The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.

Seriously? Gas, groceries, energy prices are crushing Americans--and this is where Republicans want to spend their effort? www.politico.com/live-updates...

Maybe everyone using Signal should be regularly checking their settings?

It's called "complicity"

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Venture capitalist politics. Cartoon by Jorge Gonzalez

"Worst of the worst" was ICE's mission, right? A 56-year-old NUN walking hike from Sunday Mass...and they took her rosary away. WTAF?

This is a great idea. They work for US. If you left.your job for 4 days, let alone 4 weeks or 4 months, HR would determine you'd abandoned your job. Why should elected officials have it different? If you are missing votes, you need to account for your time.

everyone sheltering at the Canadian embassy is *chef’s kiss*

we’re about to see the first american struck by lightning, fireworks, and a fighter jet at the same time

Direct hit from Dupont Circle.

Trump "blinks" during the fireworks show in DC (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Is this good?

SO MANY people and creatures are made terrified by fireworks. Wildlife. Dogs. Kids. Veterans. Please keep them all safe.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use. They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume. Meta is rare in counting both; 19B gallons in 2024 was 20x its direct use.

Nothing demonstrates America's 250th better than this 🤡

By speaking out, this Major has likely relinquished his right to millions of dollars of future benefits and entitlements of his service. Health insurance, pension, etc. When Hegseth was threatening Mark Kelly an other veteran members of Congress, that’s what he was after. Not a small show of courage

This is the actual truth of Independence The willingness to stand up to tyranny and say “I am willing to sacrifice what I have” Start thinking about what that might look like for you

"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman

My first reaction was "OMG, is that the Loch Ness monster?!"

What's terrifying here isn't just that TRUMP ALONE is responsible for 28% of 250 years of the United States' national debt. It's that Anthony Scaramucci has a better handle on our current defense situation that Pete Hegseth

A foreign monarchy handed the President a $400 MILLION jet. Wednesday, it becomes Air Force One. Friday, it leads the July 4th flyover for America's 250th birthday. A gift from Qatar. Flying the President. On Independence Day. Let that one sink in, friend.

The utter hubris in Congress is why we need to overturn Citizens United, limit terms, implement mandatory retirement ages and restrict lobbying after serving in Congress.

“All Pay the Chief.” Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich’s take on what was once unthinkable and is now common practice.

At what point will Americans decide we need people who **undertand how stuff works** to makes laws and otherwise govern the United States?

Ugh, every time I learn a new fact about Haaland I find myself liking him more and more, it’s terrible.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

How is it the power grid couldn’t handle electric cars but it will be fine with all these data centers?

This was BRILLIANT!

Leave it to foreign news outlets to take action and to keep us informed. Thank you, BBC. You ROCK!!!

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Best argument ever.

It seems the USA's 'manifest destiny' is to elect the very worst people among them and destroy the democracy they swore to defend.

ICE left the dogs IN THE HOUSE?

Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.

Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools

Barack Obama’s beautiful timeless tribute to his beloved mother. This photo says all. #Pinks #Voices4Victory

House and Senate Democrats, fight like it’s life or death, because it is! The bastard is down, don’t let him up. Ruthless!

THIS is why no more data centers should be built. And those that exist need to be highly regulated, if not taken over completely by governments

Because the human carnage left in ICE's wake isn't enough....

💰 @grahamformaine.bsky.social PLATNER: “Wall Street’s takeover of our economy wasn’t an accident... We are living in a system operating exactly as intended… policy choices made by establishment politicians in the service of people who donated the most money to them. And it needs to end.”

Plus, DC-area natives are getting tired of Trump vandalizing our city with his white trash ideas of "decor"

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Brilliance of the Talking Heads....

The Presidential State Car weighs in at over 7 tons. Reflecting pools, especially 100 year old ones, are NOT engineered as driving surfaces. Pool coatings take up to 2 weeks to cure, depending on the weather, and are NOT driving surfaces, especially for a motorcade. IDIOTS

A major win! A federal judge in California has vacated ICE’s nationwide courthouse-arrest policies and a related detention waiver, blocking the agency from carrying out broad immigration arrests at courthouses.

The duckling Trump killed in the Reflecting Pool turned out to be a fitting reflection of what his administration is doing across the country. They are damaging wildlife, undermining environmental protections, and treating conservation as an afterthought.