Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

“generally apolitical… never really talked politics…” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social talks to a friend of the killer and gets a different picture from the one the government & media are portraying. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Jeffries’ response to Van Hollen rightly calling him out as “spineless” for not endorsing Mamdani is typically lame, weak, and unfunny. Dude isn’t qualified to run a school board let alone the Dem caucus in the House. Sheesh.

I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder. youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?...

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

The pace of our transition from Republic to Autocracy continues to accelerate, with all the same pretexts and justifications we’ve seen in other places throughout history for each incremental move. We even have the enablers and quislings that are a necessary precursor.

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

SAN BERNARDINO, CA: Trump’s Gestapo shoots at a family that fled when they refused to ID themselves and smashed the family’s windows. (Last week they chased a man from Home Depot onto the 210 freeway and he was struck and killed: www.latimes.com/california/s...)

Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."

Time and again with Putin TACO Trump lives up to his nickname.

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At a time when we have a president who wants to halt Black progress, silence Black voices, and erase Black history… I’m thankful for this 🙏🏽

Europe's leaders showing up in force at the White House tomorrow is not a display of solidarity with the US. It's the opposite. A sign of their profound distrust of Trump and of his relationship with Putin and his commitment to our NATO allies and Ukraine.

On MSNBC last night I made it clear "We are at war." Trump does not want to govern, he wants to rule us! We need more Democratic leaders to wake up to the threat Trump poses to our freedoms and our Republic as he follows page by page the fascist playbook:

What Texas is doing is unprecedented and wrong.👇

As Republican Rep James Comer makes clear — Trump’s authoritarian takeover (to distract from his Epstein files cover-up) will not stop with Washington. “Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia…”

Will someone please find out what work the pedophile sex-trafficker is being allowed out to do, and who she is working for?

Brett Meiselas: I’m against gerrymandering, but that doesn’t mean we unilaterally disarm. Governors like Newsom and Hochul are right to fight back. Democrats tried to ban partisan gerrymandering in the Freedom to Vote Act, which also included voter ID—but not one Republican voted for it.

Meet the Press put together a supercut of Trump being for the BLS jobs numbers before he turned against them

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

“She’s worse than Epstein. She’s a monster… Epstein was Pinocchio, she was Geppetto.”

A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.

“NOT TRUE” Embarrassing - @senmullin tries to lay the Epstein sweetheart plea deal on Obama when as @jaketapper points out it happened under Bush🤔 Also: Trump made Alex Acosta, who gave it, his Labor Secretary 🤔🤔

🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 This should make everyone’s alarm bells go off. Democrats need a reset. They somehow managed to be less liked than a party that tried to overturn an election, gutted Medicaid and backed a felon president who’s in the Epstein files.

Trump posted this, but more importantly we’d like to remind everyone these posts get saved into the library of congress so people hundreds of years from now can also view them. Trump just included the fat JD Vance meme into that record.

Which means before she agrees to lie for Trump she wants an agreement to a sentence reduction or commutation. Maxwell has a lot of leverage on Trump all the sudden, and she is going to use it to benefit herself.

Trump’s federal prosecutor in LA can’t seem to get grand juries to indict protestors. I’m gonna guess it’s because there are no crimes. This debunks the “massive increase in assaults” claim, as well as the claims that LA is “lawless”, or that the national guard is necessary.

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

America in a nutshell.

27 different named women accused him of sex assault, he’s on video with Epstein where they are grossly leering at young women, Miss Teen USA contestants said he came in dressing room when they were naked, he bragged on the Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women. It’s obvious.

Hahaha. This is delicious. Finally waking up to the fact you’ve been a dumbass the last 10 years because you’re scared and full of hate.

Well that explains the cankles 🤣

RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

Also, “in 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery.”

22 years later he would be running our country with near-total impunity. 🇺🇸

Tennessee — let your reps know you’re watching how they vote on this. reptimburchett is joining Massie & the Dems to get the files released… will the others? RepChuck @RepOgles RepHarshbarger @RepJohnRose RepDavidKustoff DesJarlaisTN04 @MarshaBlackburn SenatorHagerty

Quick question. There are still almost as many troops in LA right now as there were at the end of Afghanistan. Why exactly? Also where are the mass deportations of white illegals, like from Russia?

A complicit and corrupt Supreme Court just allowing Trump to act like King and dismantle the federal government. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

Reup: Jeffrey Epstein is important not just (or even primarily) because Trump might be implicated in the files, but bc he lost his super power -- his ability to command and direct attention over it. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/j...

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

Damn. This is what the last 10 years have felt like to me. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...

Gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s rapid response team not messing around

Older Bigot Didn’t Need Social Media Algorithm To Start Down Path Of White Supremacy theonion.com/older-b...

Tax rates on the ultra rich have been plummeting for decades, and they now pay less than the bottom half. But it’s never enough. This is the Republican agenda. On display again tonight — as they pretend to care about the debt. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...