millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump to bring immigration down from ten times the real number to a measly five or six times the real number

Folks, every single video you've seen on here (or anywhere online) of local law enforcement arresting ICE is fake. They're all AI-generated. They're not real. I know they may look real to you, but they're not. Please, for the love of all that's good, stop sharing these videos.

Whatever Kamala Harris is announcing tomorrow, I support it. She has earned the right to do whatever the hell she wants to do as far as I’m concerned. If it’s a podcast, I support it. If it’s running again, I support it. If it’s buying Warner Brothers, I support it. I’m down for any and all of it.

The hate for Harris on the left is a symptom of how naive a lot of voters are and how fractious and fractured the political left is. A woman of color who was a DA in SF, AG and Senator of the 4th largest economy in the world and VPOTUS who lost a POTUS race by 1.6% after a 100 day campaign. JFC.

Bhattacharya testified that he's taking this issue seriously, but I just spoke with a researcher who had completed all the screening and was disinvited from NIAID's council *today*. NIAID's council is set to run out of voting members in October. No grants can be funded without Council.

If you think this list of demands equals capitulation I'm left with no choice but to believe you would rather Chuck Schumer just stand on the Senate floor screaming "ABOLISH ICE! ABOLISH ICE! ABOLISH ICE!" until magically Trump isn't President anymore.

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

much depends on legislative language but if you want to put some sand in the gears of ICE this is what it would look like

...........do people not understand that language in appropriations bills is literal federal law

"Oh abloobloo they just won't follow it" Yes correct now we have them on a black and white not at all arguable violation of federal law, tell them to preserve their records

The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.

This is the same genre of complaint as "why aren't Kirk and Spock fucking in Strange New Worlds?" guys back before everyone was afraid of being called gay men actually felt more free to share their emotions with one another.

I've a longstanding beef with certain members of the fandom who accuse Strange New Worlds of "making" Kirk and Spock heterosexual who don't seem to realize that TOS only makes us think they're an item because heterosexual men no longer talk to one another like that.

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

i don't really give a fuck about the motivations (i recognize that kiwifarms' policy is wholly for self-preservation legal reasons), but the reasoning behind the policy doesn't matter, saying "we should doxx this person so they fear for their life" is a permaban offense on kiwifarms and not on here

nobody has ever been more cucked than pro-Trump China hawks.

🗣️We’re not gonna let anyone forget! And we stand side by side with the Jewish community! 🧵

It's not a coincidence that the word AIPAC is being used as a purity test while Nazi tattoos are being given the benefit of the doubt. Schumer lost 35 members of his family to the Nazis, including a three-month old baby. Just maybe, this informs his life's work? www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/p...

Here's a cartoon from, as you see, 1911. What Dr. Plait says is not new news.

The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

It's getting really infuriating how many people are getting everything beyond their wildest dreams out of the Trump administration and they want us to think that they're disappointed

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

If Minnesota could pull off a special election in only two legislative districts while ICE/CBP has 20% of their total manpower in the state then I don't think we need to worry about ICE/CBP shutting down elections nationwide.

Yep. This trade war with (and generic hostility toward) Canada is wrong, stupid, and self-defeating. wapo.st/4awb4iL

It's no accident that in reiterating his calls to "nationalize" elections, the president focused on Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. A core tactic of the president and others seeking to undermine elections has been to target cities with lots of voters of color.

Ohhhhhh so that's the agency that Tulsi Gabbard was working with

Despite the Trump administration's gaslighting, only 22% of voters think the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was justified — including only 16% of Independents — according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

I'm still perplexed how so many people respond to a shambling shitheap like Bannon with "Oh no, it's over" rather than "The fuck you will." This innate respect for authority is weird and so deeply unimpressive. Cool kids don't fold to flabby old men. it's a fact. Look it up.

🚨🚨🚨 So......this is interesting A GOP to Dem party change in the NH House! And this is a district that Trump actually WON in 2020 by 8!! @trumpstaxes.com @uncrewed.bsky.social @proptermalone.bsky.social @gilmored85.bsky.social @golikehellmachine.com @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Bannon saying some shit doesn't mean it's realistic or feasible, his job is to be a ratfucker

It’s astonishing the degree to which a large number of people under the age of about 42 have just completely been subsumed by right-wing lies about both Clintons down to their bones.

Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

False accusations of censorship can create a "Suspect's Dividend" - if a company gets blamed regardless, the cost of actually doing the unethical thing goes down.

As always, the answer to "what should I do if I'm worried about Rs loudly announcing their aspirations to try & ratfuck elections?" is go volunteer to be a poll worker or an elections observer. That is, if you actually want to so something beyond just wallowing in despair & untreated anxiety online

MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

Politico is framing it as “Democrats voted to give RFK Jr billions” instead of Democrats found the best path they could from the minority to prevent it from being *even worse.* Hey @politico.com how about a headline like “Can RFK Jr be trusted with DHS funding” or “Dems save 19 centers at NIH?” 😒

The omnicause is the apotheosis of in group signaling, it is a mechanism to ensure that no one else can capture your preeminent position because your demands can never be sated as there is always further evil that [specific proposed ameliorative action] does not address.

I am not up for a fight with burnout podcast lawyers today, but literally — requiring judicial warrants would more or less moot this in any way it mattered. But again, if we just let funding lapse in two weeks, they just get to raid the slush fund anyway!

doomers will tell you that the republicans never plan on having to win an election again, but all of the worst people running the worst companies in the country are behaving like they know they don’t have long

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the Chicago helicopter raid was about forced displacement and, above all, content creation

relative to 2016, we're in a better place - the holdouts, those who will refuse to play nice no matter what, are getting left behind & they *feel* that

youtu.be/7E89y5ZBwg8?... From #BlackandJewishAmerica series

Remember, the Clinton have always said they'd be glad to testify in an open hearing, not behind closed doors.