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Amy Horowitch's avatar

It’s getting worse as the months go on. Nothing is improving. The courts powers are hindered, esp now that we’re seeing the SC acting “imperialistic” . I haven’t lost all hope but it sure is dwindling. They took a 64 yo Iranian woman off her front yard while she was tending to her garden today in New Orleans. She had been here for 47 years!!! I’m so distraught. Trump is more embolden than ever and I’m sick to my stomach.

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LHS's avatar

I found an article on NOLA about the arrest. Unbelievable! This woman has done everything she was supposed to do for nearly 50 years. And now she's in ICE detention. https://www.nola.com/news/politics/national_politics/iran-new-orleans-woman-arrested/article_bcfdc93e-01dc-4021-b5f8-a91ded5ed784.html

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Amy Horowitch's avatar

Fascist Regime is straight up Hitler rounding up anyone not white😡

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Missi's avatar

for now... once birthright citizenship is gone, no one in the country is safe... any undesirable can be stripped of their citizenship and deported regardless of their parental origins 🍸

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Ginger's avatar

we could start with the trump kids

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ZU's avatar

ONLY WAY , STAND UP AND ALTOGETHER GO TO THE STREETS EVERY SINGLE DAY ✌️🇺🇸 YOU WILL WIN.

THE TIME IS NOW TO DEFEAT THE NAZI REGIME 🔥

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Susan Theriault's avatar

Taking the woman from her yard is horrible

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Lynda Janell Gaines's avatar

She was actually picking figs in her yard with her grandchildren. They witnessed these mask men.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

That is awful.

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J E Ross's avatar

This is absolutely going the way of typical autocratic regimes. You just want to cry. Unless you can get MAD and show up to local organizing efforts, call senators and representatives to be clear how horrible this is, get together with likeminded people, and, as Ruth Ben-Ghiat says, use all of the places and spaces for dissent while we still have them. Jess Craven ("Chop Wood, Carry Water) has excellent ideas and scripts. She and other super wise people say the antidote to despair is action. I am absolutely trying to convince myself of that.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

When are people who have the power going to stop this!💩💩💩💩

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Beth Williamson's avatar

I wondered why no one was freaking out about it. So tired of the lies about why they are screwing normal political process and ignoring the constitution as well. Maybe I missed a democratic congressman or woman talking about this??

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Vicki Greene's avatar

That's the chaos they are creating. When everything is an issue, nothing is an issue and we all shut down. Something like this happens and everyone is upset and then the next day it's something else. A man who recently had a lung removed, a woman who is 6 months pregnant and given no care, a child with cancer. Now they can deport people who were given status. It will keep happening and people will turn a blind eye.

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Sheila Prosterman's avatar

flood the zone. Steve Bannon stratagy

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

This is an ad. for toothpaste.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Did you report it? I just did. How to report spam (which this is): Click on the three dots (ellipsis) to the far right of the poster's name. The option at the bottom is "Report." Give your reason for reporting and submit it. Thanks!

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A Pat's avatar

All the more reason we resolve to uncover the truth at every chance. No letting up.

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Deb's avatar

I support you the best way I can. I look forward to your honest reporting. I wish I could do more. Just cannot afford anything more.

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Teresa's avatar

Agreed. I’m not even making it anymore from paycheck

to paycheck.

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Teresa's avatar

I will! I live on Social Security and it’s not cutting it anymore. Trump lied and said he was getting the prices down and everything else! I can’t believe that man won. I never would’ve voted for him in 1 million years. I believed in Kamala I don’t think we would be where we’re at now if she would’ve won. I think I would’ve been able to sleep at night if she would’ve won. I still believe that Elon rigged the computers.

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Ann B.'s avatar

I can't believe people believed him!!

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Teresa's avatar

I agree! My sisters did and I will never understand how people believed him. One of my sisters and I despise him and always have! He’s sickening and getting scarier everyday!

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Terron's avatar

I'm the eldest of five siblings, three girls and two boys.

We grew up in a liberal, tolerant, non religious family.

My two sisters, one in Vermont and one in New Jersey despise King Rumpy. Both have dual citizenship.

My brothers, one a former drug addict, now hooked on Jesus (Vancouver Island) and the other an Canadian army major, ( Edmonton Alta.) have clearly stated they would have supported Rump, and even applauded his first term policies.

We are now a family of three girls... SAD!

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Very sad -- but I can't help noticing that your family's experience seems pretty typical: the men are much more often suckered by Trump than the women. I'm also seeing a connection between "hooked on Jesus" and support for Trump and far-right ideas that Jesus would never, ever have approved of.

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Teresa's avatar

@Susanna J. Sturgis I agree with you 100%. It makes me sick to see what the right has done to religion. I don’t believe that Trump has a religious bone in his body, but he sure does fake it for his followers. They have hijacked our flag and Christianity. Sad.

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Teresa's avatar

I’m sorry about your family, but it sounds just about like mine. I have two sisters that I don’t even speak to and one that I barely tolerate but then the other one that is a Democrat and I are very close. Their beliefs are just sickening and the fact that they believe every lie it spews out of Trump‘s mouth

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Terron's avatar

The red line for me was the fact that my siblings would vote against all of the values and most importantly the people I hold dear.

A transgender friend, my gay hairdresser, my neurodivergent partner...

I'm an atheist, but I've always tried to follow Jesus' instructions in his Sermon on the Mount. Basically just be a good human.

If I'm wrong, and we do go somewhere after death, my brothers will be quite shocked to see me sitting up front, while they look for their place way in the back!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

"I don’t think we would be where we’re at now if she would’ve won. "

THAT'S for damn sure. . .

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Lynda Janell Gaines's avatar

Elon, Russia, China…

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

TRUE!

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Susan Theriault's avatar

Keep following Michael and share. It’s understandable that you can’t do it financially.

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Teresa's avatar

Thank you.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Me either, dastardly want to raise our insurance premiums AGAIN!!

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Michelle G's avatar

Thank you for this post Mr. Cohen. "To the lawmakers crying foul: don’t just issue press releases. Subpoena. Sue. Go to the floor. " -Michael Cohen

No more milktoast law makers on Capitol Hill we NEED fighters now, the old days of bipartisanship are gone. WE The People are in a fight for our DEMOCRACY.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

202 225 3121 will reach any member of congress!

Call all trump ass kissers! And the ones that are acting like they are on the fence.

Share the number with friends

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Diane E Bellard's avatar

Their lack of transparency can only lead to one conclusion...they're hiding something.

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Kristi Gabriel's avatar

Layers of somethings.

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Teri's avatar

I'm not sure that Trump is even aware of some of these things or smart enough to understand them or "ways around them". I understand that Stephen Miller was very instrumental in creating Project 2025 and believe that's where these things are coming from. I'm also sure it is true that there are things hidden among the budget issues that I'm very afraid will get "yes" votes and we'll wind up with no due process, no constitution, etc.

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Jax's avatar

I agree there are many cogs in this monstrosity of an organization. He is the puppet, not the puppeteer.

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Deb's avatar

I know of a guy named Cliff Cash who has been doing protests at the Heritage foundation, fox(faux) news, and many other places. He also does comedy. Please check him out. He is on Bluesky Cliff Cash .

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Connie Larsen's avatar

202 225 3121 will reach any member of congress. Especially, read the trump ass kissers the riot act. They need to know that they are not going to be re-elected!

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Cynthia Christiansen's avatar

Gab him by the DICK-TATER-ship and twist the orange Cheeto by where it hurts! TRUTH!

The Naked truth check-mates the Emperor who wears no clothes.

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Robin's avatar

"deliberate and dangerous escalation—an act that says Congress doesn’t deserve to know what’s going on behind closed doors."

It's the march to Dictatorship...

where Congress does not exist at all... are not needed... only a few sycophants will remain in the orbit... all other sent home, with "careers" over.

Congress gave up their own powers... over budget, laws, ethics, et al. for what?

They all expect to keep cushy 'jobs' doing nothing.

They killed their own career purpose, by rolling over & drooling over dt

Congress has sacrificed the lives of 340+ Million Americans.

It took me 2 years to get through colon cancer, so I'm scared of the NON medical/NON science world we are now in.

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ANDREW BECK's avatar

I think that most MAGA-ites ultimately don’t want to know what their Fearless Leader is up to. They are quite happy being left in the dark. It’s too hard for them to understand anyway. They are happy wallowing in their ignorance and proud of it too. No complex thinking involved —no need to force their brains to deal with contradictory messages. It’s easier to have Leader do my thinking especially when a lot of it aligns with a lot of their original thoughts

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Those assholes love all of this. They are cheering him on as he destroys the country.

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Kathleen Page's avatar

Sooner or later it will come to their doorstep. No one is immune.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

By then it will be too late for us.

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Teresa's avatar

Times are getting scary.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

It is scary!

202 225 3121 will reach any member of congress!

The trump ass kissers need to hear from as many of us as possible.

Call all republicans!

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Teresa's avatar

Thank you!

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Connie Larsen's avatar

Call n share with friends!👍💪🇺🇸🔷🔹

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Oliver Hoffmann's avatar

Truth leaks scare those who fear it.

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Kristi Gabriel's avatar

I keep praying for the truth to be revealed. It's like water on the wicked witch.

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Cynthia Christiansen's avatar

Why do you think he keeps mentioning "witch hunt"? Projection of the Narcissist.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

ALL of us are getting repetitive about the end of democracy. Each new assault on the constitution is covered with statements of this is getting serious. Things are getting worse. If we don't speak up, you know what might, maybe, could probably happen. You have to speak up people........etc......

The fact is Trump and his regime have given the people and the courts the middle finger repeatedly. They have their Project 2025 playbook, which in itself is horrendous, but they have boosted that blueprint with an overdose of steroids. There's no more ifs and maybes.

Racism is the new mandate. Corruption is the new expected norm. Innocent immigrants are being denied any rights or respect. Women and children are being kidnapped off the streets by marauding gangs of thugs sanctioned by a criminal traitorous wanna be king. They are building massive detention camps for immigrants, for dissenters, for you, and above all for profit and power. In celebration of SCOTUS announcement that they will continue to kiss Trump's ass, he has just announced that half a million Haitians are next on the list.

If I hear one more politician say, "we need to take back the house in 2026. We need to get out the vote." I'm going to loose it. We need to stop BS'n ourselves.

The situation is already dire and if people don't get really serious really soon, there won't be a country left to salvage. I 100% believe elections in America are a thing of a past. The writing is on the wall in bright red 10 foot tall letters. Stop this fucking madman and his insane accomplices, before he burns it all to the ground.

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Phillip's avatar

and it’s only been 6-months. We’ve got three and a half more years to go. He’s already established through the Project 2025 plan that he is a King

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Connie Larsen's avatar

202 225 3121

Call any member of congress! Call daily! Share the number with friends! But call!

Especially trump ass kissers!

No damn big bill!

And he wants to shut down msnbc!🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Light Warder's avatar

“And to those staying silent, remember this: when the pendulum swings—and it always does—the same tactics you enable today will be used against you tomorrow.”

Ah Michael, The Pit and the Pendulum comes to mind, one of Poe’s darker stories during the Spanish Inquisition. Maybe, just maybe, we will be saved by our fellow citizens before the burning walls close in on us…staying silent won’t stop them, that’s for sure.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Keep Fighting and keep calling

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Martha Ture's avatar

Remember this as evil capers over the world. Don’t let the bastards get you down. Smile at strangers, pick up the fallen, listen to the music, walk in the woods, and feel the love of the planet in the air around you. Let your heart love living and fight back. Join with others and fight like Ukrainians. Don’t cower. Live.

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