BREAKING: Hope Returns as New Leaders Take Office in New York and Detroit From New York to Detroit, historic swearing-ins mark a generational shift and a renewed belief that government can work for the people.

BREAKING: Hope Returns as New Leaders Take Office in New York and Detroit
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New CBS News CEO Bari Weiss cancelled a 60 Minutes segment on immigrants sent to an El Salvador prison by Trump without due process. It is just the latest in a disturbing pattern of media companies taking a knee for Trump.

From Rob Rogers
“New CBS News CEO Bari Weiss cancelled a 60 Minutes segment on immigrants sent to an El Salvador prison by Trump without due process. It is just the latest in a disturbing pattern of media companies taking a knee for Trump.”

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope for things to turn around Worldwide, the 126 media industry people killed in 2025 by early December matched the number of deaths in all of 2024, and last year was a record-setter.

2025 took a toll on the world’s journalists. "Worldwide, the 126 media industry people killed in 2025 by early December matched the number of deaths in all of 2024.... The [CPJ] estimates there are at least 323 journalists imprisoned worldwide." www.courthousenews.com/a-rough-year...

Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."

These attacks on due process for immigrants are a test run for weakening due process protections for all of us

This administration wants to be able to convict people on accusations and press releases

DUE PROCESS is our CORE PROTECTION against a tyrannical government

Once this nightmare of absurdity and cruelty is over I say we
1) get rid of presidential pardon power
b) put a cap on how many Executive Orders can be issued
3) scrap the electoral college
d) change everything about SCOTUS (add seats, real binding ethics requirements, term limits)

Can the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes (Published 2017)

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.”
--Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...

Same! I had thought there was more of a genetic factor in breast cancer and none of my older sisters had it (yet.)

100%

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.

1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.

2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.

3. Russia pays everyone for everything.

4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Esper about his forthcoming book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times."

Many are struggling to understand what “illegal orders” the members of Congress could be referring to. But we’ve already seen examples. During his first term, Trump asked, “Can’t you just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs,” referring to protesters. #holdfast

www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...

This is my kind of good trouble.

A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.

Doctor here. Trump’s call to hang opponents is a textbook sign of “disinhibition”, a central feature of frontotemporal dementia.
Our new motto should be
(For the good of the country)
#ReleaseTheMRI

The thing is

journalists are not subordinate to the government and therefore cannot be insubordinate in questioning the government

The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸

I'm listening to a great podcast called "Right Now with Perry Bacon." He's interviewing Stanford poli. sci. professor Adam Bonica who suggests a winning platform for Dems going forward is Anti-Corruption - no stock trading for legislators, no accepting $$ from millionaires/billionaires & much more.

Non-stop threats.

Here's the key: MBS rules Saudi with an iron fist, suppressing dissent and hacking reporters to death whose questions he does not like. Trump, not to be outdone, wants to show an authoritarian ruler that he can compete too.

The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.

But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

This coming week, Trump will host Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader who approved the murder and dismemberment of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Not coincidentally, the Saudis are working on a new business deal with the Trump Organization.
It's blood money – or bonesaw money.

Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

There is something wrong with the president