If my math is right, the current force is 10X the normal amount And what’s a “security force”? This is Minneapolis, not Baghdad

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

The Trumpists like to present themselves as defenders of the West. There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine. The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine. The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.

Kramer: “What, you don't think I can, huh?” Seinfeld: “Oh, no, it's not that I don't think you can. I know that you can't and I'm positive that you won't.”

Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Everything is for sale.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

$38 billion on the warehouses to provide "Prime, but with human beings" azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Same energy (Twitter screenshot via @tyyoung617.bsky.social)

I'm no theologian but taunting hungry imprisoned children with food sure sounds like one of those things that substantially increases a person's likelihood of eternal damnation.

"Conway struck [an] urgent tone: 'We are facing a president who does not care about the rule of law …. He has to go. We cannot last three more years of this. It’s either him or us. It’s America or Trump.”

Maria Butina anybody? www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/u...

US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’ www.ft.com/content/fdd6...

Trump is the president. His Republican Party controls both the House and Senate, not to mention the Supreme Court. Yet he claims all elections are crooked and must be fixed. Could someone please ask him about this?

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

$13.5 million in USAID money to fund a dozen US marshals to protect the guy destroying the federal government

Remember how Elon Musk teased that he was rich enough to end world hunger 5 years ago and then he got so much richer and instead made it so much worse?

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

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Gift link to WSJ piece: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

"In his egoism, Trump exhibits an overarching desire to squeeze the nation dry, including by converting as much of America’s wealth to himself regardless of the consequences. What Trump can’t take with him, he would just as soon ruin."

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

ICE contracts increased private prison company GEO Group's revenues by 800% in 2025, according to an earnings call attended by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. But none of that money seems to be going to oversight amid a spate of sexual abuse & physical assault complaints against GEO Group guards.

CRIMINALS: "'In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!' Bovino wrote to Exum on 4 October, hours after Martinez was shot, in an email urging him to put off his retirement." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA* * Puerto Rican dance music

🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

It's wrong to imagine Trump & Carlson as dedicated ideologues, pushing stuff on audiences. They don't care; there's no there there. They don't push, they *listen*, they are attuned, they respond. They have been programmed by their audiences. Their behavior reflects what their audiences want.

You see, they're sending them to a camp in TX, where abortion is illegal, because "pro-life." "Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."

Hawley ended up getting so aggressive toward Ellison, including calling for his arrest, that even Rand Paul asked him to tone it down

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Alternatively: We are imposing new requirements to private businesses that will discourage them from serving people on SNAP.

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"? Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

In this article, an unnamed professor says it is “impossible” to speak out against their boss’ friendship with a pedophile sex trafficker, because doing so would risk their professional security. But that’s not what “impossible” means.

Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."

Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."

WATTERS: "Do I come across as ... [a fascist?]" @jessicatarlov.bsky.social: "Yes!"

I broke up with a woman recently and she was very angry and told me that I was going to die sad and alone and the cats would eat me before anyone found me. So now I've got to get cats, apparently. 😒

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

absolutely *incredible* scenes on vichy twitter