"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

It's as if they understand and accept the facts and/or expert consensus on a given topic but set policy in the opposite direction to annoy the libs. It's not just ignorance or a lack or knowlege. It's anti-knowlegde.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

This is madness and history will judge us for it.

What an absurd statement from Graham about Iran being the largest state sponsor of terrorism. It's an insult to the United States of America, the largest sponsor of terrorism for the last half-century.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Republicans only wanted them there because they thought they could humiliate them with their bullshit.

Followed by the Feats of Strength where everyone lets Trump win. Because he's the very special boy who has to win at everything or else he throws a tantrum.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for himself and the conservative bloc, held that Trump exceeded his powers by imposing tariffs and "he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.” But the mess of their different reasonings raises some major questions. trib.al/dbvMPvW

Well, some of us are very busy, what with work, doom scrolling through social media, rewatching Star Trek ...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Late-night show host Stephen Colbert said that CBS lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the US Senate reut.rs/4qCIJMB

No Mr. Emmer, they are not the same thing. An administrative warrant is issued by a supervisor within the organization, someone who is incentivized to issue as many warrants as possible (as broadly worded as possible), even if there is little (or no) evidence to justify one.

Okay Mango Mussolini, I'll be your huckleberry. 1) The rate of voter fraud is 0.000003%. 2) Voter ID incurs additional costs in both money and time. 3) Being required to pay money in order to vote is a poll tax, which is banned by the 24th Amendment. 4) The goal is to prevent anyone who might ->

If there's a Hell, I hope there's a special place there just for the assholes who forced starving children to watch them gorge themselves. However, here on Earth, there are numerous things that could be done to them to, at the very least, make sure they suffer just a little bit.

And yet, it still makes sense.

"Who cares if the President raped children if the stock portfolios of rich people are doing well? Doesn't that make it worth it?" - some evil catch-you-next-Tuesday

Wearing onesies *and* hitting on androids.

Well, at least he didn't leave any of *his* children on the island overnight, so there's that.

Those cracks will be quickly plastered over, just as they have been after every "deal-breaker" of the last hundred years. Because it's not about faith, it's about power. And money, racism, resentment, homophobia, etc.

Johnson meant someone who appealed to conservatives (and only conservatives).

Hey Kristi Noem, this is what actual doxxing looks like. (It's also what a mass HIPAA violation looks like. Enjoy getting sued into oblivion Indiana.)

From seizing voter data in Georgia to calling for federal control over state elections, Trump is escalating his attempt at political self preservation by subverting the upcoming election. Aware of growing public rejection of his cruel policies, he is focused on rewriting the rules to cling to power.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

So the reason younger generations are priced out of the housing market isn't stagnant wages, asset inflation, institutional investors, regulations promoting more expensive detached single-family homes, and other systemic and policy issues, we're all just lazy. Ok Boomer. You stupid, stupid old man

Well, she did say she was going to replace the experts and academics with people of "differing viewpoints". Of course this means people who have no expertise in anything but peddling bullshit. Is it any surprise she replaced actual medical experts with grifting quacks?

It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

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Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

1) US Senators, much like law enforcement at all levels, are public figures/servants. 2) As public servants, they are answerable to the public. 3) The public cannot make them answer for misconduct if they cannot be identified. 4) Which is why ICE (and other shitty cops) want to wear masks.

🟡 BREAKING: The FBI is carrying out a search warrant at an election office in Fulton County, Georgia, related to the 2020 election. trib.al/PDyZ1KA

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Speculation grows over who ICE hired to build 'Trump's army': 'That’s why they’re masked' www.rawstory.com/ice-proud-bo...

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

NEW: Federal agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37 y/o man, in Minneapolis this morning after he tried to render aid to a woman who had just been maced. Community quickly built barricades & called for ICE to leave. Authorities tear-gassed & arrested people. 🎥 unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-age...

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.

Nehls: I would like to quickly address the police officers from January 6th. And I can tell you that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with the US capitol leadership team. Fanone: *Coughs: Go fuck yourself*

Federal agents going door to door, forcing entry, and detaining people without judge-signed warrants is a grotesque abuse of power and violation of the 4th amendment. That’s not law enforcement. It’s a secret police force. tinyurl.com/2x8v6s6j

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says