Also, re: FDNY, the chief who announced he was quitting when Mamdani was elected had no experience before Adams appointed him. bsky.app/profile/rude...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

People need to remember that Netanyahu campaigned on his friendships with Trump and Putin as a plus. Saying they were on another level. Perhaps naïvely, I’ve never understood how people can support Ukraine while making excuses for Israel’s apartheid regime.

“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

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Haven't these people heard of Streisand effect

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

its not a nuclear option its just the law

People raising that Epstein files show Trump met a 14 year old victim of Epstein’s. Actually this was known from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. But corporate media barely covered it. At least nbc news covered it years ago

Journalists reporting. Aid workers delivering food. Peace activists opposing home demolitions. Teenagers shot at checkpoints. A grandfather detained and left to die. None of the killers of these U.S. citizens have been held criminally accountable by Israel's government: dawnmena.org/u-s-congress...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

you couldn't ask for a better example of using ""debate"" as a way to spread misinformation and launder lies. to concede that it was a subject worthy of debate is to concede the entire point under discussion in advance!

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

Yeah admittedly it's good we're not invading Venezuela now, as horrible as that speech was...

Okay, folks, the 25th Amendment is there for a reason.

Holy shit this idiot is just begging lmao

This level of OpSec is referred to as The Full Hegseth

Genuine terrorists, as a rule, do not write down things they heard in a Tom Clancy novel into the op plan so they remember them

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

The funniest thing about the 30 posts the CBS News Twitter account made is that most of them have like... a couple hundred likes total.

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

I guess now is a great time to confess that for the most part I've always had Bad Vibes about Chomsky? Dude was right in some circumstances but his Cambodia takes were obviously always uhh... IDK how Chomsky thought that would fly (either he was lying (seems likely!) or he was the dumbest man alive.

*goes to make dinner* *Check phone* "You have 99+ Notifications" ah yes, ofc, I love you too Bluesky

Do not do this.

It isn't NEARLY brutal enough.

Incredible. Making this distinction is like the only way liberals can continue to justify continuing to support Zionism – yet the more conservative part of the Zionist coalition is trying to undermine it.

In a previously unreported letter, the Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman asked Israeli president Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

We need zero crypto apologists in Congress IMO

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

Truly incredible work, no notes

Judge Xinis grants habeas for Abrego Garcia, ordering him released from ICE custody immediately. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even before this we had a construction labor shortage. Estimates put around 25% of the construction industry is undocumented. And not only are they incredibly skilled but they often get fucked over by employers. I wrote about it earlier this year.

at which point I suspect many of them will shift their support to a Newsom type with a heavy focus on restoring some things (scientific research), but a a heavy emphasis on "moving on" so many of their darker sins (complete dismantling of regulatory independence, racism) aren't course corrected

at some point here as Trump's mental/physical health fails you're going to see a slight pivot among the corporations that supported him (now that they've gotten tax cuts and brutal deregulation), in the form of a faint outline of a backbone now that his value has been all used up

Start state vs current state:

Sean Duffy wants to you to sit next to this guy on your next flight

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No floor, all kneeling

In no way do we Have to Hand It to Republicans who break with Trump on any issue, but defections from full compliance with the regime are essential to every pro-democracy movement. The increased prevalence of Republicans across the spectrum breaking with Trump is a sign that he's weak and failing.