"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

Feels like another (likely missed...) messaging opportunity for Dems... The administration is literally laughing about how they won't give back the $175 billion they illegally stole from you.

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Imagine if Dems talked about any of the dozen or so horrible Republican billionaire activists the way Republicans talk about George Soros. And they wouldn’t even have to make anything up, or be cryptically antisemitic! It’s the lowest of low hanging fruit and they won’t touch it.

That image looks like a hog farm. Disgusting. It’s insane this is happening in our name.

Dictator on day one.

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

an iron rule of this argument is that they'll always name two things you need ID for and one of them is wrong

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

I feel like I’m losing my mind watching this unbelievable corruption happening in plain sight.

I wonder how many people are in the Epstein orbit just because they were status-hungry starfuckers, and knew that he could introduce them to anybody and everybody. Is it really different from elite clubs like Skull & Bones (and yes, I include the sexual depravity in that question)?

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed

Maybe I missed something but since when did time start running backwards? Since when are the nazis *not* the bad guys, fascism *not* the bad place? WWII was less than a century ago, has it already been completely forgotten?

Brazil, South Korea, and UK: please quit showing off with your ability to hold people at the highest levels accountable. Here in the States the DOW once hit 50,000 so I think we're on equal footing in this regard.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

They don't even have a written constitution and managed to arrest their powerful pervert. Even monarchies are dunking on us.

Every Democrat should be embracing expanding the court and killing the filibuster as easily as they support protecting social security. But no, fucking tradition trumps all.

ICE is still endangering people in the Twin Cities: "Multiple agents in both cars ... When they ID patrollers, we honked and whistled them away. Then they drove off in separate directions and made several illegal driving moves to evade commuters from following them."

“I cannot overstate how much knowledge is housed in this library about literally our entire universe,” she told me. “The most expansive understanding of human knowledge about space is being packed up.” This is on the chopping block now. Contact your Congressional members, Reps and Sens to stop it!

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

"We believe in a government that's a tool of our democracy in service to the public, not an instrument of the aristocracy in search of private wealth." So much unsettlingly relevant brilliance in Jesse Jackson's 1988 convention speech. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...

Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...

These 7 Democratic Senators voted to confirm Noem. Thought we could use a refresher

"Regularly ignoring court orders is a five-alarm fire, a startling attack on American democracy, but the Supreme Court and Congress have abandoned their duties to check and balance the monster that is Trump, even as lower courts struggle mightily to do just that."

Impeachment is too good for these people. I've been saying it for many years - the end game is feudalism, total impunity and immunity for the elite class.

it is of vital importance that we start calling stupid ideas and stupid questions and stupid people “stupid” again

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

BREAKING: FBI notifies Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it won’t provide access to evidence it’s collected on the killing of Alex Pretti by armed and masked federal agents. Perhaps this would be a good time to note that 187 members of Congress are signed on to Impeach Kristi Noem:

Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.

None of this is complicated or profound - corporation spend whatever they need to and get whatever they want. Quid pro quo. Period.

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

Holy shit

No "reform", only abolishment.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Make child labor great again. I give it until August before Trump signs an executive order to build Dickensian workhouses.

It’s almost like Trump is trying to suppress the vote or something. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The U.S. is a fascist police state.

"The Trump administration is seeking to expand and intensify this archipelago of torture," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "Mass illness, abuse, immiseration and death will be the inevitable result. How will we live with the shame?"

Maybe this article should've mentioned the DHS IG was recommended for termination by the IG oversight board and found guilty of “substantial misconduct”. He also survived Trumps IG purge bc he’s under Noem’s thumb and totally ineffective. All relevant to whether a shutdown will “imperil oversight”.

what makes this worse is a lot of them are still taking huge tax benefits from "giving". for instance, Elon Musk puts a ton of money in his foundation which is tax deductible as charity, but then the foundation just....doesn't pay out anything. That's illegal, but no one has enforced it of course

Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.