Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026here's is what Rubio looked like on the night he claims he was working hard with the president and definitely not shirking his secretary of state duties (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Getty) 2313061963
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Meiselas: How would you vote on a $200 billion supplemental for this war in Iran? Cortez Masto: I would vote against it. That $200 billion in taxpayer money could go toward helping taxpayers. With that money, we could fund ACA tax credits for another seven years... 13958161537
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/03/2026America has paid little attention to the effective use of small drones as deadly tools in the Ukraine war—but a swarm of them over an American military installation with nuclear weapons in Barksdale, Louisiana, ought to change that, Brynn Tannehill argues:bit.lyAmerica Needs to Get Serious About DronesThe new age of war is already here, swarming over Barksdale Air Force Base. 47118
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026In MEMPHIS — Trump says he told Republicans not to make any deal for TSA funding until he gets his voter suppression bill passed… then in the next breath says Dems are to blame for long airport lines 🤔 1842120918
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026"Are ICE agents trained for this? ICE agents increasingly lack the necessary training **to be ICE agents,** and they definitely aren’t trained to work as TSA officials..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.now5 unavoidable questions about Trump’s “plan” to deploy ICE agents to airportsMy advice for air travelers: Keep showing up extra early at the airport, because ICE agents’ presence probably won’t make a positive difference. 3262778889
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialUSA TODAY @usatoday.com · 24/03/2026President Trump's push for ICE officers to remove masks at airports reignites debate over if and when the federal agents should wear them.bit.lyICE officers are skipping masks at airports, reigniting debatePresident Trump's push for ICE officers to remove masks at airports reignites debate over if and when the federal agents should wear them. 72112
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 04/03/2026GOP Rep Massie: "Some told us this war was about nuclear weapons. But 6 months ago, we were assured our last strike on Iran decimated their nuclear program...I think the most candid answer came from the secretary of state, who told the press that Israel forced our hand and dragged us into this war 10435162
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them. 1046213786356
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it. 630177965938
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialTim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...tucson.comFlorence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official saysAn ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection. 16329001751
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This btw is one of the reasons it’s time to retire all this edgelord nonsense about “warfighters” and get back to what American servicemen are supposed to be - *soldiers* (and sailors and marines etc) 448383
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Damn, Barbara Starr 🔥 842580631
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Sen. Van Hollen: Donald Trump wants US oil companies to be able to grab Venezuelan oil. At the end of the day, that's what this is all about. He has put our troops at risk so that more American oil companies can make profits in Venezuela and his billionaire buddies on Wall Street can benefit 1019849
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/01/2026💯 28383691892
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela 1148174844767
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/12/2025More of this nationwide please! 289144443564
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold. 2262895
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 19/08/2025Vladimir Putin wants to force Ukraine to abandon its strategically critical “fortress belt”. For many Ukrainians, giving up this area without a fight would be tantamount to capitulation econ.stPutin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress beltHe wants Trump to secure for him what Russia’s army cannot 108034
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025TONIGHT: @pkrugman.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.paulkrugman.substack.comThe Paranoid Style in American EconomicsRemember, every accusation is a confession 1223555
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialPolitics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Supporting Trumps immigration policy is just how racists ask for participation trophies. 0246
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Vance ‘spewing lies and utter nonsense,’ says LA Mayor www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor... 2723057
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialPolitico @politico.com · 20/06/2025Top Senate Democrats are urging Republicans to back away from changes to social safety net programs as the GOP prepares to bring Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to the floor next week.politico.comSenate Dems urge Thune to abandon social safety net changesThe overture won’t work but it previews the party’s message against Trump’s megabill. 2214642
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialPatti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/06/2025NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (🧵) DAY 2 JUNE 2025 These Tumultuous Times Get as outraged as I am Call your Congressional Representative &Senators 202 224-3121 This must STOP ICE agents dragging off women, children, and families who are not criminals ICE No ID Masked No Warrant GESTAPO! (🧵⬇️) 55644405
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialThe Independent @the-independent.com · 02/06/2025EXCLUSIVE | DOGE took over the US Institute of Peace. Now, the inside looks like a zombie movie, security chief revealsindependent.co.uk‘Offensive’: Peace Institute security chief on vermin infestation caused by DOGEExclusive: Rodents swarmed the building after DOGE operatives failed to clear out the food left behind by booted staffers, institute security chief Colin O’Brien told The Independent 38564
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Imagine if Joe Biden had said ‘where do these three judges come from?’ and one of them had been appointed by… him. 1732991477
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialBluegirl1713.Bsky.social @bluegirl1713.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Love your show every day. But why don’t you all just talk about what musk really did?? He stole all of the countries data. All of our data for his AI computer. That’s what he did. Now he went on his merry way with trumps blessing on lying and stealing. 021
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/05/2025500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant. 1824255746971
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The Trump administration has settled on One Weird Trick to avoid judicial review: Kill nationwide injunctions, refuse to respect lower court rulings, and keep cases away from the Supreme Court indefinitely. Oddly, it was Kagan and BARRETT who hammered this yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol... 271200370
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The 7-justice majority emphasizes that they are not deciding if Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is legal. But they do make clear that HOW the Trump admin was trying to USE the law WAS illegal - a very clear violation of due process. They remand to the 5th Circuit to develop a new test. 1138584
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The Supreme Court recites the facts about what happened in detail, making clear that the government was about to deport hundreds of people to El Salvador without ANY real opportunity to file habeas corpus lawsuits in challenge, a direct violation of their previous order - and mentions Abrego Garcia. 140476
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The Supreme Court also rebukes Judge Hendrix in the Western District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit for refusing to act on the ACLU's emergency request, emphasizing that the facts on the ground showed that planes were set to take off -- thus making Judge Hendrix' failure to act an appealable order. 3572114
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The Supreme Court makes clear AGAIN that the Trump administration cannot throw people onto plane with little to no notice. Those subject to the Alien Enemies Act MUST be given given time to contact a lawyer, file a habeas lawsuit, and pursue the case. Anything less is illegal. 10665141
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster." 612855840
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 24072701921
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025Because if she disappears, how will anyone know where she is? This is real. This is happening. And there is no acceptable scenario where “law enforcement” hides behind masks, unidentified. If you’re following the law, what are you hiding? And don’t forget—there’s fake ICE out there too. -end- 994787873
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2025What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1. 944136784112
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Yum! Brands: "Supporting our commitment to culture, opportunity and belonging are our Communities of Belonging (CoBs), which further help drive our unrivaled culture and talent. Our CoBs are inclusive, employee-led groups that bring together people from ALL walks of life to embrace and share..." 211112
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Yum! Board: We're "committed to fostering a culture of community and belonging, where all employees can be their best, authentic selves, which includes authentic expression of their religious beliefs. To that end, we aim to reflect the customers and communities we serve across our global business" 116117
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15/05/2025💥 BREAKING: Yum! Brands shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. The proposal, presented by Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ, said failure to create faith-based employee resources groups (ERGs) poses risk of "discrimination." YUM! is parent co of KFC, Pizza Hut & Taco Bell 983248666
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025RFK says we shouldn’t take medical advice from him? Thanks, Captain Obvious, but also why are you the Secretary of HEALTH and Human Services if we can’t trust you with medical advice? 23975931604
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialDaily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2025In Peter Navarro's defense, he never specified that America would be party to any of the deals. 472566353
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialPolitico @politico.com · 06/05/2025Elon Musk’s AI company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of Memphis that already leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. xAI has become one of the county’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides.politico.com'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in MemphisThe company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. 45567280
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 06/05/2025BREAKING: A federal judge in New York becomes the SECOND to find Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation unlawful — there's no “war,” “invasion” or “predatory incursion." Here's how it begins. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/unlawful-h... 513957932
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 05/05/2025After the L.A. fires, federal and state disaster agencies refused to perform comprehensive soil testing to ensure properties in burn zones are free of fire-related contamination. Testing conducted by The Times reveals elevated levels of arsenic, lead and mercury in postfire soil.latimes.comWhen FEMA failed to test soil for toxic substances after the L.A. fires, The Times had it done. The results were alarmingThe federal government decided not to test the soil of L.A.'s burn areas for hazardous substances. A Times investigation found high levels of lead and other heavy metals. 10359147
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Why? There is no emergency. Trump clams border crossings are down. This is an assault on America. 71722172
Reposted by @vchaf.bsky.socialHonor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The Supreme Court needs to start holding the Trump officials who follow illegal orders accountable. PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. If you haven't written to your representatives... www.republicanleader.senate.gov/senate-resou... Do that, and also write to the leaders of the majority.republicanleader.senate.govRepublican Senators | Republican LeaderThe official website of the United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senator from South Dakota 1162
![We understood the Government to assert the right to remove the detainees as soon as midnight central time on
April 19. The Government addressed the detainees’ allegations on April 18 only at an evening hearing before the District Court for the District of Columbia, where the detainees
had separately sought relief. The Government guaranteed
that no putative class members would be removed that day.
Tr. of Proceedings in J. G. G. v. Trump, No. 25−cv−766,
ECF Doc. 93, p. 9. But it further represented that, in its
view, removal of putative class members as soon as the next
day “would be consistent with” its due process obligations,
and it “reserve[d] the right” to take such action. Id., at 26;
see id., at 16 (explanation by the court that “tomorrow . . .
starts at 12:01 a.m.”). Evidence now in the record (although
not all before us on April 18) suggests that the Government
had in fact taken steps on the afternoon of April 18 toward
removing detainees under the AEA—including transporting them from their detention facility to an airport and later
returning them to the facility. See Supp. App. to Reply
1a−5a. Had the detainees been removed from the United
States to the custody of a foreign sovereign on April 19, the
Government may have argued, as it has previously argued,
that no U. S. court had jurisdiction to order relief. See Application To Vacate Injunction in Noem v. Abrego Garcia,
No. 24A949 (Apr. 7, 2025), pp. 11−20.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiheenywehgdn44vephcsrlhamh2jzjuzuc7axbuq6axiz37kzdrui)
![This nation was founded on the “self-evident” truths “that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, [and] that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Declaration of Independence, at ¶ 2 (1776). Our
Constitution embodies these truths, in a limited government of enumerated powers, in its system
of checks and balances separating the executive, legislative and judicial branches, and in its
guarantee that neither citizen nor alien be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreiejj46vhd66j4hldcps2gkgnfxuuvd46c2hiyjnvydya3t2ss4lt4)
