NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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.

Warning And advice In the thread #Mm

'Four days before Trump’s '25 inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars.... The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.'

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No Kings march Durham

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t 8/2/25 Billionaires via their Republican minions have terminated the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting). The last major media system not controlled by media oligarchs or profit-driven model. NYT Grade: F 1/n

“The data, obtained through public records requests, show that at least 60 percent of the centers analyzed had reported serious pregnancy complications, suicide attempts, or sexual assault allegations.” Beyond haunting. How do the ghouls doing this sleep at night? www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

NOTE this is "Trump's War on Iran." Not "with" - that implies mutuality. And not simply "war" nor "attack."

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

(90% is not hyperbole)

EXCLUSIVE: A GOP congressman from N. Carolina appears to have violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of "Liberation Day"-timed stock purchases from which he profited after quickly selling. From me in @fortune.com: fortune.com/2025/06/16/t...

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

I don't like it when @profjessblankshain.bsky.social freaks out. Not a good sign for the health of civil-military relations.

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

We're not celebrating until it's officially official, but this is GREAT news!! As the (conservative, Trump-appointed) judge writes, "You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done."

Justice Allison Riggs won her race for NC Supreme Court, and with this ruling she is one step closer to having her victory certified. And, we will NEVER FORGET Jefferson Griffin's cynical attempt to disenfranchise thousands of voters. Free and FAIR elections Foreverrrrr⚖️

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social

"Most local governments still haven't seen a nickel."

Great work by @justcalma.bsky.social here! Of course I love getting cited again but there are lots of great quotes throughout from people who know the space www.theverge.com/environment/...

An important win by Allison Riggs, the Democratic justice & candidate in the 2024 North Carolina supreme court race: a federal appeals court pauses state courts' order that helped her GOP opponent's bid to overturn Riggs' win in November.

fighting tears

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

"You are sucking up to a tyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible. You are collaborators."

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

My tiktok is filled with people (some in China) explaining how your favorite luxury brands are all actually made in China and often times they'll add some random finishing touch in a European country to get like a made in Italy label

$45 billion over 2 years. That’s $22.5 billion a year. They’re gutting medical research and basic science to fund for-profit prisons. It’s been said that societies are what they build, and in Trump’s America it’s concentration camps.

“It’s Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and other American conglomerates that benefit most from global trade, not the factory workers making a few dollars a day.” www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

I just want to say that Trump and this administration CAN BE DEFEATED. They are fascists but they are idiots and they are massively overreaching. If we stand up to them, we will defeat them. United we stand - DO NOT COWER!

This would be a good time for national news sites to promote the folks on the ground in NC, doing the work: @ncnewsline.com @downhomenc.bsky.social @beaconmedia.bsky.social @theassemblync.bsky.social

I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.

Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

Logged onto twitter and saw that a young journalist I've been following for the last year and a half has been killed, via his final message posted on his behalf by his community. Was a primary source of news for so many. I recall many times over the last months feeling relief that he was still alive