Is there a level of moron these people CAN’T reach?

What a scourge on humanity they are now.

This is devastating for women’s rights, LGBT rights, and human rights generally. It’s also a shocking encroachment on free speech, especially coming from a nation that, not so long ago, promoted the values of free speech, freedom & democracy overseas. Chilling read from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

This is obviously incorrect as a description of fact but it is a forthright expression of MAGA goals and aspirations: they believe it should be illegal to not like, agree or associate with them bsky.app/profile/bern...

Swalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files

I wish more journalists were asking this question. I keep getting stuck on how the FBI has closed down investigations into monitoring domestic terror groups and drug/gun/human trafficking in order to assist ICE. The real criminals are having a field day while good people are being thrown into camps.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

America has a dad crisis. The good news is that dads can fix it. www.throughline.news/p/what-if-fa...

"We’re going to see the Trump administration use a now-familiar strategy: Flood the zone with sh*t; commit such an overwhelming barrage of bad acts that the very worst are thwarted, but many more continue. Our job is to be the most indefatigable whack-a-mole players the world has ever seen."

When it comes to election interference, we’re going to see a familiar strategy: Flood the zone with shit; commit an overwhelming barrage of bad acts. Our job is to be the most indefatigable whack-a-mole players the world has ever seen. www.throughline.news/p/block-the-...

"Even for an administration that has spent a year violating the First Amendment in all kinds of novel ways, the arrest of a prominent journalist is a shock—a five-alarm fire moment." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social in @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Trump White House published a memo suggesting that feminism, antiracism, & opposition to ICE were all ideologies of “domestic terrorism.” That they’re calling Good and Pretti “domestic terrorists” is not just a smear; it’s a long-planned strategy. www.throughline.news/p/are-you-a-...

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

The narrative that women abused or killed by ICE were in fact asking for it is basically a rapist’s logic — a similar logic that undergirds abortion bans. A woman’s body is not hers. What she says is not what she means. She does not know what she wants @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

"These are, again, deficits that should have disqualified him from the highest office in the land. But Americans are a credulous people famously vulnerable to grifters and scammers and fraudsters."

On what would be the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Playboy resurfaced reader letters from our archives about what life was like before legal abortion—a reality many Americans are reliving today. Intro to the letters by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.playboy.com/read/politic...

The Sexual Politics of ICE Trump's nativist paramilitary is also a misogynist militia Good post by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...

ICE is an explicitly misogynist militia. It recruits insecure men, kits them out, tells them their tough guys, warns that anyone who resists them is disrespecting their authority (and their fragile masculine status) and imposes no consequences for abuse. www.throughline.news/p/the-sexual...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

We, the majority of the free world, are waiting for America to remove this threat to our peace and future prosperity. But we are rapidly losing faith that America will do so We’re not alone 👇 “the stakes aren’t a life savings but America’s future and the Western world order”

Trump is threatening to mire US troops in a foreign conflict, blow up America’s most important alliances, and jeopardize the American economy because his already-low capacity for inhibition has been smoothed down to virtual nonexistence. www.throughline.news/p/donald-tru...

Your reminder that Stephen Miller uses white supremacist tracts to create US immigration policy under Trump. www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/u...

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

The First Amendment absolutely protects "libertine" expressive conduct like drag shows, and this is a reminder that Kacsmaryk was an underqualified Christian activist appointed to the bench by Trump, and conservative groups hand-pick his jurisdiction because he inevitably rules in their favor.

This March, I’m hosting a writing retreat in Kenya, a place I was once lucky to call home. It also includes photo classes from a National Geographic photographer & daily yoga. We travel from Nairobi to safari to the seaside on an absolutely epic journey. onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/kenya

Hard agree. The best cities I’ve lived in have been full of all different kinds of people. Places that are overwhelmingly single culture can be nice to visit but I think I’d eventually succumb to utter boredom living there.

This is an unabashedly white supremacist regime, and ICE is the regime's racist militia: www.throughline.news/p/the-white-...

"What they’re demanding now is very simple: It’s the right to decide their own future. And the first thing they want is an end to the tyrannical misogynists who have strangled their nation for nearly half a century." Thank you for these words @jillfilipovic.bsky.social!

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Every country should ban this.

The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...

That the autocratic and theocratic Iranian government is also a misogynist one is not a coincidence, but a feature and a necessity of autocratic and theocratic regimes. Stand with Iranians who oppose the tyrannical misogynists who strangle their nation. www.throughline.news/p/always-sta...

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social wrote a solid piece on the truth-allergic Trump Regime’s history revisionism of both the J6 Insurrection and the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good by whitewashing the terroristic activities of the insurrectionists and defending the murder of Good by using distorted lies.

But THIS from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social, though not focused on gaming specifically, is an important link as well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Can we kill our plastic habit before it kills us? @jillfilipovic.bsky.social ponders that very question as she discusses our new book “The Problem with Plastic” with our president and the book's co-author Judith Enck: www.throughline.news/p/our-dispos...

“If they hate the US, I like them” is a child’s politics, not leftism, and it’s going to have you supporting some of the most brutal regimes on the planet.

With so much in the news in the Trump world, don't lose sight of how women are being made second-class citizens -- and sometimes paying with our lives. Important from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/a...

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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

"Facts, as some conservatives like to say, don’t care about your feelings. But MAGA supporters are a deeply feeling bunch, and they definitely care about their feelings over the facts." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Every time there's a shooting conservatives lecture liberals about not politicizing it, and then they immediately politicize murders by inventing facts wholesale: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc. Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.

The mass expulsion of immigrants because of their religion is bad, actually, and profoundly un-American and anyone calling for it should be censured and removed from office.

Well, the pursuit of knowledge had a nice little run there

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.