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.

Stay strong @harvard.edu

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

Burn it all down "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."

Oh, man, we got a few lectures from him when I was in grad school: his name is on so many key results. Just an immense loss. Peter Lax, mathematician who found order in the natural world, dies at 99 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

wapo.st/4dj7bNY Catherine Rampell is one of the reasons I value my _Post_ subscription.

Sigh, listening to the CEO give a talk and say, "we knew the next President would be Trump or Kamala." Why doesn't she merit the respect he does?

So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

And at least two of them have Russian connections.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

And GOP senators and representatives are okay with it

It is to the dog's credit I suppose that, judging by her wagging tail, she does not well judge the risk between "this thing might be friendly and playful" and "if it is not, and feels threatened, it could probably remove a leg."

This drives me mad. If polls say voters don’t disapprove of disappearing people to gulags, then the voters are fucked up and need to be persuaded or shamed into decency. You can’t just treat a view like that as an unshakeable given. There’s no modus vivendi with a fundamentally indecent electorate.

Have really gotten accustomed to Taylor Holbrooks and think she's excellent and am excited for what she'll do but the passing of Francis makes me realize that we wuz robbed in not getting to watch the conclave meet to find @offairashley.bsky.social's successor.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.