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  Cruelty is their point. Please chip in to help us DEFEAT MAGA and ELECT Democrats with disabilities and our allies who will protect our future There is no low that Donald Trump and his budget director, Russ Vought, won’t stoop to when it comes to afflicting federal workers and people with disabilities. After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, federal worker Helen Shaw, a single mother of two, was told her agency’s disability plan was getting axed before her surgery. Vought had just moved to slash disability, dental, and life insurance plans for federal employees. Denying disability insurance to a mother facing a brain tumor is a level of senseless cruelty that we cannot ignore. From slashing healthcare and food assistance to systematically "traumatizing" the federal workforce by eliminating benefits and job security, Vought and Trump are working to dismantle the safety nets that millions of Americans with disabilities rely on for survival. At Able Dems, we are fighting bac...

  WHY ARE WE DETAINING 70,000 PEOPLE WHO COULD BE WORKING, SUPPORTING  THEIR FAMILIES, CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR COMMUNITIES?  ICE GESTAPO HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE  NO CRIMINAL RECORDS!  MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE OPPOSED NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A  PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP AND ICE GESTAPO HAVE INTERUPTED AND PREVENTED  CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES!  HOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?  TELL CONGRESS:  ICE plans to use $38 billion to build mega warehouse prisons. Trump's ICE already detains over 70,000 people — more than ever before — in detention centers nationwide like Alligator Alcatraz, which lawmakers have called an internment camp.  Sign the petition: Block ICE’s warehouse prison plan and shut down inhumane detention centers! ADD YOUR NAME Trump’s violent ICE forces currently imprison over 70,000 people — a record number. 1  ICE prisons like Alligator Alcatraz and Camp East Montana run on abuse, inhumane conditions, and cr...

  Follow and Share on Social Media Epstein Class Billionaires Rig The System: Follow the money behind Lutnick tariff profiteering Lutnick was one of Trump’s most significant financial backers in the 2024 election cycle. He was the 31st biggest donor to outside spending groups in the entire 2024 election cycle, contributing over $14 million exclusively to conservative groups. —  Open Secrets   Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle   Lutnick  are building a crypto business with Trump’s sons  Donald Jr. and Eric   Trump . The same Trump sons who are part of the administration their father runs. The same administration where Howard Lutnick controls sanctions and export policy. —  Narativ  It’s corrupt as hell. Any way you look at this it’s corrupt as hell. It typifies the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose rules that the billionaire class and their sub-billionaire toadies live by. —  TPM Did the Lutnick sons bet against their father’s tariffs? Explore how...

  Breaking news: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just announced plans to dramatically increase logging on up to 2.5 million acres of public lands in Oregon, including some of the last remaining old-growth forests in the state. 1 This plan would be devastating for endangered species including coho salmon, spotted owls and marbled murrelets. Environment America is sounding the alarm and mobilizing grassroots action to protect Oregon's mature and old-growth forests. Will you make a donation to help us defend Oregon's old-growth and mature forests? America's old-growth forests provide essential habitat for thousands of wildlife species, clean drinking water sources for tens of millions of Americans and endless opportunities for recreation. 2 We visit our public forests every year to hike, fish and reconnect with nature. But the BLM's western Oregon forest plan could eliminate old-growth and wildlife protections in order to facilitate "maximum" logging capacity...

  Dark money groups are spending MILLIONS of dollars to handpick your representatives in Congress. We defeated them in New Jersey when Analilia Mejia — who doesn’t take a cent of corporate PAC money — won the primary in New Jersey’s 11th District earlier this month, but now the dark money groups are back. Now look at what’s happening in these House races in Illinois. The primary election is on March 17 — and voters are getting bombarded with political ads from groups like “FairShake”, “Elect Chicago Women”, and “Affordable Chicago Now”. The ads are in support of the opponents of Robert Peters in Illinois' 2nd district, Junaid Ahmed in Illinois’ 8th district, and Daniel Biss in Illinois’ 9th district. But who’s funding these ads? AIPAC, crypto billionaires, and the AI industry. Organizations looking to handpick representatives who will pay to play. And they are hiding their motives from voters. Their ads don’t even mention the special interests they really represent. These groups ar...

Donald Trump Scores Two Holes-in-None With The Contrarian Caddying--Publisher's Roundup 55 The Contrarian and Norman Eisen Feb 21 In good news for Contrarians and all Americans, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on a variety of nations grossly  exceed his constitutional power . Though Trump immediately threatened to reimpose tariffs in some other way and accused the justices of being “ under foreign influence , ” this is the latest of hundreds of decisions by courts at every level against him. For all our vehement disagreements with the Roberts Court’s, this also represents a triple bogey at SCOTUS with respect to Trump’s abuse of emergency powers. First, the court denied him authorization to use the Alien Enemies Act to target migrants based on bogus claims of alien invasion. Then, the court shut down his abuse of the National Guard because there was no emergency regular forces could not deal with. And now his attempt to deploy tari...