the general public to new condo buyers.

In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.