The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

Not sure why he is the Health Secretary.

NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs. CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs. www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...

Bring it on.

CATO: “.. The whole idea that Trump tariffs would ‘protect US manufacturing jobs’ was all lies then, and it is all lies now.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

Spoiler alert: When top officials have to start saying in an agency’s defense “no, no, no, that’s a totally legitimate law enforcement agency,” they have already lost and it is, in fact, no longer a legitimate law enforcement agency.

But they are, in fact. It is documented.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

The masked armed men have to wear the masks because the woman in the bathrobe might threaten them

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Yes, she is.

I do believe she answered the question in the affirmative.

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The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Clean" coal. 🤡

Thus cannot be overstated. The extent to which Ukraine has degraded a historic adversary is astonishing. And they did it with largely outdated US gear. And it was stupid cheap for the effect. And Trump stopped it.

US military aid to Ukraine was the single most effective military spending we’ve had since aiding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We reduced Russia’s military by like half for circa five percent of the annual Pentagon budget. That’s a goddamn bargain. And Trump has spoiled it.

the U.S. right wing conducted a massively-successful 50+ year propaganda campaign to impregnate the culture with the lie that all fact-based criticism of their unpopular policies has an inherent bias and should be discarded our feckless consolidated corporate press was generally happy to oblige

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

“Being an elementary school student in the United States is more deadly than being an ICE officer.”

core part of the ostensible economic justification for mass deportation was that Americans would rush in to take all the jobs immigrants left, but now unemployment rates for native born Americans are rising and the admin is sending people out to do damage control

Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.

Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

This administration is a criminal administration.

Number of times GDP has grown 15% in Trump’s lifetime: Zero. @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

100% this. ICE actions are not the marker of a free and fair country that prides itself on the rule of law. The words coming out of the Administration about the danger to the agents, the dangerousness of their jobs, the idea that United States citizens are somehow domestic terrorists... all lies.

Indeed, vote them all out. America will thank you. It will also happen to be a better place, a safer place, a better governed place, and an economically more prosperous place that will see more people benefit rather than a precious few.

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

The tragedy here cannot be understated. These are people's lives lost and wrecked. 100% preventable. These deaths like at the feet of one man.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Unchecked Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trap Heat, Destabilizing Global Weather Patterns And Putting Millions Of Lives At Risk vs. No They Don’t

🤡 @reuters.com www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

1000% reductions in price, 15% GDP growth - what comes first? The man with the nuclear codes is less numerate than a high school sophomore.

15% growth? Nope. He's lying to you, folks. Don't be a sucker.

For the kiddies at home: The jobs report is based on unemployment applications. Undocumented immigrants *do not receive federal benefits* like unemployment. So deporting millions of illegal aliens has zero effect on the jobs numbers. Navarro is lying to you.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “They are seizing ballots, gunning down ordinary citizens, arresting journalists. All the alarm bells 🚨 are blaring. The question is, are we listening?”

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Lutnick last year on his visit to Epstein's house in 2005: "My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again." (Lutnick testified under oath today that he visited Epstein's island in 2012.)