Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days

LocalH

when will the dems learn that the dnc is just republican lite we need completely new thought to unseat "both" sides of the US government and return it to washington's ideal of "political parties fucking suck" (paraphrased)

metalcrow

Is there a link to see who voted for this?

techteach00

Massie was against it. Need a Massie/Bernie ticket

tmaly

Did I miss something, or was Section 702 the same thing used on Trump during his first term?

jauntywundrkind

The Bluesky thread on the midnight session where Johnson tried to ram through a 5 year approval with significant revisions no one had seen is gobsmacking. Most transparent, only if you are looking for most transparently corrupt and evil administration ever. This is such a vile thing to do to a democracy. https://bsky.app/profile/lizagoitein.bsky.social/post/3mjpar... Left publication also has a scoop on the negotiations with Freedom caucus too that proceeded this; rather interesting: https://prospect.org/2026/04/17/mike-johnson-fisa-fiasco-sec... America's greatest digital senator (by country miles) has also ongoingly been posting up a storm about how the current usage of FISA has more Bush era secret interpretations they won't tell us, that is authorizing them to spy broadly on Americans. One of many examples: https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3mjkquz34uc2a