All the America good/America bad takes firing back and forth on here seem to me to be encapsulated in my favorite quote from my favorite politician: “I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.” —Shirley Chisholm, in her 1973 presidential campaign memoir, The Good Fight.

Does it shame you in the slightest that you published the same lie in 2019, or are you beyond caring?

2026-01-22: Having made sure both of his brushes are nearby and easily accessible, Max has now completed his preparation for the huge ice storm on its way to Dallas this weekend. I’m hoping the trend toward more sleet than freezing rain holds true so power outages will be limited.

Jack Smith: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity."

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

The real child sex trafficking ring turned out to be the friends they made along the way.

It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

probably the sole reason this man isn't currently the attorney general of the united states is that at least some of his republican colleagues knew all of this and didn't tell anyone

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

What makes the attempt by Trump's press secretary to deny that the nearly 80-year-old president mistakenly called Greenland "Iceland" four times in 90 seconds today particularly absurd is that video of Trump doing it is here, on the White House YouTube channel: youtu.be/prdSj9caeQw?...

ice and the department of homeland security knowingly ordered agency personnel from top down to violate the fourth amendment and took numerous steps, including threat of retaliation, to further and hide the conspiracy. it has to be torn out at the root

an agency-wide criminal conspiracy against the constitution. no one in the department of homeland security is fit for any government service

Media just lying straight up to their audiences today. Stenographer ass bullshit not doing one bit of reporting. It's all dogshit, people. Subscribe to independent media.

Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats. In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.

The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos. You should know a bit about the background of those people. 🧵

.@PabloReports: What do you make of Trump’s cognitive decline? Crockett: I honestly don’t think he was equipped to be sworn into office in the first place.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

"The worst of the worst"

This made me smile. That member of Congress has a dormant account here: bsky.app/profile/repm.... Glad to see him introducing this amendment. (And TIL about the Holman Rule, which in this instance really rules.)

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Rutte: -slaps top of existing arrangement relating to US presence in Greenland- "This bad boy can fit so many US military bases and whatever the fuck Golden Dome is in it!" Trump: "I'll take it! Art of the deal, baby!"

Never forgiving the Republican Party for this trash.

House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family...

Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."

He didn't "seem to" do it. He did it, repeatedly.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.

If only we could find the people responsible for this !!!

NEW from me: DOGE is officially the largest one-year cut in the federal workforce since the end of WWII, with 279k jobs lost—though it didn't come close to its supposed goal of reducing the deficit & cut some of the federal government's most effective programs 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-econom...

After Sauer says Lisa Cook "was given an opportunity" to respond to the allegations, KBJ asks whether that due process was: "She supposed to post about it, and that was the opportunity to be heard?" Yes, Sauer replies.

Adolf Hitler Rules Out Senseless Adventures Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 13 [1937]— Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and his Nazis, their voices strained from a week of speeches and cheers, left for their every-day tasks today after an unusual talk by the dictator on foreign affairs and German's desire for peace.

The question was how he planned to maintain U.S. economic growth under the threat of a recession.

The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

A fading narcissist, absent morality and free of consequences with nothing to lose. I will never forgive Republicans.

'Is There A Plan Behind Trump's Confusion of Greenland and Iceland' will appear somewhere tomorrow, I'm sure. people invested in the idea that the system can still work will do anything to avoid the reality of the president's deluded ignorance.

Talking about things going down “1000%” at an ECONOMIC FORUM is beyond parody! Now the world stage can see in person that America is sadly dealing with Dementia Don I don’t think we could possibly have a more embarrassing, ignorant president It’s truly something to behold 

Trump is doing his narcissistic grievance tour speech in Davos, “Sir” stories, “Nobody’s seen anything like it” “The election was rigged” “the autopen” included. “Canada lives because of the United States,” “They call me daddy” “All I want is a piece of ice” “I think 48 years is equal to forever”

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

Folks, is it good when the US President can't keep straight which country he wants to illegally conquer?

DART’s Techno Train sounds fun. Glad to see the beleaguered transit agency do something joyful while all the dumbfuck suburban council members (shoutout to the really dense dude in Addison) try their best to kill it. I’d even shun Plano and start the party at Cityline just to spite those assholes.

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.

If you were best friends for 15 years with the world’s most notorious trafficker in young girls, I’d assume you were a creepy perv too

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

I cannot believe I have been held captive by this lunatic and his 35% for TEN YEARS.