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@captmarkkelly.bsky.social it’s time to use the considerable power each Senator has and shut this government down. 1A, 2A, 3A, & 4A have been thrown in the trash. The Executive has marginalized the Legislative Branch and captured the Judicial Branch. This is not the America built 250 years ago.

Graphic. Some months ago, it was people being surrounded and abducted in broad daylight. Now they are surrounded and shot, and killed.

A fucking execution.

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

This is a real headline. In 2026. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

US tells all citizens to leave Venezuela. Just like the US told all citizens to leave Afghanistan prior to the ‘21 withdrawal. Surely the Trump admin will track down and evacuate every last US citizen in Venezuela, right? Not a single person will be “left behind.” ve.usembassy.gov/security-ale...

All I wanted for Christmas was an end to the constant voicemails from “Veronica with the loan review department” or “Everly from the financial analysis group.” Then I realized that I still haven’t been able to unsubscribe from all of the DNC fundraising emails, so they clearly won’t provide relief.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, you don’t need a single dollar more than you’re already paid to take advantage of the fracturing Republican Party and whip up bipartisan discharge petitions on the issues enraging Americans. You can’t find 3 people to join a petition reining in ICE?

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Trigger warning, yes, but it’s not graphic. 100% indefensible. It’s often said, “you have no idea what split-second decisions an LEO needs to make,” yet here we see and hear exactly that. No expression of fear, danger, or alarm. Just “bang bang bang, fucking bitch.” It was an execution.

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social, now is the time to pivot and point out that unlawful orders (and, likely, an abhorrent lack of training) lead to federal agents to shoot US citizens in the face and orphan their kids.

As if covering the murder of a Minneapolis Mom weren’t enough for the day, HCR documents the rest of today’s unrelated, batshit-crazy actions of this administration.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Remember when Trump asked oil execs for a billion dollars, and said it would be a “deal” for them? Anyone still questioning what he means by taking back “our” oil and land in Venezuela? thehill.com/policy/energ...

As if siphoning $1.8 billion from Kansas taxpayers wasn’t taking enough hard-earned money from their plebe fans, the beneficiary of today’s 50/50 raffle is …drumroll… The Hunt Family Foundation. Instead of any of probably thousands of other worthy charities. On Christmas Day.

Sad to see the SC/ND rivalry come to an end. At least I have great memories of the ones I attended. 1994: The Tie. It broke the decade+ losing streak, but I remember standing around as time ran out wondering “what do we do? Are we happy? Sad? Meh?“

He spared the life of the shooter while gravely endangering his own. Not just because he rushed an armed shooter, but because he stood in an active shooter area with a rifle in his hands, continuing to work against the assailant. Ahmed could have been seen as the perpetrator, but took action anyway.

This is what Comer and Jordan and all of their predecessors think they sound like when trying to out “Democratic hoaxes.” Think where we would be today had Republicans had the courage they are now starting to find to stand up to Trump in 2021 and join Thompson in investigating J6.

I have a short list of favorite performances on YouTube. This is in the top 3. It’s an absolutely stellar live performance by Jennifer Holliday at the 1982 Tony Awards, and I love that someone thought to upload it to YT 19 years ago, in YT’s nascent days. 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtnK...

“Quiet, quiet, Piggy” to a female journalist doing her job asking the questions on Americans’ minds “Things happen” about a murdered journalist, dismembered by a bone saw and hidden in duffel bags youtu.be/h7x8RkdG6I0?...

We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump… Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.

In my younger and more innocent days, I would hear people from other countries talk about how corrupt their governments were and how officials just stole everything in sight. I would silently wonder how an average citizen would be so confident that’s what was actually happening. Now I believe them.

Anyone see a conspicuous absence from her collarbone area at today’s press conference? youtube.com/shorts/eFjho...

Guess what everybody? The Epstein Files crusade will be as much of a letdown as the shutdown capitulation was.

Listen the best time to cave to your opponent is when they’re arguing in favor of starving people in a court of law.

The only one who can strain to claim he did right by constituents his is Kaine, with the enormous number of .gov and .mil in VA. Even so, his “win” was re: back pay that was already enshrined in law. This is where we are as a country. Surrendering to possibly stop the admin from breaking the law.

7 million marched for No Kings Tectonic shifts in the electoral landscape All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates were defeated Thousands in Chicago are standing up to ICE Sean Duffy says he’s going to ruin holiday travel for people with money and 10 Senators scramble to cave in as fast as possible

60% of the PTC distributed nationwide - $86B of $144B - was distributed to just 9 “Trump” states. And yet it’s the Democratic Party trying desperately to keep their fellow citizens from being fucked over by the Republicans these people so reliably vote for. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

If there is one move Schumer knows how to make, it’s how to step on a rake and have it hit him in the face. apple.news/AJirkePVmSg2...

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

The KenCen’s website was notorious for having 10s of 1000s of people in the online box office waiting room for hours - if not days - to try to get tickets to shows like Hamilton and The Book of Mormon. Now they have to close the balconies at a John Williams concert. Sad! apple.news/AZdploo7oSpO...

I’m not on the betting sites, but does anyone know if there are prop bet opps for Trump saying kids can just eat their Halloween candy if their SNAP benefits expire on Nov 1?

What the hell did they do to that young man once they finally wrestled him into the stairwell, outnumbering him 5:1 and probably outweighing him 10:1 or more? Amidst everything else they’re doing, they had papers at the ready to cover the window and block any further documentation of their abuse.

🚨 Arnoldo Bazan and his father were pulled over by unmarked immigration vehicles in Houston. His dad was arrested. Arnoldo? Restrained, hurt, and hospitalized. 1/2

Watch this and listen carefully. Singapore PM on the change in the global order given the US is no longer the insurer of stability - a sentiment that will go beyond the current administration. But nobody else has stepped in building a foundation of multipolarity amid turbulence.

A little timeline cleanse with a display of humanity, kindness, and community for a change. I know my eyeglass prescription needs updating, but man I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on here for a while.

Bad strategy here. Yes, strengthening protections for all fed workers is welcomed, but in this moment the admin is proving it does whatever the hell it wants to. Pass the bill to pay essential workers, send it to the House, and force them back into session to vote on it. apple.news/ACm_Ck7XVQl-...

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Vance: “crime has gotten out of control in our cities.” The interviewer must push back every.single.time: “you admitted to fabricating claims that residents of Ohio - whom you were elected to represent - were eating their neighbors’ pets. Why should we believe you now?” youtube.com/shorts/sXohW...

🚨🚨🚨The intensity here is indescribable. The reference post (to follow) indicates the gravity being similar to that of “Bloody Sunday.” A harrowing parallel. 1/2

Might as well call him Senator Sinema. apple.news/Auc8WRuk4SSC...

Not a fan of Trump Not a fan of Bibi Not a fan of Hamas I can still be happy that progress is being made in Israel. A bad cast doesn’t have to ruin a promising play.

Remember when this guy was the nominee for Attorney General of the USA? “the committee found Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017” www.npr.org/2024/12/23/n...

Saving this amidst my many reposts of her soldiers on attack; here is the General surveying the enemy formations on the riotous battlefield of Portland, Oregon. #weird

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Please point me to any legislator - any! - who is explaining the situation this clearly. I’ll settle for anywhere close to this clearly. youtube.com/shorts/DJL0l...

Yep. Either roll back the healthcare cuts or abolish the filibuster to pass the CR as written. If they were to do the latter, make it clear that day 1 of a Democratic trifecta passes DC Statehood, Puerto Rico Statehood, and expands the Supreme Court to 1 justice per circuit. Restore representation.