Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

the thing with Trump is you really can blame most of the current inflation directly on him and his policies (tariffs, Iran war) in a way that is not true of other presidents who have had to deal with inflation

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

admittedly not my area of expertise but not really understanding the security failure last night? like, the guy sprinted past the check gate but was immediately shot and seemingly got nowhere near potus, vp, soth, etc?

I’m listening to ABC talk about how incredible the Israeli intelligence is and how detailed it is. If that’s the case then Israel and America just purposely murdered 85 elementary school girls. Think about that.

Looking up Todd P SXSW parties just to feel something.

a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

the investigation

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

900,000 times I can forgive, but

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

New from 404 Media: the DOJ released completely unredacted nude images of women or girls in the latest Epstein dump. The photos were incredibly explicit. We held off reporting this before DOJ finally took them down. A massive error from DOJ. www.404media.co/doj-released...

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

If they're sending masked, unidentified goons to likely disappear you to an offshore slave prison without any process or redress, there's no reason to not use any means necessary to resist their kidnapping.

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

Gold price surge reveals a pessimism about the world

Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff.

Fun experiment if you don't believe the political discourse is powered by bots: Try posting something on Twitter about being frustrated with the weather, including the sentence: "Fuck ice."

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

These DHS ICE + Border Patrol dufuses are closer to the SA Brownshirts than they are to the Gestapo / SS (so far) - low level loser street thugs who are dumb true believers It's some consolation to know what became of the SA as Hitler consolidated power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino says the federal agents who killed Alex Pretti are still on the job.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and masked secret police roam our streets murdering civilians and abducting the witnesses. But at least now we have full sovereignty over a couple of military bases in Greenland.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

It is wild how prescient the lyrics to "Processed by the Boys" were. A perfect prediction of our calcifying totalitarian situation under ICE in 2026, down to the "uniforms" and tattoos and facial recognition, written 6+ years ago. youtu.be/yBQy_S_k-qg

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

CONTENT WARNING: The lady in pink released her recording of ICE executing an innocent man named Alex Pretti. He was only 37. This is murder. Abolish ICE. Prosecute these fascists. Enough is enough. youtube.com/shorts/8UI4S...

Dismantle ICE, release the names of every single pig involved and put them under the prison

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.