Jeffries: "We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They're an illegitimate organization right now under the leadership of Pam Bondi and the direction of Donald Trump."

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

Like here's Elon Musk and Sen. Mike Lee calling for Ilhan Omar to be executed by the state just a couple weeks ago. (They love to do this cutesy thing where they're like "whatever the punishment is for treason *wink wink*," etc.)

This guy seriously put out a campaign video that's like:

Are Democratic politicians ready to accept that most Americans who say "border security" don't mean border security, they mean make the country whiter? Under Obama, the US increased security assets along the US-Mexico border, including patrols and drones. Few who demand "border security" cared.

Grok is so much worse than you think.

They didn’t want a university without cancel culture. They didn’t want to be criticized for their retrograde views so they created a pretend school funding by their rich friends. The only people surprised that this failed were credulous enough to believe the fairy tales these folks told.

Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”

extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy. But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.

kids these days don't know how to impress Jodie Foster

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

When cops kill, police agencies often mislead, exonerate too quickly, smear the deceased, use the exonerative tense, etc. But there's at least usually some solemnity -- acknowledgement that the loss of life is regrettable. It's the absolute glee in these responses that I can't shake.

Guys, trust the puppy-killer defending the masked man who shot an unarmed woman in the face for protesting an unaccountable secret police force tasked with deporting people with decades-old marijuana convictions on behalf of an orange pedophile who lead a failed coup.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

@maddox.xmission.com is doing some of the good work over on threads. Not sure why he didn't repost here but good for folks to know:

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

damn that baby looks cool as hell

Like, this an actual post from an actual government social media account, posted in the last hour.

It is vicious, vile, and nasty.

This is the exact stuff my colleagues and I used to report on. This is Pizzagate shit. And I am going to RIP MY HAIR OUT if a single Democrat even entertains the idea that these losers are making a valid argument. You simply can’t understand the modern GOP if you don’t conspiracy theories.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

kind of interesting that we've seen more investigative reporting on erika kirk, head of one of the most influential conservative pressure groups, from a tiktok personality than the highly paid investigative teams at ny times, wapo, cnn, etc

concentration camps.

If Trump were a foreign agent working to destroy US power, would he do anything differently?

Fuck you, Pam Bondi. Fuck everything you stand for. Fuck your bloated wannabe emperor who can’t even string two sentences together. If you want to come for America and Democracy, guess what. I can do this all day.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Hegseth needs to be in jail for the rest of his life, and that’s the moderate option.

Average American Thanksgiving: President declares total ban on immigration, calls an esteemed democratic governor a slur, and then goes on TV to talk about Somalis like animals when asked about a mass shooting by a former child soldier and member of a CIA associated death squad.

Being angry about legitimate issues and being angry about fake things are NOT equivalent and that's why "populism" is always ultimately a stupid ideological framework. Mamdani's voters were angry about real problems in their lives. MAGA Trash think an invisible man in the sky wants them to be racist

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to. Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

"The message is not that Trump is innocent, it's that *everyone is guilty.* Everyone assaults women, cheats on their taxes, uses public office for private gain. Propriety and following the rules? That stuff is for suckers. In a world of grift and graft, the most corrupt man should be king."

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Real radical left goals are UBI Reparations, guaranteed housing, free child care, etc. (all good ideas, only "fringe" because of how far right the center has gotten.) But if pundits told people that lunatic lefties want to help people, it would kill the both-sides game.

Woke up today to the news

"Republicans (and Joe Manchin) don’t attack SNAP and UBI because the programs are failures. They attack them because the programs are successful, and conservatives hate the idea that some poor person somewhere may be experiencing autonomy, freedom, or joy."