Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid. Which is an easily disproven lie.

Ten cars rammed into an ICE agent's vehicle and yet zero footage of the incident: ain't that something

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Truth.

I have this hypothesis, supported by nothing, that some evangelicals who talk endlessly about how life is just an endless series of temptations to commit horrible sins, and the world is full of demons barraging you with temptations at every turn, are accurately describing their own experience.

The essential Pritzker

You know who doesn’t always check to make sure their workers’ SS numbers are legitimate? Employers. You know who really does check to make sure that a SS number is legitimate? The Social Security Administration. This is why undocumented workers pay SS taxes for benefits they don’t receive.

When MAGA folks speak of "Trump derangement syndrome" it is a form of gaslighting. Trump doesn't lie to deceive, precisely. That requires a sort of cleverness or understanding he lacks and has never had. It doesn't take any wits to deny reality, though. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The silver lining on our current circle of Hell is that all the worst people in society are outing themselves. One day this will be over, but all ICE's proud boys, thugs, klansmen, and boogaloo boys are going to have their participation on the defilement of our country on their resumes forever.

The banality of ice cream open.substack.com/pub/thebigge...

This is such a flagrant violation of every principle of international law and sovereignty that it’s hard to actually believe even when we definitively know it is true (and even when it is consistent with all other behaviours).

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....

A little theory: Among the reasons Trump is hellbent on publicly abusing Comey is that he had a crush on him. Comey a big guy, strong guy, but he didn't come up to Trump with tears streaming down his face. He didn't want the hugs and kisses. Comey spurned Trump's love. bsky.app/profile/robe...

Obviously I have no actual information about this, but I would bet large sums of money that they have. And I hate gambling.

“Pro-life” MAGA sure does love dictators who indiscriminately bomb innocent civilians daily, kidnap children, rig elections, plunder resources, jail journalists, torture and murder political opponents, and poison dissidents.

I don’t buy for one second that Trump voters didn’t know Project 2025 would be his playbook. They just didn’t think it would touch them. Oops! CNN needs to own its role too, letting Trump lie unchecked and pushing that lazy “both sides” framing between him and Kamala Harris.

Does ANYONE approve of this?

Thank you for remaining an active critic of the Regime 👏

BTW for maga, it was never about pedophiles. It was about hating fellow Americans and the pedophile charge was a convenient way to put a moral mask on that. The second Trump failed to release the files, because he’s in them, they defended him. Mask is off

The abuse of ICE AGENTS All over our Country It is out of control Please call your Congressional representatives 202 224-3121 I have sent this clip to mine email

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Food banks were already stretched, and then the Trump administration canceled the delivery of 94 million pounds of food. And then Republicans passed the largest SNAP cut ever. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

It really is amazing how often you can repeat something Trump said verbatim without identifying Trump as the person who said it and Trump supporters will say it’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard.

The executive branch does not have the authority to get the United States into armed conflicts. And it cannot turn noncombatants into military targets just by saying they are so. This is explicitly unconstitutional, illegal violence.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

Nazi Lock Steppers: Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store: The app allows users to monitor and track the location of immigration enforcement agents. In a statement to Business Insider, Apple said the app was removed due to "safety risks." www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

JFC, you can’t even get through copy editing the C’s in a fucking glossary without Republicans shoving their lies and bullshit in your face these days.

We’re 10 years in and blatantly and repeatedly lying has never once been a story the press has considered important in an of itself. There simply is no downside of doing it.

This is insane.

Actor and activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment first backed by her father Henry Fonda in 1947, to fight against what the group calls a “coordinated campaign” from the Trump administration to curb freedom of expression. https://wapo.st/4nxKYQw

Jeffries: "Trump and the Republicans spent all year last year promising they were gonna lower the high cost of living. They also spent all of last year running away from Project 2025 ... now all of the sudden, Donald Trump admits it was his project all along. He just did it earlier today."

Perfect

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/being...

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Trump meets with Russ Vought to discuss potential cuts to "Democrat Agencies," describing them as a "political SCAM," and considers if cuts will be temporary or permanent.

Please find your elections and get folks to turn out.

I'm atheist, but respect the rights of others, & was also a Pub Def fighting against DP; that's why I am thrilled to see new Pope call out the hypocrisy of about 90% of MAGA. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Vought and Miller are trying so hard to be Sith. "Where's my force lightning?" they're thinking. They want so badly to choke people by making a little pinching gesture in the air. They had no Princess Amidala inner turmoil that brought them to this point. They leapt right at it.

Despite a government shutdown, Republicans will make sure Argentina gets their $20 billion.

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

If you complain about being beaten we will beat you harder

rubber, meet road.

Reading between Bessent's lines: "Our farmers fucked up supporting us, but we'll corruptly make them whole, unlike everyone else we've blunderingly screwed over." bsky.app/profile/atru...

"like all authoritarian regimes, America’s autocracy is being run by malevolent incompetents. And while our hallowed institutions are utterly failing to rise to the occasion, the sheer incompetence of these hacks is generating pushback that may yet save us." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Shorter Johnson: "I know you are but what am I? I'm rubber and you're glue. I hear no evil, I see no evil, and I know nothing about these ... "Epstein files"? of which you speak." bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Father like….😗