We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

I don't know what to tell you. If you paid $600 to have your toilet photograph your turds, you really deserve anything and everything coming to you.

Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk. Great work by ACLU and Amica www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

just as close as the polls predicted. this is why they’re trying to gerrymander every red state they can — they know most people are sick of their shit.

just ask yourself, as a democrat, how you would feel if AOC only managed to win by 5 points in an off-year election under a new democratic president

Postcard from my collection, sent 1912.

Forty seat Dem majority incoming

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

real missed opportunity calling it immaculate conception when holy fuck was right there smdh

Biden gave an interview where he cogently explained the differences among the various applications and nobody ever mentioned it again. He was tired, not senile.

We're also not even getting to how the president had a stroke and has obvious cognitive impairment and most of these pardons look like elder abuse.

Correct

Good point from @swin24.bsky.social and team here: Trump and Hegseth suddenly refusing to take credit for the second strike, after they've spent weeks sadistically yukking it up over their killings, is a key tell: zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

rest in power to the og american quirked up white boy

He should have resigned like Admiral Alvin Holsey.

Just seeing this bsky.app/profile/medi...

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

I will say, a strong editorial move by NY Mag, partly to make up for Nuzzi helping elevate this serial killer, would be to make RFK, Jr.‘s destruction the dominating theme of its coverage from here on out. Would be a good way to say, “we fucked up, we get it.”

They don’t seem to have any vision on how to actually make people’s lives better right now. It’s “we will punish the people you hate and through magic, that will make your life better” but that shit doesn’t work!

if you struggle to answer either then you have a good sense of how fucked the republicans are right now

over 90% of the vote in and it looks like the rurals will average out to a 10pt shift, yeah good luck to the GOP trying to figure out how to allocate resources to every seat that's less than *checks notes* R+15

As many expected, the truth is finally coming out, they were just fishermen. The family of the Colombian man killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea has now filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging

Scary 💩

So Trump will pardon him if he ever gets convicted?

My old hometown. It was the base for Newt Gingrich's district for many years. This is a huge flip.

The thing is, this CAN happen. But democrats need to choose good candidates NOW. In every single district.

This is too much.

this is what i keep saying — they don’t have any carrots or any interest or ability to hand them out, it’s all stick from now until the midterms

"[W]ithout extended Medicaid coverage, women who need treatment and medication ... may be unable to get them. One legislative analysis found that on average each month, 700 women fell off the Medicaid rolls in Wisconsin two months after giving birth or experiencing a miscarriage."

He was sleeping when she said this.

In more practical terms, Nashville used to have the representation in Congress that a city of its size is meant to have under our constitutional system, and now it doesn’t.

But hey, at least the Democratic leadership got a promise of a vote so everyone could fly home for Thanksgiving! Great use of leverage there.

Looking forward to the total absence of wall-to-wall “Republicans In Disarray!” & “Republicans In Denial” headlines & op-eds tomorrow, followed by another round of Ezra Douthglesias discussing How Democrats Must Do An Abundance Of Popularism & stop alienating Real Folkz with Funny Words.

Hard to tell for sure, but it seems like Van Epps (R) might finish ahead of Behn (D) by around 5 points. That's 17 points behind the 2024 Trump-Harris margin, & 10 points behind the Trump-Biden margin in 2020. In line with other special-election results, as well as D performance in November.

That’s what the TX GOP did to Austin TX. It should be illegal. They’re depriving people of representation.

Were this 17-point swing to occur uniformly in every Congressional district as now drawn, the result would be approximately 264 D seats, 171 R seats, a 51-seat shift. TX gerrymandering gains would be limited to 2 seats; NC/MO, backfire. Not to say this will happen, just to illustrate the impact.

All positive trends tonight (even if TN was an L)

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

NEWS: After taking credit for many already legally-iffy strikes, Pete Hegseth is now hiding away from a reported double-tap strike. Why? Well, per sources, even Trump admin lawyers are now warning higher-ups: the strike may have been blatantly illegal. @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

The Blaze: We have Nick Fuentes at home lnk.thebulwark.com/3MavmEV

Rachel Reid is bi and the series is directed by a gay man. You are arguing that a gay director can't make believable art about gay people, and that women can't make art about people that aren't women

Normally I would say “okay it was a low turnout electorate so you have to mark down the swing to the party with a higher propensity to vote coalition”. But. Uh. 94% turnout versus 2022 means that you shouldn’t by much.

These MAGA GOP fucks continue to destroy this country with this gerrymandering crap that cracks blue cities in pieces to make them republican House seats.

It matters. Every vote matters. I am in a gerrymandered district in NC, but I always vote. Never, ever give up. That’s what the evil dictators want us to do.

This was what I was wondering, because as far as I can tell, the GOP is only going to look worse over the next year, as all their shitty policies come home to roost.

An 18-point shift from 2024 would put every district on the newly proposed Indiana map into play.

Aftyn Behn’s overperformance in TN-07—a Trump +22 district—is a flashing warning sign for Republicans heading into the midterms. Republicans had to spend MILLIONS just to barely hold onto this seat. My full statement on tonight’s election results:

I used to think Republicans fell in line because they feared Trump would attack them in a primary election. Now, I realize it's much worse. They are physically afraid of Trump's supporters and the risk of violence.