Secretary Mullin crashes out, accuses Rep. Green of calling him a racist, while Green tells him repeatedly to "shut up."
Like many Americans, Rep. Green does not have the patience for Mullin's nonsense.
.@JamesTalarico: We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires. Those billionaires buy politicians like Ken Paxton. And then those puppets turn around and rig the rules of the economy in favor of those billionaires at our expense.
Everywhere I go across the state of Texas, all of us are drowning. We can’t afford the basics—groceries, gas, insurance, utilities, prescription drugs—the things we need to survive. No matter how hard we work, no matter how much we save, those ends never seem to meet.
This is more than just a political battle. This is a battle for the kind of economy that we will have going forward. That is what this fight is all about.
BREAKING: Justice Sotomayor BLASTS Trump’s justices in a scathing dissent over yet another rubber-stamping of Republican racist election-stealing shenanigans!
She didn’t hold back…
The right-wing conservatives on the Supreme Court just voted to allow Alabama to use a 2023 map which was so obviously racist that a three-judge panel of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump appointees again found that the map was unconstitutional.
But nothing except Republican power matters to Trump’s justices on SCOTUS, who voted 6-3 to allow Alabama to use the racist map anyway.
Justice Sotomayor eviscerated her fellow justices in her dissent, writing that they “disregard both democratic values and the rule of law.”
“In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public. It debases the democratic process by upending Alabama’s entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians.”
“It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.”
“It is long established that ‘he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.’ Alabama’s hands, however, are far from clean. Instead, it defied the District Court’s order in these cases even after this Court affirmed it, and took utterly irreconcilable positions at different stages in these cases to suit its own purposes.”
“Now the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.”
It is absolutely abhorrent the way that Trump’s justices have allowed state Republicans to play legislative Calvinball with the law and the rules, arguing one thing one day and against that very same thing the next when it suits them.
No precedent matters, no good faith interpretation of the law, nothing matters except the exercise of power and advancing the MAGA agenda.
Once we retake power, impeaching Trump’s justices and reforming our courts has to be a top priority – because if we don’t, they will pack the courts even more and entrench one-party rule forever.
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🚨WTF! Trump bought $1M of Nvidia stock and then ONE WEEK LATER Trump loosened rules so Nvidia could sell chips to China — which sent the stock through the roof.
Bessent tries to blame Congress!!! Is he stupid or just evil??
We desperately need class consciousness in the U.S.
Class consciousness is not telling people to vote for the blue or red ruling class parties.
It is educating people that both parties serve the billionaire class, which is why workers need to build our own power to fight back.
At least 40 minors gave sworn statements to the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein raped and trafficked them. The line prosecutor wrote an 82-page memo recommending charges.
Alex Acosta declined and signed a non-prosecution deal.
He was later confirmed as Labor Secretary.
I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed
Sen. Shaheen grills Rubio: "In 2017, you wrote as a Senator that Vladimir Putin will never be a trusted ally or a reliable, constructive partner.
But since taking office, you, President, Vice President, Steve Witkoff — not one of you has been to Ukraine.
And yet, your envoys talk to Putin on regular basis. President has invited him, given him red-carpet treatment on American soil, but yet you won't come up here and brief Congress on any of it.
Decisions Congress has made on Russia have been systematically undermined. Congress passed support for Ukraine, but administration has slow-walked it.
Instead of sanctioning Russia, administration issued oil licenses that have sent billions to Moscow. Congress has asked what this approach has produced.
Russia has conducted five times more drone strikes on Ukraine since 2024. More U.S. businesses are being directly targeted than at any point in this conflict.
Russia is providing targeting intelligence to help Iran hit our facilities and personnel in the Middle East, while we're helping them fund this war."
Ivanka Trump with those most tone deaf interview of all time.
Epstein Island 2.0 or WW3 Bunker?
Nah but seriously, flexing on us by purchasing a big ass island while big daddy Donald Trump causes an energy crisis is insane. 💀
BREAKING: YES! A federal judge blocks Trump from gutting a crucial climate and weather research lab in Colorado in a major blow to the MAGA agenda.
The courts are once again holding this country together by a thread...
“Any degradation in forecasting, modeling, or related scientific capabilities carries real-world consequences, including potential harm to property and human life,” stated Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his ruling to temporarily halt the White House's efforts.
The administration has been trying to confiscate a powerful supercomputer from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder as part of their scheme to "break up" NCAR because it feeds into "climate alarmism."
The real goal here is obvious. Trump is bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies. He and his minions are working tirelessly to discredit climate science itself so that oil and gas companies can keep raking in profits as the world burns. It's one of the most sinister components of his thoroughly corrupt tenure.
NCAR is an invaluable resource for the American people. It conducts groundbreaking climate research but also helps predict major weather events and flooding — calamities that will only increase in frequency and intensity as climate change accelerates. The Center also monitors air quality.
Jackson's ruling comes after the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which is composed of 129 renowned schools, filed a lawsuit to stop the dismantling of NCAR. They alleged that the Trump administration is seeking to punish the state of Colorado for refusing to hand over control of its elections and for taking legal action against MAGA election interferer Tina Peters.
“Our work supports national security, public safety, and economic prosperity, and any steps made toward divesting NCAR of its high-performance computing facilities would risk disrupting the country’s extraordinary advances in weather and space weather modeling and forecasting, as well as related programs spanning agriculture, water resources, wildfire risk, military support, power grid interruption, and aviation safety,” stated UCAR Interim President Eric Barron.
Jackson said that the Trump-controlled National Science Foundation's “offered no explanation for its decision” and “failed to abide its own process to consider public feedback before proceeding with the transfer" in its efforts to remove the supercomputer in question from NCAR.
More infuriating still for the administration, the judge wrote that allowing the lab to keep the computer "supports the efficient and uninterrupted data collection that supports more accurate climate-prediction modeling, which in turn is used to mitigate harmful extreme weather events that are a feature of our world.”
This is a ruling truly worth celebrating.
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The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized".
That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.
A highschool senior, a pregnant woman, and a man with Stage Three cancer. These are the people I met in Delaney Hall. When DHS tells you they are only arresting the worst of the worst, they're lying. These are everyday people kept in inhumane conditions with our tax dollars.