Goodness, things might get a wee bit testy at the upcoming State of the Union.

Trump announces he's transferring $10 bn from the US Treasury to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control in his personal capacity. There is no congressional appropriation for this, but Trump doesn't care. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Don’t get overwhelmed. 🦋💙🦋

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Justice Jackson: “When Congress tells us why it has included certain language in a statute, the limited role of the courts in our democratic system of government—as interpreters, not lawmakers—demands that we give effect to the will of the people.” #tariffs

The coverage on Trump's potential Iran invasion has been woefully inadequate. And that's before you consider that none of them say, "Iran already agreed to a nuke deal, Trump ripped it up, causing the problem he's currently facing."

Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Tom Homan declared last week the ICE surge in MN was over, and the drawdown of federal agents would carry on through this week. But ICE is still all over. “It certainly hasn’t stopped,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said. "People are very much on edge."

Trump’s immigration policy is chaotic, cruel, and lawless. Americans are fed up. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

OMG I thought this was a joke. He actually said "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

CNN: Apparently the breakfast had been going well. Then Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying: these f’ing courts

The Israeli gov't installed security equipment & controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by Epstein, according to emails released by the DOJ. The security op. was in place for at least two years, w/ officials from the Israeli permanent mission to the UN regularly corresponding...

Read the full story by @ryangrim.bsky.social and @mazmhussain.bsky.social dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-go...

Canada is a geographical hostage. We align with the EU. We believe in democracy, we believe in supporting people, educating people, giving people healthcare and housing, Unfortunately we are living upstairs from the most ignorant, fascist, racist, uneducated neanderthals on planet earth. #FuckNazis

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

The level of stupid is off the fucking chain. Yes, I am afraid history will record all of this as Putin's greatest triumph. The insidious damage we are seeing done...drip drip drip, that will take generations to erase...if it is not in fact indelible

Honestly don’t understand how @atrupar.com does this shit every day. The level of stupid is off the fucking chain.

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Look who understands consent when it affects him personally…

newsone.com/6850568/body... Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

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Oh, look two Pedophile's on stage.

Trump calls "the Democrats on the Court" a "disgrace to our nation"

It's not a new observation, but I'm always struck listening to Trump cry and whine about how he's the victim, bitch and moan about how mean and unfair everyone is to him, brag endlessly about how great he is and how unfair it all is, to remember that his cult thinks he's the Peak Alpha Male

Many Americans haven't seen the brutality & don't want to see it, but they would be appalled if they did. Many people who consider themselves to be good people have no idea bsky.app/profile/male...

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

BAD WEEK FOR TRUMP — Immigration approval tanking. Supreme Court strikes down tariffs. NOW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he’s FLYING OUT for a rebuttal to the State of the Union. Mayors of two “cities under siege” — Chicago & Minneapolis — will now defy him. In DC.

Cool to know that there are three votes on SCOTUS for *anything* Trump does. That's not concerning at all.

So weird how when Kavanaugh was nominated nobody said "We need to see his LSAT scores, he doesn't seem qualified" but conservatives all said that about Sotomayor and KBJ. I'm sure there's a reason why they're different, just can't quite put my finger on it

Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and trade wars have been chaotic and reckless, raising costs for small businesses and adding roughly $1,700 to American families’ expenses since he took office. That is why I have opposed these tariffs and voted just last week to strike down the tariffs on Canada.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

We know that Trump is going to repeat the “I’ve been exonerated on Epstein” line every single day forever because that’s what he does. Would it be totally outrageous for someone then to simply ask him who it was that exonerated him so we can get some clarification on that?

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

www.bbc.com/news/article... British government has not given permission for the US to use UK military bases to support potential US strikes on Iran. US has in the past used RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, and the UK overseas territory of Diego Garcia to carry out strikes in the Middle East region.

Jared Kushner at the "Board of Peace" -- "People are not personally profiting from this"

Welp. The best case that the US government has proof of aliens is Trump getting furious about Obama carefully saying he personally suspects aliens exist and ranting that Obama violated classified information. That's *exactly* how Trump would expose state secrets.

As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country? Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...

This entire thing is a complete clown show. Everyone in attendance should feel like a fool.

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

Chief of Fascism John Roberts, preemptively ushered in Project25 to facilitate the implementation of Unitary Executive horseshit John made the first step meticulously planned for decades to overthrow our constitution He knew without a doubt that he was the lynchpin to usher FASCISM into America

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... #Elon #Musk #Grok #MechaHitler #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #Trump #Krasnov #Putin #Kompromat

Democrats. For the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY! Stop chasing conservative votes. They are NEVER going to vote for you. It doesn't matter how hard you are on crime or immigration, they'll just tell their mindless followers that you aren't and that's literally all it ever takes. We. Don't. Need. Them.