The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
NEW: Texas Republicans have just escalated their redistricting power grab.
They've now issued arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block Donald Trump’s gerrymandered map.
This playbook is radical, even for MAGA. It’s authoritarianism in action.
bit.ly/4fq5cbR
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
"You’re battered by the Rot Economy ... so obsessed with growth that you are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. ...
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck." 🎯
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
How'd they respond to it?
I think it deftly addresses the fact that our most pressing crisis is not a liberal/conservative philosophical difference; it's that we're being collectively robbed.
Concise and helped bring our situation into focus. I've been thinking about this article a lot this week.
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
Sweet Jesus.
You need to read this and know what happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
![A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return
The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody
in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _
→ 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States:
Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El
Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there
at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included").
Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to
ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States.
Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight.
Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States.
B.
Expedited Discovery
Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery:
The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously
prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreigurxct4ymfhlb6ahhoqjmmhac2bojn5dmuttqzsastc6bua6ihku)
A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _ → 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States: Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included"). Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States. Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight. Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States. B. Expedited Discovery Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery: The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.
NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This kind of thing is so gross on so many levels
Do not look away.
VICTORY 🏆 Wisconsin has elected Judge Susan Crawford to the state supreme court 🚨
This win is a testament to the real power of the PEOPLE.
Voters said NO to attempts by Republicans + Elon Musk to buy an extreme right-wing majority on WI's highest court to act as a ‘support network’ for Trump.
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
Notice how the ICE thug immediately moves to wrestle the phone out of her hand before doing anything else. Her being visibly on the phone implies they timed the arrest to be able to pull data off the device and ensure the device remains in an AFU (After First Unlock) state.
cross-posting:
if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc...
this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it
Chuck Schumer has a book tour starting this week.
It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.
@schumer.senate.gov
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Bernie Sanders in a jacket. The caption on the picture says "I am once again asking for you" and then the follwoing letters have been added to that to make it a meme: "R PRE-ORDER"
TIL: A fellow Flasher (maybe we need a better name? 🤔) pointed out that pre-launch download registrations are crucial for me. Once the app goes live, all those pre-orders will count as downloads on launch day, potentially giving the app a boost in the charts. So...
apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...
