Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight. As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

Good night, and good luck.

this is a blatant attempt at avoiding accountability At DHS request, FAA grounds drone flights across Chicago in rare 10-day ban "would effectively block private citizens from using drones to observe, photograph or interfere with ICE raids and arrests."

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back, but there’s a bigger picture here. Nexstar and Sinclair own the most local ABC stations in the country. Both are waiting on FCC approvals for business deals that could shape their future.

people generally understand that when Obama says things like "we disagree that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake" that's a shiv, right?

What a reminder that Obama is better at talking than anyone you've ever met. In his absence, it's easy to strawman who he is and what he represented. What he is is a genius political communicator and good guy. I wish he'd talk more, provide consistent framing for current electeds.

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

"When do we get to use the guns? To k*ll these people" asks Charlie Kirk supporter (2021) Universal warning

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

THE MILITARIZATION OF OUR CITIES WITH AGENTS OF THE STATE ARE ALL PART OF ONE WHOLE UNIT OF FEDERAL ACTIVITY Do not 'oh but the national guard are just there to pick up trash' me why are they in the cities at all what is the strategy why were they given those orders these. are. rhetorical. qs.

Oh, is Mike Lee moralizing about his hatred of political violence now?

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.

It's obviously not a perfect rendering, but those stacked arches and that coloration, it really is so distinctive.

This entire book is a nightmare

Schmitt's speech about the "destiny" of "our people" & our special role in preserving "western civilization" reminded me of this draft of a 1952 Senator McCarthy speech. It was written by a staffer named Francis Parker Yockey, a key figure in the history of American fascism. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Dr. Paul Offit, a frequent critic of US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been blocked from participating in a panel of independent experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on vaccines. https://cnn.it/42dwE78

Trump and Bondi fired actually experienced immigration judges. Now, claiming they don't have enough immigration judges, they're asking military lawyers from DOD to come over on detail and serve as temporary judges. Blatant way to further militarize immigration enforcement. apnews.com/article/pent...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Bunch of people who never had to uproot their entire lives and move thousands of miles away ought to stop pontificating on asylum and immigration

Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%

No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Rarely agree with Dan Hodges, but this 2015 observation has great power.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump needs a scapegoat and a diversion, and that's what he's doing with the Fed."

Roger de La Fresnaye, The Conquest of the Air, 1913 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135078

This is one of my favorite paintings, from any painter, ever. Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.

America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

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Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."

sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it?

yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps

Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"

When Trump declared a public safety emergency in D.C. Monday & took control of the Metro Police, also announcing he'd bring in the National Guard, the rules that apply everywhere else were not in play. The situation is unique & it’s important for us to understand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Welp

Slick turn of phrase and nod to the best of Scalia here.

if you are worth billions of dollars — a sum that makes you wealthier than any king in antiquity — you already *have* been incentivized. you have been allowed, by the state and by your fellow citizens, to escape any material concern except death, a condition entirely unique to the modern era.

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza. A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted. He was reporting until the moment of his death. The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out: “Silence is complicity.”

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.