There are all sorts of parallels for what the Trump regime is doing to American cities but you could do a lot worse than looking at Ireland under British rule and Northern Ireland during the Troubles for a better understanding - a populace viewed as fundamentally hostile, little restraint, etc.

For years, far-right Texas oil billionaire Tim Dunn has been Ken Paxton's biggest funder and supporter. So why, as Paxton runs for U.S. Senate, has Tim Dunn abandoned him?

get his ass, Bernie

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Kinda wild that these people are just in charge of things isn’t it

"Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison" (h/t @arkancrow.bsky.social): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Breaking for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

THESE GUYS. HECK YEAH. Moderate stances are for days long past. Asking the dude with the bat to hit you a little less hard is bitch shit when you're in a street fight for what's left of the country

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

😳 On 2/24/18, Bannon messaged Epstein about forming a new Populist/Nationalist coalition that would include Conservative Christians, adding that it would “stave[] off ‘time’s up’ for the next decade plus,” apparently referring to the “Time’s Up” nonprofit that supported sexual harassment victims. 1/

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

"We took a substantial step forward by filing what are called Touhy letters on the Department of Homeland Security demanding evidence in the case"

The rights of the people absolutely must come before the quota demands of the state. Come on.

Jesus Christ.

Zohran Mamdani's STATEWIDE favorability rating is 48/32, with a positive rating among independents (43/31). Within New York City (via a crosstab), Mamdani's favorability rating in this poll is 68% to 20%.

Day 3: Ketanji Brown Jackson The Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Black lawyer who currently serves as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, confirmed in 2022. She is the first Black woman & first former federal public defender to serve in this position. #blackhistory

CATO: ".. The government’s investment has thus likely 'diverted tens of billions of dollars of private capital away from potentially more deserving firms and to Intel, with little support for the move beyond -- as one semiconductor analyst put it -- ‘vibes and tweets.’" www.cato.org/commentary/i...

It's your lucky day because @wired.com sent photographers to two Melania premiere parties, and asked the superfans in attendance all about their love for the first lady. They had many, um, things to say.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the position of the Trump Republican Party is: “constitution, nonstarter.”

I don’t want ICE in my community. I don’t want strange masked men taking my neighbors. I don’t want strange masked men lighting fires in my city. I want the world to see what’s happening in my community. I want Minneapolis to be left alone and not made into a war zone.

From Hopium: - The fight to rein in ICE begins in earnest today - Big ICE hearing today at 3pm EST, good luck to Minnesota Ds caucusing tonight! - X gets raided in Paris, Grok still producing sexualized images - The regime creates measles superspreader 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-fight-...

American Academy of Pediatrics still recommends vaccinating kids against 18 diseases. Why? Because all 18 can potentially kill your child. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Virginia's Senate is pushing for a 10-1 map (see below), as Senator Lucas has said she'll push for month. Punchbowl reports the House also wants a 10-1 map, though they disagree on the boundaries: punchbowl.news/article/camp... And Spanberger reportedly pushing a 9-2 map: x.com/Jaaavis/stat...

What DOJ is doing is making its attorneys go before the same judges over and over again with the same deficient argument in habeas petitions challenging immigration detention. They're losing nearly every case and torching their reputations in front of federal judges.

A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off. It's the only possible way to do it!

Astoria and Long Island City: it’s Special Election Day! @DianaforQueens has my full support in her run for my old Assembly seat. Polls are open until 9PM and you can vote for Diana on the @NYWFP or Democratic line. Learn more at dianaforqueens.com

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

"As Britain continues to prioritise arms and trades deals with Israel over human rights issues, can we pretend we don’t know it’s happening?"

Uh

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?

🇫🇷 The ⁠Paris prosecutor's office launched a search of the French offices of social media platform X. 🔎 The raid was connected to an ongoing investigation launched in January 2025. Click here for more 👉 https://go.france24.com/KGQ

Reminder that the SAVE Act would disenfranchise *hundreds of millions* of women and trans people and that's the real reason they want this passed.

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

Mr. Mandelson, sir, you are right to imagine you are being punished unfairly. Why should you be in trouble for things so many other people did too? You should name those people.

Showing the Bhattacharya hearing in my Health Politics class. I appreciate that Bill Cassidy is having buyer’s remorse, but he absolutely knew Trump’s public health appointments would be an absolute disaster. He knew, and he lacked any ounce of courage to stand up for health.

look there are legit antitrust concerns and none of this is actually about antitrust. it's about the future of cnn, and we don't actually need to pretend otherwise

This is so incredible. Like nothing I've seen in my lifetime.

Emmer says Democrats are “Obstructing President Trump’s successful law and order agenda.” Emmer is from Minnesota where even legal migrants have been abducted and apprehended.

Senator Maggie Hassan has responded to our story about Bondu’s lack of security around kids’ AI toy chat transcripts by sending a letter to the company asking 10 detailed questions about its privacy practices. She calls its exposure of kids’ data “devastating.” www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cach...

This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck… Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out. www.thetimes.com/article/660a...

"Over the past year, Delaware’s largest university has been quietly reacting to pressure under a second Trump administration, while fine-tuning a “long-term strategy” to review campus practices on diversity and inclusion." Blue states! archive.is/lSvIn

The Sojourners for Truth in Justice took up Rosa Lee and her son's case as a key plank of their organizing. issuu.com/projectnia/d... - a key example of defending Black women's bodily autonomy at a time when people did not publicly address such things in general.

Here’s the full story.. and it stinks. How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.

I feel like it should probably be a bigger story that the justice department just released potentially dozens of unredacted CSAM photos with the faces of the victims visible

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Beautiful.

The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this… Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security. But more white. Their racism ruins us. bsky.app/profile/euro...

What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there

The number of detainees getting put on ICE flights at MSP has been relatively low the last few days. I believe this is not on account of ICE pulling back - they still outnumber local police in many towns - but on account of vulnerable people staying home, observer pressure, and lawyer organization.