These are government employees. So our tax dollars are funding ICE to flash white supremacist cards at vulnerable POC as an intimidation tactic. Who is giving this direction? There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.

Last night, GOP Senator Rand Paul went on national TV to flatly reject DHS's lies about the Pretti execution: "My advice to [DHS], if they're watching: If you come into [our hearing] and try to justify that [Pretti] was assaulting a police officer, that cannot be acceptable."

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬

Michelle Obama used her role as FLOTUS to expand democracy & human dignity. Melania Trump treated the role like an obligation to endure. Integrity over cruelty. Truth over noise. Leadership over ego. Make the Michelle Obama documentary #1 TODAY!! 🎥🔥 #SheShed #DefendersOfDemocracy

ICE took custody of two children who attend the same Minnesota elementary school as Liam Ramos, the detained five-year-old, according to school officials. Their mother was first taken into custody during a court appointment for her ongoing immigration case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One more reason I won’t be watching. FIFA has destroyed everything good about the sport with their soulless corruption and lack of principles.

dark times ahead. but we are going to win

“The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective.”

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

This is the facility I was denied entry to a week ago - even though I'm the top Democrat on the committee that funds DHS and I gave them plenty of notice. I told you they were hiding something. They were.

jesus christ

I went on Fox News yesterday morning to explain that while the focus is on Minneapolis, Trump is trampling rights everywhere. All over the country, thousands of LEGAL immigrants, including little kids, are being disappeared. That's what happens in Putin's Russia, not America.

This must stop.

“Dear ICE agents - I hope you’re respectful to everyone and show kindness… we should treat all people the same, even if we don’t know them.” If this doesn’t shatter your heart you don’t have one. 💔 Our kids are watching. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Here's a fun idea: Let's collectively make Michelle Obama's documentary, "Becoming," #1 on Netflix the same weekend Melania tanks at the box office! P.S. it’s really good!

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti

A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make. It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him. (This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)

California will not sit idle as Donald Trump and Republicans take a wrecking ball to our democracy. This moment calls for urgency and action. That's why we’re giving voters a way to fight back and nullify congressional gains in Texas or any state that tries to rig its maps.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦

After the disturbing news this morning about the Washington Post's opinion section, Democracy Docket sent out the following. If you want to support its commitment to pro-democracy news, information, opinion and analysis, become a member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

This is evil. Pure evil.

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

Trump used the last four years to turn the GOP into an anti-democratic war machine. And he is not done wreaking havoc. That is the stark reality we face. If we truly care about the future of free and fair elections, we must take the threat Trump poses to our elections literally and seriously.

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

“I’ll see you and raise you one.”

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Look how efficient DOGE is!!!

United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights. Or providing security for money. It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies. Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Figures www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Moms are freedom of speech & Medicaid. NOT this: “We’ve got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here.Your voice is meaningless right now.I can talk over all of you.” -Told to a woman for Medicaid at an Idaho Town Hall as she was illegally dragged by 3 men. cdapress.com/news/2025/fe...

#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth #Voices4Victory Taking a page straight from Project 2025, 45/7 has directed EPA to look at eliminating the “social cost of carbon” calculation and shift the financial burden of climate change from polluters onto — you guessed it — us. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

HOLY SHIT, the Philadelphia Eagles decided to REJECT the invitation to the White House, so I guess I'm an Eagles fan now. FLY, EAGLES FLY! 🦅💪

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I’ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, I’ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It won’t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

Trump-Musk are firing roughly 5,200 federal employees who work on health care this afternoon: www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...