Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy. My latest in @theunpopulist.net

Southcom killed 2 more in the Eastern Pacific today, making at least 131 civilians killed by the US with no due process in 35 attacks over 5 months. Only a sick nation would do this. 23 attacks in the Eastern Pacific, 10 in the Caribbean, 2 unspecified. See adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Texas has a Voter Apathy problem due to 30 years of Republican disinformation. Gerrymandering has convinced Democrats their vote doesn't matter. Look at who actually votes in Texas. This chart shows the last midterm. 63% were eligible to vote, but didn't. Register them. Motivate them.

🚨 RELEASE THE NAMES OF ALL THE CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS!!! 🚨

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Now we learn from Reps of both parties who saw the unredacted Epstein files today that Trump, Bondi, & Blanche are covering up the absolute worst things in the Epstein files to protect the wealthy, powerful and politically connected. DOJ is being run by criminal co-conspirators.

"We saw it happen. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election... That's what it was." -- Mitch McConnell, on Jan 6

I love this for all of the self-made MAGA building trades owners in the failed Libertarian Experiment that is Texas who will be horrifically hurt financially from being unable man jobsites, which will lead to delay fines, higher interest rates, and for some bankruptcy.

1/ The White House won’t promise ICE agents won’t surround the polls in November. Federal judges say ICE violated 100 court orders in January alone. College voting programs are being dismantled. This isn’t chaos. It’s a system. Here’s how it works. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

Why did so many people miss what Trump was really planning to do on immigration? The people who voted for him but are upset about how it’s playing out. We had Project 2025. And this, from his own lips, is when everyone should have known… “They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” 1/2

Like the Taliban, Trump/Vance/Noem/Hegseth attack America’s soft targets: children, women, political opponents, vets, universities, immigrants, disenfranchised minorities, journalists, scholars and sanctuary cities. Like the Taliban they don’t attack Russia, China, and North Korea.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

“Everything the administration has been doing with regard to the CFPB is illegal. From trying to shut down an agency that Congress created, down to my situation where they’re now coming for CFPB employees’ paychecks and health care and benefits.” www.huffpost.com/entry/russel...

Seeing Amazon and Microsoft’s top lobbyist writing in the @seattletimes.com that we should support housing when these two both use their personal funds to elect anti housing NIMBYs against pro-housing candidates—is galling. Such spectacular bullshit. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP899SwuX/

Also remembering when Amazon and Microsoft each donated $100k the campaign against funding mixed income social housing in Seattle.

1) As in they don' throw the turret into a spin & just run through all their ammo as it rotates. Instead they select targets & prosecute them. We have a lot of empirical evidence on this from Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Inherent Resolve, etc. 4/

1) Diversity: Last point on this, though I could make a dozen more, we know that women are better shots under pressure. For instance, when women run the weapon systems mounted in vehicles & they come under fire they don't do what too many male Soldiers do. The don't death blossom. 3/

🧵 on the ignorance on display. 1) Starting w/diversity. The US military should broadly look like the US as that keeps the military tethered to American society. If it's all just a bunch of door kicking rural white Christian dudes that's bad. It's bad for the military & it's bad for American. 1/

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it's Monday. The Founders simply could not imagine men, even of the same party, so careless about their own power & oaths to allow all of this.

CBC in 2017: “To make the project a reality, the Canadian government agreed to pay for all construction costs, including $250 million for the inspection plaza on the American side of the river, with a plan to recoup the costs through tolls.”

Toxic exes usually come back when you experience a glow up.

“[The #SAVEAct] a ‘proof of citizenship’ mandate for voter registration, and is one leg of the three-legged stool Trump is employing to try and manipulate a win for Republicans in this November’s congressional elections (the other two are ICE intimidation and mid-decade redistricting).” #voterfraud

As Republicans scramble to disenfranchise voters. I wonder why?? The 2026 halftime show (Bad Bunny), reached an estimated 135+ million viewers. The 2026 Turning Point USA (TPUSA) "All-American Halftime Show" featuring Kid Rock peaked at roughly 5 to 6.1 million concurrent viewers.

“It’s time we all get in the game!” TY, @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social If y’all want resistance with a huge helping of the best Christianity can be, follow John. My husband, who passed, and I collaborated with John on The Grinch song in Trump’s first term. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #SneShed

LA Times: As the immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say there is a growing number of reports of ICE agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and utility workers. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #ICEOut

Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief. Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.

Megyn Kelly is determined to harvest hatred for profit by being as white supremacist as possible. She even mocks a Latino accent in this rant. 1/🧵

Republican lawmakers prefer to remain soulless lackeys collecting money and power by supporting Trump. But they've got to see disaster ahead as he becomes ever more mentally unhinged. He's now predicting that if Canada cuts a trade deal with China, the Chinese will BAN HOCKEY IN CANADA.

Congressman Andy Ogles is tripling down on his insistence that seeing gay people in Bad Bunny’s show is gay porn. Check his computer.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

"One notable difference is that Hitler actually believed his fascist rhetoric; whereas Trump is a performer, surrounded by fascists, serving it up for applause lines while enriching himself. And of course, I’m not comparing Trump to Hitler. History already did. I’m just reading the footnotes."

Immigration attorneys are working overtime to try and locate people disappeared by ICE. Here is just one example of what’s happening.

JUST IN: Justice Department files brief w/4th Circuit, seeking to revive criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James, arguing that AG has power to make successive interim US attorney appointments. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Rubio is going to the Munich Security Conference followed by, it seems like, a tour in support of the far-right regimes in Europe.

So when someone has honestly served their time and is being released from prison, guards start walking them outside, but then they divert them to waiting ICE agents who pull them back into custody. “I’ve lost everything. I’m old. I don’t want to be hiding anything. So I speak up. If I die, I die.”

OK, but Trump was president when the 2020 election happened, so isn't the notion that Venezuela interfered an indictment of his national security apparatus?

I was leaving the park when I noticed two Bald Eagle calling and chasing each other overhead. One landed on a nearby branch with the other in close pursuit, flying right past as if to bump him/her off the perch. The eagle doing the chasing has a bit of jewelry; he/she is banded on the right foot.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:

New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange. Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119. me, for @forbes.com

It's about effing time

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Update on the plan to make The Handmaid's Tale a reality.

This comes at the same time that the conservative movement is targeting young women more broadly—from tradwife bullshit to MAHA misinformation about birth control. The goal is convincing the next generation that the rapid erosion of their rights isn’t a political crisis, but a lifestyle upgrade.

Some unusual candor here, and this is what the tech industry is selling us: AI will put millions out of work and generate enormous profits for industry, isn't that great? What about the workers, you say? Eh, we'll figure something out, never you mind.

A key part of the 2028 Democratic platform had better be to seize Trump's $400 million Qatari bribe plane so he doesn't get to just take it with him like he thinks he's going to, since we're paying to turn it into Air Force One anyway.

DHS is holding children at an immigrant detention center with insufficient food and medicine. These are not the criminals that Trump promised to get off our streets. These are children.

Reps. Adelita Grijalva, Greg Stanton, and Yassamin Ansari’s letter to Kristi Noem and Todd Lyons over the 418K square foot industrial warehouse DHS purchased in Surprise, AZ to convert into a concentration camp.

During October's ICE raid in NYC's Chinatown, I saw an IRS criminal division agent standing guard on a corner. A majority of that agency had been detailed to ICE ERO. For @slate.com, I wrote about the phenomenon of federal agents from once-specialized agencies absorbed into this national police blob