FOX News ACTUALLY AIRED This VILE ATTACK on Pete Buttigieg!

Pete Buttigieg has Fox News triggered. YouTube

Fighting Trump's Attack On Our Constitutional Order - An Interview With Minnesota AG Keith Ellison

Yesterday I was joined live on Substack by the great Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. This interview continues our new series highlighting the important work of the 23 Democratic Attorneys General who are fighting and winning against Trump. We cover the new suit filed this week by 13 states, including Minnesota, challenging the Constitutionality of Trump's illegal tariffs. The AG reminds us that we must build on the progress we've made in shifting public opinion and enlarging this circle of defiance.

new suit filed this week by 13 states, including Minnesota, challenging the legality and Constitutionality of Trump’s terrible tariffs. And while Attorney General Ellison is proud of the success the AGs have had, he reminds us that “we don’t believe this fight will be won in a court of law, it will be won in a court of public opinion” and urges us to build on the very real progress we’ve made in “enlarging the circle of defiance” in recent weeks and keep working as hard as we can.

To hear from our next Attorney General and other elected officials leading our battle, subscribe and join us at https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/. Thank you all. — Simon
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Trump's Constant Failures As President Are A Danger To America

Donald Trump is the worst president in history by a long shot, but it's the American people who will pay the price for his ineptitude. I look at the many mistakes made by Trump and his administration to show the dangers they pose to Americans:
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Four Undaunted Heroes

Not everyone is backed by the power of collective action, however. Four individuals this week, acting without institutional or political support, firmly defied authoritarian power plays—and it is their courage that we want to underscore at the end of this inspired week.

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Hardball with Chris + Anne Applebaum

A recording from Anne Applebaum and Chris Matthews's live video.
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Change The Game

We need to be fighting for a Democratic Party people actually want to be a part of.
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Nathan Sage launches run for Senate!
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Give now to help Nathan Sage defeat Joni Ernst and take back the Senate for Democrats!
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Donald Trump: MAGA's Patient Zero | The Enemies List

Don't let them decouple Donald Trump from the economy we're about to have. In this episode, Rick goes back to #1 on the Enemies List: Donald Trump. He's giving you everything we need to defeat him...but it's up to us - and Democrats - to use it. Plus: Rick answers some of your hard-hitting questions on Trump's destruction of our democracy.
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The Trump Administration Is Disappearing People Like the Soviet Union

The courts can only do so much to protect us. Will more people be doomed to the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
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Judge Wilkenson’s Order in the case of Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia

Introduction by TIME staff, April 18, 2025:

A federal appeals court issued a unanimous decision on Thursday rejecting an appeal by the Trump Administration after a district court judge ordered sworn testimony from officials over their refusal to comply with her previous Supreme Court-affirmed order for the Administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an El Salvadoran national who was living in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife and U.S. citizen children and whom the Administration previously admitted to mistakenly deporting to a notorious El Salvadoran prison under the unproven allegation of gang ties.

The blistering Fourth Circuit opinion was penned by Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, an 80-year-old conservative jurist nominated to the court in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan and who was on President George W. Bush’s shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees. In it, Wilkinson described the Trump Administration’s defiance as “shocking” and implored the Administration to respect the rule of law, warning that it is “all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis.”
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David Frum on Trump's disastrous tariff policy and Tara Setmayer on FSU mass shooting

Plus Jim and Tara weigh in on why some men are complaining so much.
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How are we all this dumb?: A Conversation with David Pakman

America appears to be in free fall and 30% of the country seems on board for a million decisions they didn’t vote for and will only hurt them? How is that possible? David Pakman joins us to talk about his new book, instant New York Times bestseller, The Echo Machine: How Right Wing Extremism Created a Post Truth America, which addresses how the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics has done such destruction to our nation and what can be.
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Lawrence on Trump attacking the rule of law: We are all Harvard. We are all Abrego Garcia.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how two stories, Donald Trump’s refusal to facilitate the return of a mistakenly deported Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador and Harvard rejecting Trump’s attempt to control the university, impact “all of us.”
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Emergency Announcement

Everything you knew abour America has changed.
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Seth Moulton at Rockport Democratic Town Committee

Congressman Seth Moulton joined the Rockport Democratic Town Committee meeting via Zoom on 12 April 2025.
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Every Amerixan Should Reject This

If ANYONE can be picked off the street and sent away without due process, EVERYONE can be picked off the street and sent away without due process… YouTube

Stopping The GOP From Stealing A NC Supreme Court Seat — My Conversation With Justice Allison Riggs

Friends, excited to share my interview with North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. Justice Riggs won her election in November, but her opponent has been working to get 65,000 votes tossed retroactively and have himself declared the winner. It is an ugly effort by the Rs, but one that if successful could become something that spreads across the country as a mechanism for the illiberal GOP to overturn elections they do not win. It’s why this fight is so important.
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For more timely interviews like this, please subcribe and join us at https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/. Keep working all. — Simon

Cory Booker's HISTORIC Filibuster Sets Example for Democrats

The Elephant in the Room this week is a welcome one -- it's courage. Rick reflects on the positive events of this week, highlighting Cory Booker's strength, courage, and conviction as he rewrote history by beating Strom Thurmond's record while sharing stories about what America has become under the current Trump administration. In the absence of fear, courage would not exist. Cory beating out a racist's former filibuster record is risky, but it's the kind of courage Americans need right now. To shake things up and to find the courage to make "good trouble." John Lewis would be so proud.
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Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life

Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner and chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, talks with Rachel Maddow about the devastating effects of Donald Trump's cuts to HHS, not only in dismantling important services, but compromising U.S. medical and scientific leadership to a degree that may not be recoverable for decades. YouTube