This site is so much better than Twitter was and Threads is. Twitter brought out toxicity even before it became a Nazi bar and the algorithm on Threads is just awful outrage bait. It’s just a much more enjoyable experience. Feels much more like an online community.

After NYS Young Republicans club was disbanded for praising Hitler, the NYC Young Republican club chapter is rolling out the red carpet for leaders of Germany’s Nazi-cosplaying AfD party. I condemn it in the strongest of terms, as should my New York GOP colleagues. The AfD is not welcome in NY-10.

In addition to 5 years of social media history, CBP would also require tourists to provide all phone numbers used over that period, any email addresses used in the past decade, DNA and iris scans, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members Including children

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath. And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.

JD Vance will give a speech soon about the anti-Catholicism of the Pope

Before the UN: a resolution calling for strengthening international cooperation and minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Voting yes: 97 countries. Voting no: Russia and its allies and puppet states (China, North Korea and the United States)

Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.

Why impeach if conviction is unlikely? You impeach to build a public record, to make a public case. To call witnesses, to gather evidence, to demonstrate the lawlessness of the regime, and to build toward future consequences, up to and including prosecution and—yes—possible conviction.

You forgot the fact that Trump removed only MLK’s Day and Juneteenth from the free National Park Days and added his birthday.

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely. New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

You forgot the fact that Trump removed only MLK’s Day and Juneteenth from the free National Park Days and added his birthday.

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

In 2021, Jared Kushner claimed he was leaving politics. Instead, armed with billions in funding from Middle East autocrats, he is brokering “peace” deals for Trump that double as real estate ventures and positioning himself at the center of Trump's media ambitions. None of it is an accident.

Slotkin eloquently describes why they released their video. Not because they don’t trust the military, but because of the words coming out of President Trump’s own mouth. #holdfast #steadystate

Maybe, just maybe, some Republican elected officials around the country are getting tired of being threatened by a nearly 80 year old corrupt mob boss with a 36% approval rating who is increasingly unhinged and might actually start to grow spines. One can always hope.

Trump is dozing off in meetings. He’s wandering during ceremonies. His rants are more unhinged, his temper shorter, and he’s suddenly getting MRIs the White House can’t explain. Something is wrong — and they’re hiding it open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Pope Leo and Sr Pimentel must be on the right track to get targeted like this

Pope Leo and Sr Pimentel must be on the right track to get targeted like this

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas. Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

ICE goon brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, D.C., for filming an abduction incident on December 9, 2025.

Promising to slash $2 trillion from the budget and adding $2 trillion instead: "Yeah I'd say it was somewhat successful." https://x.com/axios/status/1998533535016046642?s=20

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

It's been over three weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

good to see, since society must discourage baldfaced lying (especially by authorities) to keep functioning. some other consequences to go along with this would be even better

NEW AP/NORC Trump approval poll: Disapprove: 61% Approve: 36% Only 31% of voters approve of how Trump is handling the economy, down from 40% in March and the LOWEST economic approval he’s received in an AP–NORC poll EVER.

Former UK Defence Secretary and senior Conservative Grant Shapps👇

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.

This seems rather, uh, dictatorial. I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.

DOUBLE SCOOP! As @dfriedman.bsky.social was investigating a top Hegseth aide tied to a Goodreads page listing porno books featuring "Asian wife swapping" and sex with transgender women, MAGA hitman Jack Posobiec threatened to do a hit job on Dan. Smells like a Pentagon attempt at intimidation.

And now DOJ has failed a second time to re-indict Tish James. They are in the middle of a total shit show and just don’t have the good sense to leave. Remarkable public rebuff, unprecedented I would say.

It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.

cc: FIFA

Idiots.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

This isn’t conservative. This is fascist.👇

This is, quite unambiguously, an extortion racket.

Will the last person who doesn’t believe the Trump administration is trying to crash the economy, break up the country, and sell the parts to whichever tech oligarch or foreign criminal pays the highest please turn out the lights. (Or read some @sarahkendzior.bsky.social books.)

Lindsey Graham voted to confirm RFK Jr. The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.

"It's not that we have a unitary executive, but we have a wayward executive...a corrupt executive," @gtconway.bsky.social tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. "We have an executive who defies the law, who fails to execute the laws properly because he doesn't consider himself bound by the laws."

Unhinged Trump ramping up his threats against Republican state senators in Indiana. The Republican Party is a mafia organization and the mob boss is angry.

Another day where the Trump admin continued to hide the Epstein files and the second strike boat video from the American people. Maybe tomorrow.

Mike Johnson views his primary role as Speaker to prevent as many votes as possible on things that would easily pass because a bipartisan majority favors them. That is exactly what he has done his entire tenure. He blocks things majorities want and keeps the House out of session for long stretches.

The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.

In 2017, I believed the institutions would hold on to withstand Trump’s worst impulses. They hung on by a thread. Then I watched Trump, Miller & Project 2025 plot for 4 years to make sure they wouldn’t hold again. Which is why I didn’t believe they would hold again. They aren’t.

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

OMG- This is really happening

My policy when Trump got in again was to avoid the US, at least until he's gone. When we fly to Guatemala next week, it'll be through Madrid.