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Jamie Raskin, the judiciary ranking member, voted to advance impeachment articles.
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12.12.2025 03:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Politico reporter who rose to national prominence by being the go-to guy on Indiana (at the time of Buttigieg’s rise).
I mean, mad props for pulling that off!
AG Weiser says Colorado will not release Tina Peters from the state prison in Pueblo if Peters' attorneys or representatives of President Trump show up and attempt to remove her from state custody.
12.12.2025 02:23 — 👍 401 🔁 59 💬 12 📌 8AG Weiser says President Trump's attempt to expand presidential pardon power to state charges is "an off the wall legal theory."
"It's total garbage," Weiser said. "Any lawyer who argues in favor of this should be embarrassed and ashamed."
"We're not going to give in," Weiser said. "Those who cave in, those who are folders, they're the ones who end up sacrificing."
12.12.2025 02:23 — 👍 358 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 1NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
12.12.2025 01:22 — 👍 12606 🔁 3500 💬 191 📌 138This is a big deal for Duckworth, a veteran and mother who had to pay for IVF out of pocket because the VA wouldn’t cover it. www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/in-the-...
12.12.2025 00:29 — 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Democrats who voted against the NDAA, which bans trans athletes in women's sports at US military academies.
-Bennet
-Booker
-Cantwell
-Duckworth
-Kim
-Markey
-Merkley
-Murphy
-Murray
-Padilla
-Sanders
-Schatz
-Schiff
-Smith
-Van Hollen
-Warren
-Welch
-Wyden www.senate.gov/legislative/...
“There was dissent in the operations room over whether the survivors were viable targets after the first strike, according to two people”
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The Massey Commission was established after Sonya Massey was killed by a sheriff's deputy in her own home. I followed along for 9 months as its members tried to enact real policing & mental health reforms – & grappled w/ the limits of these commissions to effect change: boltsmag.org/sonya-massey...
11.12.2025 20:21 — 👍 162 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 3What it looks like when Coco tries to use a stair
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The order on Thursday, which has sparked broad, bipartisan opposition, is likely to be challenged in court by states and consumer groups on the grounds that only Congress has the authority to override state laws.
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
The appeals panel was told that "half of the remaining 442 were arrested pursuant to field-issued I-200 warrants, while the other half were arrested without any warrant," Judge Lee notes in the opinion.
11.12.2025 23:17 — 👍 70 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
“Latinos are bearing the brunt of immigration enforcement in New York, accounting for nearly three-quarters of arrests while making up just a quarter of the state's non-citizen population, according to a newreport out Wednesday.”
11.12.2025 22:28 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Just guessing a few of these guys know Mike Pence personally
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BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
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BREAKING: The Justice Department again fails to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, an AP source says.
11.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 846 🔁 190 💬 43 📌 65The Indiana GOP's new congressional gerrymander failed by a vote of 31-19.
21 Republicans joined the 10 Democrats in voting no.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.
11.12.2025 21:40 — 👍 1244 🔁 214 💬 32 📌 85Look if you’re going to have a discussion about birthright citizenship in the Supreme Court, the case you should really start with is Dred Scott, not Wong Kim Ark.
Make it clear how fundamental the issue is.
This is a subskeet. (Is that a word?)
NEW: Immigrants who had received letters inviting them to a citizenship ceremony in downtown Louisville were turned away at the door Thursday. All are from countries deemed “high-risk” by President Donald Trump. From @byrobertor.lpm.org at @lpm.org
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It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
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DHS published data claiming to show that it is "starting with the worst of the worst" immigrants. I analyzed the data: DHS has classified just 4% of ICE arrests as the "worst", most for nonviolent offenses, and hundreds for minor crimes like drug possession, traffic infractions, and illegal entry.
11.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 42 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 3
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.
theintercept.com/2025/12/11/f...
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