I am convinced America crossed an event horizon thirteen years ago, when even the deaths of elementary school aged children at the hands of a monster weren't enough for their government to say "enough is enough". Hard not to think that Americans would rather have their guns over their children.

Explore the first seven parts of American Science, Shattered A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

$LLY $BIIB

$140m. Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The first family corruption continues.

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

A Klan rally without the hoods.

"there's a new serif in town"

We have near-final results in the 2 Florida legislative special elections. Neither flipped, but quite the swings toward Dems. —Democrats kept HD90, winning it by 28%. (Harris won here by 11%.) —The GOP kept SD11, winning it by 18%. (Trump won here by 40%.) Plus, Dems flipped the Miami mayorship.

POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking? TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up

He singlehandedly fucked up the economy, and now he’s singlehandedly trying to hide all the evidence.

James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren't defunding our schools. Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said. He said all four are U.S. citizens..." www.kare11.com/article/news...

Every word of this.👇

Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."

What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats. This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.

There is no point along the chain of command—from then-VADM Bradley down to the crew member triggering the missile—where anyone has any excuse whatsoever for giving or following that order.

There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented. ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”. Why is ICE harassing women?

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

I don’t give a fuck who the architect is. When a Democrat becomes president in January, 2029, that fucking ballroom is going to be torn down. And again, I won’t support any candidate for president who does not pledge to demolish Trump’s ballroom. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...

This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.

i strangely find myself admiring Rand Paul on this

Trump is cracking down on drug dealers...unless you’re the former president of Honduras

Breaking News: A Pentagon investigator’s report is said to conclude that Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss Yemen strikes risked endangering U.S. troops.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

"Trump appears to doze off in another meeting" The man with the nuclear codes:

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

"It is so depraved to have these torture fantasies about essentially anonymous Venezuelans." @timmiller.bsky.social and @amandacarpenter.bsky.social discuss Megyn Kelly's disturbing rhetoric and what it says about the country's broader moral slide.

As Brit Hume says, when Pete Hegseth says he "has the back" of Admiral Bradley, he means he's plunging a knife into it.

I have been saying and will keep saying that Trump and his people are vulnerable to an opponent who embodies a certain style of masculinity. When Kelly called them in unserious, he basically called into question their manhood.

Starting //// going

Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia

GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia. What are we doing? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Never get involved in a meme war with a South-side Chicago pope.

Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

If you won't stay away from Tesla because of the fascism, maybe you should stay away from it because it's a terrible product 🤷‍♂️ #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall

Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.

no different to a U boat sinking a ship then surfacing to machine gun survivors in the water no different

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/

Donald Trump's administration is trying to force Ukraine to accept a peace plan that would give Vladimir Putin and Russia nearly everything they want.