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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

"we can make the government work better by spending less money" is a profoundly stupid idea in 99% of scenarios and yet it's consistently sold as common sense

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

To put this differently—we’re spending 18 billion dollars annually to detain random people at Guantanamo Bay for no reason other than it looks cool on social media. Or to put it another way; about 20% of DHS’s annual budget if you don’t include the supplemental budget.

thinking about the absolutely heroic drugrunners SOUTHCOM thought these guys were "if we let them live, they're gonna finish the job. they're gonna paddle into miami with several kilos of cocaina. there'll be a big parade for them. they'll be sexy as they stand there, bedraggled but captivating"

The indictment against Cuellar showed evidence that he tried to amend the FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act at the direction of a foreign government static.texastribune.org/media/files/...

BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors! You must refuse illegal orders.

Immigration=good was a principle understood by Frederick the Great! If you want to “retvrn to tradition” then the argument starts and ends with population=power. The idea of homogeneity as a virtue is an innovation of the Romantic period. The liberal idea is more traditional.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

> winter 25-26: joint patrols > summer 2026: advisor teams > fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down” > 2027: The Year Of The Police > FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

i would like more democrats to start promising to lock these fuckers up

I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.

PRIMARY EVERYONE means you have to win those fucking primaries, open your wallet, get on the streets, do the work. if you want a better democratic party, you will have to fight for it and win it, it will not be given, it will only be taken.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.

I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.

if the federal government isn't going to be distributing funds to Democratic cities and states it raises a big question of why the people living in those cities and states should continue funding the federal government

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” What a remarkable statement from the single most powerful individual in the world. Fascinating look into a person’s mind.

War ravaged Portland

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

I just want to scream. Go move to the fucking suburbs already. It’s a city. Zoning should allow things cities have on every block. We have plenty of lifeless lame residential only suburbs for Bob kettle to go live in if he likes that

the child of versailles thing is a literal quote from molotov by the way

I’ve posted this before, but the GOP-led US senate report shows the core allegations of russiagate are fundamentally true, and the right wing has been working for years to obfuscate that in the public eye www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...

Rep. Moskowitz: "So you're telling me someone 22 years ago went back to the future and forged his signature when he was a Democrat, and somehow this person knew he would become a Republican and become president 22 years later?...We should immediately open up an investigation!"

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

20% of practicing doctors in the United States are immigrants.

As your Governor, I won’t stop fighting to defend your reproductive freedom.

We have issued a Standing Order for the COVID-19 vaccine, making it easier for WA residents to get vaccinated. Read more at doh.wa.gov/newsroom/doh...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

 "We stand here in the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country, in the history of the world, as we stand here by Wall Street, where last year. They had more than $40 billion in bonuses. We ask ourselves, how is it that one in four New Yorkers are still living in poverty?"

But wait, you say, what about Rolls-Royce? Ok, British "person," try having it not be a Euro consortium and try putting it in a fighter that isn't mostly French.

Sure sounds like those “death panels” I heard so much about way back when

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."