Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

It’s Only About The Oil!

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration. Among their responses were: • affordable housing • a stable, well-paying job • mental health support

I know why, JD. It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers. People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

World Autism Awareness Day: RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary. It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation. RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade- He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.

If I was a judge and a DOJ lawyer filed a brief saying "yes, we mistakenly shipped someone with a right to be here to a foreign gulag but you have no power to order us to bring him back" I'd put that lawyer in jail until that person was brought back.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

And just like that, America lost her allies.

every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

How I arrived on Bluesky

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.