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DEMOCRACY DOCKET

One hundred years ago yesterday, The Great Gatsby was first published. The sordid tale of people corrupted by money who ignore the consequences of their actions, remains a timeless classic.

Read with contemporary eyes, it's natural to search for glimmers of Donald Trump. But such efforts are misguided. Rather, in today’s gilded age, it is our business leaders, media owners and Big Law partners who most resemble Jay Gatsby and Tom and Daisy Buchanan. They are the “careless people… [who] smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

Tech and Wall Street titans spent months defending Trump when they believed it would benefit their bottom line, only turning against him when their personal stock portfolios suffered. Big Law firm partners betrayed our legal system to pad their own wallets. Media moguls compromised the Fourth Estate to ensure their lucrative mergers were approved.

When federal workers were fired, when critical government services were dismantled, when people were wrongly sent to prisons in foreign countries, these modern-day villains remained deafeningly silent. When Trump declared himself a king, they schemed to gain advantage rather than resist. Only when the financial markets fell did they put down their champagne glasses to consider the consequences of Trump’s actions.

To be clear, while the modern-day Gatsbys and Buchanans bowed down to Trump, others have stood tall and shown moral leadership. We owe them our respect and gratitude.

Unfortunately, it’s still too early in Trump’s four-year term to know…

You’re reading a sample of The Week, a premium newsletter sent to members only — on Fridays, Marc revisits the week’s top stories with his personal insights on where these developments might lead.

Today, Marc dives into:

An unprecedented week filled with abuses of power

The courageous Big Law lawyers standing tall while their firms fold

A politicization of the DOJ that would even make Nixon shudder

Trump’s roadmap for further degrading the legal system

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Public Citizen

suing to stop Trump's violation of taxpayer privacy

· Sat, Apr 12 at 3:10 PM

Earlier this week we sent you a major update on Public Citizen’s lawsuit to stop the Trump regime from violating the privacy of potentially millions of American taxpayers.

The big takeaway was the disclosure — in court papers filed in response to our suit — of a backroom deal between two of Donald Trump’s cabinet officials for confidential taxpayer info to be handed over to immigration enforcement agents, in clear violation of the law.Well, there is even more news on the case.

We have just filed a reply to the government about our motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent immigration enforcement agents from accessing confidential taxpayer data while the lawsuit goes forward.

As the first line of our new court filing notes, the administration has now admitted what our lawsuit alleges. A hearing on our motion for a preliminary injunction is scheduled for next week.Here’s what the lead attorney on the case, Public Citizen’s Nandan Joshi, told the national media: “Congress crafted a narrow exception allowing the IRS to disclose taxpayer information for legitimate criminal investigations. The Trump administration cannot lawfully use that exception to obtain confidential information about hundreds of thousands or potentially millions of taxpayers simply to increase its deportation numbers.”

One really important point here: Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is only about undocumented workers. The regime’s nakedly political attempt to weaponize tax data should send chills down the spine of every American who pays taxes and disagrees with (or might someday disagree with) this administration.

If Trump and his lackeys get away with doing this to one group, they’ll do it to another group, and another, and another — until there’s nobody left to fight back. By the way, this is one of nine active lawsuits (so far) that Public Citizen is pursuing against the regime since Trump returned to power.

If the cases are starting to blur together, don’t worry — you don’t have to read every email or keep track of all the ins and outs. We will keep sending updates so you have at least an overall sense of how we’re fighting back against the Trump/Musk/DOGE/MAGA onslaught.

See our earlier note — copied below if you missed it — for more about this particular case.Onward!******

Public Citizen is suing the Trump regime over one of the many insidious parts of its inhumane mass deportation scheme.

Like other workers, undocumented workers are required to pay income taxes.

The IRS is legally required to treat their tax records, like those of every other taxpayer, as private and confidential — unless disclosure is specifically allowed by law.

No law permits the IRS to disclose tax records so that immigrants can be located for deportation.

But the Trump regime nonetheless wants to access tax data — including names and current addresses — to support its mass deportation agenda.

This lawsuit seeks to ensure that the IRS protects taxpayer privacy, as required by law.This lawsuit is not just about the rights of undocumented workers. Congress enacted taxpayer privacy laws in response to misuse of IRS records during the presidency of Richard Nixon. If the Trump regime is allowed to carry out this particular invasion of taxpayer privacy — in flagrant violation of the law — it won’t stop there. Before you know it, millions and millions of Americans could be subject to illegal invasions of privacy and government surveillance. It’s a page right out of the authoritarian playbook.

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The largest rally we have ever held (36,000 in LA)

When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended — it is the largest rally we have ever had.

And when I see the record crowds like the ones we had yesterday, or the ones in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, I believe it may just be possible that this country is on the brink of the political revolution we have been talking about for a long time.

These people are not showing up because I am running for something. There is no presidential campaign happening.

These are people attending in huge numbers who are not just saying NO to oligarchy, but they are saying YES to raising the minimum wage, YES to expanding Social Security, YES to guaranteeing health care as a human right, YES, to cutting the cost of prescription drugs, YES to paid family and medical leave, YES to equal pay for equal work, YES to more affordable housing, YES to making childcare and higher education affordable to all, YES to taking on the existential threat of climate change.

And most importantly they are saying YES to a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class and the Oligarchs.

Later today, we will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tomorrow we go to Boise, Idaho before returning to California on Tuesday for two rallies in districts held by Republicans and ending this leg of the tour in Missoula, Montana on Wednesday.

We will be streaming each rally on YouTube and Twitter, and I hope you will tune in to watch and share the links with your friends.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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Democracy Docket

Once again, a chaotic week spilled into the weekend.

On Friday afternoon, Trump announced that five more major law firms had joined the growing ranks of collaborators aiding his efforts to intimidate and dominate the legal profession. Together, these firms pledged $600 million in legal services as tribute to Trump and his causes. Combined with previously announced commitments, the total amount Big Law has ceded to the aspiring dictator is now just shy of $1 billion.

Think about that: one billion dollars of legal work from the top law firms across the country to do Trump’s bidding. And that number is sure to grow as more cowardly law firms follow suit.

Meanwhile, those fighting against Trump continue to rely on nonprofit legal organizations and a dwindling number of law firms still willing to challenge the administration. While this hasn’t yet reached a full-blown crisis, it’s a troubling trend to watch.

In the weekend’s biggest news, the Department of Justice edged closer to being held in contempt for failing to provide information ordered by a federal judge. The case involves a man who was wrongfully sent from the U.S. to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT facility. 

After initially suggesting that he would follow a court order to return the man, Trump posted on social media that the man and other deportees were in “the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign Nation, and their future is up to President B[ukele] and his Government.” For its part, the Department of Justice twice filed court-ordered status reports that failed to meet the court’s order.

Translation: the federal judge can pound sand. Expect this to escalate as soon as today.

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Heather Cox Richardson

April 13, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Apr 14

This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States, despite a court order to do so.

The 29-year-old Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. about 2011 when he was 16 to escape threats from a gang that was terrorizing his family. He settled in Maryland with his older brother, a U.S. citizen, and lived there until in 2019 he was picked up by police as he waited at a Home Depot to be picked up for work as a day laborer. Police transferred him to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After a hearing, an immigration judge rejected his claim for asylum but said he could not be sent back to El Salvador, finding it credible that the Barrio 18 gang had been “targeting him and threatening him with death because of his family’s pupusa business.”

Ever since, Abrego Garcia has checked in annually with ICE as directed. He lives with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

On March 12, ICE agents pulled his car over, told his wife to come pick up their disabled son, and incarcerated Abrego Garcia, pressing him to say he was a member of MS-13. On March 15 the government rendered Abrego Garcia to the infamous CECOT prison for terrorists in El Salvador, alleged to be the site of human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial killings. The U.S. government is paying El Salvador $6 million a year to incarcerate the individuals it sends there.

On March 24, Abrego Garcia’s family sued the administration over his removal.

On March 31 the government admitted that its arrest and rendition of Abrego Garcia happened because of “administrative error” but said he couldn’t be brought back because, in El Salvador, he is outside the jurisdiction of the United States. It also accused him of being a member of the MS-13 gang and said that bringing him back to the U.S. would threaten the public.

On April 4, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis ordered the government to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. no later than 11:59 pm on April 7.

In her opinion, filed April 6, Judge Xinis wrote that “[a]lthough the legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear, Abrego Garcia’s case is categorically different—there were no legal grounds whatsoever for his arrest, detention, or removal.…. [H]is detention appears wholly lawless.” It is “a clear constitutional violation.” And yet administration officials “cling to the stunning proposition that they can forcibly remove any person—migrant and U.S. citizen alike—to prisons outside the United States, and then baldly assert they have no way to effectuate return because they are no longer the 'custodian,' and the Court thus lacks jurisdiction.”

The administration had already appealed her April 4 order to the Supreme Court, which handed down a 9–0 decision on Thursday, April 10, requiring the Trump administration “to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador,” but asking the district court to clarify what it meant by “effectuate,” that release, noting that it must give “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”

The Supreme Court also ordered that “the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.” Judge Xinis ordered the government to file an update by 9:30 a.m. on April 11 explaining where Abrego Garcia is, what the government is doing to get him back, and what more it will do. She planned an in-person hearing at 1:00 p.m.

But the administration evidently does not intend to comply. On April 11, the lawyer representing the government, Drew Ensign, said he did not have information about where Abrego Garcia is and ignored her order to provide information about what the government was doing to bring him back. Saturday, it said Abrego Garcia is “alive and secure” in CECOT. Today, it said it had no new information about him, but said that Abrego Garcia is no longer eligible for the immigration judge’s order not to send him to El Salvador “because of his membership in MS-13 which is now a designated foreign terrorist organization.”

There is still no evidence that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13.

Today, administration lawyers used the Supreme Court’s warning that the court must give “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs” to lay out a chilling argument. They ignored the Supreme Court’s agreement that the government must get Abrego Garcia out of El Salvador, as well as the court’s requirement that the administration explain what it’s doing to make that happen.

Instead, the lawyers argued that because Abrego Garcia is now outside the country, any attempt to get him back would intrude on the president’s power to conduct foreign affairs. Similarly, they argue that the president cannot be ordered to do anything but remove domestic obstacles from Abrego Garcia’s return. Because Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, is currently in the U.S. for a visit with Trump, they suggest they will not share any more updates about Abrego Garcia and the court should not ask for them because it would intrude on “sensitive” foreign policy issues.

Let’s be very clear about exactly what’s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.

All people in the United States are entitled to due process, but Trump and his officers have tried to convince Americans that noncitizens are not. They have also pushed the idea that those they are offshoring are criminals, but a Bloomberg investigation showed that of the 238 men sent to CECOT in the first group, only five of them had been charged with or convicted of felony assault or gun violations. Three had been charged with misdemeanors like petty theft. Two were charged with human smuggling. In any case, in the U.S., criminals are entitled to due process.

Make no mistake: as Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson recently warned, if the administration can take noncitizens off the streets, render them to prison in another country, and then claim it is helpless to correct the error either because the person is out of reach of U.S. jurisdiction, it could do the same thing to citizens.

Trump has said he would “love” to do exactly that, and would even be “honored” to, and Bukele has been offering to hold U.S. citizens.

Dasha Burns and Myah Ward of Politico reported Friday that former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is pitching a plan to expand renditions to El Salvador to at least 100,000 criminal offenders from U.S. prisons and to avoid legal challenges by making part of CECOT American territory, then leasing it back to El Salvador to run.

When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says, “The president's idea for American citizens to potentially be deported, these would be heinous violent criminals who have broken our nation's laws repeatedly," remember that just days ago, Trump suggested that a former government employee was guilty of treason for writing a book about his time in the first Trump administration that Trump claimed was “designed to sow chaos and distrust” in the government.

Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others. Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you.

At least some people understand this. The president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, Sean McGarvey, received a standing ovation when he said to a room full of his fellow union workers: “We need to make our voices heard. We’re not red, we’re not blue. We’re the building trades, the backbone of America. You want to build a $5 billion data center? Want more six-figure careers with health care, retirement, and no college debt? You don’t call Elon Musk, you call us!... And yeah, that means all of us. All of us. Including our brother [International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers] apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who we demand to be returned to us and his family now! Bring him home!”

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Heather Cox Richardson

April 12, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Apr 13

It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis in Yemen on an unsecure commercial messaging app and that they included him on the chat.

Their Signal chat, which Goldberg published later in response to the administration’s insistence that there was nothing classified in the chat, showed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had posted precise details of the munitions and planes involved in the strikes.

It showed that neither President Donald Trump nor the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—a Biden appointee—was on the chat, and that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller apparently made the decision to strike based on his interpretation of what President Donald Trump wanted. In violation of the Presidential Records Act, the app was set to delete the messages. There was apparently no larger strategy or diplomatic plan other than to strike, and participants greeted news of the collapse of an apartment building into which a Houthi leader had allegedly walked with emojis of fists, fire, and a U.S. flag.

This extraordinary lapse in national security protections would normally have defined an administration and caused a number of resignations, but the White House called the case “closed” on March 31. And there was more: On April 2, Dasha Burns of Politico reported that the team working with national security advisor Mike Waltz regularly used the unsecure Signal app to communicate about issues involving Ukraine, China, Gaza, the Middle East, the U.S., and Europe. The officials to whom Burns spoke said they had personal knowledge of at least 20 such chats.

That story has been almost completely driven out of the news by President Donald Trump’s tariff machinations since April 2. On that day, after teasing the idea of what he called “Liberation Day,” Trump announced that at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, April 9, he would be imposing a 10% tariff on all imports to the United States, with significantly higher rates on countries he claims engage in unfair trade practices. By the next day it had been established that his team, led by trade advisor Peter Navarro, arrived at the tariff rates with a nonsensical formula that simply took the U.S. trade deficit with a country, divided it by the value of that country’s exports to the U.S., and cut the resulting number in half.

For the next week, the stock market plummeted, jumping only with rumors that Trump would back off on the tariffs, while economists and financial analysts revised the chances of inflation and recession upward, and economic growth downward. News coming out of the White House was contradictory: one advisor would say that Trump would not negotiate over tariffs and they were here to stay, while another would say he intended to negotiate and they were just starting points.

Meanwhile, as predicted, other countries began to put tariffs on goods from the United States or pause exports, and global markets fell. Americans from business leaders to small business owners to consumers and wage workers called out the “stupidity” of Trump’s trade war. Others noted that the tariffs appeared to be intended as a shakedown as countries or businesses who offered Trump the right price could get exemptions.

As trillions of dollars in stock values evaporated, Trump insisted the tariffs were here to stay. “I know what the hell I’m doing,” Trump told Republicans on Tuesday, April 8. He boasted that global leaders were “kissing my ass.” On Wednesday, April 9, at 9:33 a.m, he posted: “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” At 9:37, he posted “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”

But, as Tyler Pager, Maggie Haberman, Ana Swanson, and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times reported, Trump’s team, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, was worried about setting off a financial panic that could not be stopped. Driving their concern was a broad sell-off of U.S. government bonds, which in the past investors had seen as a safe haven during times of market turmoil, and the rise in popularity of the government bonds of other countries.

Former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers noted that global financial markets were backing away from U.S. assets. Fund manager at Penn Mutual Asset Management George Cipolloni told Bernard Condon and Stan Choe of the Associated Press: “The fear is the U.S. is losing its standing as the safe haven. Our bond market is the biggest and most stable in the world, but when you add instability, bad things can happen.”

On April 8, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer defended Trump’s tariffs to the Senate Finance Committee. He was offering similar testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee at 1:18 p.m. when a social media post from Trump pulled the rug out from under him. Trump paused most of the highest tariffs for 90 days and instituted an across-the-board tariff of 10% in their place. But, perhaps unwilling to look weak, he announced that he was raising tariffs on goods from China to 125% effective immediately, “[b]ased on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets.”

With Trump’s tariff pause, stocks jumped upward in one of the biggest single-day gains since World War II. Hedge fund manager Spencer Hakimian posted a graph showing that Nasdaq call volume—bets that stock values would rise—spiked minutes before Trump’s announcement. He commented: “Not a good look at all.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reposted Hakimian’s post and added: “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now. I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor. Disclosure deadline is May 15th. We’re about to learn a few things. It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.”

David Smith of The Guardian noted that the juxtaposition of Trump golfing, dining with donors, and meeting with race car drivers even as economic chaos tanked people’s retirement accounts prompted accusations that he has lost touch with reality. A widely circulated video that appears to be Trump bragging to NASCAR drivers visiting the White House that investor Charles Schwab made $2.5 billion on Wednesday and that another investor made $900 million has fed anger at Trump’s economic chaos. On Friday the University of Michigan released its well-respected consumer-sentiment index, showing that consumer sentiment about the economy and personal finances fell for the fourth straight month, dropping 11% from March. Consumers from all political affiliations fear recession, inflation, and unemployment.

This level of consumer sentiment is the second lowest since the index began in 1952. Chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics Samuel Tombs told the Wall Street Journal’s Harriet Torry: “Consumers have spiraled from anxious to petrified.” James Knightley, the chief international economist at the multinational banking and financial services company ING, noted that consumers appear to blame Trump for their concerns. While in January 44% of respondents told researchers that the government was doing a poor job of managing inflation and unemployment, now 67% say so.

The change happened so quickly that White House officials could not tell reporters what the actual tariff rates were for different countries. When more information was available, Kevin Schaul of the Washington Post noted that Trump’s new tariff levies had actually increased tariffs rather than lowered them because he had dropped rates only on goods from countries that don’t export much to the U.S. He had raised them significantly—not just to 125% but to 145%—on China, a major trading partner.

On Friday, China imposed 125% tariffs on goods from the U.S. A spokesperson for the Chinese Finance Ministry said that Trump’s tariff machinations “will become a joke in the history of the world economy.” At 9:20 a.m. President Trump posted: “We are doing really well on our TARIFF POLICY. Very exciting for America, and the World!!! It is moving along quickly. DJT.” The new tariffs had badly threatened Apple Inc., and at 10:36 p.m. the U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a notice that various electronics, including smartphone and computer monitors, are exempt from the tariffs.

When economist Justin Wolfers commented: “I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover—in just a few short days—that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.” Dr. Soumya Rangarajan noted that “a basic medicine we use 1000x per day in the hospital, heparin, is also dependent on China, and people will die without it.” As Sabrina Malhi of the Washington Post explained, about 12 million people hospitalized in the U.S. need heparin every year, and it is only one of the many medications that will be affected by Trump’s tariffs on goods from China.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo posted that a “[g]ood way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items” that benefit those lower on the economic ladder.

While the damage from the tariffs both to the domestic and global economy, as well as the USA’s standing in the world, is not yet clear—all the chaos has been about the prospect of Trump’s high tariff rates, not their actual effect—Trump appears to be trying to downplay that story in favor of demonstrating his power.

As the tariff saga played out on Wednesday, Trump signed a memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies informing them that they no longer need to let the public know when they get rid of regulations that they determine are obviously unlawful. Kate Riga of Talking Points Memo notes that “unlawful” appears to mean anything Trump doesn’t like.

In a breathtaking violation of the Constitution, on Wednesday Trump also went after two individuals: Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor. Trump appointed Krebs to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where in 2020 Krebs assured the American people that the presidential election had not been stolen. Trump now claims Krebs thus censored the speech of Trump loyalists.

As a Department of Homeland Security staffer, Taylor wrote an op-ed under the pseudonym “Anonymous” saying that members of the first Trump administration were pushing back against the president’s policies. Taylor later wrote a book about his time in the White House that Trump claims was “designed to sow chaos and distrust in Government” and thus “could properly be characterized as treasonous and as possibly violating the Espionage Act.” A grand jury believed Trump himself violated the Espionage Act by retaining classified documents.

Trump stripped security clearances from Krebs and Taylor and also from their employers. He ordered government officials to investigate the two men and to recommend “appropriate remedial or preventative actions to be taken to protect America’s interests.” Employees at CISA told Kevin Collier of NBC News they were disheartened by the attack on Krebs and noted that staffing cuts at CISA had “already severely degraded our capacity to defend critical infrastructure.”

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Alan Smith

They like him because he has no shame and he’s a mean vicious person and that gives them permission to feel no shame and be mean and vicious people. He gave them permission to be themselves without shame..that’s it, that’s all there is to it.. people just don’t want to believe that a good third of the country are just nasty, racist, sexist, vicious and cruel and that they revel in their hatefulness. If they could put people in concentration camps and kill them, they would or they would at least allow others to do it while they nodded their heads saying, “those people must’ve done something to deserve it”…a full third…

Arlie Hochschild in her book “Loss, Shame & the Rise of the Right” says he turns their ‘shame to blame’ such as ‘it’s not your fault you’re unemployed, an immigrant stole your job’. She is so correct! Trump makes them feel good about themselves.

Amen, he said exactly what he was going to do. Not sure why his supporters are saying they didn't know. January 6th, 34 felony counts, classified documents saga all should have disqualified him from even being on the ballot, full stop.

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every recession since 1950

Re Carter, he inherited the Guns and Butter inflation beginning 1965 plus Ford’s and Fed Chair Burns inability to grapple with it. Fed Chair Paul Volcker induced a recession by rapidly raising the Fed Funds rate. Despite all this 9 million jobs were created during Carter.

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the new Auschwitz!

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thoughts by Tristan Snell

Tristan Snell

Trump's America -- government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

BREAKING: Women may no longer be able to vote if their birth certificates don't match married names.

You know in The Handmaid's Tale when Gilead suddenly eliminates women's bank accounts in one fell swoop?

That's what Republicans in Congress are doing to women's voting rights.

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.

It is blatantly unconstitutional.

BREAKING -- Republicans just cut funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

That's right.

$880 BILLION cut from ACA and Medicaid -- to pay for a billionaire tax cut -- raising the cost of healthcare for 119.3 million Americans.

Are you one of them?

The NY AG has jurisdiction over ANY insider trading that occurs on any NY-based stock exchange

Letitia James should open an IMMEDIATE investigation into whether Trump insiders and Republican members of Congress used advance notice of Trump's 90-day tariff pause to buy stocks

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3 generations of scum

grandpa ran a brothel............

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thoughts

George Krall

7d

The Americans who voted for Trump should also be included in the ownership of this ongoing disaster. They repeatedly were warned on what would happen if Trump was elected. The MAGA crowd failed to comprehend the warnings and now will suffer along with the rest of us for their poor choice.

Jay

7d

Yup, that’s why whoever decides to defect back to Dems who went Trump-Biden-Trump or Clinton-Biden-Trump or went Trump all three times including against Biden who joins us in the anti-Trump fight from 2025 onward should be the VERY last people listened to or heeded by the Left: they don’t get to tell us what to do, period, they GOT us in this mess 100% imo.

They can join if truly repentant, but they can also sit on the back seat of the bus and be quiet too, only fair.

Ann E Price

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You could actually talk about the 89 million cowards who didn’t bother to vote.

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Tristan Snell

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There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc.

But it won't be DOJ.

It won't be the SEC.

It won't be Congress.

You know who CAN investigate this?

NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.

In the meantime, if officials like AOC or Hakeem Jeffries or Elizabeth Warren want to see investigations occur — today, this instant — the place to look is New York, and the person to call is NY AG Letitia James.