Have to go way back in U.S. history to find an administration that so openly and directly expressed its hatred for whole groups of people who live here. Maybe clear to Andrew Jackson. For the President or Vice-President to spit out hate, out loud, in official contexts: it's actually really rare.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

🧵 1/2 I've posted (a lot even) that elected Democrats should be personally leading mass protests. One reply I got: That's not their job; their job is to legislate. I'm not going to dunk on that. It's a sensible take in the context of normal times in a normal government. But here's the thing >>>

In the comments below Jeff's post, some Democrats are piling on, arguing either 1) Democrats aren't in power so they can't do anything, or 2) that it's election boycotters farther left who were the REAL problem. But Jeff's not wrong. And Democrats COULD be doing plenty beyond talking, right now.

My hot take: It's foolish to be talking about 2028. Foolish. We need help NOW, not three years from now. I mean, we'll need help then, too, but if we don't get help now, it won't matter then.

Exactly.

Interesting point and plausible. But it also seems as if a Republican like Trump was inevitable. He's the Republicans' golem, created from a fetid soil mixing worship of the rich and tolerance of racism. But now, like all golems, he just runs around the countryside burning everything down.

Why would they leak the video from the ICE agents point of view when it didn’t exonerate him and actually made him look more guilty? Because it shows Renee is a lesbian. They’re hoping to incite homophobia and give their base another reason to hate her. It’s sickening.

If the ICE agent had trauma or PTSD from a previous incident, he shouldn’t have been in the field.

The last Yahi person long 🧵 1/5 About 1861, a baby boy was born into the Yahi community in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. When he was a toddler, California settlers attacked the Yahi, killing 40 among them, including the boy's father — 33 escaped, but cattlemen killed about half of the survivors. >>>

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Drunken members of the Illinois militia spent an afternoon shooting Sauk women and children as they waded into the Mississippi, desperately trying to flee these armed men. That happened Aug 2, 1832. Glad folks are pushing back. But still, it pains me some that people think this is all somehow new.

DHS was created to FIGHT terrorists, not to BE terrorists. It needs to be defunded by congress in 2027, and we should select candidates who run on that platform.

How many people must die until the Epstein files are released?

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

This is absolutely what happened.

omg

Nutball conspiracy theorists come to the White House — because they can, because Trump loves anyone willing to flatter him — and they tell him something. And this thing, whatever it is, rattles around in his demented brain until he blurts out some version of it in public. And then it's U.S. policy.

My frequent reminder that the core policy of the United States of America is to coddle one lone demented old man.

Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize because Obama was awarded one. And he's willing to start a war to get one.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

We‘re taking suggestions, Joachim.

Good. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

'L'État, c'est moi'

Any sensible person anywhere should be thinking, 'Even if the U.S. does crawl out of this, what's to keep it from falling right back in?' The U.S. had an object lesson in elevating a manifestly unfit person, and then had four years to install safeguards against it happening again, and didn't do so.

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Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Ah. So if you don’t count all the jobs lost, the jobs numbers look pretty good.

"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I," says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in response to JD Vance's defense of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis. "I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."

It’s getting so the only safe place to be is in the Epstein Files. 🔄

Some Labor Department employee is about to be fired www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every time I see Trump flunkies defend another horror, I seethe. When I see Schumer or Williams respond in their insipid way, I just grumble. But when I hear AOC or Chris Murphy or Pritzker or Mamdani speak truth, I cheer. Patrick Henry didn’t say, “Give me liberty or I will be deeply concerned.”

This has aged well so far.

Just imagine the intimidation tactics they will use come November, at the polls😡wanting to see ID of everyone in line to vote🤬 we all know that is what this is really about!

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech

January 6 was the dress rehearsal. ICE is the touring production.

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

I live in Minnesota. I’m going to my kid’s school when it lets out today. Parents are making sure kids get safely to buses and cars so they get home. We’ll be filming. We’ll be there to protect our children from our government. It’s come to that. I expect it will be a huge crowd.

Did Trump say Renee Nicole Good was a domestic terrorist because — he's the least able, most unsophisticated liar ever to serve as President he was told she was, and he's the most gullible person ever to serve as President he doesn't care whether we know he's lying — and does it matter which?

Clean-coal jobs, Mexico's payment for The Wall, Infrastructure week, a much better alternative to the Affordable Care Act, $5,000 DOGE checks, and $2,000 direct-pay insurance checks

Folks imagine we'll recover from this — a couple of elections and it'll be back to what it was We elevated a conman and thug. Twice. We didn't remove him — even for piracy, for kidnapping, for openly mocking the values we'd endlessly hectored the world about. The world is done thinking well of us.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”