Abolish ICE. Tylenol doesn’t cause autism. Melissa Hortman, gone too soon. Release the Epstein files! If this is your vibe, let’s be friends. 💜

💯. This has been the takeaway from the attacks on law firms and universities as well.

Mornin, @thehill.com

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Massive tone shift in the Portlandia reboot.

Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy. This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman. It’s an endless series of baloney.

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood. There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

I don’t use the word “insane” lightly, but Trump’s behavior is now so detached from reality that I don’t think it’s an overstatement at this point.

(1/2) I’ve been working on human rights issues for 45 years, and all around the world, the first target of autocrats is always free speech. That’s what’s happening in our country right now, and it’s the most dangerous thing that can happen in a democracy.

YMRI recently did a deep dive on TPUSA's rhetorical strategy. If you look at the choices they made its very clear these happen to be the guys who worked patiently at it for the long haul and aggressively sought out private investment, no magic font of talent needed open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

The primary reason TPUSA succeeded, thrived, and delivered significant political power is because wealthy ideologues patiently invested a huge sum of money for many years to give it time to establish a market presence. A smart and correct strategy with huge pay-off! fortune.com/2025/09/20/c...

I've been shocked by how resistant people, even political scientists and activists, are to the idea that just throwing money no-strings-attached to movement builders pays off big time. Everyone thinks they have one weird trick for efficient movement building!

A tangential point but it is humiliating as a feminist—and a sign of the ways that endemic misogyny abridges women’s citizenship and dignity—that someone like Klein can be considered authoritatively well informed about American politics while also knowing so little about the politics of abortion.

And the article, at this time, is pure stenography. Nothing in it remotely questioning Trump's facts or his judgement. Nothing in it raising alarms. Disappointing. Shameful. C'mon @lukebroadwater.bsky.social.

In my Statement for the Record submitted to the January 6th Committee I explained how Trump has used war rhetoric to attack the United States. They cited it in their final report. He has attacked the nation continuously since 2015. He is still doing so: oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/3a1eea...

Presidents don't use war rhetoric against their own nation. Authoritarians do.

This is insane. Trump is fighting made up battles on Twitter. He sent the guard to DC and they're picking up trash. He sent troops to LA and there was nothing for them to do. He threatened "war" on Chicago and then nothing happened. This is Hitler in the bunker level delusion.

This is madness.

War ravaged Portland.

DON’T BREAD ON ME 🥖 🥖 🥖 !!!

I expect to see every citizen of Portland running through teargas with Michael Clayton-level Gatling guns of baguettes under their arms on Fox News, and 24 hours later I want to see all of them AI'd into the Starship Troopers "I'M DOING MY PART" scene with boule-crust helmets and loaf rifles by God.

the obsessive hype around left wing extremism is w y l d and not once does the question do left wing extremists, however defined, connect their ideology to mainstream politics and if yes what has the result been comes up

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

War with a Spanish-speaking majority-Latino country will quickly become war with Spanish-speaking Latinos in the US, under the control of a military commander who has fantasized extensively in writing about deploying US troops within our borders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Once we are at war with Venezuela the Alien Enemies Act leaves the courts powerless to stop ICE from throwing anyone they want to call a "Venezuelan" into camps and deporting those people end masse to anywhere in the world that will take them. Normalizing this state of exception means we're all next

"Insurrectionist FBI" is definitely a take.

There is reason to be a bit skeptical of Similarweb's methodology, but this was probably inevitable once Musk took over. And reason to be increasingly suspicious of the judgement and character of people still active in X political communities and saying, "It's fine, I don't see what the problem is."

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

If I were very rich and wanted to use my money to protect American liberties, I'd build on the grand jury momentum we're seeing by taking out ads everywhere I could to educate Americans about jury nullification so every juror going forward knows it's an option.

And Congress (captured by the far right authoritarian party) continues to do nothing while a runaway SCOTUS (also captured by the far right authoritarian party) does nothing in the face of this brazen, unprecedented theft of its constitutional powers. <all together now>

The Right is twisting the government into a violent weapon of oppression while their allies and cronies take over the media. It’s getting worse by the day. If you haven’t already start talking to the people around you about collective action. It’s the only way forward and we have a window here.

This… 👇🏼 #bluesky

It used to be that the vast majority of people in ICE custody who had no criminal convictions or charges were there after being stopped at the border by the Border Patrol. No longer. Non-criminal detentions by ICE are up 2000% year-over-year. www.pbump.net/o/all-the-pr...

In these unjustified criminal referrals, probes, and indictments, we see clear examples of John Roberts’ immunity decision in action: The ruling gives Trump sweeping powers to predicate these actions on little more than his feelings. Worse still: Judges have no power to scrutinize this corruption.

I wrote about John Roberts as the chief enabler of the prosecution of James Comey—and how his jurisprudence gives cover to other sham investigations and prosecutions, like that of Lisa Cook, that judges simply have no power to second-guess for corrupt motive. nymag.com/intelligence...

PS — Apologies for typos. Also should note Wallace was not alone in having well-publicized “conversions” that seemed to exclude personal responsibility. I wrote this in 2020 about a meeting between Lewis; former Gov. John Patterson; the Freedom Riders and the apology that Patterson never gave.

There were other people who deserved apologies who never got them. Former Gov. Albert Brewer, a responsible and dedicated public servant, saw his family subjected to vicious smears by Wallace in 1970. He never got an apology (Brewer told me he wouldn’t have accepted one).

Wallace’s apologies to the Black community were carefully staged-managed and publicized well in advance. He privately begged John Lewis’ forgiveness but struggled to take responsibility for putting Lewis in danger on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In fact, he often blamed others for his actions.

This story at the end refers to George Wallace’s transformation at the end of his life, and I am begging national reporters to read Dan Carter and talk to the targets of Wallace’s attacks for how sincere this transformation really was. (1)

I promise to stop comparing MAGA to Nazis as soon as MAGA stops acting like Nazis.

Trying to phrase as delicately as possible to abide by TOS and cover my ass: Nullifying the plain text of the Constitution as explicitly meant by those that penned it for the purpose of voiding a right to citizenship crosses a threshold that cannot be uncrossed and I hope even this SCOTUS sees that.

Bostock is the 2020 scotus decision barring workplace discrimination by sexual orientation & by transgender identity.👇🏻 Texas Tech seems to have banned class teaching or even mentioning current US law in classes.

trump's numbers on economic policy are worse than bush/obama's during the financial crisis

For all the Qanon theories about tom hanks he appears to be the only one in that selective demo who isn’t