George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

Trump's crypto memecoin. Multi-million dinners with CEOs. Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption. Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.

I'm late to this powerful, detailed article, but it's well worth a read. What we're doing to these people is an atrocity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

To recap—Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of receiving millions in bribes & partnering with cocaine traffickers to flood American streets with drugs, but to protect American streets from being flooded with drugs, he has to mass murder innocent fisherman with impunity. Got it

A new site to document and track illegal ICE activity that will be used by the oversight committee to try and prosecute these goons. Please share this widely…. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...

ICE kidnappings are unlawful and those participating have NO IMMUNITY to justice!!

"Strength is measured by who you protect, not who you attack." @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August lataco.com/everyone-kid...

5/ Over and over, all over the country, that's all it took: a traffic stop. We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

MAGA Is A Foreign Influence Op...And Trump Isn't Putin's Only American Sucker www.againstallenemies.net/p/maga-is-a-...

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Hendricks Motors is worse than I thought and probably already worthy of boycott. Now they are handing out cars to ICE agents like they won the Showcase Showdown. They are next to go on boycott this boycott guide: open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

WATCH: We reviewed months of Fox News’ coverage and over 700 videos posted on social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others. Here's how Fox News and the Trump administration provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland: https://propub.li/4a4TaE4

Russian aviation again just dropped a FAB-3000 — a three-ton ultra-heavy glide bomb capable of leveling entire city blocks — directly on a residential area in Myrnohrad, Ukraine.

Terrific

Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.

NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS, We need to show up for our Latino neighbors. - Financially support their business, even if they're closed. - Reach out to your friends and ask how you can support them. - Help alert people to locations where ICE is showing up.

Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes." Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

There have been a lot of disgusting and surreal moments in the Oval Office over the last 10 months that disgrace the United States, but Trump publicly dismissing the brutal assassination of a Washington Post journalist as insignificant and blowing smoke up the ass of a despotic butcher is up there

Trump's DOJ confirmed 97.4% of people ICE has been arresting in Chicago have no criminal record whatsoever. The state is using its power to terrorize a community. Worst of all, Chicago is not an isolated example and these abuses are not stopping at U.S. borders. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ice...

They’re not going after criminals. “Criminals don’t get up and go to work and pay their bills.” These are not criminals; they’re hard-working people. EVERY LAST WORD OF THIS🔥

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.

Day #301 If over 97% of immigrants rounded up & detained (chicago) DO NOT have a criminal record this doesnt not meet the promise of deporting CRIMINAL immigrants. Right? Compare that to over 1,600 pardoned crimes by President. Aren't we ⬆️ criminality? www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...

Charlotte - buy gift cards for Manolo’s bakery, which is having to close temporarily because 🧊 is terrorizing his customers. Voted best cake shop in USAToday - the gift cards might help keep him afloat until you can pick up your cake. #ncpol manolosbakery.com

Protest tmrw in Charlotte, show up and speak out

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

When children have to educate and call out the “adults”

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Trump & Republicans can find $2 billion to rename the Department of Defense. But they can’t find the money to make your health care more affordable. Give me a break.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

Palantir received $51 million from ICE for tracking software. Meanwhile, the company donated to Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom project and its CEO personally donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee. www.notus.org/immigration/...

McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation

Their religion is a fraud — a theater of piety hiding the oldest sin of all: men claiming God’s voice to silence women’s. White Christian nationalism isn’t faith — it’s patriarchy in a pulpit, preaching the gospel of male insecurity and calling it divine truth.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message. “Fight for us” “Fight for working class Americans” “Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty” 5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message. “Nah”

So hungry and starving Americans was ok but airlines losing money wasn’t, got it

The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.

So the Dems that caved are either retiring or not up for re-election until 2028/30. I guess they just picked the least vulnerable to scapegoat. They are underestimating us & the moment. We are fighting for freedom & our livelihoods & they are playing games. They can afford to, we can’t