Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

Apologies. These are not “gymnastics” Johnson is doing here, they are “Pompous Pilates.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

This:

“The values of The Post do not need changing. The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners. We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads,” -Jeffrey Preston Bezos, August 5, 2013 www.washingtonpost.com/national/jef...

WTAF?!!! @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov This is bullshit. Can't one of you talk some damned sense into your leader? FFS.

Money can buy happiness. If Elon Musk built a rocket and shot himself into the fucking sun that would generate massive happiness.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

Trump supporters like him because he acts like this, not in spite of it.

The Rule of Goats is this: If you fuck a goat, you’re a goatfucker. It doesn’t matter that you were fucking the goat ironically, or to troll people. You fucked a goat.

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

"Every time we counted more things, the numbers changed! Checkmate, Democrats!"

And the reason there were so many cases of Covid was because they kept testing!

One team was ahead in the seventh inning, but the other scored more runs in the eighth AND ninth innings. What greater evidence of fraud could we have?!?

/2 2 Also: one virtue of the Epstein files is that they provide a lot of primary evidence: actual direct written communications between individuals and Epstein. People’s own emails — what they say in writing — are the opposite of smears or rumors. They are compelling evidence.

/4 I continue to think that the constant theme is elite pundits being hostile to trends or discussions that criticize or hold accountable other elites.

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social yet another theft of our tax dollars and resources.

Another looting of work We the People PAID FOR WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

To put it another way: Jeff Bezos could easily ensure there are no staff cuts at The Washington Post for the next decade, and he'd still have more than $249B in net worth left over.

It seems that the proclivity toward serious criminality (felonies) is far higher among ICE and CBP agents than among immigrants taken as a whole. Stats on this subject are persistent and offer the same results.

Irony is still dead, and they still insist on dancing on its grave.

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

One of the MN "assault" cases, against Nitzana Belle Flores, has been downgraded to a misdemeanor. She was charged for, basically, charging Border Patrol at the EXCEEDINGLY problematic raid of Roosevelt High School the same day as the Renee Good shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Now it's a misdemeanor--same 111 charge, but DOJ has lost a number of these cases, bc what counts an assault becomes problematic to prove (that's what happened with Sandwich Guy, for example). Meanwhile, the original AUSA wants nothing to do with it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

According to Reporters Without Borders, in 2025, Ireland was ranked 7th in the world for freedom of the press. The United States was ranked 57th. So we’ll be taking no complaints about censorship from US politicians, thanks. #SpeirGorm rsf.org/en

A fun tactic of extremists is to argue that they don't hate out-groups, they just blah blah blah. The pinnacle of this was the antebellum argument that enslaved people were happier and healthier enslaved, and that enslavers were motivated bu their charitable natures. It was BS then, and it's BS now.

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

Nice to see a sourced, complete report finally released. @propublica.org puts in the legwork, yet again.

I didn't place him for a red wine drinker. Red Whine, sure. But red wine? Nope.

All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.

"If our system cannot keep up with processing these petitions to have rights vindicated, then we need to see what here is outside of the control of these attorneys, where does the root of the problem lie... we need this to be brought back into the Court's control and into the Constitution's control"

Read the whole thread. In context, the "this job sux, please find me in contempt so I can get some sleep" is about the LEAST important part of the hearing, but even reputable legal analysts have made it THE story. Disappointing.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Perhaps the most sophisticated strategy is to capture the attention and outrage, but shift the frame to encourage voting plans, early voting, and fighting back (via voting) against illegal federal interference in democracy.

This rhetoric puts Democrats (and anyone who cares about democracy) in a bind. There is legitimate outrage, but by amplifying the threat, we assist in its purpose of intimidating voters. So, how do we address this attack on democracy? Proponents of democracy will need to do several things at once:

Important read.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

When Stephen Miller invades VA -- and he will -- it will set off an ever-loving backlash among right wing NatSec types.

I keep arguing: there are 5 ways to fight fascism: 1) 3.5% in the streets 2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens 3) Rescue Trump catastrophe 4) Win in the courts 5) Win in November If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.

Listen, this headline is a better endorsement of the Digital Services Act than any 1000 words I could come up with.

Gonna write this up at more length. But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election. Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.