A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don’t blame our leaders if the US military begins committing war crimes or attacking American civilians. Blame the women who laughed at Pete Hegseth during sex.

So like from what I can tell mister Trump is attempting to consolidate his authoritarian state by converting 300 Illinois Guard from paid to unpaid in service of having them threaten their own state’s citizens? Brilliant maneuver mister Trump truly.

Where is Richard Engel?

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

This. Is. Brilliant.

Here’s what we know about the lynching Trey Reed: 1) he was hit on the back of the head, and had multiple contusions. 2) he was strangled manually and then hung from the tree 3) he had an altercation with 4 white students in defense of his sister, who had posted something about Charlie Kirk

Thugs.

Spot on.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

So the ai slop that everybody hates, and yet is more commonplace by the hour, burns up massive amounts of power, water, and now we learn, also could be spewing unmonitored gaseous pfas. What's not to love? When will we finally hit #PeakIdiocracy ? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the United States to join the International Criminal Court and have its representatives subject to proceedings at The Hague, the US Senate must approve the Rome Statute by a two-thirds majority. Let's begin advocating for this.

When is the rest of the world going to put sanctions on the US for dismantling the human rights of its citizens?

#GoodPolicy for #CommunityProsperity #ProLifeCourse #HumanReasoning

ANTI FACIAL RECOGNITION

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Why would any Democrat vote for a budget when Trump has shown he simply doesn't care what's in it and does what he damn well once it passes? Until they have faith they'll honor anything, tell them to pound sand. What's worse no government or a corrupt one?

What could be more American than the headline "Mother Buys Violent Son Ammunition and Tactical Gear to Shoot Up His Middle School in Exchange for Babysitting His Younger Siblings"? www.yahoo.com/news/mom-acc...

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not. “Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight. But consider this... Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending. Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

this is extremely well-said

Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump. Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Let's agree, going forward, to refer to the FBI as the *once* premier law enforcement agency. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Listening to @nicollewallace.bsky.social discussing the latest gutting at the justice dept, getting rid of national security expert. Is this in favor of the Saudis? Is he complicit in planning the next terrorist attack? Big bucks to be made. Just ask Jared.

Marge says that Republicans can end the shutdown anytime they want without Democratic votes.

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

The “president” is not just unhinged & unwell. He is also a colossal vindictive asshole and a completely incompetent moron. When I have more characters, I’ll tell you what I really think.

Chūnibyō (中二病; lit. 'middle-school second-year syndrome') is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe adolescents with delusions of grandeur. These teenagers are thought to desperately want to stand out and convince themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers

In case it isn’t clear yet, the fascists are carrying out a project where they drain all programs focused on the public good and well-being and dividing the money between themselves, their friends, and new programs designed to oppress and control.

Sports | Now that Pete Hegseth has defined the warrior ethos and lethality, a cage fights to the death will decide who holds the office of Secretary of Defense.

I do think that punishing cowards is absolutely the right approach here.

RUSS VOUGHT ARCHITECT OF PROJECT 2025 wants to cut $8 billion in climate funding for CA NV CT NY CO IL DE HI MA MN MD NJ NH NM OR VT WA These states generate 80% of the country's revenue And thousands of jobs Lots of Independents and Republicans in those jobs btw

Autumn’s Garland, Tom Thomson 1916

Apparently, the charming “Dancing Pedophile Friends” statue is back on the Mall. And, as I said before, "Remember, Donald Trump did everything that Jeffrey Epstein did. He just did it backwards and in lifts.”

So much chaos, just to protect monsters in the Epstein files.

They're bulldozing through the Hatch Act. But they're doing that with a lot of laws. Because they know that no one will hold them accountable.

Libertarians watching Government goons fast rope from black helicopters into a Chicago apartment complex, drag Americans from their beds, and leave them hogtied naked on the street:

Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed. But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

the thing is, the attack lines dont actually write themselves, you actually need democratic politicians to write the attack lines and then repeat them over and over

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

Ah - the Kavanaugh stops continue. (h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for the name!)

Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.