NEW: “ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

#trump #nrx #oligarchy #fascists vs #antifa #satire 🔁

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Thread from August 2024, Army pamphlet warning against American fascism from 1945.

Oh FFS live out your Black Hawk Down fantasies on a computer.

😡 many of my students rely on this. So, so wrong. It's basic equity. They won't be able to use their Chromebooks at home, and we lose a tool we had gained to help level the playing field for all students.

Pam Bondi: "You have these woke DAs who are Soros-appointed. A lot them are Soros-elected."

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Post’s new opinions editor explains how they support Republicans and Democrats at different points … with interesting examples

The kind of thing that would be a major scandal in a normal administration. Barely a blip in this one. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

"'To me, it just screams that public corruption cases are no longer a priority of DOJ,' said Andrew Tessman, a prosecutor who left the Justice Department this month." The message to corrupt Republicans: help yourself. No one's watching anymore. It's not hard to see where this is heading.

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. -Bondi, oops I mean Beria.

Jan 6 was just a sightseeing trip, remember?!

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

🚨NEW: Stephen Colbert's opening tonight will forever be remembered as one of the most powerful moments of late-night comedy in modern history. This is a must-watch. Damn. 🔥

"It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for."

Again, FCC chair Brendan Carr basically SAID THIS STRAIGHT OUT on Sean Hannity in a quote that nobody noticed: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Just some extraordinary bombshells. Kennedy said CDC was “the most corrupt federal agency in the world” and that its employees were “horrible people...“He said that CDC employees were killing children and they don’t care.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

(1,2) They said don't blame the gun. The gun doesn't shoot itself. Blame the person. Now they say, don't blame the person but blame every group that you oppose. Apparently, the group pulled the trigger.

Phang: Part of the reason the FBI has been showing this level of dysfunction is evidenced by the lawsuit filed yesterday by former FBI officials—what it shows is that the FBI has basically been hollowed out…

My father is a 77-yr-old Black South Carolina voter, a longtime Democrat who the party often claims is their “base.” He texted me this morning — as he’d never really heard much about Charlie Kirk before his death. I think Democrats rushing to praise Kirk in death are ignorant to the fallout.

I’m choosing to remember Charlie Kirk’s contribution to American civic life in his own words.

That is the message Kirk devoted his life to spreading. I don’t see how it honors him to turn him into a paragon of democracy, when that is not how he saw himself.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Was he wearing his white sheet?

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.

The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”

Before the meeting and after the meeting… look closely. From the amazing and brilliant @onestpress.onestnetwork.com

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

Got a laugh out of my kid when I showed them this: “The list included phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including ‘Mr. President POO-tin.’” www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

Trump's America. It's stupid's economy. Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling www.wsj.com/economy/amer...

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Ok this is my laugh for the night.

For middle America: The politicians flatter and pander to you by calling you "Real Americans". First they came for D.C. residents... (cartoon from the archives)

The official White House line is now that those dirty Democrats must’ve been hiding some serious dirt about dirty Democrats in the Epstein Files and that’s why the much more transparent Republicans won’t release them now and uh Trump might pardon Maxwell too?

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

They want to go back to a time when college was only for wealthy White men. Because that will make the rest of the population easier to manipulate with misinformation and easier to force into unpaid care roles (women) or underpaid manual labor jobs that remain as more jobs get AI-ed (men).

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

So what’s the line on Trump winning the championship? His guaranteed victory is about as real as next month’s jobs report will be.