One of the things about the Gabbard/DNI/whistleblower story that I keep thinking about: May 2025: whistleblower accuses Gabbard of wrongdoing in a report filed with the inspector general's office June 2025: Gabbard starts politicizing the inspector general’s office www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Hmm yes yes targeting specific ethnic groups as national enemies of the state, yes, just politics as usual, nothing to see here

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

"...always space for you." -J. Epstein to Elon Musk Elon Musk denies the 2013 Epstein e-mail in which he is mentioned visiting St Bart's and Epstein's island but his estranged daughter Vivian Wilson came forward to confirm they are authentic and that they were in St. Bart at the times specified.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

God bless her for this and I wish her much success

There’s truly no point in any of this conversation. It’s not a mystery. He’s getting rid of people he finds ancillary and who he doesn’t need to control the messaging. Because controlling the messaging is the only reason he owns the thing. It’s just the propaganda arm of his business.

Glover to Epstein: "Tesla is becoming an Energy company" www.justice.gov/epstein/file... Glover to Epstein: Model 3 teardown shows 30% profit margin (lmao) www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Welp, looks like Elon Musk and Jeffery Epstein were definitely in touch around the time of the "Funding Secured" faux Saudi Takeover Why did Tesla suddenly need as much as $10b in cash? Investors sure weren't ever told! Nobody was, other than Elon's pedo buddy. Very cool!

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

Solidarity with those who lost their jobs today because a capricious, greedy billionaire abandoned whatever loosely held values once led him to purchase one of the nation's great newspapers. History will only remember Bezos one way- not as an innovator, but as a base oligarch out of central casting.

Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress' ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents and family members under threat of criminal charges — thanks to how Republicans threatened the Clintons — and they plan to use it against Trump.

*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS

elon musk belonged in prison anyway, but my god

Link: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

From former WaPo publisher Marty Baron himself: yes, this is just as craven & stupid as it appears.

Lizzie Johnson's boss Siobhán O'Grady, the WaPo Ukraine bureau chief, has been laid off as well:

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

not that vice president has ever really been a role model position, but vance has spent his entire time in office flamboyantly rejecting the idea that he should ever be the kind of person that children should aspire to

This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)

One anecdote: so much cash has been withdrawn from Minneapolis banks to help families in hiding meet February rent that there is no hard cash left in the system. The city banks are out of dollars

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it

Guy who doesn’t understand how money works: What if we cut the sports page?

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

‘Our family feels deep distress’: Renee Good’s brothers plead for Democrats’ help at hearing

"Are you saying the survivors are being identified and the potential abusers are being protected?" "That is exactly my point." Epstein survivor Jess Michaels on survivors’ names and personal information being published in the Epstein files. #Newsnight

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Do you think the Trumpists have been polite up until now? Fuck all, the cruelty of family separation and kids in cages began Trump 1. Sorry, the Godwin rule not longer applies to this American run at fascism; they've been pressing buttons and pushing boundaries from jump. Next up a Kristallnacht.

Steve #Bannon schreibt in einer Nachricht, die in den Epstein Files auftaucht, dass er Berater für die #AfD ist. Quelle: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Americans live under a lawless regime that refuses to obey court orders

Here's the full post in the Star Tribune liveblog for posterity since it doesn't have a stable URL to link to:

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

Over the past few months, hundreds of Americans have been pepper sprayed, threatened and detained for attempting to film on their phones the largest crackdown on undocumented migrants in recent American history. An #FTEdit video 🧵 on why ICE agents are so camera shy 👇

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

For Dallas area folks. Hutchins is where DHS plans to open a concentration camp for 9,500 people.

Every year, millions of people hear the words 'you have cancer.' Yet 4 in 10 cases can be avoided by saying no to tobacco, limiting alcohol, and getting vaccinated. Watch the daily dose.

"As we left the hospital, I was escorted out through the back in a wheelchair. I observed over dozens of Border Patrol agents waiting outside the hospital,” Martinez said. “One of the agents came up to me with his cell phone and took a photograph of me ... Was this a trophy for him?” trib.al/qf9BPf6

"These practices must end now." Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

Watching your government ramp up a gulag is not allowed. If you are in the world and you are at risk of witnessing the disappearane of your neighbors, just remember, they'll all be fine in the end. Work means freedom, eventually.

In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Marimar Martinez discussed her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.

The thread is up to 21 and still going

Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.