ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

Hey lawyers....am I crazy, or does feels Kenvue (the maker of tylenol) have a winnable defamation case?

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Everyday the regime crosses yet another line. Time to say No financing for fascism. No dollars for dictators. No payouts for pedophile protectors.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

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After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Not for nothing, but my guess about why Trump keeps frothing at the mouth about interest rates is NOT about cost of living (lol) and more likely has to do with him and his friends wanting to pay less accrued interest since they literally all live via the "buy, borrow, die" strategy.

@leahlitman.bsky.social activated me like a sleeper cell while also unlocking a core memory

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.

unsurprisingly good work from kat here. “kirk’s legacy wasn’t peaceful debate—it was smuggling far-right talking points into the mainstream with a veneer of legitimacy. in death, he’s accomplishing the same thing.”

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a fascist and paid agitator for powerful interests who gleefully spread dangerous misinformation, targeted vulnerable groups and academics for harassment, glorified the violent, helped fuel the Jan 6 insurrection, and ultimately contributed the impoverishment of our discourse.

Welp.

Thrilled to see growing consensus that Dems must step up in the Continuing Resolution fight. Key to doing so? Refuse to frame this as "shutting down government." Instead, call it what it is - refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the American people.

Indeed, when a 5-4 #SCOTUS majority rejected the ability of federal courts to provide damages remedies for (allegedly unconstitutional) cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents in its 2020 ruling in Hernández v. Mesa, Justice Kavanaugh was the median vote: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Trump is declaring war on an American city and American citizens. This is exactly how we spiral into a civil conflict.

This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

@atrupar.com please tell me the rumor abt Fox News cutting away from the cabinet meeting to announce Taylor’s engagement isn’t false and that you got it. I need to see it asap

I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism

One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." . ~Alice Walker

My own experience with the character and fitness exam: I was nervous until I got to my interview, which was conducted by a middle-aged white guy who mostly wanted to shoot the shit about college football. And even at the time I remember thinking, "Huh, this feels...not entirely on the up-and-up."

They might be making Trump mad, but Newsom has been throwing these at the press -- if you think these are beneath my office, why don't you say that when the president does the same thing? He's exposing that the media has a separate set of standards for Our Very Special Boy and that's good.

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

this person should get a lawyer, and, if they don't have a lawyer, my number is easy to find

Videographer is 20-30 feet away from this interaction. The whole situation is low-key and quiet. Cop brandishes his steel asp (expandable, telescoping baton) to menace this journalist. There is no basis whatsoever for this behavior. Zero threat.

Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Once more, with feeling: The President has no authority to federalize *anything* in D.C. without Congress, and all Congress has authorized is using the (tiny) D.C. National Guard and 30 days of use of the MPD "for federal purposes": www.stevevladeck.com/p/172-federa...

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

Among other things, Katsas and Rao's opinions foreshadow how these two will run interference for Trump if Democrats take the House in 2026 and try to investigate the executive branch. They start from the premise that Trump is a king and work backward from there. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

In case you're wondering why every article about this study leads with "participants doubled their weight loss!"

I checked a few times to see if this was the onion

A couple years ago Greg Abbott pardoned a convicted murderer, specifically because that murderer shot a Black Lives Matter protester at a protest. I'm just mentioning this little bout of sociopathy in case you were holding on for some sort of moderation from the Texas governor.

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will follow.

Ah yes, because famously over the past 100 years, women who dated men of color felt very safe in their communities, and the couple themselves were never ever harassed or anything.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

@juddlegum.bsky.social is spot on: "Journalists at many mainstream media publications insist that their coverage is objective and unbiased. This isn't true. Two of the biggest purveyors of this lie are Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, the co-founders of Axios." popular.info/p/axios-and-...