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"If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the ... window and find out which one is true." @KerriMPR @jejohnson322 @1A @esmemurphy #stribpol

[Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton]

Goodness gracious. Our wedding was in 2010. In Rhinebeck, New York. No taxpayer funds courtesy of President Obama or anyone. I’m sure 2014 in every season was beautiful in the Rose Garden!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Meta shut out Indivisible from Instagram on the No Kings Day meant to rally people to vote.

[Erin Sorum @eksorum]

No Kings Day in Park Rapids MN

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin is SOUNDING THE ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram account during massive nationwide protests.

LEVIN: “This is strikingly reminiscent of what we saw in Brazil… We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.”

“We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime. We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime's collaborators on the outside.”

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Both @Meta & @X are actively suppressing all No Kings content from their platforms.

Wonder why?
Any ideas?

[daviss @daviss]

NOW: Thousands gathered at Commons Park in Minneapolis for NO KINGS rally. They've so far heard from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Former Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak, and Minnesota 15 defendants.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history.

No Kings. No Courtiers.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action.

This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

🚨 BREAKING: Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts. We demand answers for why this happened during our National Day of Action

Meanwhile, millions are mobilizing—they cannot silence us

Follow for updates: @ACLU, @MoveOn, @Public_Citizen & @IndivisibleTeam -TN

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@BoLoudon This seems so significant but I just can't figure out why. I guess because it's not. Or because Lady Melania doesn't do anything?

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@lksjackson19 @PollTracker2024 @KenPaxtonTX I love it when people are SO deranged and mad that they can't put together a coherent sentence and just spew ridiculous things like you dearie Lori

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

#TexasSenate

KERA: George W. Bush's daughter Barbara Bush donated to a Super PAC that is supporting James Talarico.

https://t.co/THaNu2QqVR

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@KatieMiller How to make sounds like words that have no meaning, right?

[Mike Howard @mikehowardmn]

I authored the bill that capped insulin prices in Minnesota. Lisa Demuth didn't just oppose it, she voted against it FOUR times. Lying about your record to hide the fact you're in the bag for Big Pharma? I'd call that fraud.

https://t.co/m0qDJwAyFU

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Either this is true, which would be a terrible sign that the President is not in control of his own Pentagon, or it's false, in which case the President is lying about a crucial national security issue for some reason.

[Without trump supporters there'd be no trump @dotnote]

@JavonPrice You mean she graduated FROM law school? Low IQ people say graduated law school.

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@ChuckGrassley That is just nuts. Where is this list of 639K people?

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@covie_93 Omar came to the US with her family when she was 12 and no doubt she was at that age managing her visas and asylum status, you extraordinarily stupid person.