A friend and I are coming up with ideas for how Trump can further debase the White House, and so far the plan consists of adding a revolving restaurant atop the White House run by Guy Fieri. There will be trash can nachos, but it won't contain nachos — just layers of white bread and beef tallow.

James is one of the people who helps maintain/protect the memorial. He's been out here every day for the past 2 weeks and 2 days, from 10am til midnight. He lives in the house behind him.

For Houston & people who care about Houston: my new story explains why voters in the 18th congressional district are going to the polls now, only to go back next month to vote for the same seat again -- when it will be a drastically different district www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest. The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity. People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start using these lists to put people on the no-fly lists, audits by the IRS, etc. as retribution. Once a government starts making lists of its citizens like this, the abuses will inevitably follow.

JD gives always gives vibes of "performing" the role of VP, much like Ted Cruz always seems to be "performing" the role of Senator. I say this as someone who's spent thousands of hours in casting. The acting tells. The indicating. I don't believe them. They give new meaning to the term "bad actor."

Many, many thousands of people gathered in The Commons in downtown Minneapolis to march against ICE right now.

I would love for other people to get killed so everyone can know how tough I am personally (no i won’t be doing any fighting) bsky.app/profile/atru...

WaPo vid of masked ICE in Biddeford, Maine, telling a man if he doesn't come out of the house they'll take his whole family away. This weird awful moment before they go straight to kicking down doors--I think that's coming--but have already leapt ahead to taking vengeance on families.

“The official social-media channels of the Trump administration have become unrelenting streams of xenophobic and Nazi-coded messages and imagery.” All government platforms that used to be authoritative sources of data and information now worse than useless. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Singing and praying in -22 degrees.

Nine year olds should not live in a world where they have to consider the logistics of civil disobedience as a tool to save their friends. Nine year olds should not have to strategize about how to keep each other safe. That is a failure of our responsibilities as adults and can never be overstated.

There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.

The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest. Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

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Depraved shit.

It was only a matter of time.

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

It is tough here right now in Minneapolis but Greg Bovino crying to the paper about how he’s getting his ass handed to him by plant sale moms has been a real pick me up

This MS NOW documentary from Houston shows 1.) federal officers appearing to ram an immigrant’s van with their vehicle, 2.) officers placing a high school student in a chokehold and 3.) confiscating the 16-year-old’s phone (which was later found to have been sold at a tech-for-cash pawn shop kiosk)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Just straightforward fascist abuse

biggest fucking "TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE" i've ever uttered in my life

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

😬😳😬

"Denial wrapped in a flag"

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

THE GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL.

Bus thread has lifted my spirits. 🚌

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

"The poet Tu Fu, writing at a time of devastating rebellion and dynastic crisis 1,200 years ago, set the following lines to paper: The state is shattered; Mountains and rivers remain." Well that seems apt as hell

Taken to Texas.

If you are surprised that everyday non-political/non-activist Minnesotans are rising up against ICE, you have not been to Minnesota. Lived in the TC for ten years, never known people more likely help a stranger out. Not that other places are hostile. But Minnesota raises the bar.

As Ted Cruz urges a seizure that will break NATO, remember the two Senators viewed as orchestrators of Trump's Jan 6 plan were Cruz and Josh Hawley - both political proteges of Peter Thiel. Neither has ever broken with Thiel, or with Trump. Both, like all Thiel avatars, push Putin's interests. 1/

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.

NEW: What began as a Trump redistricting scheme to tilt the 2026 elections in Republicans’ favor has spiraled into something else in Missouri, a fight that threatens to cut democracy to the bone. If you haven't been following, you should get caught up: www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-...

Obviously there’s narrative utility in Nazi comparisons but more and more I feel like we should be talking in these terms as well, and forcing elected Dems to grapple with the very real parallels

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

You are not a freak. You’re enlightened. Signed, a Houstonian.

Abigail Spanberger was told to throw trans youth under the bus during her campaign. She refused to do so. She won the election by 15 percent. A dominant victory. A landslide. She was just sworn-in as the 75th Governor of Virginia, the first woman to lead the state.

This is the definition of what Kavanaugh thinks a good stop is. He was detained, based on his accent, and then released after they checked his papers (which presumably Kavanaugh does not carry with him). He was detained in front of his five year old child, who told him "I don't want to lose you."

Oh look. The Google Maps directions algorithm.

The right-wing protest in Minneapolis appears to be virtually entirely counter protesters and press