State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

"Fun" fact: the White House is exempt from the National Historic Preservation Act, and you don't need a federal or local demolition/construction permit to do anything to it because it's overseen by a special internal committee—sat on by the White House & by arts orgs the WH has been gutting lately.

Happy "PROFESSOR!!! CANVAS IS DOWN!!!" day to all academics who celebrate.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

#Shepherdtown #WestVirginia!!!! Are. You. Kidding. Me.

Why the f**k is Jared Kushner talking on behalf of the US government? And/or is involved in the this file? In what capacity?

It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return

Today is a good reminder that the elites of both parties collapsed and capitulated with fascism selling us all out but the average population has not.

An updated version!

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

It’s no surprise it’s a 53 yr old woman. She has reached the age where she has no more fucks to give. (Alt text for pic) - police cuffing a woman lying on the ground dressed as a deflated looking inflatable penis

The Algorithm gets me

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Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history. Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

so they murdered people and now they've kidnapped the people who made it out?

On top of detaining U.S. citizens, ICE is now fining legal residents for not carrying their papers. It was never about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about cruelty.

Clear and petty tyrant behavior on full display

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Hmm I wonder if that affects anything? 🤔

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Not for nothing we should have started burning things down when the the private equity companies got into the business of private prisons in the 80s! "Private prisons" shouldn't even exist..

The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection This is how bribes work. popular.info/p/quid-pro-p...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Things will continue to be chaotic for the foreseeable future, but I have a feeling that when we're finally past this nightmare and can accurately assess it all, we'll see that the right's insane reaction to Charlie Kirk's death was the beginning of the end for them. bsky.app/profile/chri...

NEW: As rumors swirl about Trey Reed's hanging death at Delta State University, we've published a timeline of all verified events. It covers everything from the discovery of his body to the autopsy and ongoing independent investigation, with links to relevant stories and documents. Read it here:

Of all the things that didn’t happen

interesting that Politico, of all Hill insider, conservative viewpoints, would do this shocking reveal (shocking to the general public not anyone paying any attention at all) and forcing it into the discourse. Is the conservative repub wing going after MAGA wing and leaking this to Politico?

“Total destruction”

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents? Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

Garcia: It’s really shocking for him to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon. And we know why that’s the case, right? He wants to control what she says. He wants her—someone who has a ton of information on what actually happened—to perhaps… omit memories she might have of the president

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

Here's Trump today openly referring to the $10 mn gift he got form Al-Sisi during his 2016 campaign. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

MAGA is dressing in plain clothes and trying to incite violence at protests. They are desperately trying to help Trump. It’s not a widespread problem, but you should be aware. If you are new to protests, listen to the local resistance community when they spot a cosplaying agent of chaos ..

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.

Here I was feeling sorry for poor bewildered Lurch the roomba, having to navigate the layout in the new house but no, he immediately gravitated to his old nemeses, “chair legs-feet” that he is determined to be able to climb over, despite inevitable failure.

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.