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.
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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
15.04.2025 20:46 — 👍 36501 🔁 9386 💬 1228 📌 1008
What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
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Yes, where the f*ck are our leaders??!!!
13.02.2025 03:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Trump aid freeze stirs chaos before it is blocked in court
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said his office confirmed that doctors in all 50 states were not able to secure Medicaid payments.
President Trump's attempt to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid was temporarily blocked in court, even as it sowed chaos throughout the government and stirred fears that it would disrupt programs that serve tens of millions of Americans reut.rs/3PTMsFB
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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
25.01.2025 02:30 — 👍 64312 🔁 12635 💬 668 📌 357
This crazy furbaby is definitely keeping me sane these days! ❤️❤️❤️ #bellathecrazybernedoodle
23.01.2025 23:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My heart is full because people are listening to the audio version of Vol I of Jack Smith’s final report. The truth matters!
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President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a compromise name for the Gulf of Mexico.
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This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.
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Greenland is not for sale.
And in other words….👇
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The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does. Terence McKenna
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