I really wish someone would drag a senior DHS official in front of the American people and force them to explain this post in detail. It infuriates me that they just post batshit insane stuff like this day after day and nobody with any power is calling them to task in any meaningful way.

Good thread. A reminder how heartening and significant it is that the American people are resounding rejecting the Trump/Miller worldview and agenda:

🧪A few more hours to go…

100 million is 29% of the population. You know what else is 29% of the population? "Non-white" people.

Almost like the point is ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.

Trump abandoned his duty to defend the Constitution on January 6. It was a profound betrayal of American democracy. And Republicans, MAGA, and right-wing media have tried to erase one of the most treacherous acts in US history.

Republicans wouldn't let Jack Smith testify in public. Instead they did it behind closed doors and released a transcript and video on New Year's Eve, hoping few people would notice. They think it’s smart politics, but I think it’s one more attempt to cover up treason. History will agree with me.

a fresh opportunity you say

Every word of this. Reclaim Life open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

explicitly ethnic cleansing

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

End of year TBQ8 update: Great news! You're not rejected! I just haven't done anything! The last quarter of this year I've been on deadline with my book, recovered from a major surgery and then I decided to quit drinking too! With all that finally behind me, TBQ comes back in 2026. Happy new year!

In the 1920s, the KKK circulated rumors that Catholics had amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and explosives and hidden them in the basements and sewers beneath the University of Notre Dame, in preparation for a Catholic takeover of the US. Thinking about this today for no particular reason.

But, inasmuch as that light is loaned And, insofar as we’ve borrowed bones Must every debt now be repaid In star-spotted, sickle-winged night raids While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars

Wish they had repo’d it and TAKEN THAT OFFENSIVE SIGN DOWN I worked for the contractor that built it. He is universally despised in the construction world. Developers that don’t pay their bills aren’t developers they’re fraudsters — ordering work they have no intention paying for.

I think in reporting on this piece, one of my biggest takeaways is that there's a slight political tilt in which counties had drops since the pandemic, but this is a problem affecting almost every state, regardless of politics, demography (education/income), type of county (rural/suburban/urban)

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Folks probably get tired of hearing it but: it's eugenics. They're trying to kill off the weak.

If you're a Democrat, you're a sucker if you imagine this agency has anything to do with immigration. It is--and aspires to be!--a fascist paramilitary goon squad. You should start saying so and lay the groundwork for starving it of funding when you take power

They are failing and America is standing up and pushing back; we mustn’t quit, in fact we must go even harder. The fascists are weak and our strength leaves them no match. We can conquer hate with love and determination, passion and commitment to one another and a truly mutual society.

Literally seeking to build a regime-supporting paramilitary force of tens of thousands of people - explicitly recruiting people based on their politics

Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2 Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!

The flu vaccine doesn't always prevent infection, but it reduces severity.

I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.

unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)

It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Phillip: Shouldn't he have to provide actual evidence of fraud before just walking up to a building and saying fraud is happening here?

Please read this & speak out. Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.

The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors. He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on. Inhuman.

We might “end up running into the flu” less often if government officials didn’t keep telling millions of viewers not to bother getting a flu shot.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

trump take precious bodily fluids

#FlowerReport from my Chicago back porch room.

More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list: therecord.media/treasury-san...

Our government decides what it does based on literally insane racist conspiracy theories. Everything is driven by criminal levels of evil, hatred, and stupidity. We're over as a nation unless and until this sort of thing is completely eradicated, and there is basically no hope of that.

The world is coming apart, wars rage, alliances and economic ties fraying, our health care crappy and worsening, climate change is an oncoming train …and this is the crap the administration is busy with. Yep.

The most prosperous society in human history self-destructing because too many of its members have decided TV World is real and they’ll burn everything down unless someone lets them live there

“The DOJ is forced to spend all of its time …?” My orange Dude: If the DOJ did what was ordered, all they’d have to do is put the boxes of files on a truck and drive them over to the committee. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It rocks because a) it was his not Kamala’s campaign promise that the Files would be released, b) he is mad that this is biting him in the ass in a way that among other things diverts resources from his election rigging schemes, and c) he repeatedly said that his “friends” are the ones in the Files

Lyme is one of many health problems caused & exacerbated by manmade climate change. A legitimate health secretary would acknowledge that. We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Jesus!