In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

This thread 😂🤣

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

Earlier today, it was revealed that DOJ was investigating this reporter for her previous unflattering expose on Patel’s drinking. This is the best possible response: another expose of his embarrassing behavior. Kick his ass, Sarah.

“The UN Development Programme, meanwhile, warned that the war, which has sent the price of energy and fertiliser soaring, could plunge more than 30 million people into poverty in 160 countries. “It’s development in reverse,” UNDP chief Alexander De Croo said.”

And the hoods are coming off. With today’s SCOTUS decision, racists and GOPmaxxers (to the extent that those are any different) are lining up to further gerrymander Congressional districts in advance of the November midterms. Florida already voted this morning—will Tennessee follow?

Big change! More US Americans now move to Europe than Europeans to the US. Only 20 years ago the ratio was 4:1. We can make educated guesses regarding the political leaning of the voters leaving the US. This chart might be embarrassing for MAGA but it works in their favour. HT @benbawan

I would think that most Americans would agree.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

"The only question is, if anyone will ask, why increasingly normal people feel the political system is so unresponsive to their concerns that they resort to violence." open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

I'd love to see someone like @davidhogg.bsky.social make the point many of us are: What WHPC went through last night only begins to approximate what school kids across the US experience far too frequently. Thus far, this is being treated exclusively as a Trump thing, not a gun violence thing.

Operation Epic Weapon Depletion

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

Getting right to the punch line, the data seems clear, "Trump is arguably the most anti-legal immigration president ever." 🧵

The comedy writes itself.

Celebratory dance in Hungary

Orban consolidated power by making the electoral system less proportional and gerrymandering districts of very unequal sizes. That gave Orban supermajorities when the opposition was divided and less popular—but it turned an opposition landslide into a supermajority that can now dismantle the regime

Orban out! Bravo Hungary!!👏

👀 Oh. My. Gawd. Now we know why Melania gave that Epstein presser on Thursday. An interview with Amanda Ungaro is about to be released by El Pais on Sunday morning (and it’s after midnight right now in Spain). And on Monday, she will be on CNN.

People hear "judge" and they assume judicial independence. But the Trump administration has hacked away at immigration judges independence to the point that they can expect to be fired if they don't do the Trump administration's bidding. And the Supreme Court has blessed this loss of autonomy.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

It’s becoming more and more evident that the pardon power needs to be reformed. Clemency is a critical avenue for mercy in our criminal justice system but it is also becoming a major vector for high-level corruption (and not only under Trump).

Traffic deaths in the Netherlands up to 759 last year, highest since 2007. Rise entirely men, largely those over 70 on electric bikes. Interesting but not a dramatic trend line, and still far lower than in early 2000s. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

I love resistance stories. 🥹

Sharing again for visibility: those shoeless hippies at the, uh, European Central Bank have urged states to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, highlighting their volatility.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

Maybe it's my Ivy degree in political science talking, but people who threw "fascist" around incorrectly according to my checklist are going to be pret-ty embarrassed to discover he's simply a family annihilator.

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Markwayne Mullin floats that his first major move as DHS Secretary might be to massively disrupt international air travel into and out of the United States by pulling customs officers out of cities like New York and Los Angeles, a move that would have international ramifications.

Using human shields. Attacks on infrastructure that supplies civilians with basic necessities. Both sides have no qualms about committing war crimes.

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

Most people don’t understand how neoliberal academia is financed. The foreign students pay for many of the domestic students with their much higher fees. Fewer foreign students means also fewer domestic students.

We've got a madman with the nuclear codes.

Intentional or just unfortunate text box placement? 🤔

A map legend with a sense of humor! Also worth checking out the substack link below.

I covered the military for a while back in the day and have been closely involved with many veterans. Loyalty is ingrained, and they will not like this at all. I know there’s a fear of Trump using the military to stay in power, but I think soldiers will be more likely to help kick him out the door.

EU: EU stands with the people of Cuba in their hour of need. We are stepping up our humanitarian aid to Cuba to help deliver food and safe drinking water, and to provide logistical support to humanitarian partners delivering urgent relief to the most vulnerable.

As the real impact of this energy crisis looms, I expect that governments will be rolling out restrictions on travel, etc. in the coming weeks rather than just suggestions.

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

The crisis will arrive slowly, then all at once www.semafor.com/article/03/3...

1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.

Bracing for major impact. 🧵

This is a two-month long thread that is worth the long scroll. This has been an illegal, immoral action from the start and all the worst is coming to pass. The current US government is facilitating genocide on multiple fronts.