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This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.

What's striking of course is they went ahead with it _after_ the Post broke the story a couple weeks back and they seemed to climb down.

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Speaks for itself

The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.

Oh, shit, Jack DeJohnette.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

"We came bc this is a great country, bc our lives were gonna be better,” Sandibell said. As a cancer survivor I cannot imagine getting through treatment w/out the support of loved ones who fed me, got me to appointments, & held my hand during scary moments. What our nation is doing is a disgrace.

Happy Deepavali, all.

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

The correct answer is of course Tony Fauci.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

It is time to Abolish ICE. It is an ongoing violation and shame to the US and its values.

Classy. Good for him.

Don't look away. This is being done in your name, my fellow Americans.

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

The people “enforcing” immigration law under this administration understand what their real job is but we’re all supposed to pretend it’s something else

Excellent thread.

Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

Promise I'll never do this again, but this is then-Sen. Marco Rubio's contemporaneous reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Note who he is dunking on.

"Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter." Absolutely. And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr. He must go.

If this administration ever leaves office, schools of public health and medicine will no doubt try to rehabilitate RFK Jr, and his Horsemen (Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad, and the rest) as endowed chairs and keynote speakers. They should be shunned forever as the eugenicists they are.

Only a real man has the courage to kick the brown 3-year-olds out of pre-K apnews.com/article/trum...

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

Is it because he’s a little bitch?

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

The only proper term for these sites is "concentration camp." Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far. But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.

/2 Trump appeals to people for a reason: because they’re shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. When he’s a nasty, bullying, bigoted thug that appeals to them because those are their values. I’m not going to try to be more thuggy or bigoted or bullying to find common ground.

There is literally no way to justify or sugarcoat this. You cannot say “but, Hamas…” to the practice of starving a population to the point of desperation and then ordering them to be shot to death when they seek the paltry food you offer them.

John McCain would like a word

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

And as with the pandemic it’s hard to know where to put that feeling. Why do people have to witness the devastation before they can accept it? Why are decades of accumulated knowledge of our species not enough? Inspite of everything I have learnt about trust etc that still does my head in..

Tanks rolling through the nation's capital. The president explicitly threatening peaceful, lawful protesters. On the other coast, the US Marines deployed on US soil against the American people. Just another Tuesday in Trump's America.

My hot takes on the lines separating protest, violent protest, and rioting are a) it is neither violent protest nor rioting for one's body to be acted upon violently by state actors and b) it's dumb to argue about the rest when protestors are sticking to non-violent tactics.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

How much of a coward do you have to be - how uninformed and afraid do you have to be - to do this?

Vance’s comment is quintessentially Trumpian because (1) it’s bigoted and nativist (2) it’s casually obnoxious and belittling (“servants”) (3) it’s either pig-ignorant or deliberately dishonest or a mixture thereof (many immigrants were pivotal to the space program). A shitty ethos for shitty people

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.