An American President is intentionally hurting Americans to score cheap political points. This is not normal.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Crowd chanting, "lick them boots! Lick them boots!" at ISP.

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Indeed. A few of the 800 failed the first hurdle.🧵

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

Yes, I often speak of America in the past tense since November 5, 2024.

This post alone would be enough in Europe for a president or prime minister to lose their job. In the US, it’s just another day at the office, which shows how it’s slipping into a sad dictatorship

Why are we bailing out Argentina’s economy?

IMAGEM DO DIA Trumpi assistindo o discurso do Presidente Lula na abertura da Assembleia-Geral da ONU. #LULA2026 #FUCKTRUMP

They sent 50 Log Cabin Republicans in MAGA hats to heckle a Black female musician.

Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

Anti-fascists in Brazil's 3rd largest city demonstrating against a congressional attempt to give amnesty to Bolsonaro and his coup buddies.

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy #uspoli #fascism

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Isn't it crazy that the leader of our country is able to get comedians fired for their jokes? Pic unrelated

Not just for vaccines, Gunny. It's time to start showing video and pics of each and every kid blown apart at school. Pics/vids of kids with preventable diseases. Pics/vids of people shot 25x by the police. That it may offend us should never justify hiding truth.

a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Kimmel has to do Colbert tomorrow, right?

I want to leave the country. My longtime partner refuses to do so (will not even get a passport). I am really close to cutting off a 38-year relationship over this, becuase as a 63-year old without roots I don't want to live my last years in Donald Trump's America. Am I the asshole?

Earlier today, I took substandard US public transit to a supermarket where food prices are 3x what they are in European countries. We have no universal health care, more guns than people, and billionaires paying less % in taxes than schoolteachers.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Page One in Houston: @houstonchronicle.com

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They should do it and have started. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Time to break out the chart

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I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.

BREAKING: Debbie Robinson, the grandmother of Tyler Robinson, who killed Charlie Kirk: “My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”

The front page of Brazil’s largest paper today.

Here are the things DOJ wants to exclude from the (misdemeanor) trial of Sydney Reid: 1) Things recorded on her own phone, including that one of the officers called her "sweetie" and another "stupid female" 2) That the "victim" of the "assault" referred to he "injuries" as "boo boos"

A grand jury no-billed the Reid case 3 times. Thus the misdemeanor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

What efforts have the BBC made to make it clear to the British public what Kirk's opinions and statements were?