The largest TV news station in Portland , Oregon (KATU-TV) is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting. Yes, that Sinclair. So Trump is watching biased news stories produced by Sinclair which cause him to illegally and unnecessarily invade the city.

ICE is essentially the president's secret police, being trained on immigrants to use later on anyone who opposes him. This takes time, and a shortcut would be to tap into his maga minions. “They better not get them energized because it won’t be good for the left...” Yes, he said that. In public.

Maga is especially angry and crazy right now because their side has control of the entire government and they are still just as miserable as ever. They are realizing that the rot is inside them and that they were played by a bunch of conmen. They're desperate and dangerous, but also nearly spent.

Utah is a weird state. Weird shit happens there. This shooting was a Utah problem that has distracted us long enough.

Charlie Kirk was a troll and a meme. Nobody on the left took him seriously, but the right benefits greatly from turning him into a martyr. I'm betting something mysterious happens to the shooter, so we can't find out the truth.

If the government was really serious about tackling crime, they would go to rural towns in red counties. I grew up in a small republican town, and holy shit the crime is bad. Drugs and abuse are rife and underreported, but also the town leaders and politicians are all corrupt and connected.

Everybody knows the Epstein scandal is not a hoax, and that includes most of maga. So does this mean everything else he calls a hoax is also real? Oh shit.

The idea that maga was ever anti-war is preposterous. They complained about the war against Ukraine because they are pro-putin. They complained about financing the genocide of Palestinians only because they are anti-semitic. Far-right groups are ALWAYS pro-war.

Rubio is ashamed of who he has become. He thinks attacking Venezuela will be a proxy for revenge on Castro, which would redeem him in the eyes of his castro-hating family. This misadventure will be a sloppy embarrassment, and he will still be an empty shell.

I don't want him to die. I want him to rot and stew in his own mess as a lame duck and then I want him to get a speedy and public trial followed by rotting and stewing in prison. Some people don't deserve death.

The only thing that can bail out the Republicans right now is violence. Don't fall into the trap.

The White House posted this lie on their official website: "As part of President Trump’s strategy to establish balanced trade, the European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%..." They're still saying other countries pay our tariffs, so yes, Joe Rogan, they think you're babies.

He's pretty clearly suffering from a terminal health issue, and his base is turning on him. Dying beasts lash out fiercely right at the end -- dangerous times.

If you are a small team of trained assassins with a meticulous plan, you can easily kill a man in 3 minutes with time to spare for a beer afterwards.

I can't believe he's going to die of a terminal illness before he's held accountable for his crimes.

President of the united states when asked about Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child sex trafficker: "I wish her well." President of the united states speaking about democrats: "I hate them."

Something people don't talk about enough is that many primary care doctors won't take medicaid patients. I worked at a community health center (mostly medicaid patients) and although they do their best, it's hard to recruit doctors, turnover is high, and they rely heavily on PAs and NPs.

Apparently, they're using darkened photos of the Coeur D'alene gunman to make him look like less of a Nazi.

I appreciate immigrants and I think we could use more. For people who want fewer of them, let me tell you that nearly every immigrant I've ever met has been here working for a republican. Since republican employers are the reason most immigrants are here, you'd expect at least some appreciation.

Rumor has it that he wanted to wrap things up in Iran so he could hurry back to work on getting the Epstein file released.

I subscribe to a number of non-political youtube channels (fishing/homesteading etc) that attract a largely maga audience. The past week I saw a big uptick in comments critical of "the current government," so I knew he was going to get us into war. It's the go-to move when support crumbles.

I know politics isn't strictly a game, but it seems like cheating to shoot our players to death in their beds.

The reason that Trump is telling ICE to focus deportations on Blue states/cities is that he knows immigrants are important, valuable, productive members of our communities and he knows it will hurt us socially and economically.

Based on his actions, it looks like Netanyahu has a copy of the epstein files, Putin has a copy of the epstein files...are we the only ones who don't get to see the epstein files?

TACO is especially inclined to chicken out in those rare instances when his base pushes back against him, and the redhats are still pretending to be anti-war, so he may in fact back down with the Iran situation.

I don't think I've ever seen a video of cops violating the constitutional rights of republicans.

If Putin ordered him to put on a military parade that made us look pathetic and tired, then mission accomplished.

Netanyahu is attacking Iran as a distraction so he doesn't go to prison for fraud, the Iranian regime needs to strike back to quell the increasing unrest in the streets, and Trump is cheering on the distraction from the epstein list and his other failures. Weak and corrupt leaders cause great pain.

I think the best revenge is to make the protests a party. I know we're sad for our immigrant brothers and sisters right now, but those miserable incel ICE agents lose their fucking minds when they see people having fun.

The only way Trump and the republicans can maintain power is through martial law. Most of us have known this all along, and it's coming true. The other piece is that they need the maga base to start using violence against U.S. citizens. Our best defense right now is to keep the protests peaceful.

I hated the guy before he killed the only Pope I ever liked.

The case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, the Georgia man illegally detained by ICE, highlights the issues of language diversity among multicultural citizens. His 1st language is Tzotzil, 2nd is Spanish, and 3rd is English. Not every U.S.-born citizen speaks perfect English, but that's not a crime.

The only thing those women learned by almost going into space is that you really don't want to be trapped anywhere with Katy Perry.

The reason it is so hard for right-wingers to understand why due process is so important is that they know the left would never send someone to a concentration camp. They think it could never happen to them, and for the most part they are right.

It's absurd to me that maga looks at certain Latin American countries as models for what the U.S. should do. Milei and Bukele are fucking psychos. Argentina and El Salvador have been a mess for the past 80 years, so they are willing to try crazy experiments. We ain't like them. Yet.

Good night, everyone. Fuck Shaquille O'Neal.

Dem reps need to be really careful about casually voting in favor of bills because "they'll never pass the filibuster in the Senate." If the Senate receives a bill that can suppress enough votes to assure a full and permanent GOP takeover, what's to stop them from abolishing the filibuster?

Marco Rubio could go from a despised cog in the wheel of the worst U.S. presidential administration ever to a national hero very, very quickly. All he would have to do is take his family somewhere safe, like Spain, and start talking.

Unfortunately, the world has 77 million reasons to no longer rely on the US dollar as the reserve currency, buy US treasury bonds, invest in US stocks, or travel to the US. Seventy-seven million people voted to ignore the rest of the world and the results will make America anything but great.

Sure trump is getting outsmarted and owned by just about every country in the world right now, but the one that really chaps his hide is Mexico. A female, left-leaning president has stood strong against him from the beginning and is frankly eating his lunch. That's why he wants to bomb Mexico.

"It's a great time to buy!!!" = I just told my buddies I'm gonna goose the stock market, and I'm putting this post out there for when they come after me for insider trading. I can say "I told everybody, not just my wealthy donors and pals." Allegedly.

The Space Nazi is not known for his self control, and the drugs don't help with that. He also vomits his thoughts onto his social media megaphone. The rift between him and the Soggy Cheeto is nearing irreconcilable dimensions. All of that may lead to some seriously damning information slipping out.

The only reason he can use our economy as a weapon is because we spent hundreds of years making it strong.

He thinks that because they were stupid enough to vote for him, they're stupid enough to let him starve them, take their health care, and ruin their kids' schools. Yes it's true for some, but I think the big dummy let his hubris push him to go too far this time.

I heard a wacky conspiracy theory today. Somebody said that the reason Elon Musk is having so many male children is that he wants to use the healthiest one as a replacement vessel for his mind via a neuralink transfer. Anybody else hear that one?

Today my mother, who is nearly 80, said to me sarcastically: "Well, people have been suckling free information from the teet of the CDC and NIH for way too long. It's about time they did their own research."

I think we need to be honest with ourselves and admit that the world has lost trust in us not just because of trump, but because over half the country allowed it to happen (by voting for him or not voting at all). Even after trump is gone, the erosion of trust will remain.

Something I love about Bluesky is that I can read the comments under a post and actually get more informed about the topic, unlike the other sites where the comments kill my brain cells and make me lose faith in humanity.

Trump announced another round of tariffs today on imported autos. That should give Tesla stock a bump for a day or two, but pretty soon, he's going to run out of ways to help Elon save Tesla.

Lots of people are posting about the video Kristi Noem made in the Salvadoran prison. Like everything else this administration does, the photo op is a lie. The prisoners behind her are not the Venezuelans recently deported from the U.S. - They are Salvadorans.