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Trump targets Democratic fundraising powerhouse ActBlue with DOJ probe | CNN Politics President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday targeting ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main fundraising platform – taking aim at one of the key pillars of the financial infrastructure for Democ...

This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook, a naked attempt to attack progressive infrastructure and chill all opposition with blatantly illegal threats. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Trump is so used to people covering for his lies, and no one calling him out on them, that it probably shocked him to have China flat out say this.

A post by Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch ) with a verified blue checkmark says: "That pesky Constitution! President Trump complains about losing in court, even with his nominated judges, because he violates due process, a right we all have." It quotes Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump ) saying: "I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals, but the Courts, even the U.S. Supreme Court, block me. They’re intimidated by the Radical Left. Justice Alito wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He’s right! We can’t give everyone a trial—it’d take 200 years."

If only there were a lesson in there for him about due process…

YouTube video by The Daily Show RFK Jr. Sparks Outrage Over Autism Remarks & Elon Musk Slides Into DMs and Wombs | The Daily Show

RFK Jr. Sparks Outrage Over Autism Remarks & Elon Musk Slides Into DMs and Wombs

youtu.be/S7SvG1Qle0w

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff This Is a Constitutional Crisis

The constitutional crisis is here.

The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.

youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

I was there! It was an amazingly inspirational event. Watch out, Utah is rising!!

Bernie Sanders, AOC and the ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour cheered by 20K in deep red Utah • Utah News Dispatch Bernie Sanders and AOC brought their "Fight Oligarchy" tour to deep red Utah, where they were cheered on by 20,000 frustrated Democrats.

Utah!!

"The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..."

utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...

Adjectives I like…

This seems like a bad idea

Wow

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half of the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president’s aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry.

Is it relevant that America’s literal origin story is that a people went to war over an unaccountable authority imposing an unreasonable tax on them. (and that tax was an import tax, a tariff)

It seems relevant

Opposition is growing against the Trump-Musk chaos regime—and we’re not letting up.
Never stop organizing.
Never stop protesting.
Never stop turning out.
#HandsOff2025

The is no limit to how much brutality the Trump admin is willing to allow Russia to get away with. They have never once condemned a single atrocity committed by Putin. Trump played golf while this happened and didn’t say a word about it.

@maddow.msnbc.com A six pack of protests across the country! HUGE turnouts all across the country! YES!

Susan Crawford, wearing a blue jacket and jeans, walking outside a polling station. A headline reads: "Susan Crawford’s Win Keeps Liberal Majority On Wisconsin Supreme Court." Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times.

Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent. nyti.ms/4jbwPWD

My friend @booker.senate.gov has been on the floor for quite awhile now.

So I went to go help.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. On Saturday, April 5, millions of Americans are mobilizing to show it doesn’t. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

"Don't become like him. Be an American that says I look to the future. Yes, things are scary right now. But we can overcome."

MORE. OF. THIS. 👏👏👏👏👏
#CoryBooker

The Wisconsin statute is plain. You cannot offer anything of value to any elector to dissuade or induce them to vote. Period. It prohibits the same with respect to going to the polls for a particular candidate. There’s no innocent explanation for what Musk is doing now to get voters to the polls.

The image is a screenshot of a social media post by James (@GoodVibePolitik ). The post reads: "Hard to overstate how bad at international politics you have to be to get these governments to unite against you." Below the post, there is a screenshot of a post by PIQ (@PIQSuite ), posted 9 hours ago, which states: "CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THE THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS."

Trump is realigning the world—and not in a way that is good for the U.S.

what a day

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

I stand with Ukraine.