Oof, right in the gut

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

@colorado.edu Are you getting it yet? You're on the wrong side of this.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Chart via @taxfoundation.bsky.social / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Trump’s insanity and fear of immigrants (like Hitler’s fear of Jews) is documented here: www.themarshallproject.org/2024/10/21/f...

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China. These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

AuDHD

It was ALWAYS a LIE

$5 million that they could have used to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick (you know, the basic commands of Jesus according to the Gospels), and they used it to showcase a *replica* of a debunked religious relic. And Christians wonder why we don't take them seriously. #Atheism

I have developed this handy presentation that is relevant.

Remember folks, political violence is only ok when they do it.

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

They. Just. Lie.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman. They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social.

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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

No, we're not getting close to $2/gal gasoline. It wasn't even that cheap in April 2020, when almost no one was driving. The last time the inflation-adjusted price of gasoline (briefly) hit $2/gal was in 1999.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I’m sorry. Which party is bank rolling domestic terrorism and disappearing people from American cities? Which party is blowing up boats in the Caribbean and paling around with the funders of 9/11? Which party wants to “just kill people” in Venezuela? Pretty sure it’s not the Democrats.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

DHS admit that they can (and will) arrest people for political speech. In court today, Hott was was asked if he agreed its unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz He said No Bovino said he’s instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social )

Yes this is a real tweet. Governor Abbott is either insufferably ignorant or hopes his MAGA base is. Governors cannot impose tariffs on Americans moving about in the USA. This is specifically banned by: •Article I, Section 2 •Article IV, Section 2 •14th Amendment Texas ranks 41st in Education smh

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.

Trump partying while millions lose their healthcare

Millions of Americans have had their SNAP cut off. What is the Predident doing? Trying to claim Seth Meyers show is “illegal” because it’s anti Trump Illegal is the murders occurring in international waters Illegal is cutting off food assistance Illegal is refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is fucking amazing

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) has just been indicted by the DOJ over participation in protests against ICE at its Broadview facility in Illinois. This is a brazen weaponization of the DOJ to target political opponents with bogus charges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

You’re witnessing a kidnapping. And no local police are investigating the crime and arresting the perpetrators. And that’s all it would take to make this stop everywhere.

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it would be good if, say, the New York Times reported that all of this stuff is *wildly* illegal under the Hatch Act.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

Whenever someone screeches about how the southern border was "wide open" under Biden, ask them to explain the existence of detailed statistics regarding encounters, drug seizures, etc., directly from DHS and CBP, every single year. The border has never been open.