See, right now would be a great time to still have other independent branches of government

Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet. Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force

Just rank corruption

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement. How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

They are charging the journalist who discovered government espionage *with* espionage. This is the model of authoritarianism that Trumpists promote as the ideal.

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

despicable. fuck this.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed, Minnesota democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does.

“I oppose the crime, but if the crime has good results I will praise the criminal.”

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

Yeah. Sure. Remember this one? (One of dozens that should have ended any semblance of credibility)

1488 Jump Street

This seems blindingly obvious to anyone paying attention

dawg they actually think regime change is just changing the guy in charge and has nothing to do with institutions

Not a lot of players in this war that want it to end

Brad Lander is too humble to say this, but this ALSO means that when ICE detained him on June 17 last year, they had no authority to do so. He's got standing here. (He was formally arrested a second time--I think that was NYPD goons.)

We just caught ICE in a bombshell lie. They do NOT have the authorization they've claimed to arrest immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza. Courthouse arrests must end now. There's never been a stronger case for why this rogue, lawless agency should be abolished.

Pete Hegseth called them “narco terrorists” and the official statement from the Trump administration called it a training camp for drug traffickers. It was a dairy farm. They murdered Ecuadorian farmers. With our money. The War on Drugs has always been a fascist plot to kill Black and Brown people

Exclusive: The US has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters reut.rs/3NPWIkK

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

On Sunday, Defense Minister Katz said Israel would use the "Rafah" model in Lebanon. Earlier this month, the Trump Admin rushed a sale of over 20,000 bombs to the Netanyahu gov. Today, I asked the official who signed off on the transfer if it complies with US policy & intl law. He wouldn't answer.

As a non-expert, the only thing I can conclude from the past year is that the economy is 100% fake. Tariffs, oil shock, none of it matters and it’s all a confidence game.

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

I pay to have Bravo amongst the channels on my tv. I missed Top Chef last night and went to watch it on demand. $1.99. That $1.99 makes me angry enough to want to start a nationwide Bravo boycott and burn them to the ground. Maybe blow up my tv. I hate these times.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

3, 6, & 8 for me.

No. We’re not doing this anymore. Now whether *you’re* a good person is in question Cory. If you think good people feel a certain way privately, but act differently in public, are still good, I’m not sure you’re qualified to say who is a good person.

Like, hey, I think the NCAA is in a better position to decide the rules for qualification in its sports than the U.S. Congress. Same for the IOC. Same for professional sports leagues. Etc., etc., etc. All the "moderate" positions guys like this push for are *new laws* that change the status quo.

It's really wild that guys like Edsall will argue that it's imperative that Democrats support enacting *new laws* to create new restrictions and regulate something that can, should, and has been handled on a local/organizational level up until this point.

Bruh…

Keeping dark money out of politics should be a unifying issue for Democrats. So I'm challenging my opponent to agree to the “People's Pledge” to reduce super PAC spending in NY-10. What do you say, @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co?

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

A normal Congress would simply pass the bill, have the President veto it, and then override the veto

The lesson here warrants repeating, with stories like this, until people get it: Surveillance is surveillance. No matter who builds it for what ends, others may use it for their own.

The oil crisis we created in the Strait of Hormuz only exacerbates the need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy. Instead, Trump is burning a billion dollars to kill an offshore wind project that was already approved and force the company to invest in Texas oil

Reading about a data center today. $100 million loan, operations 24/7, 365. Almost 160,000 square foot building. Grand total of 5 employees. That’s the community benefit part right?

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

It’s going to take a long time figuring out all the insider trading.

Begging professional commenters and take-havers to learn the difference between “here’s why this is happening” and “I support this happening”

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Confirms 91 Wrongful Deportations of Asylum Seekers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Another support beam of our free society falls into the nonconstitutional wood chipper of qualified immunity

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

Beautiful Sunday, 4pm, breeze blowing…and the scourge of constant leaf blower engine. Sigh…

The alliance of authoritarians:

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I cannot overstate my revulsion to these “men”. Pathetic doesn’t do them justice.