You are all ABSOLUTELY entitled to your correct opinion that Chuck Schumer's messaging sucks. But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.

MAGA: We want our money back Ukraine: Fine. Give us our nukes back & we'll call it even.

Melania Trump thinks her husband, Donald J. Trump, is a unifier. Everything would be great if his detractors just got on the same page. Just agree with Trump. If the opposition just agreed with Trump everything would be wonderful.

New insights from video of an earlier incident involving one of Alex Pretti's shooters, the aggressor who started the incident that ended in Pretti's murder. That man ("A1", wearing identifier NS-919) wears a bodycam. And the new video shows his face. 1/

fox news: our poll has gone woke

Trump promises to make sure that people "who didn't work very hard" can't buy a home.

This is the CDC map for homicide rates by state for the most recent year on their website. Gov. Landry, who leads one of the states in the nation with the highest murder rate, is on television chiding Minnesota, one of the states with the lowest murder rates.

It is insane how Dems get handed premade villains like Miller and do nothing with it while the right is howling about people like Adam Schiff like he’s a spider man villain

PLEASE understand that Trump using his FBI to seize election data from the 2020 election in Georgia is NOT about the past. It's about the future. They are testing out ways to rig and steal the 2026 election. This is treasonous!

This would be a MAJOR win for Dems. Getting them to separate DHS out of the six-bill funding package means a shutdown wouldn’t risk Head Start, SSI payments, Section 8, NIH, etc. Four days ago, I doubt this would have worked. But with republicans’ backs against the wall, it seems within reach.

Donald Trump has always treated DOJ like his own personal law firm—and now the department is acting like ICE’s law firm as well, Quinta Jurecic argues.

"Russian forces have suffered approximately 1.2 million casualties (killed, wounded, and missing) and as many as 325,000 killed since February 2022. No major power has suffered anywhere near these numbers of casualties or fatalities in any war since World War II." www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

Minnesota is safer BY FAR compared to Louisiana. Worry about that.

Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" admitted Aleksandr Lukashenko who's not even a real state leader. Belarus is de facto, LEGALLY, a Russia's dependency, so Lukashenko is just a Putin's proxy. Lukashenko is also a TYRANT responsible for killing HUNDREDS of Belarus politicians, activists, protesters.

The fun part is there's a good chance he's also the center of gravity holding the tattered threads of sycophancy together, and if he's gone "say nice things about the boss and we get what we want" unravels because they all know Trump is a bag of pudding in a suit at this point.

Holy Crap on a Stick! This administration has been sued 600 times in a little over a year. This seems like a lot from us. But what do we know. Your thoughts?

Also...make reopening the government contingent on fulfillment of the law about the Epstein files. @schumer.senate.gov

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

Soon to be pardoned and given medal of freedom

Trump’s Board of Corruption signs up a truly awesome member.

ICYMI, Donald Trump personally invited Vladimir Putin and his Belarus vassal Aleksandr Lukashenko to the "Board of Peace". They are not just dictators of countries [1.5 countries] hostile to US but TYRANTS guilty of ordering murder of million+ civilians between them, at home and abroad.

Also...make reopening the government contingent on fulfillment of the law about the Epstein files. No files. No money.

Alongside the news, people in Tehran's Chitgar neighbourhood are chanting from their windows: "Death to the IRGC" and "Death to Khamenei."

Minnesota’s chief federal judge canceled a contempt hearing ordering the Trump administration’s acting ICE director to appear in court. The judge canceled the hearing after ICE fulfilled the court’s requirement to release a man who was previously found to be unjustly detained.

They're coming for gay marriage

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history. The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.

micro-target zoomer voters with this clip

the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it.

Arguably an “authentic” (ie representing itself as being what it is) AI entity is a form of automation posting on behalf of its creator under an assumed identity. Even if there’s no human in the loop these are still human-centered systems that operate on behalf of people—what matter if its an LLM?

Basically, yes, bots need to self label, have a declared human guardian, have clear rules of operation, and probably some other things. And it would be great if they were easy to not see

CBS News' new catch of quacks, kooks and crazies... grifters every one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"These songs tell stories—about power, sacrifice, fear, and consequence—that strike at the core of what a soldier is asked to do." @markhertling.bsky.social on Bruce Springsteen and protest songs: lnk.thebulwark.com/4683FDM

Brilliant song: The resistance to the authoritarian take-over of the United States now has an anthem, by Bruce Springsteen.

Posting this campaign ad by former Georgia Democratic Rep. John Barrow explaining why he was such an ardent Second Amendment supporter (he inherited a revolver his grandfather used to stop a lynching) for no particular reason:

Putin just attacked and murdered civilians on a train. Yet Trump is mad Ukraine hit military planes

This is the way.

🧵 New paper | Nuclear Deterrence in a Shifting Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture. In our new paper, @ddolzikova.bsky.social examines how nuclear deterrence in Europe is being reshaped by persistent threats of Russian aggression, uncertainty over US commitments, and growing strategic competition.

Look at how hard they have to bend over backwards to avoid stating the obvious. COULD IT BE that Amazon was trying to curry favor with Trump, or did they sincerely think "Melania" will be a monster hit? Critics are wondering! Will the mystery of their motives ever be solved? Who knows!

The tech bros get their way on everything... The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service AI, according to a new forecast.

Under authoritarian regimes, public spheres — streets, parks, neighborhood — become testing grounds for authoritarian rituals of humiliation and domination.

david brooks has been a hack for decades who has written column after column at ny times that was eviscerated the moment they hit "publish." -- he has been awarded with a plum contract at the atlantic. because in the world of the media, nothing fails upwards like a conservative straight white man.

The Beast with seven heads is Rome. 666 means Emperor Nero. None of this stuff is remotely about the 21st century. Put down the revenge porn and try rereading the Gospels.

Just got spam from some right-wing group pitching a book about the contemporary relevance of Revalation & its prophecies of the “end times” & was depressed to be reminded actual voters are making decisions about the present based on a first century visionary allegory about Ancient Rome & Nero.

The militarized language is telling.

And here we get DHS lying about their lying. George Will is absolutely correct when he says it's the duty of every good US citizen to assume that all comments emanating from DHS are lies until they are conclusively proved to be truthful.