JD Vance should just stay home, it's really too much trouble to let him out into the world

In Minneapolis ordinary people with no connection whatsoever to Mexico are now flying Mexican flags, so ICE officers will waste hours pulling them over and questioning them. They call it "ICE fishing." H/t Mayra

(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

Corvus my little light thief, for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #sunlight. ✨ #art #birdart

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism. A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

So many of us were screaming about this!

Fuck yes yes yes👍

ICE is still very active in Los Angeles where DHS agents assaulted deaf high school students in LA, saying “they failed to comply” when they could not hear their orders

Assholes are born every minute, some stay around past their pull date…

Tit-for-tat is an old phrase that I don’t know the origin of

While the overloaded boxcar train of troubles keeps rolling along these kinds of stories get swept to the "that might possibly be a problem in the future" caboose. jasonanthony.substack.com/p/drinking-o...

Please tell your representatives to vote NO on the SAVE Act! It’s a bad bill. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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This is some amazingly awful shit that was shuffled quietly under the rug, that's getting awfully crowded in there.

"I was carried face down […] by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally. I was never asked for ID. Never told I was under arrest. Never read my rights and never charged with a crime." -Aliya Rahman youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

"Annie Farmer is one of many people who testified in court about Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. She says they sexually abused her when she was 16 years old."

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

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The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE

Good news: A federal judge just ruled the Forest Service’s “logging loophole” unlawful, restoring required environmental review for large logging projects in Oregon. Reality: It can’t undo three decades of old-growth loss already written into the landscape.

hoo boy, this essay is so good it feels impossible to pull quote

In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

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May the Epstein files remind every woman that she should not feel beholden to beauty standards established by men who are attracted to children.

Oregon and Northwest folks pay attention - watch yourselves...

I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.

I guess the Frog costumes were already rented, but good on him. 👍

And this from (checks notes) The National Observer ?

This Administration has been ignoring the constitution for a full year and no one is holding them accountable. They are doubling down on ICE Warrantless Arrests www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

we really need to impeach President Miller

Racism is the beating heart of the Trump administration.

This is not great www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The link is back up. You can read this depraved information for yourself: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Well shit, maybe ...

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

If you haven't given a listen to Omar Sosa do so. Much better than a new movie named ...

This seems relevant here, in terms of Peter Thiel’s “theology.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seems like one of those issues that should greatly concern everyone regardless of their politics.

How to Search Your Computer Files Just Like Google Searches the Internet

Good book. I got the e-version in the US.

In addition to Don Lemon, they arrested journalist Georgia Fort bsky.app/profile/tayl...

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

In very scientific terms this is some fucked up bullshit. 👍

Off topic here but have you ever wondered where UPS vans come from?

She has less brain mass than the dog she shot ...