One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Who are the military personnel just following orders to commit murder? click.e.usatoday.com?qs=fb74c69ef...

gonna be quite the needle to thread between "blame the Dems" and "we're taking a vacation week, for fun"

Celebrating National Friends Month with bffs Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a pair of rapists and pedophiles. #FreeDC

Once again, the Supreme Court can go fuck itself.

An interesting point raised elsewhere: these boats that the United States is striking don't appear to have the fuel capacity/storage capacity to even reach American shores.

DC United has gotten 772 minutes from academy products in 2025 (673 minutes from Jackson Hopkins, 75 minutes from Kristian Fletcher, 24 minutes from Gavin Turner). #DCU

Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity. This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

Always kind of wild when American nativists get hung up on the language of England. Which we are not in. And was spoken in America after Spanish.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

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But also we’re terrified of the subway

🧵Wait until he sees the lines to get into the ER since his big ugly bill guts the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid. They are making it unfordable and closing rural hospitals. Insurance Companies are deciding their premium increases now. Plus all those they fired won’t have insurance either. ⬇️

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Holy shit, this is bad. Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I was reminded by my Facebook memories that on this day in 2013, the National Geographic Museum was offering free tickets to federal workers during another Republican shutdown. The next year, I took a job reducing financial barriers for museum admission (in partnership with a federal agency).

During the shutdown, federal employees can take advantage of deals like: • Free Washington Spirit tickets • Free museum admission • All-day happy hours • Parties with free food and drinks Our growing list of specials (gift link): wapo.st/3WgocR9

Great job telling on yourself for raising a goddamn adult baby

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this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MAGA’s government shutdown was totally avoidable, and I will keep fighting hard to get government back open. In the meantime, my team and I have put together a dedicated resource page to help your family navigate this rocky time.

DC United now have the longest active streak of missing out on the playoffs. Yay.

A reminder that regulations exist for a reason. Usually a deadly reason.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..." U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section III

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

never forget

The ‘what’ economy?

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I really didn't like Vegas or Miami.

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

Just a reminder that the last two government shutdowns happened under President Trump, with Republicans in control of both chambers. These people cannot govern, and they need Democrats to bail them out.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Just happy to be here. -lapsed Reds fan

Graham saw the Orioles logo today and said, “I see a duck in a hat.”

The only way to see the US as a historically white country is if you pretend Indigenous Americans don't exist and you ignore the fact that African Americans have been in this country longer than most of its white people. The way US history is taught from k-12 affirms the lie of white supremacy.

2020: Biden, 51.3% popular vote, 306 EV; Trump, 46.8%, 232 EV 2024: Trump, 49.7% popular vote, 312 EV; Harris, 48.2%, 226 EV