This has a tiny, but nonzero chance of Trump doing the 'Unflinchingly recited the shahada and accepted the light of Islam into his heart' bit right before he passes, leaving an utterly absurd final press statement

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

Vaxxed?

JFC, he's going on about technology transfers that took place close to 50 years ago, and there is a reason US chip manufacturers left the space to begin with, its extremely cyclical in demand, and treated like a commodity allowing buyers to drive down margins to almost nothing.

"She made him do it" strikes again. He's not concerned the murder will anger us; he's insisting that saying it was murder and the officer a murderer will anger them and then our fault if they lash out. "She made him do it" is the burdening of Democrats and the left for right-wing/Republican acts.

Genesee River

Talking about your own policies like they’re moderate common sense and your opponent’s like they’re hare-brained radicalism is the most basic trick in the book, but performing radicalism gets you clout with people on your side.

What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful. And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city. Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.

This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Republicans could end all this tomorrow if they wanted to. We could have President Mike Johnson by mid-week. He'd suck, but he'd be better than Trump or Vance. They're letting this continue bc theyre too cowardly to stop it.

Bond traders… beloved of God, lions of the spreadsheet world… heed the call and punish the man who did this… destroy Donald J. Trump and scatter Babylon’s financial foundations to the winds.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Every freakin' game with this team

Slightly diminish a game: Splinter Mitochondria

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

ICE AGENT, ICE AGENT, HOME, TO YOUR WIFE! WE LOVE DEATH MORE THAN YOU LOVE LIFE!

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

He murdered her

Good thread. I sincerely hope Jonathan Ross is charged and convicted for the murder of Renee Good, and that seems to be Ken White's stance as well. But the cards are stacked against us and it will take time to actually build a case, even with the video evidence at hand, it's no slam dunk, sadly.

QOTD timeline cleanse: Post the first photo in your roll when you type in “blue sky.”

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

The video shows that the driver of the vehicle turned her wheels to avoid the ICE agents who surrounded her, screamed profanity at her, and gave her conflicting orders. They escalated the situation, put the public in danger, killed her without justification, and kept firing at her.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Maaaannnnn....

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

Border Patrol goes to Interior, park/forest rangers handle it.

it is true that it *should not* matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it *does* matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.

good: blue states turbocharging housing development bad: dangerous childhood diseases re-emerging like wildfire

You can file impeachment charges everyday, but the Speaker has no reason to ever bring the motion the floor to be voted on. You can file the motion as a question of privilege, but that is a one time option, and historically the majority party then simply votes to table the motion.

I also need a lot more people to realize that performative cynicism makes you look dumber rather than more sophisticated, this appears to be a very common misconception

Just yesterday DHS was taunting us on social media. Now they've come to our city and killed a legal observer. How much more can we take? We are being invaded and shot by our own government for the purposes of generating content for a mob of Nazis on the internet.

RFK Jr. loves and worships Death. He is the Baal-Hammon of the Carthage, watching impassively from his seat in his idol, the burning children writhe and scream

Greenland sharks are so cool

If we aren't doing anti-reactionary electoral interference, what the fuck are the point of Langley and Fort Meade.

The venn diagram of people who defended "good Russians" as a bunch of smol beans who can't do anything meaningful and Americans who balk at the idea that we bear responsibility for our government is almost a perfect circle

Exxon CEO sending Sky's thread explaining why they dont want Venezuela's oil to the Admin.

Yes, next question.

I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.

It's Their Time

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Worth a read, but tl;dr Kelly ain't having it

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

We're doing acts of war beacuse Pete Hegseth wants to kill ppl and look cool doing it, because Stephen Miller wants chaos and war to legitimate authoritarian crackdowns at home, and because Marco Rubio wants to knock over some leftists in Latin America just because.

You’ve got exactly a year until at least the House formally flips (I’m putting the senate at 70/30 odds). Filing deadlines for most states are only a couple months out at latest. Campaigns go into full speed in July. FY27 NDAA spins up in February and you’ve got less than a month til the CR expires.

i do think the fact that the situation room is tweets is fascinating, because it suggests an administration that is a) still struggling to "go around" its own institutions and b) an administration fucking *obsessed* with spectacle over substance