Turns out watching videos on TikTok of masked thugs zip tying kids and kidnapping people coming to court or walking to school is not all that appealing. Meanwhile Dem strategists advise elected officials not to talk about it.

Brian Beutler spelled this out here— www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem... —and it's been haunting me ever since. This shady shit from the Roberts crew will handcuff the next Dem administration unless Dems start laying the groundwork now for serious SCOTUS reform—and follow through on it.

I just spoke with Capital Area Food Bank CEO Radha Muthiah about how they are preparing for a possible lapse in SNAP funding. She told me that for every meal they provide, SNAP provides *nine*. "The magnitude of the SNAP program is significant," she says.

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

Guy saluted Japanese soldiers and then just wandered until someone walked him to where he needed to go. Paging @jaketapper.bsky.social

Powell : Trump :: Ford : NYC

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app? What?

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

you guys are fucking clowns

So he’s the most unpopular president in recent history, by far. Why does the corporate media coverage not reflect that?

Trump: "They spent $900,093,000 on the catapults trying to get them to work. And they had steam, which worked so beautifully and it has for 50 years, right? So we're gonna go back. Seriously fellas, I want to make that change. I'm gonna do an executive order."

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Josh Hawley voted for historic cuts to SNAP, which is indispensable to 42 million Americans' food security.

Really fucking ugly and violent #KavanaughStop "A Houston teenager who is a U.S. citizen was beaten, choked and subjected to racial slurs"

So for those who don't know, the foundation of this is racism. Most white people can shave without huge issues. Many people of other races have severe problems when they do. That's why some cultures who wanted bare faces PLUCKED the hairs, they didn't shave....even though they clearly had blades.

Imagine being a total fucking dick and then being fired for not being enough of a dick.

Not seeing much about the massive anti-Trump pro-Gaza protests are we? Funny, that. (Instead our media shows us Trump’s embarrassing dance moves and red carpet treatment)

No, man, Republicans are in charge of the government. Do you think Democrats are the ones who keep telling the House to stay on vacation week after week in order to prevent the release of the Epstein Files? Because I'm pretty positive that's *you* who's been doing that.

Incredible how quickly we have normalized the lawless authoritarianism and again erased it from the front pages. This is a choice. As we have seen, other choices are available when the media wants them to be.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva is bigger than just Epstein files. He’s laying groundwork to attempt to prevent winning Dems from taking office if House majority up for grabs in Nov 2026, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSRY...

Earlier this month, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James. Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy: "Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

This mf again

So what would stop Trump from waking up in the middle of the night, saying "fuck it," and ordering that the rest of the White House be torn down and replaced with a tall golden tower in the shape of a T? abcnews.go.com/Politics/his...

So preposterously unconstitutional, but also: active duty military payroll is more than $3b **per week.** This is a pittance of that. It has nothing to do with helping out the troops- they want to establish the precedent that Trump can bypass Congress and fund the government with anonymous bribes.

Bard College seeks return of one of their students who was kidnapped by Trump's secret police.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

I propose that we all agree to apologize to her if she does, in fact, cure all diseases by the end of the century. And in the interim, we should mock this for the absurdly self-aggrandizing, utterly un-self-aware bullshit it is.

i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

This article claims that the immigration courts acted independently before this year. NOPE. Order in the Court www.newyorker.com/inside-donal...

Grotesquely transparent racist.

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

From a former Eric Adams deputy press secretary (2022–23):

Four cars filled with ICE masked agents accosted a driver across the street from Jackson Reed High school, claiming a traffic stop but there was no traffic violation. Observers taping and asking questions loudly likely is why ICE left. Principal says if not on school property, nothing he will do.

Jackson Reed parent and immigration lawyer here. My office is in the Dunkin Donuts building a block from JRHS on the 4th floor and is a safe space. Need some info from @dcpschancellor.bsky.social about what happens when ICE pulls up on someone right in front of the school at drop off time.

Mike Johnson is now pretending that it's Rep-Elect Grijalva who is not doing her job, when he's the one shirking his duties. And even *he* knows this is bullshit. He corrects himself to call her "Rep-Elect" not "Rep" because he actually understands there's a very important difference.

The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone. The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.

Six percent of *all children* in America are US citizens who have at least one undocumented parent. (Not a typo, source in thread)

Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.

Here are some images of what the White House looks like right now as Trump demolishes the East Wing. Pics via AP

UPDATE: I’ve graduated from “nobody” to “distortionist”

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

As predicted.