ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Kimmel was fired for criticizing the president. That milk toast white man said nothing about Charlie Kirk. This is just authoritarianism 101. I've lived it. I know. Wake the fuck up America.

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

One of the early outrages in the Red Scare was Truman’s EO asserting that “sympathetic association” with communist groups was grounds for being fired from a federal job. That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

The president today described these arrangements as law firms paying him, meaning they are bribes, and the partners of these firms are criminals.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

This story gets so much worse. The trans woman who she refused to fence only finished in 24th place. Stephanie, the forfeiter, also beat *multiple* cis men in a regional match just one week earlier! And conservatives just paid her $5k for her kneel. Why is nobody talking about this?

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

Breaking: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he plans to place a hold on ALL Trump nominees going forward. This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda. 🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In El Salvador, you can be jailed as a gang member for having a tattoo, even though today, actual gang members are discouraged from having tattoos. The heavily tattooed prisoners you see in Bukele’s propaganda videos are middle age lifers arrested years ago under past governments.

Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.

All I keep thinking about is that if/when Dems regain power, every action to restore normality or basic functioning of governmental institutions will be covered by the national press like it’s a controversial, partisan power play on par with a coup.

The government is snatching people off the streets and shipping them to foreign prisons from which, the government claims, they can never be extracted. All with no due process. It’s as bad as it gets. And this court is again avoiding the reality of what’s happening at all costs.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

He is one guy. Congress can stop this at any moment.

I can’t believe the guy who attacked the Capitol would do this.

Whoa, is this proof that the information environment is critical for a functional democracy??

i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

I'm serious about pushing Republicans on impeachment this week. Think about it. There will never be a better chance. Rich people losing their wealth is the *only* thing that can move the needle on this. Not fascism, not racism, not the destruction of public health. This is it.

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

Trump’s Antisocial State The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Right now, the message needed is to convince the most normie cringe swing voters that things really are messed up, it isn't just lefty college kids upset like they always are, that other people just like them are also scared and angry and want things to change

it's not the biggest trump scandal obviously but lack of media curiosity about trump's obviously fake golf victories is a microcosm of how journalists have treated him for the past decade

Just asking questions, Stephen!!!

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

They’re saying 3 mutually incompatible things about the tariffs: 1) They are long term and will cause onshoring 2) They are long term and will raise revenue (which only happens in absence of onshoring) 3) They are a tactic to get others to lower tariffs (and therefore aren’t long term)

UPDATE The Congresswoman has deleted this post.

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.” “Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Confronted with the video published by the NYT, “the IDF acknowledges that its statement claiming that the ambulances had their lights off was incorrect, and was based on the testimony from the soldiers in the incident.” x.com/manniefabian...

If you are not aware: students only 'fall out of status' if they don't attend classes, or are not enrolled full time (e.g. Musk's original visa). Their schools lawfully control this determination. If they commit a crime, their visas can be reviewed/revoked. The process described here is extralegal.

@nytimes.com has "updated" this story since its posting. Still have not found room in headline, sub-head, or caption to mention which party this guy belongs to. Pro-tip: Could fit "GOP" in sub-hed easily by removing either of two "the"s. Or making "Representative" just "Rep."

a great way to riposte allegations of being a coastal elite might be to actually name the cities in Utah and Idaho these rallies took place in rather than just stick the names of a couple red states on a poster full of blue cities

Moreover, if you can send Kristi Noem to this prison to shoot S&M- themed propaganda, you can get someone out of it. They don’t want to. Because they love this. They love being the people who arrest innocent immigrants in front of their children and then send them to a prison to be tortured.

he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.

What's most significant about today's day of action is the sheer number of locations where protests took place -- more than 1000 towns and cities, all over the country. That's only happened one or two times before *in all of American history.*

I actually did not give a shit what happened in rust belt towns that used to have factories but now making sure they never have the power to elect someone to blow up the economy is my #1 political issue

Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.