Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead of the impending snowstorm. I shared that the fastest way to help is for ICE to back off so people feel safe accessing warming centers, shelters, hospitals, and houses of worship.

Stephen Miller is a very sick person, more so, IMO, than the president. And he is calling the shots. I remember when Terry Moran dared to make this observation and got fired from ABC for it.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

This statement reminds me of the Sandy Hook parents still being tortured by freaks who claim their children never existed The right claims to be pro-family but are actively making parenthood harder for most people and a nightmare for some

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

I discussed this with @katiephang.bsky.social who posited that Pam Bondi might be "interpreting" the law to mean she has 15 days after all the files are released to provide her explanation for what she withheld and redacted pursuant to the law.

A significant reason we are where we are is that journalism’s job used to be to ferret out the ugly, blunt truth behind political veneer, and now that Trump just SAYS it, the press spend their time applying the veneer instead.

The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen to the United States: “The Kingdom of Denmark, and thus Greenland, is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee.” I “strongly urge the United States to cease its threats.”

Post a famous bathroom scene

There’s gotta be a term for this. “Consent of the prosecuted”, or something, like if someone crimes hard and unapologetically enough, everyone just kind of goes, “wow, I can’t believe he’s just fine with all of it! Guess it’s fine?”

One reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is because every societal institution, including the media, has completely normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Never has a President wagged a dog harder than Trump and MAGA now. To distract from Epstein, the explosion of health and homeowners insurance costs, and the tariffs that are decimating small businesses, Trump is plunging this country into a war and using our soldiers as pawns.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

I can’t say it enough: Rob Reiner didn’t write any of these screenplays (well, he co-wrote Spinal Tap, which is famously mostly improv). He was a director whose stamp was making the words of others sing straight into your soul. It’s hard to grasp how generous a niche that is.

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

I can’t emotionally process the awfulness of what has just happened to Rob Reiner and his wife; my immediately coping is turning to how he directed some of the best movies of all time, like all in a row.

What the fuck

All a preemptive pardon is is documentation of intent to commit a crime, and should be treated as such.

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.

This is basically the core misery at the heart of the current RW movement. A complete lack of human feelings or emotions, just raw unfiltered sociopathic behavior the entire way down.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Vine is back?!

Alright, Intellectual Zambonis, have at it.

I remember in 2016 when talk of Mar a Lago as “the winter White House” was ramping up, and just how fully he Didn’t Get it in that equation. Of course now I see that his interest is in the WH as the Mid-Atlantic Mar a Lago: something classic with history, refashioned into something gaudy and tacky.

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

The easiest political layup for Democrats in recent memory. That’s even compared to a lot of other easy layups.

So, they rushed to SCOTUS to get relief from having to do the thing they're already doing but don't want to do, and by the way that thing is feeding people. Like, are they expecting the court to vacate the TRO and greenlight them clawing back money?

Politics came for healthcare and the only way to fight back is by getting political. So proud to be one of many doctors running for office this cycle and so grateful for @314action.bsky.social and their support. 🇺🇸

In the early 2000s, a group of writers wanted to write a parody of an oppressive, corporate fascist society, and this was the premise they chose because of the absurdity.

Great numbers in California for Prop 50. Dems are turning OUT and people are fired up. Let’s go LA & OC, YES on 50.

So much of modern right wing behavior feels like pure, unmotivated contrarianism. Just “do the opposite of what people who annoy me say”.

"Trump’s 21st century eugenics — from ending diversity programs in colleges or the workplace to the obsession with finding the pill or shot or whatever that has made some kids 'not normal' — is the unifying force of his dictatorship."

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

The thing these guys don’t realize is that most people, including men, already do talk in private pretty much the same way they do in private, and they’re the exceptions.

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

I’m not trading the replies because I follow rules but I have a hunch

I don't know, I'm in two different group chats that have been going on for several years and somehow we have all managed not to say racist things or use slurs or stan Hitler even once.