I thought those were tubes providing his hand with plasma

Which is it?

Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

It's called Flapping Airplanes because they couldn't do Wile E. Coyote.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers posing as journalists are casting themselves as victims and labeling ICE-watch groups “terrorists.” Their big new evidence—“infiltrated” Signal chats—isn’t a secret, had no calls for violence and urged people to witness, not interfere. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

you're never gonna believe who's suddenly worried about judges being inappropriately influenced and biased by private organizations ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

antiques on Antiques Roadshow

hey so the fash are spinning out on their conspiracy that the rapid response chats are coordinating terrorism and now claiming the rapid response chats are being controlled by the feds collaborating with antifa to trick people into coordinated terrorism lmfao

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

To clarify: consular (or diplomatic) premises are not 'foreign soil', no not an invasion. They are, however, inviolable under Art 31 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (USA still a party AFAIK). Local law enforcement can't enter even with a warrant.

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

i think people need to be held accountable for the 59 votes that bestowed kristi noem with a lot of federal power, and i think it should be every one of the 59 people who voted for her, regardless of their party affiliation

I voted against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and I was pleased to speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates @VanityFair about the mood surrounding that debate. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

Biden era officials continue to rage at Netanyahu for not acknowledging how unflinchingly and unconditionally pro-Israel the Biden administration was

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend

incredible. if a wrestler came out to this song, i would take a child's soda and throw it at them

Any agreement that continues with him in the government is a non-starter

The historic Potter’s House, which people who know Link may know as his bookstore, has the devastating news they’re closing. They have stood for decades using an anti capitalist business model, they’re more than a bookstore but a place that feeds & looks after the community. So many of us are sad.

"I think it's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity." Scoop from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Im sorry if you go a Dominican baseball game you can get bottle service?! Comes with a cooler and ice and styrofoam cups. Bottle of Johnny Walker Black is like $50 USD.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

Interesting look at how the Murdoch Empire – in particular Fox News, the WSJ and the NY Post - did a whiplash-inducing 180 after months of cheering on the violent immigration crackdown. And how effective Rupert is at telling Trump what to do.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

In our reporting for the book and stories, sources who came into contact with Musk and his son, X Æ A-Xii, told us that he kept the child around Twitter's office to act as a security blanket. His children are there for his disposal.

Two of the six remaining funding bills were passed separately by the House before being pulled into the minibus package that includes DHS. Those could probably pass the Senate by a voice vote. That this hasn't been considered suggests that Thune and the Republicans prefer to hold funding hostage.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Weiss to staff: "Let's NOT do the fucking news!" bsky.app/profile/jayr...

40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster [I am glad they are relooking at this, because there was pressure put on launchng when it was not safe] www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

When a little Nazi turd gets added to your Signal group chat by accident, you can in fact just start a new one without him in it

I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.

BREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

You could give me 150 guesses for which NFL player has spoken out and I would not have gotten to Quinn Meinerz

donation links in this thread. start from the bottom of the list and work your way up.

As Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.

Nothing the elimination of the Washington Post sports section can't fix

Q for anyone who works at the VA: Has the VA secretary or leadership said anything internally addressing the fucking elephant in the room that one of their VA colleagues was just shot to death by a federal agent? Hearing from one source it's been a cone of silence in there, no comms to staff.

Like I'm sorry that these events all read like a didactic feminist novel but that's not my fault

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

I wrote about the dramatic pivot that took place on Fox's airwaves, beginning on Sunday night when Bill Melugin provided his colleagues the permission structure they needed to abandon their narrative. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/aft...

One activist told me they had been spraying pepper spray into air vents to get it into peoples closed cars bsky.app/profile/mark...