As the bill moves to the Senate, Democrats have a responsibility to draw a line. Putting actual guardrails on ICE is the bare minimum here. Allowing Trump’s brutal secret police force to operate with essentially a blank check is unacceptable.

Upset about #ice ? Call your senators today and tell them to defund or limit funding. This is a rare moment when Democrats also have power and leverage indivisible.org/campaigns/ho...

DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Did you know: Republicans approved $30 BILLION dollars for ICE’s deportation and enforcement operations in the Big Bullshit Bill? We have to get rid of Kristi Noem and cut ICE funding.

Upset about #ice? Take action now by calling your senator about their funding beyond Jan. 30th indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Make sure you are vote ready for the upcoming election, and help others be ready, too. Register or update your registration @ olvr.ohiosos.gov by October 6.

Jimmy Kimmel: “That is not a birthday note. That is a signed confession. "That letter is so creepy it should have its own documentary series on Netflix.”

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

"If you really want to restore faith in the judiciary, stop lifting injunctions against this administration without explanation."

"Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate." - @ranaforoohar.bsky.social

Priorities.

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.

A quick bit of journalism reveals that at least three members of Trump's cabinet claimed more than one property as their primary residence, and I'm starting to wonder whether Trump's attacks on Lisa Cook reflect a sincere concern about mortgage fraud. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.propublica.org/article/trum... @nytimes.com @msnbc.com @washingtonpost.com ring ring hello? You have reported on Cook report on this.

Trump’s America. An utter disgrace.

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

Bingo.

A man who worked for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and his family could be eligible for asylum in Canada — but ICE won’t release them.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

If journalists were doing their jobs, they would call the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, from three deep-red states what it is: an invasion and occupation force. https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/3-states-move-to-send-hundreds-of-national-guard-members-to-washington/

In other words: They lied.

Bombshell New Report Casts More Doubt on Trump's Epstein Claims - The New Republic

Wonder why your energy bill has been getting so much more expensive? Blame Donald Trump and Republicans. They chose to hike your rates so billionaires could get a tax break. grist.org/energy/why-y...

NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX

Unconscionable

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

We had heard this happened, and now there’s proof.

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

Oh I have been waiting on this one.

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” Read this (should be a gift link though that seems to break alot lately) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

"We can come up with 45 billion for an archipelago of immigrant prisons." And we still have to cut every penny of aid for starving kids? @timmiller.bsky.social talks possible UNICEF cuts:

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!

🚨 NEW via WIRED: Newly uncovered metadata reveals nearly 3 minutes were cut from the so-called “full raw” Epstein prison video released by the DOJ and FBI. When WIRED asked for answers, the DOJ said “refer you to the FBI.” The FBI declined to comment. Link: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

NYT: “.. It is not enough anymore to dislike a journalistic inquiry or disagree with an opposing philosophy. Anyone viewed as critical of the president or insufficiently deferential is wicked.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

South Dakota announced a $63 million surplus this year. Earlier this year, the governor's office opposed a free school lunch bill because "we can't afford it." The bill would've cost less than a dollar per resident of the state at $616,000.

Next up: sue this administration! A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen. • Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms • Told them he was a citizen • No charges. No phone call. No lawyer. • No care after chemical exposure

Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is dictatorship.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.