ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor

Go, Senator Wyden! Follow the money. How was this syndicate financed? Who paid who, and for what? Wire fraud and tax fraud virtually guaranteed.

Really interesting piece on weakening the resolve of Trump foot soldiers. Assuming Trump issues blanket pardons, “…what other forms of accountability might I face, short of prosecution, that Trump can’t protect me from?”

They think we’re stupid and don’t care what we think. This is not a representative government - it’s an insult.

If Dems win Congress, they should do a rolling impeachment and impeach a different member of the admin everyday, explicitly describing Trump’s central role in each offense.

#lameduckwatch 🦆

It’s insulting and infuriating to have these scam artists 1) in any government position and 2) proposing ideas that are divorced from reality. Giving $2k to meemaw who is 60 years old and diabetic is not going to help her get adequate health insurance

Incredible video from Reddit (too large to upload the screencap). CBP agents attempt to detain a flower vendor and end up getting chased into a vacant lot by a crowd of teenagers. What a bunch of impotent sad sacks. www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Where’d she go? #sloppyphotoshop

In politics as fandom, we either Stan politicians or Hate them. But politics isn’t fandom—it’s a form of nonviolent war. We want to grow our coalition of allies and shrink the coalition of our opponents. We need to learn to find common cause with people we dislike, or even despise.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

@repdexteror.bsky.social #lameduckpresident the democrats in safe districts need to start advocating for impeachment. I hope you use your platform and influence to make the case

We are so sick of the flagrant abuses and lack of accountability. Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

This makes me feel physically sick. A Justice who - has been essential to the destruction of the constitutional order - going on a network that has been essential to the destruction of the constitutional order - … to sell a children’s book… praising the architects of the constitutional order

We need to shame and shun these people. Even if they are immune (because they have no virtue), it will signal to normal people that virtue is important.

I had a similar experience. One of the richest families on earth and a thin-skinned GM burned a beloved franchise to the ground. For what? For Nico, I think it was pride. For the owners, I think they OK’d it to help them build a resort style casino in DFW. You’ll never convince me otherwise.

@repdexteror.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov This cave in is aiding and abetting an admin that is flagrantly ignoring laws/civil rights and using violence to further its political goals. Is dem position now “we negotiate with and will even aid and abet terrorists”?

If, like me, you’re feeling hurt and betrayed by our elected representatives, I suggest taking a deep breath, focusing on your anger, and then channeling that bad energy into good: taking care of yourself and others.

One of my favorites, and it’s beautifully shot. I think about this scene where all of John’s problems converge all the time.

Before Trump 2, I was a single issue voter: health care reform. During Trump 2, I am a single issue voter: remove this cruel, fascist, ignorant regime from the government. We can’t begin to address our outrageous, broken health care system with this regime in place.

So proud to be represented by @agdanrayfield.bsky.social and the Oregon DOJ!

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

This is a Coen brothers script

As called on TVA Sports in French Canada:

“Don’t take the bait.” “They’re trying to trigger a response.” I agree with these statements (and similar words of caution), but where is the line? If there is a line, how far is it from here, where unaccountable, unidentified goon squads gleefully terrorize neighborhoods?

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

and now time to finish my big, 40-50 years long sip of coffee

Kavanaugh Stop

I mean, I saw Chekov’s Shoe come off and I appreciate that the person who took the video elected to post a version that makes it a little harder to litigate

it’s not great that he got this far while so dressed but I gotta say that my takeaway from this video is not that Georgia finds this costume acceptable

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Trump admin is following Breitbart and their infamous “black crime” tag. There may be some truth to the allegations against Billups, but primarily it is “black crime” fodder for the Trump base. The NYT should understand this and not be manipulated

The allegation is Chauncey Billups is knowingly participated in a rigged poker game. This requires a press conference? Or they’re using this “black crime” click bait with the highest profile black man in Portland to feed their bigoted supporters and smear the city that has beclowned the admin

All of this just to build the Epstein Ballroom, which is what everyone is calling Trump’s vanity project. Say it with me! The Epstein Ballroom!

TUNE IN: I’m holding the Senate floor to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy. We cannot pretend this is normal. youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

My Epstein investigation started with Leon Black’s payments to Epstein. We found that Black paid Epstein $170 million for mediocre “tax advice”. There are other powerful figures who helped fund Epstein’s trafficking ring, and I’ll keep following the money until they’re exposed.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”

Idk which of RFK Jr., Hegseth, or Musk/DOGE are going to be responsible for the most preventable deaths. I thought people that called MAGA a “death cult” went too far, but I was wrong.

Donald J. Trump having the same impact on trade as a literal plague fits nicely with my perception of him as a disaster of biblical scale. Like the wicked Old Testament kings God punished the Israelites with, he's a manifestation of American avarice and selfishness.

NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

@repdexteror.bsky.social @bynum.house.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov They are making a mockery of our institutions, creating private clubs with “pay-for-play” corruption branding. The whole MAGA movement must be routed out. Bang the drum. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.

“A lot of people being mad at us and telling us they are mad at us is illegal. It’s treason. I need my diaper changed.”

@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @bynum.house.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social This is the Orwellian nightmare that right wingers have been crowing about for years. Now it’s here!