After Renee Good was killed, career FBI agents were ordered to stand down from investigating her killing. Why? Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.

Somewhat lost in the fog of war (perhaps the purpose of that fog)… HCR’s post on the night of Feb 27 describes what appears to be an organized crime and drug trafficking ring involving Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others.

What a terrifying batch of headlines to wake up to. It goes without saying, but — boycott ChatGPT, everybody.

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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Sir, the sane voters of the United States want ICE abolished. There is no “clean up the agency,” that can fix what has happened. They murdered people, abused and assaulted immigrants and citizens. It’s too late to fix. It must be abolished.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

My family shattering the fragile federal egos one dildo at a time... THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION share.google/9jsbzZtUg0qx...

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

that second half of the sentence is so funny. "we promise that none of the senior management is currently excited about using the technology"

"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country. 'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you... This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

I genuinely can't tell if Trump was so obsequious to Zohran Mamdani today because Mamdani has the love of New Yorkers that Trump has been desperate for all his life, or if he's senile and genuinely doesn't remember who Mamdani is or what he's said about him.

Trump ten minutes after meeting Zohran

Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.

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Like - it’s ok to retire Do the VA senators just not think any other human is capable of doing the job?

So here is a dude who has declared he's gonna primary Warner (that primary is in June of Next Year) bsky.app/profile/jaso... I don't know anything about him yet.

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

Not the headline I was expecting - but that's 2025 in a nutshell

moments ago: pandemonium. a huge mass of border patrol agents, led by greg bovino, pushed the crowd of protesters and started grabbing people at random. leading up to this, folks were just calmly standing in the grass, following isp’s orders. multiple people detained. no clue how many.

file under political violence dude traveled to Portland from DC for this

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

argue with reality, welcome to hell

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Kamala Harris said Biden's decision to run for reelection or not "...should not have been left up to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition." Okay damn!

This would change so many lives

Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:

Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.

Always nice when J.D. Vance’s hecklers have good acoustics to work with.

Gavin NewsSon sucks so bad and I pray that I’m never backed into a corner where I have to consider going for him. I think he’s a soulless creep. & also I hope more D leaders will grow a freaking spine and TRY STUFF in these precarious times. It’s not like they’ll make shit worse (probably)

My hot take is that people don’t actually care about money. They care about their safety and quality of life and their cool hobbies and their loved ones and pleasure and fulfillment and and and We just happen to currently live in a system that uses money to manage ALL the things. It’s dumb

New study: researchers looked at hospital visits after a coal plant was closed near Pittsburgh --> immediate 20.5% decrease in weekly respiratory emergency dept visits --> immediate 41.2% decrease in pediatric asthma ED visits pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40691837/

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

PWC Schools are under attack by the #Trump administration and the school board is headed into closed sessions with legal consul to discuss it tomorrow. Please ask them to keep protecting #TransKids by asking them to keep their #LGBTQIA+ #inclusive polices here: www.pwcs.edu/leadership/s...

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

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20,000 people were let go from the FDA this year. I’m legit worried about food safety y’all.

I still remember about 90% of the lyrics to Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa, so at least I’ve got that going for me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmZH... Bless your day by taking 5min to watch this