US Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration's immigration enforcement reut.rs/49oU5Pz

“Patel was nominated for the role specifically to undermine the three traditional pillars of the FBI — its Fidelity, Bravery, and, especially, its Integrity…it’s an organization-soul-crushing and morale-killing disaster that imperils national security.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/kash-patel...

A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...

House Dems on oversight releasing these emails and controlling the narrative is the kind of shit republicans always do but they have to make shit up and mischaracterize their source material. The House Dems have proven my thesis that this can be done effectively without lying. Well done.

'When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.' -- Socrates; who's clearly a woke libtard.

“Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.”

@richardhirschson.bsky.social doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...

Raskin on Ghislaine Maxwell: "The fact she was able to be transferred to a prison camp where no sex offenders had ever been allowed to enter before, much less live there, is an indication they've got some kind of meeting of the minds about what Trump can provide to her & what she can provide to him"

Pretty clear now that the end-of-the-shutdown process/drama was carefully coordinated with the impending release of the Epstein email trove. Good politics, whatever else you may say about it. For once the Dems are being smart and playing some serious hardball, totally blowing away the opposition.

Attorney: Can 13-year olds consent to sex? Republicans: CAN THEY EVER

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

"Barely legal" is now GOP/Trump-speak for "illegal." I'm actually glad these hideous people continue to make excuses for in this loud and open way. Finally the masks are off and everybody can see plainly who they really are.

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?

The Trump regime is lying, again, so they can terrorize immigrant communities with impunity. We must never forget the cruelty this administration has inflicted. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

@agawande.bsky.social tells @citizencohn.bsky.social how to help after USAID was gutted: make the invisible visible, support humanitarian programs like UNICEF and IRC, and hold those responsible for “public man-made death” to account.

Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story. www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...

That really makes you want to vomit.

"It is no stretch to imagine ICE agents snatching people from voting queues and thereby deterring U.S. citizens who speak with an accent or have dark skin from exercising their right to vote." No benefit of the doubt for these guys anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

Aguilar: “Donald Trump and Republican leadership are hell bent on keeping the Epstein files hidden from the American people…As recently as today, the White House was trying to switch GOP votes on the petition to continue these cover-up efforts.”

Epstein discharge petition officially hits 218.

McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

No matter how you feel about the shutdown deal, Democrats will be saying over the next year "Donald Trump was willing to starve kids and ruin your holiday travel in order to keep your healthcare costs high" and theyll be 100% correct in saying that

this is big >>> Big Coverup Exposed in Bogus Mortgage Fraud Cases talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Here's what people don't get about H1B in tech: it's already a globally competitive labor market. The question isn't whether foreign tech workers will compete with American ones - they will - but whether they will hold their jobs and spend their incomes here or abroad.

Just got off zoom w Zelenskyy and a few senators. The massacre of Russians coming in to Pokrovsk is brutal and constant, Russia’s worst casualties since they invaded.

Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill. Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans. "New Golden Age."

Earthseed, including The Book of the Living, was created by Octavia E. Butler

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

The most blatantly and obviously corrupt admin in US history by far. Will ANY Republican have the integrity to speak up about this, the pardons, the crypto scam, ANYTHING?

Thank you to the Dutch

Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

Ever heard this hypocrite call for elections in China or Russia?

Both of them are falling prey to the misconception that this is a zero-sum game: either native-born get the job or foreign-born do. They can’t see the basic truth that the more talent flocks to America, the more jobs and prosperity there will be for everyone.

California is a global climate powerhouse. At #COP30 today, I met with leaders from around the world to double down on our work to confront the climate crisis, create good-paying jobs, and help protect Californians from natural disasters exacerbated by climate change.

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social on Ghislaine Maxwell: "I've covered prisons for a very long time and, these kinds of things just don't happen... The only time I've seen it happen in prison is when somebody's being paid off or if you have some information on someone that they don't want to get out."

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

The deep, ongoing irony of Biden vs Trump on the economy is that Biden was dealing w a post-pandemic global economic shock & was just left holding the bag whereas Trump is dealing w negative economic sentiment bc he is an idiot who does not understand how anything works & is doing this to himself.