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Tweets are my own. Dare mighty things! #DirectAction | avendrow at 🩵🐈‍⬛@[email protected]

[rmcv42☯️ 🇺🇸🗳🌊 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🌈 @robertmcvey42]

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump's Friday morning so far:

-- extremely disappointing 4th quarter GDP number
-- inflation report hotter than expected
-- Supreme Court strikes down tariffs

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Trump says he'll sign a Section 122 tariff to impose a 10% across-the-board tax on imports (we'll see how they phrase it). The statutory authority expires after 150 days without congressional approval - triggering votes in Congress on his tariffs after Labor Day in a midterm year

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Donald Trump’s tariffs have been illegal since day one.

He owes American families refunds for his illegal taxation.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

By striking down Trump's IEEPA tariffs today, the Supreme Court nearly halved the effective tariff rate, down to 9.1% from 16.9%.

But rates are still far above pre-2025 levels.

[rmcv42☯️ 🇺🇸🗳🌊 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🌈 @robertmcvey42]

@heyyguido 🫶🏼

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

“I think everyone fell in love with Tracii. She’s so undeniable.”
- Geeta Gandbhir

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[rmcv42☯️ 🇺🇸🗳🌊 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🌈 @robertmcvey42]

@Stonefree63 @sanosbo1 Indeed

[Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevine]

@Acyn Oh hey, Chief Justice, John Roberts, what say you?

[Carmen @CiCi77]

https://t.co/6prdacduIG
Democrats Need Religious Candidates - and Religious Voters
Non-religious liberals might get uncomfortable at the visible piety of candidates like Andy Beshear and James Talarico. But they're important for the party's future.
PAUL WALDMAN
FEB 20

[rmcv42☯️ 🇺🇸🗳🌊 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🌈 @robertmcvey42]

@CiCi77 They are important. religion doesn’t scare me, forcing it on others or me does.

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

@isabellabc @TheRickyDavila @robertmcvey42 "After nearly 90 years, the Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval ratings…The polling firm, which has been tracking presidential approval since FDR, said that the decision was based on a shift in corporate strategy."
https://t.co/FwI3n5nMpg

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: https://t.co/sseVb2Z84N

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Lost in the news about Trump’s illegal tariffs is something also quite important: they didn’t work.

Trump promised tariffs would shrink the trade deficit. Instead, the U.S. trade deficit hit $901 billion in 2025, one of the largest ever.

Americans paid higher prices, business faced huge uncertainty, and the core problem wasn’t even addressed.

One can only conclude that “Liberation Day” was a total con from the start.

https://t.co/21LHpUcCFu

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Christian nationalism has landed at the Pentagon—and they’re not even hiding it anymore. Just look at this photo.

That’s Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist thought leader and influential pastor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Here they were pictured together at a recent prayer event at the Pentagon, and it’s a moment that for Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler illustrates just how integrated Christian nationalists have become in our federal government.

Butler has reported for years on the strong ties between Wilson and his web of Christian nationalist influencers– dubbed the “TheoBros.” (Including, yes Vice President JD Vance.)

But there’s another connection Wilson has with the current mainstream political moment. On January 18, former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles for covering a protest that disrupted services at Cities Church in St. Paul. The arrest drew widespread attention because of how Lemon’s First Amendment rights were violated; journalism groups, including the National Association of Black Journalists, condemned the act

What never appeared in the flurry of coverage—until Butler wrote about it— was the link between Cities Church and a Christian nationalist movement that has gained increasing clout with strong connections to the Trump administration. Cities Church was founded in part by a pastor named Joe Rigney, a close associate of Doug Wilson, whose Christian nationalist fiefdom centered in Moscow, Idaho, has gained a national following—and is looked to as an example of what a Christian nationalist society could look like.

Read more of our coverage on Christian nationalist ties to the Trump administration at https://t.co/MQyaBkIMgb.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

My parents and my sister are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Trump's latest vanity boondoggle would tower over this sacred national space, and cause major disruptions for my Northern Virginia constituents. This monstrosity is plainly illegal under current law.

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

(AP) House Speaker Mike Johnson denies request for Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in US Capitol

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents illegally assaulted a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, and then kidnapped him, while admitting on camera they didn’t even know who he was, in Olathe, Kansas.

In the video, an agent is sitting on the teenager’s back as his 14-year-old brother screams that he’s a U.S. citizen, in a Walmart parking lot.

The agent responds:

“Well, we’re going to find that out since whoever drives this [pointing to the truck] isn’t.”

That sentence is the admission.

Because it shows the only thing they knew, at that moment, was something about the registered owner of the truck… not the person they had pinned to the pavement.

Vehicle registration tells you who owns a car. It does NOT tell you who is driving it.

Before law enforcement can detain someone, they need individualized reasonable suspicion tied to that person.

If they had not confirmed the driver matched the registered owner…
If they had not observed a crime…
If they had no warrant…

Then pinning him down, handcuffing him, and loading him into a vehicle raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns.

You don’t get to tackle someone first and figure out who they are later.

You don’t get to use force based on “we’ll find out.”

The issue isn’t just that he’s a U.S. citizen…

The issue is whether agents had lawful, INDIVIDUALIZED suspicion to detain him before they used force.

Because when law enforcement starts treating vehicle registration as automatic suspicion for whoever is behind the wheel…

That’s collective punishment.

And the Constitution does not allow that.

[James Jackson-South @James_M_South]

I think this might be my favourite library logo of all the ones I've created.

https://t.co/uinwWV08am

#dotnet #oss

[S @even_steven8tht]

The fact that someone can so openly be so bigoted in 2026 is really crazy