Melting in AZ 🫠🌵

Good morning
@gallego.senate.gov
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
As your constituent here in Arizona this must be addressed
ICE AGENTS masked with no warrants, harassing,
& carting people off !
NO DUE PROCESS
NO EXPLANATION
Why are they masked?
This must stop
Call Your REPS
202 224-3121

J. Michael Luttig: "There has never before “been a U.S. president who I consider even to have been ‘destructive,’ let alone a president who has intentionally and deliberately set out to destroy literally every institution in America, up to and including American democracy and the rule of law.”

They keep trashing the journalist like that’ll fix it.

This interview makes it worse—and she’s not even asking the right questions.

Why use Signal for classified info instead of the secure government app our taxes paid for? Is this their norm? How long have they been sharing war plans like this?

This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

CEO’s dismissal signals the beginning of the end for Amtrak: Analysis - Trains Nothing good will come from Wednesday’s dismissal of Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner, who was pushed out as part of the White House’s purge of officials who are not deemed loyal to President Donald Trump. The timing of the move was curious. The Trump administration has been seeking to pull funding for programs it deems wasteful [...]Read More...

[william wallace voice]: they may take our rights, but they’ll never take our AMTRAK

www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

No, not Democrats being “bused in”—just regular Nebraskans waking up to the fact that their Social Security is on the chopping block to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Great piece by PBS.

What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor the aspiring musicians.

Well done, 60 Minutes.

F MAGA to the ends of the Earth.

www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and destroying infrastructure.

"The Hague has said, Putin is a war criminal....And if that's the fact, if we're giving them an advantage, then we do become complicit in their war crimes, and maybe even accessories to, the act."

Sobering words from @markhertling.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller:

The disgust on her face is so obvious.

This is the way

Oh so this was the red wave y’all were talking about

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

“At least Russia has elections”

Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999.

If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

Americans have seen a horrifying increase in aviation accidents. The FAA must immediately implement the bipartisan safety reforms we passed last year. Our bill increased runway safety measures, required modern technology upgrades & accelerated the hiring of air traffic controllers.

Marco Rubio Is Walking into a Trap Ukraine still has an opportunity to win the war—if the Trump administration will let it.

A piece about today’s negotiations, but also very much a piece about how hard Ukraine has fought for their sovereignty & territory. I sure hope we defend them against Russia’s land grab.

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

The Law Of The Jungle.
@msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social

The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism” Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority

Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

He's not a branch.
I fear he's the whole goddamn root system.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.

First, there is no relief on the price of eggs.

Then deportation of AG workers will drive up juice prices.

Now Trump is putting tariffs on coffee, too.

Why does MAGA hate breakfast so much?

That’s the Republican plan. It’s destroying the public schools in Arizona.

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:

Yes! Thank you.

See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":

I’m reading it now and it’s hard to put down. It’s an amazing true story about WW II and an American woman, the author’s great, great aunt, who was in the leadership of the German resistance.

Probably the only time I was grateful for a MTG tweet.

Your advice column is always thorough and informative. Thank you for helping so many people. I look forward to reading it in my local newspaper every Sunday.