“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Correction: Trade deficit soared 94% in November BECAUSE OF tariff efforts.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Reminder that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest like this and Republicans called him a hero

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

Now more than ever, we're a two timing, back stabbing, and disloyal nation without integrity.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

The Mercator Projection will kill us all.

Propublica Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

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Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."

I guess the silver lining in all this is that it's obvious the 2nd Amendment is useless as a protection against tyranny and might as well be thrown away

Good question for Kristi Noem.

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

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

‘Social media is not real life’ Ok, then why are all the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men desperate to own and control it? Why did the fact that another country owned a popular social media app necessitate congressional hearings and provoke bipartisan national security fears?

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

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AI data centers worse than we thought.

Goodnight

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

The people that have a chronic health condition, or have a spouse or child with one, and will be facing a premium of $1000-$2000 more each month for health insurance simply cannot go without health insurance. It will be financial ruin or possibly death for them.

Excited to learn about who is in the Epstein files from a woman who’s 32 years younger than her husband

30 Rock-ass Reality

Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

A recent leak from an ICE detention facility near Houston shows hundreds of detainees packed into a shared room without beds or bathrooms. The footage highlights allegations that the facility's air conditioning is kept on maximum, intentionally subjecting occupants to freezing conditions.

Politicians who change parties after election should have to win a special election to keep their seat. Let the voters decide.

Honestly, I hope Karoline Leavitt enjoys this week. She's earned it.

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

okay, but hear me out: What if we put health insurance *on the blockchain?*

Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.   Every Republican should have to answer for this.

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

Probably the most effective lobbying effort by the US airline industry since COVID

Well, I guess the lemonade is that Republicans are all anti-insurance companies now. On the other hand, we could get those subsidies passed if United Health and Cigna would just donate to the ballroom....I am not even being facetious. This regime works on extortion and bribery.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

This isn’t very hard, folks.

It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”