Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

From @marisakabas.bsky.social: ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland “What’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. “Go ahead. Shoot me.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

was genuinely taking a picture of the landscape near my house this beautiful morning, then out of nowhere... #photobomb

1. BREAKING In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.

Oh no.

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

"We want to change the perception of journalists away from the elitist East Coast Democrat of yesteryear to the rabid logical fallacy machine of tomorrow. And at the Times, that dream isn’t too far in the future."

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

"So he is a fascist" "Yes he is a fascist" "Fascism is really bad." "Yes it is the worst." "So we will shutdown the government and not give the fascists money." "Wait, hold on what did you say? What? That's kind of extreme right?"

@deanbarker.bsky.social Just an aside, but a professor at my undergrad happened to walk by Dohnányi's dressing room just in time to see him grab a softball-sized lump of brie, take a huge bite of it, then fling it across the room, shouting "Zis brie is not lukewarm!"

Was talking to someone from another state yesterday who couldn’t believe it but yes, Ohio law not only requires public school buses to transport kids to private schools, it actually *prioritizes* public bussing for private school students over public school students. Total insanity.

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

I just cannot stress enough that we have to identify some way of addressing the massive sociopathy problem in this country & its impact on the systems & social fabric that shape our lives.

This is insane. A country deciding, on purpose, to kill its own children.

A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...

I hate it here.

Quite the image from a Labor Day rally in Ellsworth. (Hard not to notice that Susan Collins is the only member of Maine's four-member federal delegation not to have posted anything on social media today about Labor Day, the importance of honoring workers etc etc.) tinyurl.com/yb26uc7w #MEpolitics

Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now

DHS and ICE GOONS forcibly seized a random man riding his bike and violently dragged him into the DTLA Federal Detention Center amidst a protest.

Wow

If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.

Wake up babe! Lindsay Ellis explaining the Christian Right's War on Empathy just dropped! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa...

lol, economists.

If the Trump administration cared about addressing crime, it would tell ICE agents to stop kidnapping and torturing people. But it's encouraging and rewarding them for doing so because it is a criminal enterprise. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

The defining feature of U.S. democracy has been the unwillingness to hold white conservatives to the rule of law. Time & again, when democratic systems seemed to threaten their power, white conservatives sabotaged existing systems. That dynamic makes democracy impossible.

Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social

"He had that weird thing about roadkill, always,” Radziwill said on Swisher’s podcast. “He would pick it up from the road all the time and leave it in his minivan, and sometimes he’d forget. There’d be like a skunk under the seat. His minivan always smelled of death.”

Erased in the dead of night: "I can’t believe that the DeSantis administration would insult the families and survivors of the Pulse tragedy in this way. But I suppose I should not be surprised.”

A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Well, if this doesn't perfectly encapsulate support for the modern GOP.

Mousa Broch - the best preserved broch in existence. Located on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles, the Iron Age tower was probably constructed in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #Prehistory #MousaBroch #Shetland

Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

cycling through my various signs to tap - I think the "we have an elite impunity problem in this country and nothing will get better unless and until we address it" seems like the one for this occasion

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

the most wildly unhinged, violent, paranoid, dangerous, and socially destructive force in this country is law enforcement

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

The point was never really to save money. The point was to speed run the 60-year old GOP dream of dismantling of the New Deal administrative state using Musk as the tip of the spear, his unearned reputation for being a “non-ideological, former Democrat, techno-whiz, problem solver” as a shield.

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

Pretty sure if Biden had flown a man convicted of three murderers from Venezuela to the U.S. and set him loose in an American city, it would have dominated the headlines for weeks. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

wash marmot

Today's Listening: Joseph Marx (1882-1964). He consistently makes me feel like, trying to get to the stage, I walked into a velvet curtain so soft and complicated that I can't get out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLEA...

US border patrol GOONS tell a teenage US citizen that he has no rights, then starts laughing about their $30,000 bonus.