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David Atkins

@davidoatkins

Contributor @monthly. Bylines @theprospect & elsewhere. Elected DNC Member from CA. Progressive reformist. Dad of two. I run a qualitative research firm.

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This cruel and insane policy will immediately lead to massive increases in under-the-table cash payments, black markets, illegal loan sharks preying on immigrants, and crime of all kinds. It will *also* increase the deficit fwiw. nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/…

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If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

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You ran on a mass deportation program that every expert told you was both literally impossible, and unconstitutional. The fact that you barely won an election mostly on upset over grocery prices doesn't mean you get to flagrantly ignore the law and constitution now.

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Michael S. Schmidt It’s because Rachel Maddow MSNBC has found that there are not many govt attorneys left to represent the govt in court; so many have quit their jobs over these outlandish requirements that they basically risk getting themselves disbarred for Trump. So now Trump is trying to shore up his

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You could have taken the immigration deal that Trump scuttled. More importantly, just because you win an election promising to do illegal things, doesn't mean you get to *do* illegal things whether you win or not. None of you think Bernie Sanders or AOC should get that luxury.

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Many truckers I've spoken with don't realize how quickly container volumes have collapsed. Starting in May, port freight out of California will be almost eliminated. Its going to be a bloodbath in dray, followed by intermodal, and then a collapse in I-20 & I-40 trucking.

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It's also a reminder that a United States senator matters in the world, which should shame those other senators who flinch from doing their jobs.

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I think the argument that Ds shouldn’t talk about immigration because Trump/Rs currently poll better on it is off base. I get the logic of wanting to focus on more fertile ground (inflation/tariffs) but the midterms are 18+ months away. You can do both & we can win the argument

I think the argument that Ds shouldn’t talk about immigration because Trump/Rs currently poll better on it is off base.

I get the logic of wanting to focus on more fertile ground (inflation/tariffs) but the midterms are 18+ months away.

You can do both & we can win the argument
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The threat of prosecution must hang over those who break the law in the second Trump administration. From David Atkins: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/23/dem…

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"The message has to be clear, consistent, and credible: if you break democracy, you don’t get a quiet retirement. You get consequences."

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Politics isn't how you handle someone like Trump, or you won't have a country left to defend. Rapid prosecution and jail is. We let Nixon go, we let the Iran Contra guys go, we let the Iraq War liars go, and then we let Trump go. It cannot happen again. Elections don't fix this.

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The basic story is that these guys won a slight majority on lying promises to lower grocery prices and deport violent criminals, then acted like they had an overwhelming mandate to raise prices and send hairdressers, toddlers and PhD students to foreign gulags.

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If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

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Supporting the GENIUS Act, a crypto industry-backed bill that ostensibly regulates “stablecoins,” is a political and economic mistake, writes David Atkins: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/20/why…