Oh, to be wealthy in America.

While most eyes are on Chicago and Portland the republicans fascist foot soldiers are waging war against the citizens of California in increasingly violent and brazen attacks on civilians.

Exactly. @democrats.org Stop reacting, stop letting them define you, stop defining yourself against them. What campaign would you run if Donald Trump didn’t exist and you needed to explain to people what you had to offer. Medicare for all? Private prison reform? Fucking TRAINS? We love trains!

There is so much power in just ignoring Republican framing and making clear statements of values

One really obvious reason the Mamdani online stuff is better than DNC content overall is a total absence of Trump derangement syndrome. He’s talking about himself, you, and your shared goals.

BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.

An interesting point raised elsewhere: these boats that the United States is striking don't appear to have the fuel capacity/storage capacity to even reach American shores.

I wish it were more surprising to me that a large swath of the American population don't know that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.

"That's part of America, dear." 😂

As many of us are learning in real time, it's very difficult to challenge & overturn a legal system of repression *legally*.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

WaPo (paraphrasing): Trump admin has now murdered a total of 21 people in strikes off coast of Venezuela, including 4 today.

HAPPENING NOW: Oregon asks Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) to block the Trump admin's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. 🧵

Um, was the Baltimore Banner purchased by Sinclair too? Cause quoting the Daily Wire is certainly a choice. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

It is a consequence of intentional editorial decisions about what "news" to cover and what to largely ignore that Trump's recent decision to have people across the U.S. get cancer, developmental diseases, become infertile, and die is not felt as a "public safety" emergency.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

For 40 years, Circus Disco was the beating heart of LA’s queer Latino community. When West Hollywood clubs refused entry to Gene La Pietra’s boyfriend for being Latino, he created a sanctuary that would last four decades.

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

BREAKING: our system of checks and balances

Israel killed another staff member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, bringing the total number of MSF deaths to 14 with many more injured. www.msf.org/msf-denounce...

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the atonement that will be required of us?

The unitary executive theory puts all the power of the executive branch in the hands of one person. That is a problem when he is unaware of some pretty big decisions being made by his underlings.

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.

The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.” And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland. www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

Another thing to say about this is that there is overwhelming disapproval of ICE among Democrats and Independents. I don't know what consultants the Dems are listening to, but they should maybe consider that they are not good at their jobs. So many messages and sure, healthcare is one, but geez.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Fossil fuels are great. We should definitely increase our dependency on them. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Intimate account of journalist @plasticjesusart.bsky.social being shot by LA Sheriff's Dept. His leg had "a lump of muscle" hanging out. Surgeons tried to remove his clothes, but encountered so much pepper spray on him that medical staff had to evacuate room. "Less lethal" munitions? Barely.

I dislike a lot of Newsom’s stunts. But some of his stunts are genuine good policy. We need his flash, Pritzker framing, Walz folksiness, Warren’s financial plan. We’re gonna need a Frankencandidate. Sorry, a Dr. Frankencandidate’s Monster.

Watching a travel show about doing a safari in Tanzania and it is making me really want to go back to Africa. I can't believe we were in Botswana a year ago.

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

But if you joke about Trump or say something we don't like about Charlie Kirk it's curtains for you. We don't make the rules. Oh wait, we do.

Using LAPD to protect one group from existential threats while also using LAPD to brutalize protesters is a choice.

ICE is basically just the enforcement arm of a terrorist group (The Heritage Foundation) that have successfully carried out a coup.

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans lost their minds over Burisma and a $10k check to pay off a truck loan. But sure,,,nothing to see here.

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

I think I'm going to become a pastor at a strip mall church and just grift people for a living. It sounds so easy and profitable.

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I do not ever want to hand it to Mark Warner, but this is how Dems need to respond to the press. Don't twist your talking points to fit in the far-right framing. Call the far-right framing what it is (lies) and then tell the truth. This is literally your job.

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.