“I’ll kill you in front of your students.” This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US. But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable! Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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ICE deploy tear gas on crowded public street—because they were upset being stuck in Chicago traffic. A 2-year-old child required medical care after inhaling the chemical agents—adults were vomiting on the sidewalk. Local elementary school was forced to lock down for recess due the incident.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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Live view of "war ravaged" Portland, OR. youtu.be/IFfE7Ex3NgA

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

They’re threatening the refs because they don’t like their calls.

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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.

Also worth noting that this was discovered by an indie outlet while well-resourced news outlets just gave a credulous recount of what was in the report. This one has FOUR bylines, all science and health reporters. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

This whole article is an outrage. They're using imaginary chatGPT creations to justification for their regressive health policies. www.notus.org/health-scien...

This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

They don’t care if you’re a citizen anymore. They enjoy torturing us.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it. Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids. Don’t let this go!!!

Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., did not disclose his more than 150 appearances on Russian state TV in a Senate questionnaire ahead of his confirmation hearing.

Remember that stupid legislation to designate nonprofits as “terrorists”? This is all of a piece.

Don’t pass this by.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

📌If Trump jailed the three liberal justices on the Supreme Court most Republicans would go along with it. THAT’S where we are right now. I’m not wrong about this.

The federal agency that delivers $1.5T a year in earned benefits to 73M retired workers, their survivors, & poor & disabled Americans is engulfed in crisis—further undermining the already struggling org’s ability to provide reliable & timely service to vulnerable customers. It's a "cycle of doom."

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🖊️ ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: -1865: President Abraham Lincoln is gunned down at Ford's Theater. -1912: The RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage. -2025: Donald Trump defies Supreme Court plunging the U.S. into a terrifying Constitutional crisis it might never recover from.

“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”

The Republican members of the North Carolina courts continue to try to steal an election Telling overseas military members-and others-that their votes may not count is a breathtaking affront to our democracy and their service - it’s cheating We will continue the fight for voters and for justice.

Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Like the meme says, you can't lose an election if nobody can vote. With TX disenfranchising a Dem House district, and a coup over an NC judicial race, GOP strategy for coping with Trump's shrinking presidency hinges on voter suppression My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Trump tanked your 401k but he made his billionaire besties even richer yesterday. Market manipulation anyone?

i wonder who Trump told about his tariffs pause in advance 🤔 would've been very lucrative information to have

From my Atlanta home, to yours: Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t. Perish all compromises with tyranny!

Jim expresses my thoughts perfectly. Thank you Jim, well said.

Some 3,500 travelers from the United States contracted dengue abroad in 2024, according to the CDC, an 84 percent increase over 2023.

JFC…Kid Rock coordinated the meeting between Bill Maher and Trump hoping it would ‘bring people together’. We are living in the most insane of times.

ProPublica’s investigative reporters rely on a careful playbook for finding waste, fraud and abuse within government agencies. It bears little resemblance to the approach deployed by DOGE against the Social Security Administration or USAID. By @sengelberg.bsky.social

DOGE targeting black workers specifically it seems

Today it became clear that Trump is hellbent on MAKING AMERICA LAST. His tariffs are a f**king disaster. If Congressional Republicans don’t take back their tariff powers with a veto-proof legislation they are totally complicit in this economic travesty. Congress can end this reckless disregard.

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

The assholes who refused to wear a mask to protect their own grandparents are demanding we endure a depression to protect Donald Trump's ego.

Asked my smart economist friend about how #TrumpTariffs help Americans or even the rich, because I couldn't see it, and he said, "It doesn't. He's destroying stuff. It doesn't benefit anyone...except our enemies."

If Trump is willing to hurt the economy, he must be getting something he wants even more in return. That thing is power. With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years. Read @pemalevy.bsky.social.