"Patel, of course is not alone here. Other Trumpians, like Kristi Noem, have also embraced LARPING (Live Action Role Playing) as part of their performative assholery. And it all comes right from the top." open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Kristi Noem wants Chicagoans to know that they're the enemy.

If you haven't seen it yet: Kristi Noem is now posting a propaganda video of ICE flash banging their way into the South Shore apartment building in the middle of the night to zip tie helpless children and old people.

I’d like to see Secretary Kristi Noem pick a fight with the New York Yankees after the NFL and Bad Bunny are done laughing at her. Then maybe she could talk some shit about apple pie and see how that goes. Maybe she'll punch a baby in the face and put it on TikTok.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court again rejected lower court efforts to stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from ending immigration protections for more than 600,000 people in America from Venezuela — 300,000 of them now. No paywall

Kristi Noem blatantly states no one without US citizenship may attend the Super Bowl. Killing our tourism when she can’t find a dog.

border patrol shot a woman in chicago plain daylight and that story is getting less traction on here than folks making mildly transphobic jokes about kristi noem being denied a bathroom liberal snark is an infestation

🚨 Why is Kristi Noem focused on ICE and Bad Bunny — instead of a real problem: sex trafficking of girls at the Super Bowl? #Epstein abc6onyourside.com/news/local/c...

Lmao Clemson taking out their bad season on UNC and embarrassing Bill Belichick is hilarious. Shit flows downhill

Judging from the fact that he's literally the only Democrat (or Republican) politician in the entire US, standing up to the entire Trump cult, this seems almost irrelevant. I feel like it's counterproductive to attack allies in literally the biggest test of the US way of life. Which liberals do

Re: Undocumented people “getting free healthcare” It’s more like “Hospitals are paid w FEDERAL 💰 for keeping them alive when they show up to an ER for lifesaving care.” It’s the HOSPITALS that get paid, not the undocumented people. Bc they have to/should follow FEDERAL EMTALA laws. #GOPShutdown

Crooked Chump and His Grifting Friends are Lining Their Pockets With Blue State Tax Money......

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

I don’t buy for one second that Trump voters didn’t know Project 2025 would be his playbook. They just didn’t think it would touch them. Oops! CNN needs to own its role too, letting Trump lie unchecked and pushing that lazy “both sides” framing between him and Kamala Harris.

i mean the thing underlying this and has been for a theme years is whether any dem mayor or governor for that matter has actual authority over their armed forces

This is an enormous problem that everyone more or less acknowledges until they pretend a Democratic governor could right now ride out into combat and order his state police to stand down and cease to assist ICE.

Every blue state governor should be maxing out the size and resources of armed agencies that they have reason to believe they will be more loyal to them. Maybe they are (it’s not the kind of thing you publicize), but if they aren’t they need to be. State DOJ agents, IG office agents, etc etc

How is it that Gavin Newsom is the only elected D who understands that power, not policy, is the game right now? fin/ www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

You say that's not realistic? Fine. Ask for reductions of exec power. Eg: 5/

If you can't win a shutdown fight when R's control the White House, Congress, & SCOTUS, the economy is slowing, unemployment is rising, inflation is persistent, and Trump is -11 fav, wtf are you even doing in politics? Just shut down the party. 1/ www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Bari Weiss, a mediocrity, built a lucrative career by riding the online right’s grievances, many of which are fictitious. On the right, incessant whining and whataboutism pays.

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

This is a must-read by @jvl.bsky.social. You don’t have to agree with every particular — I’m not sure I do — to appreciate how helpful this is, how essential it is, to thinking seriously about the present moment. BLUF. Memo to Democrats: It’s the power, stupid. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

I worked for a moderate-to-liberal Republican senator, Heinz. Those GOPers no longer exist.

Democrats: Read this. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"This is part of this whole administration operating on this cable news theory that our law enforcement and the military...have been somehow wussified." "I think Kash Patel is legitimately a little weenie with a micro phallus." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

This loser is giving out these "coins" with his signature, noting he’s the the head of the FBI?! He is an insecure child who needs a coin that states he is the head of the FBI, because no one treats him like one. Maybe if he acted like one, he wouldn’t need a coin to tell everyone who he is.

These people are sick monsters.

JFC, what a bunch of COSplaying morons.

These guys took away all the wrong lessons from Iron Maiden album covers.

Wow. Those penny smashing and engraving machines on the boardwalk are so amazing. AI is really moving us into the future.

The thing is, this photo is apparently something people are texting around. We wanted to use it, but couldn't find who to credit, so we linked to @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and his reporting.

Me, on Lindsey Halligan's debut as a not-legally-appointed prosecutor who told the court she had never seen a document she filed that had her signature on it: "If what happened to her had happened to me, I'd want to crawl under a rock and never be heard from again." www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

"If someone pressed one of these into my hand at an official function, I’d think I was being pranked (or maybe being given a discount token to a local Halloween house). It is as unserious as the director himself, a metal symbol of the hollowness of Patel’s leadership."

Surely the commander-in-chief should be as fit as anyone in the service? @davidjolly.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social in the latest Bulwark Podcast:

“I was hesitant to accept that— and the Prime Minister of Israel just says it.” @timmiller.bsky.social & @cameronkasky.bsky.social react to Netanyahu openly admitting 🇮🇱 plans to influence the TikTok algorithm now that Trump-aligned billionaires control the app. Full: youtu.be/qxZQT-923S0?...

@timmiller.bsky.social: “The Commerce Secretary is really stupid…He's just being dumb enough to say the obvious truth, which is that 'my fellow cabinet members and the President of the United States, who I work for, are covering up something related to this sex trafficking ring.'”

Every day, minute to minute, this administration’s profound stupidity goes from the thing terrifying me the most, to the thing soothing me the most.

Mike Johnson is doing everything in his power to stall progress in the #EpsteinFiles case. Now, he’s refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva—the 218th and FINAL signature we need to force a full release of the files.

Newsom is fighting fire with fire, all blue states need to be doing the same thing.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — after Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' — urging him to testify before the panel about his knowledge of Epstein and his crimes.

Running out of ways to communicate they are violating the consntitution

MORE MURDERS AT SEA Stop the killings. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...

An Army memo warned of major security risks with Palantir battlefield communications, saying, "we cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure." I wouldn't put it past Peter Thiel to make this a feature, not a bug.

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