His parents were/are very nice people who don’t understand what’s wrong with him. He’s directly related to Jewish immigrants from Belarus. He is a puzzling mess to everyone who knows him personally. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

And, as always, I have to say, “Be aware of Russ Vought, also.”

The last time the GOP felt this way was in the '60s, when the Black Panthers were organizing. Suddenly, the 2nd Amendment didn't seem so important to Republicans.

Sorry, Bongo, but @nicollewallace.bsky.social is married to a man with a FUNCTIONING brain, you doofus!! 🙄

Black History Month is a reminder of the leaders who pushed our country closer to its ideals — and the Memphis giants who helped shape our city and our future. I’ll keep honoring that legacy with work: protecting voting rights, confronting discrimination, and expanding opportunity in Memphis & TN-9.

This is happening in PA in the state house committee (vote is tomorrow) — if you're in PA, contact your rep! But it's literally happening everywhere, so no matter where you are, check what's happening at the state level with AI/data centers. bsky.app/profile/susa...

This is your reminder that as an evangelical Christian, Mikey here was most likely taught that Catholics are not actual Christians who practice idolatry because they pray to Mary and other saints and therefore he does not see an admonishment from the pope as something to pay attention to 😒

“It took six months of bipartisan pressure to get them to bring it forward,” Warner added. That's what DNI said yesterday. So, I ask: are DNI political officials lying or are GOP & DEM Members of Congress? www.notus.org/congress/gan...

Anyway, DOJ filed criminal charges against them to cover their butts, but their own video evidence once again proved they were lying. The couple had not attacked the agents with their car, and the agents can be heard laughing about how many holes they put in her. 2/2 www.rawstory.com/smear-campai...

Remember the two people who were shot by ICE in Portland? DOJ claimed they were gang members and tried to smear them, but turns out neither have any criminal record or is associated with a gang, and the "shooting" they accused the woman of being involved with was her getting raped and robbed. 1/2

Today I joined House Democrats at ICE headquarters in DC to demand Kristi Noem's impeachment & voted NO on funding for DHS. Not a dollar more until DHS ends its violence & abuse of power. Trump's federal agents killed two Americans in broad daylight. We are not backing down.

And doing nothing to protect Epstein victims. But we all know “protecting women” is GOP speak for controlling reproduction and limiting economic opportunity.

Republicans are in here cosplaying as protectors of women and children, but they were silent when Renee Good was killed, willingly voted to cut SNAP, and are now sitting by as ICE rips children away from their families. Miss me with the selective outrage.

What I like about her is she’s had it up to here with vibes and bad faith.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Schumer: Bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote 'nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0' https://twp.ai/9PZreb

Loving that his answer isn't yes or no, which is bad enough, but his answer being basically yes as well as saying they don't have time for oversight is even worse.

It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 It was the first all-Black protest in America that most people never heard of. It was the loudest protest ever—all without saying a word.🤫 Let me tell you about The Silent Parade of 1917. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

The power of silence spoke volumes! By marching without a word, the protesters stripped away any excuse for police intervention. They forced the White public to look at their signs—messages like "Your Hands Are Full of Blood"—and listen to the heavy silence. (cont)

The local news media across the nation can't believe it's February. It's going to be a real surprise when we no longer have a democracy.

They'd need to sacrifice themselves to save it.

NEWS: The hearing starts at 3 p.m. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

You need to read this. If you're female you need to be aware that it may not be all men, but my goodness isn't it a lot of them, and all rich and educated and with no excuses. If you're male, you need to come to terms with it, also with no excuses. Not part of the solution = part of the problem.

DOJ doesn't want Marimar Martinez to have the ability to release texts from her shooter Charles Exum, bc it might further "sully" him. I mean, DHS is still calling her a terrorist and he called her a bitch before he shot her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For Dallas area folks. Hutchins is where DHS plans to open a concentration camp for 9,500 people.

What a strange coincidence that Harlan Crow, the billionaire with the collection of Nazi memorabilia, is also the patron of Charles Murray, the guy who thinks Black people are not a part of "western civilization."

The party of protecting children keeps marrying them. At some point the pattern isn't hypocrisy, it's strategy. The accusations exist to make sure no one looks in their direction.

this might sound bad. but if you look into the story it's actually much, much worse prospect.org/2022/04/08/h...

There's a prominent Republican congressman who met his current wife when she was in high school and he was in his 40s, and it's just treated like no big deal by his caucus. Worth remembering when they dismiss the Epstein Files stuff as no big deal.

Sooo Kash lied under oath? Where is the subpoena?

The whole point of the political right is oppression and control. Not freedom. Not democracy. Sure at hell not equality. It’s oppression and control. Hegseth is punishing the Boy Scouts for following their own values.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

This idiot has no idea what communism is. He just uses the word to trigger his fellow MAGA Nazis (who also have no idea what communism is)! So few people in this country are true communists. 🙄

This is some bitch boy wailing. Grow up. You lost. You only win with cheating and gerrymandering. Republicans are such sore losers. Keep voting blue, I need to see more of this.

it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it

The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.

Measles brought back by gullible people who don't believe in science, what a thing you'll have to tell your kids

He hasn’t seen a study that shows a combination of vaccines causes autism either. But, to paraphrase Stephen Colbert, he won’t read the scientific studies to you, he’ll *feel* the scientific studies at you.

This also alludes to a plan to separate the MMR into 3 separate shots - remnant of Wakefields disinformation.

That theory is more than 20 years old. It’s why thimerosal was preemptively removed from most vaccines. We now have a ton of good studies showing the theory was bunk. Likewise, we have a ton of studies showing combo vaccines, like MMR have no causal link. He is a profiteering slime bag.

Yeah, it's a common antivaxxer myth: *We hit babies with too many vaccines at once, it overloads them.* The reality is that, from birth, babies are hit with a tsunami of challenges to the immune system, and a handful of vaccines can only be a tiny fraction of that.

Talking to someone like that is like opening a Russian nesting doll that opens infinitely. There’s always another smaller piece of bullshit inside the next answer.

Exactly. He got that one past Bernie. He very much believes that vaccines are given in such a way as to cause autism.