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Patty Hartwell retweeted
I hope the Good and Pretti families are paying attention to this.
And their lawyers, too.
Because I’m not sure there’s not some civil exposure here for Miller.
The Daily Mail says that @StephenM ordered DHS to cause confrontations with protestors in advance of the Alex Pretti murder.
Patty Hartwell retweeted
In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies:
a) Ever;
b) Just before launching a war.
FT has the scoop: ft.com/content/744ea8dc-6d93…
In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Hold every one of these ICE liars in criminal contempt and throw them in jail. Actually, throw them into one of the private prison concentration camps.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court.
Patty Hartwell retweeted
A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Henrietta Foster, who has died far too young, was a brilliant colleague at @BBCNewsnight with a great knowledge of the arts & more. “H” & I had great fun on films with Gerard Depardieu, Jake & Dinos Chapman and Joan Didion. Henrietta was passionate and painstaking in her work..
Patty Hartwell retweeted
NEW: We have seen DOJ secure a search warrant to seize ballots in Georgia and a subpoena to seize ballots in Arizona. Now a sheriff is seizing ballots in California.
This is a crisis unfolding in real time.
democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Undoubtedly one of the best investigative reporters in America.
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
propublica.org/article/trump…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
We are paying a French company $1 billion *NOT* to build wind farms that could have supplied the East Coast, improved energy independence
All because Donald Trump really hates wind power
Via @nytimes (which was first to report) nytimes.com/2026/03/23/clima…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Quiet. Part. Loud.
NEW: Former Trump official Steve Bannon suggested the president deployed ICE officers to major U.S. airports as a “test run” for using them in upcoming elections.
According to the administration, they will not assist TSA with passenger screenings but instead guard exit lanes or check IDs. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Call it what it is. A cover-up.
NEW: The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to block demands for records and testimony about the DOGE project led last year by billionaire Elon Musk
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Petition: assets.bwbx.io/documents/use…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
I hope no one needs an MRI this year.
The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half.
No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).
Patty Hartwell retweeted
An absolutely incredible statistic; Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee has actually lost the U.S. government $19.5 million in application fees.
Patty Hartwell retweeted
As this war deepens, I suggest you read what I wrote about Donald Trump's plan to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. democracydocket.com/opinion/…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Real Vietnam vibes here. We're dropping lots of bombs, killing lots of people! So we're winning!
Patty Hartwell retweeted
I worked at Pentagon, State and White House on Middle East and every assessment about possible conflict with Iran started with the real possibility of closing Strait of Hormuz. I guarantee Trump leaders were warned. They just thought they were better than the experts.
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."
cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
Yup. That’s why US service members will die.
teapawt.net/marceelias/status/2028…
Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. democracydocket.com/opinion/…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
"Democrats should keep it simple: It’s Trump’s war. It’s Trump’s mass-deportation regime. These are Trump’s tariffs. Republicans have supported and enabled them all.
End the war. End mass deportation. End the tariffs. End Republican control of Congress."
open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
Patty Hartwell retweeted
The administration made no plans to evacuate Americans at risk when the Iran war began.
For friends of Trump, they had access to a private jet.
Oil companies got a Navy escort.
Regular Americans just got screwed.
Patty Hartwell retweeted
House votes 357-65 to block release of congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
