@RandPaul Of course one should be a citizen to vote, but this bill is putting a hardship on millions of women, which I believe is quite acceptable to this misogynistic administration
Lawrence O’Donnell quotes the scathing takedown of Trump in the NY Daily News: “It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders — all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame.”
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie says he’s ready to go nuclear if DOJ keeps hiding Epstein’s client list.
If Pam Bondi refuses to unredact the names, he says he’ll start reading them publicly.
“If the victims want to give them to me, I’m willing.”
Sunlight or exposure. DOJ has a choice.
@kylegriffin1 Nothing will change until that Ghoul Miller is no longer pulling Trump’s tiny little strings. Noem needs to go as does Stephen. American citizens will continue to die unless these two MFr’s are gone. Don’t get me started on all the others…
Please lord. Let me live long enough to watch Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem before The Hague.
Americans are under attack by their own president.
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:
“We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”
Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.
BREAKING: Another blatant lie by the Trump WhiteHouse! After the WH and Homeland security made the claim that 5-year-old preschool student, Liam Ramos, who was detained, was abandoned by his father, Columbia Heights school officials, and the family’s attorney tell a different story.
Liam’s father was detained and agents used Liam to try and bait the mother out of her home. The three of them were in America legally, in this asylum process.
No one was abandoned. ICE kidnapped the father and used Liam as bait.
Congress could stop this madness tomorrow. It could take back control of trade policy and cancel the tariffs. It could bring impeachment proceedings on the impeccable grounds that the president has plainly lost his mind. No one who is compos mentis writes as he just did to the Norwegian leader.
The Founders knew what they were doing when they gave Congress these powers. They were obsessed with the story of how the Roman Republic had ended. They were determined to prevent the rise of what they called “Caesarists”, meaning men who believed that their ambitions were bigger than the Constitution. They knew how difficult it was to remove such men once they were in office, surrounded by flatterers and sycophants.
There was a moment, following the assassination of Caligula, when the Roman Senate might have restored the Republic. Senators spoke movingly of “the mischiefs tyrannies have brought upon this commonwealth, discouraging virtue, depriving our leading men of their liberty, elevating flattery and slavish fear, and replacing the rule of law with the whims of those who govern”.
Had they acted decisively, they might have ended the imperial system. “It would be enough to live a single hour under our old laws,” declared one senator, “the laws that raised our nation to greatness”.
But when news came that a new emperor had been proclaimed, senators rushed to declare their loyalty to him. Rome returned to its dictatorial executive, its obsequious legislature and its bellicose foreign policy.
How many Congressmen today will make a stand for their old laws, the laws that raised their nation to greatness?