"The rule of law is not self-executing." This, from Smith's testimony, is the central reason this hearing and his efforts are so important. It's a reminder that the law is not being executed faithfully or consistently at the moment.

Jack Smith: "I love my country & believe deeply in the core principles on which it was founded. For nearly 3 decades I've served as a career prosecutor in both Republican & Democrats administrations... I have no partisan loyalties. My career has been devoted to upholding the rule of law"

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The arguments I have received from the pro-ICE world are “it all happened so fast” but looking down your barrel through an open window at the side of a person’s head and pulling the trigger is murder.

I did this quick draw yesterday and I’m going to start using whenever someone brings the topic. Considering doing a sticker out of it too.

‼️ Friendly (or not) reminder that if you have an AI generated avatar/banner i'm going to banner you.‼️ Also, if you're not sure if an image is AI or not... Please ask an artist friend; I'm sure they have a better trained eye to be able to tell whether it is or not. For everything else, as always...

Well, that’s just fucking great.

AI is dying. Repost to make it die faster.

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Seems like the black panthers were right

“I don’t think the president’s personal militia recruited from white supremacist gangs can be reformed” shouldn’t be a controversial statement, or taken as anything but an obvious statement of fact, and yet here we are.

A lot of people have asked me what “dead dove” means and I wanted to share. For my novel, I noted that it’s a dead dove because it explores several dark themes (e.g. noncon, violence, age gap, etc.) While my stories do not contain extreme levels of such content, I wanted to give a warning anyway.

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

Multi-year funding is a dirty trick by #RussellVought. This way the #Trump administration can say they're spending what Congress appropriated for research, BUT they'll only fund 1/5 the number of grants. Call your Senators/Reps now. Science hangs in the balance. H/T @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

safe in your arms. #jayvik #arcane

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US. No previous US President has threatened to annexe Greenland or any other territory in Europe; or threatened to sanction European allies. Europe must not capitulate. Unite and respond.

Neighbors, if you haven't figured it out yet, this 👇 is true. I witnessed this in Chicago this summer. ICE is really just an armed group of red state maga idealogues who have always hated what they call "Liberal America", and they're going around "punishing liberals" who are American citizens. 👎🖕

Steve, the great _shenanigator_...

A family from South Carolina brought their measles infections to airports, ferries and various locations in Washington state. The health department says that they didn’t know they had measles. But this is why unvaccinated people are a danger to communities, not just themselves.

“Papers, please.”

it's that and the classic right wing thing of wanting to present the default status quo as somehow being countercultural and edgy, struggling against liberal oppression bsky.app/profile/tony...

We can’t go too long without this guy popping up, slinging his unique brand of uninformed disinformation. 🧠🪱🙄 This time he poked at the Germans, who rightly told him he’s full of it and to worry about the health problems of his own country. If only.

The fact that this hasn’t been ratio’d into oblivion says a lot about how much fucking work we still have to do.

big dresses that gather leaves and mud as i walk

Our greatest task — for scientists, scientific societies, institutions, media, all citizens— is to say bad things are bad. And then judge and impose consequences, social, career or otherwise, on those who do or excuse bad things, from Jay Bhattacharya to Elon Musk to David French.

A little scoopy tidbit in STAT's DC Diagnosis newsletter today: Vinay Prasad wants access to FDA employees' calendars, though his own is largely private. He has also instructed employees not to tell their supervisors when he reaches out to schedule meetings.

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

Don’t tell him about the Mayflower.

Curiously, it does not cite the "Journal" of the "Academy of Public Health," which Kulldorff briefly led (along w several Trump HHS appointees). But the ecosystem of thinktank blogs masquerading as scientific sources is working as intended, laundering admin positions www.science.org/content/arti...

Rep Eric Swalwell told me exactly this in an interview on Friday, adding defunding ICE, an end to immunity and more support for state prosecutions of criminal agents: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Maybe right-wingers should be reading some of those humanities scholars instead of trying to purge them from universities.

a lot of people think the cops should be allowed to shoot you dead if you disrespect them. No word on what you should be allowed to do when the cops disrespect you.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

A convoy of 5 ICE vehicles conducted a traffic stop on my block this morning after following an African man 5 miles to a completely different part of the city. Within 2mins they were surrounded by 60+ neighbors blowing whistles & left. This is racist terrorism by our own govt. youtu.be/J35xkk0ip00

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

I’ve said it before: The left won’t just win by ousting every establishment Democrat. There will be converts—those centrists that en up following the prevailing political winds. That’s how the left will deliver on its agenda.

while #covid and #LongCovid is causing so many new cases of #POTS that we now have to delineate between pre-Covid-19 POTS and long covid POTS.

We urge David Lammy to immediately authorise a senior official to meet with the legal representatives of Heba Muraisi & Kamran Ahmed - both on prolonged hunger strike & at extreme risk of death. Their representatives have repeatedly requested this meeting & it is now critical to prevent a tragedy.

Fake AI-generated videos shared by Musk about Venezuela received millions of views. Elon Musk re-posted an AI-generated footage of Venezuelans crying on their knees, thanking Trump and the US for freeing them from Nicolas Maduro. And Musk opposes laws that penalise fake and abusive videos.

If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

I have decided to make a vampire themed ita bag, including some IWTV/TVL merch as well as WWDITS, that I already have 🩸🫀🖤 I'm so excited!!

I’m bringing this back. 🪶

Some of you are very naive in thinking that local and state governments have any kind of actual control over their police forces.