🚨Using any kind of chemical weapons at this range is aggravated assault against peaceful protesters. They have no weapons, they pose no threat. ICE is the enemy. 1/2

Just a reminder: there was a Biden administration investigation into Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators. Trump killed it in January, fired the prosecutors, stole the files, & ordered Bondi to open a new sham investigation, led by a handpicked prosecutor, so DOJ wouldn't have to release the files.

No words. 1/2

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

omg

Seems a bit hubristic to suggest God needs saving.

Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.

Another pardoned January 6 attacker arrested and charged with other, new felonies (in this case, kidnapping and sexual assault). And don’t miss the part where he got caught firing off a gun on Jan. 6. You may recall the argument that it couldn’t have been an insurrection because it wasn’t armed.

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going! bsky.app/profile/cram...

OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller: “After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Remember: the most they’re supposed to do, and only if they have particularized suspicion, is to ask a few questions to determine if there’s a crime afoot. Harangues, profanity, insults from protesters- that’s all first amendment protected and agents have to have thick skin.

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

One factory was contaminated with pigeon feces. At another, pathogens got into purified water used to produce drugs. But when the FDA cites an errant factory, it conceals an important piece of information: the names of drugs made there.

@mrohr1.bsky.social So sad that the Mariners fell short. Was really hoping this would be their year to break through to WS. (They were especially my team to root for once mine was out of it.)

The awakening has begun open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

For the love of America, NoKings.org.

@phillies-therapy.com Why play for a tie? What do you think about that? What about running Wilson for Casty and Marchan for Bader? Does RT need to think outside the box more? (Charlie was pretty consistent “dance with the ones who brung you” but different era, better BP. Better hitters?)

@phillies-therapy.com Why Nola /Suarez piggyback? Can Nola blank the Dodgers even for a few innings? So disappointed in Schwarber and Harper in particular among hitters. More disappointing: BP or bats? Dodgers are better, to a greater degree than I thought.

“A month ago, another young man was taken from us, also with a wife and two young children. David Rose was the police officer who rushed to the CDC when employees were under attack from a gunman…President Trump never praised him or offered condolences.” www.thebulwark.com/p/kirk-killi...

@lizroscher.bsky.social Re: Kerkering - Unfortunately, RT has to leave him in to load bases b/c of 3-pitcher rule. 😕

Every settlement dollar paid to Trump — Harvard, ABC News, Paramount etc— greenlights the next round of terms. By paying a political ransom, America's elite institutions are funding the authoritarian operation. Here’s how to stop it. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trumps-ransomware-model

Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.

The solution to our never-ending redistricting wars is simple and achievable. Ansley Skipper & Drew Penrose explain a better system for choosing our reps — proportional representation — is in reach and we can all do something today to help make it happen. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-end...

@johnstolnis.bsky.social @justinklugh.bsky.social Episode #992 is identical to #991 except for the title you gave it. Did you mean to post something else (presumably)?

I have never once, in my entire life, regretted a decision to act kindly.

🚨 The Trump admin is using yet another filibuster-proof budget procedure to cut more federal programs, now targeting congressionally approved funds for foreign aid, NPR and PBS. The Senate is set to vote on HR 4 **THIS WEEK** Demand your Senators VOTE NO 👉 5calls.org/issue/hr4-re...

🚨 The Senate has to vote on this rescissions package (H.R. 4) NEXT WEEK. They have to pass it by July 18, otherwise it dies and Trump can't request these same cuts to foreign aid, NPR & PBS again. No filibuster on this one. Call your Senators and demand they VOTE NO. 5calls.org/issue/hr4-re...

Important piece by Renee DiResta in @Lawfare about how the Trump Administration is now rewriting the 2016 intelligence assessment that Russia favored Trump in its election interference activities. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

@goldengal31.bsky.social fyi

With ICE on the brink of receiving a massive increase in its budget, I delineated some of the things it has been doing with the money it already has. Gift link: wapo.st/4lv53Wh

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Chris Murphy gets it.

Does it surprise you that members of Congress are buying Palantir stock, the company that happens to be helping ICE with mass deportations? The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/stock-trad...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings. ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away. When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.

Adrian Andrew Martinez, a U.S. citizen, tried to intervene as federal immigration agents questioned another man in a Walmart parking lot. ICE agents violently swarm him. Now missing. By law, he has a right to an attorney. This is how police states operate.

Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for pointing out that we make money on our public lands every single year. Why would we sell them when they are a reliable form of income? www.blm.gov/sites/defaul...

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

HUGELY Important.

Good morning. If the the Senate passes the Republican budget bill, 40% of American families - those with lower and middle incomes - will LOSE money. They will become poorer. But the richest families will get an average $270,000 tax cut. Because they only care about the rich.

For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Hey! Honestly, I'm surprised there is not more fanfare about everything that went RIGHT for #NoKings over the weekend. Let's give some credit where it's due. How 'bout a thread.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed. The suspect had a hit list. And what did we do? We blamed each other. We justified. We spun. Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...

Congress should pass the bipartisan BARK Act, my bill to save millions of pounds of perfectly good pet food from the trash and get it to the growing population of hungry shelter dogs and cats. We can do this. Let’s get it done.

There is a name for people who seek the ethnic cleansing of their countries.