NEW: The Dilley family detention facility disabled video calls on tablets after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica. 1/

We know what these places are, and they will get worse if we don't shut them down.

1/2 Mullin said he had to have SERE training in order to go overseas, but he won't tell us where he went or who he talked to or why he had to have SERE training. HE WASN'T EVEN WILLING TO GO INTO A SCIF TO TELL THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. "Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training...

BREAKING: House Oversight Dems just walked out during a briefing with Pam Bondi on Epstein — saying she refused to commit to their subpoena to sit for a deposition. Garcia: "We asked her multiple times and she refused to commit. We won't participate in a fake hearing that's not under oath."

The next move, I hope, is @robertgarcia.bsky.social holding a press conference asking why the attorney general won't give testimony under oath about the sex trafficking ring that likely implicates the president. And then another the next day. And the next. And the next.

Time to revisit that Markwayne Mullin photo from January 6th, where Donald Trump directed a mob of insurrectionists to storm the Capitol as Mullin cowered in terror

🇶🇦 Qatar’s Ministry of Interior confirms it is still “dealing with a fire in the Ras Laffan Industrial Area.” It’s the world’s largest hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export.

Recall how much "how will you pay for that" hand wringing came from conservatives, centrists, and media folks when it involved student debt relief. www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1...

Trump and Republicans' SAVE America Act isn't solving problems—it's creating them by making YOU shell out for IDs and documents like a birth certificate or passport. They want to make voting more expensive—and Democrats won't let them.

Third country removals—deporting people to countries they've no connection to—are not new to the Trump admin, but they've used the practice in aggressive & arguably illegal ways. The class-action challenge fighting them is now at the First Circuit, w briefing over the next 5 weeks, then arguments.

If you haven’t already seen this, please breathe this lovely fresh air, and smile 😁

Here's the original 6 second clip with the original threaded in below. Go remix it and bring people some joy in this darkness ❤️ I'm not uploading to IG because fuck the AI slop machine, but i can't stop folks, feel free to tag me if you do. Do whatever you want as long as you don't make money.

I know this thread has been going awhile but I wanted to get up the footage of the goslings as they fell asleep on the road. SO SLEEPY!!!! 🥰 🪶 🐣

$200 BILLION for a war of choice that Americans don't want and that isn't making us safer. This should be an absolute nonstarter.  The best way to end this war, protect our troops, save civilian lives, & rein in a lawless Administration is to cut off funding. I’m a hell no.

Trump just threw Israel under the bus—claiming the U.S. “knew nothing” about the strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field—despite earlier Axios reporting it was coordinated with and approved by his own administration.

Whether or not this factual account is accurate, it seems POTUS is trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube to some extent and forestall further attacks against energy infrastructure. (Obviously makes him look weak if Israel did this without his knowledge. And foolish if he approved of it.)

Liam Ramos, the boy in the blue bunny hat, was used as bait by ICE. He was kidnapped & thrown in the Dilley camp where his health immediately declined. Public pressure got him released. He became a symbol of resistance. So the regime stripped his asylum status. They’re quashing all hope:

Holding children in immigration detention puts them at risk for serious injuries, illnesses, and even death. Kids don't belong in immigration detention.

Accusations of lies, refusals to condemn violence, "a man with anger issues" -- Markwayne Mullen's nomination hearing today went way off the rails as he sniped with fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul. “There is no precedent for legal dueling!" www.huffpost.com/entry/markwa...

The grift continues...

Sadistic and cruel

BLUMENTHAL: Shouldn't we be disgusted by an agent that fires at a citizen, no criminal record, she was charged and the charges were dismissed. Wouldn't you agree that agent should not be carrying a firearm? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I'm not familiar with the investigation

Tulsi Gabbard under oath: "I was at Fulton County, Sir, at the request of the president." Feb. 5: President Trump: "She went in at Pam’s insistence.” Feb. 4: NBC's Tom Llamas: "Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?" President Trump: "I don’t know."

Methane polluters should be held to account. Instead, Republicans help them pollute. Fossil fuel money corrupts America.

Rand Paul: "The fact he can't bring himself to say that we shouldn't settle political questions with violence, I think that would be a terrible example for ICE and Border Patrol"

Our reporting on CBP agents Timothy Donahue, Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum is cited in this piece:

Donahue is the agent who threatened to shoot bystanders in Evanston. We also saw him at the scene in Minneapolis immediately after feds shot and killed Alex Pretti:

Don't let down your guard, Massachusetts. The usual dark money orgs are quite active here, even if The Glob or the CommonWealth Beacon never deign to say so. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/massachuse...

Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance is not "right-leaning." It is a tentacle of the Kochtopus, the far-right network operated fossil fuels billionaire by Charles Koch. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/massachuse... #mapoli

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

Paul: "Tell the world why you believe I deserved to be assaulted from behind…Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it. And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents."

An American hero who provided medical care to the Boston Marathon bombing victims had his home destroyed by Israel today in an attack on a civilian area. In any world, that should be headline news here in the United States. Journalists and editors, where you at?

The Existence of the Post Office is in the Constitution! We should Not be Here….

At its core, Trumpism is fundamentally about normalizing the resolution of political differences with violence, whether threatened or applied. In this sense, the caning of Charles Sumner is both origin story and logical conclusion. As aberrant as this exchange is, it's central to what's happening.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Dueling with two consenting adults is still there RAND PAUL: It's been illegal for 170 years! There's no precedent for legal dueling

🚨 BREAKING: Israel has struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas field & a core pillar of Iran’s energy supply. The major escalation comes alongside reported impacts on other oil & petrochemical facilities in the Assaluyeh area of Bushehr province, according to multiple...

I’m bowled over by the response to this. Thanks all, and thank you new subscribers. Please read the story, bc these activists trusted me with it when they could’ve gone somewhere bigger, and I want to ensure their work and what they’re exposing stays the focus. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

BLITZER: He put out a statement disavowing any connection to extremism MOSKOWITZ: Who did? Joe Kent? BLITZER: Yeah. He said he met this guy on the street MOSKOWITZ: Okay. Wolf, you and I have not ended up on a Nazi-sympathizer podcast, right? It's not something that accidentally happens

The Oscars revealed the real reason Paramount wants to buy Warner Brothers.

In all my years at WaPo, this happened to me twice, and it was a huge Marty-Baron-is-calling-your-boss-level deal. Now that I’m indy, it’s three times in a month, that I know of! It’s fucking disgusting. I made $220 from paid subscriptions last month and a salaried journalist is stealing from me.

While 27-year-old Adrian Sotelo Guzman was still under a court-ordered hospital hold, attorneys say ICE removed him from the hospital and transferred him out of state. A petition filed in Texas alleges that his condition has not improved since that transfer.

the emerging, precarious equilibrium in the Straight of Hormuz is pretty much precisely the single outcome that decades of US military and foreign policy in the Middle East sought to prevent sherwood.news/markets/iran...

A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat for the Trump administration's effort to cut the news outlet to the bones. n.pr/3NJLNco

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

I'm ready for this Righteous Gemstones/Sopranos-mashup phase of US history to be over.

2/2. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

Hmmmm. Pretty misleading headline. It’s not in Europe’s power to ‘Open the Strait’. Trump is asking other countries to be his cannon fodder.