“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)

Balatro is better than Casino.

Republicans decided to go all-in in racism because they figured there were enough shitty white people who wouldn't find it disqualifying. So far they've been proven correct.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

This is the *problem* they're trying to solve. Haitian people coming to the US and working. And there is no "problem" of increased use of city services. Because all of those employees pay tax, and the businesses should pay taxes. That pays for schools and fire departments and bike lanes and parks.

If you don't like Haitians, I don't like you. I meant that. Today is one of those days when many of the people that say that they love fighting for "immigrants rights🤡" are really quiet. They're going to deport 350,000 Haitian people for no reason other than racism.

The voices of those who are incarcerated count as Americans.

I don't know what "an inappropriate transaction with a citizen who had a diminished mental capacity” means exactly and the news doesn't seem care that there are no more details than that but it had to have been especially heinous for FWPD to straight up fire a cop for doing it

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

This is a problem with ICE detention centers, AND every other prison! Get rid of them all. Even liberal support for policing is rooted in the same "reasoning" that Mullin uses. Abolish them all

Jonathan Ross is the man who shot and killed Renee Good.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Again, here is a video I took April 27 that appears to show workers sitting on the ground and picking at the peeling sealant on the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

I think fans of sports teams should normalize pressuring billionaire owners to divest from things that actively harm their communities. Keep yelling at billionaires, tbh. It’s possible some of them can be shamed and/or are smart enough to listen to customers for business reasons.

So far I've only seen Rashida Tlaib take a stand. Andy Ngo gave a snarky reply and his minions are following it up w a ratio. FOX News reported her statement in shocked tones.

An investigation has confirmed that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of Shailynn Bray-Waters and at least a dozen other protesters who were arrested at a demonstration outside an ICE field office in Spokane.

“The officers confirmed in their own statement that they had seen the “juvenile” — they knew a baby was in that car. The way these small towns operate, we may never see the footage. But I don’t have to. If diapers were stolen, they were needed. A cop shot and killed a baby. Period.”

Freelance photojournalist Bruce Cotler was shoved over a concrete barrier by state police and threatened with arrest while documenting a protest outside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, NJ, on May 29.

Hoping people can connect this dots from this prosecution to why the criminal system does not bring justice.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

If you think class based exploitation must be abolished, the process whereby a small owning non laboring class appropriates the wealth of the majority of the population, the working people. You are a communist. Scary!

We had moderates. They gave us forever wars, financial collapse, gutted public goods, means-tested humiliation instead of universal programs, and a political strategy centered on politely explaining to Americans why nothing materially better was possible.

We had moderates. They gave us decades of disastrous foreign policy, eviscerated social safety nets, soaring inequality, privatization, managed decline, and a party so terrified of confrontation that it treated rising fascism as a messaging problem instead of an existential threat.

We are tired of doing all the work and then being told that our vote is a lock, we have no choice, and so you have to go run around chasing MAGA votes. We aren't the ones that hate Democratic volunteers. YOU DO.

I have met so many disaffected Democratic party loyalists at socialist events. Dedicated organizers who get personally betrayed by candidates they work tirelessly for m, even across state lines. They can see who is actually going to try

Another grim night for establishment Democrats, who face increasing pressure from leftist upstarts who continually rise above their station to challenge their betters

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

Just a few weeks ago a jury convicted three protesters on federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus during a June 2025 protest against ICE in Spokane, Washington. The state will continue to escalate. Hope people are taking the moment seriously.

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

LIVE With ICE Protester INTENTIONALLY RUN OVER LIVE NOW: youtube.com/live/Xa16EKv...

About 30% of those killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry on Tuesday, which found the “deliberate” targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians.

"Second, they banned every Black juror so that no one would question the police"

this has been the goal: it was the logic behind the RICO prosecution of Stop Cop City protestors. it's the logic behind the MN15 indictments filed just last week. it was the logic behind the J20 indictments. it has failed dramatically in court — before now.

If you don’t care about people dying entirely preventable deaths or you don’t think that taxes & government should work to protect citizens from preventable harms then there’s probably no point talking to you, but every 1 dollar spent on syringe service programs saves us all 7 dollars in other costs

cops can't lie though thats against the law

An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.

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The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Remember these draconian Prairieland sentences when people talk about the importance of using the criminal system for "justice." A system is what it does; nothing more.

I’m here outside the Lineage Fire. The sheer scale and smell cannot be summed up on video.

This is why they had a revolution, this is literally why they had a whole revolution in the first place!

Thinking of the folks currently in the dragnet in MPLS in the wake of the Prairieland sentencing today This gov wants to bring down those us who dare to resist fascism at every turn. Do your best to protect yourself, yes, but don’t be afraid. We are on the right side of history here, & they know it

30 years for moving a box of zines

this should be the entire focus of every civil liberties org, including every trans legal org multiple defendants are trans women

30, 50, 70, and 100-year sentences for the Prairieland defendants so far. Dark day, man. Truly.

just a huge shout-out to the volunteers who are giving their time and money to get my dude home to another state. whatever you think Minnesotans have done for our neighbors, they've done more and are still doing it