Finally. It is maddening that the media and everyone else has accepted the Overton window and debating the legality of the double tap; which overlooks entirely that this whole operation is state sponsored summary executions without due process. It’s insanity.

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”

Absolutely despicable, and entirely unsurprising.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Strong message from Congressman Moulton: “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”

"He sleeps all the time — during the day, during the night, on the beach,” Mr. Trump said about Mr. Biden last week, adding: “I’m not a sleeper.”

Actual humans who are knowledgeable about such things concluded the same.

This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Elon is pushing to be a trillionaire while he cut aid to starving kids because they’re black, in case you wondered who the bad guys are.

KY Gov. Beshear: Let me be clear. Trump has both the funding & the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that Trump has made. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

64 extra judicial executions and counting. Evidence presented that those killed were “narco terrorists”, zero. We have a criminal administration. www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...

None of the attendees has ever had a W2 & this have never had to withhold federal income tax

Please🤨

Epstein Ballroom is his priority

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

The main story of Caribbean boat strikes—now up to nine, in both Atlantic and Pacific, killing at least 30 people—is the lawlessness, domestically and internationally, and how it’s terrible strategy if they’re really targeting drug traffickers, which they might not be, or at least not careful about.

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

A pardon "following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Unprecedented corruption.

Know what might make Trump's bid to cash in on being a criminal more interesting? If Joe BIden sued bc he was investigated. 😜

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

This is very good

So much this. There is less than zero reason to give these guys the benefit of the doubt.

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

My lifelong interest in keeping up with current affairs is at war with my desire not to sink into despondency or explode in rage.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Ahn Phoong > Sweet James

enjoying living in Arlington more and more these days www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts. I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't. But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

"Content moderation for me, not for thee."

It isn't censorship if you put out a press release boasting about your censorship.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

"This exists in San Francisco?" That will be your mantra on the city's new perimeter trail — a path filled with good dogs, great sandwiches, art everywhere, and a reassuring number of public restrooms. I covered it all by bike. Here are the highlights: 🚴‍♀️ 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

Could the Supreme Court still apply different rules to a Democratic president? Of course. You don't need to remind me of that. But a lightning-fast blitz that repurposes Trump's new powers for good stands the best chance of standing up in court. Democrats need to start thinking about this right now.