Rep. Raskin: “I think that the DOJ has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug…There's no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.”

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"

Once again, the fact that we are betraying the Danes & have betrayed the Canadians - quite, literally, the closest of our closest treaty allies - this way is a national shanda that should have immediately ended this presidency a year ago & should immediately end it now.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

One of the (several) problems with the demand that bystanders and targeted people be immediately compliant with ICE agents is that fleeing ICE is incredibly rational. They’re violent, piggish thugs who disappear some people into horrendous gulags and shoot others in the face.

i don't even really care what the circumstances were at this point. get them out. fire all of them and strip their pensions. add "worked for ice/cbp" as a flag on the background check databases

A woman was shot dead on camera and Trump’s ICE is launching a full scale coverup. Nobody is above the law. Federal agents who break the law in Minnesota, Oregon or anywhere else, must be prosecuted.

That’s the only replay?

Once you think about people having their personal “brands”, schools talking about students as “consumers”, the never ending quest for quarterly growth has really infected everything. Not even for profit companies necessarily need to be “growing” their margins or every metric all the time

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

heres an example of politico covering the news while still covering for trump. the headline says trump is calling for a "trial" for dems. but what trump actually said is the dems should be offed. its very plain what he said. not saying so is a cover-up.

How is that not grounding

HAVE YOU VOTED YET? 🇺🇸

What the actual fuck is happening here? Vote everyone who supports this heinous activity out of office.

A great irony of the climate change-driven insurance crisis is that the same insurers that are canceling homeowners’ policies en mass bc they’re too “high risk” will turn around and write policies for giant fossil fuel facilities next to the literal ocean in hurricane alley. Maybe this is why:

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Canada dropping anti tariff and anti trump Reagan ad during game 7 is quite something

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Oh cool he was one of the guys in that CLA article from a bit ago. Look forward to see what they do with the Fire

Thank you OPB For covering this. As these right-wing media personalities grow their platforms, it's vital that folks understand what they are doing and what they are really all about. Media literacy is so important right now.

Feed is all football at a moment like that, this place has the juice

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Portland is a peaceful, vibrant city with no need for federal agents on our streets. I urge Oregonians not to fall into Trump’s attempt to incite violence. Just as I did in 2020, I will lead our delegation and state officials to oppose any unjustified increase in federal forces.

That Herbert play was insane. Makes it look way too easy

Trying to get onto the right blocklists: - Most of the time I like Ezra Klein - AI can be quite good sometimes - Very often, markets are effective solutions to problems - Building more housing, not necessarily affordable, is necessary for lowering housing prices

CATCH OF THE DAY by West Virginia's punter on a bad snap at the back of the end zone (and then he punted it 46 yards!)

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

So insane. Hey @wyden.senate.gov @wydenpress.bsky.social @bynum.house.gov please subpoena this guy

1. Move 2. Get outside 3. Eat in a balanced way 4. Do some combo of this with people you love / like 5. Care about some stuff 6. Keep learning

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary. These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.

Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Idk what newsom’s press office has been cooking for the past couple days but please keep cooking

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Q: Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? Epstein: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights

@danwetzel.bsky.social @bypatforde.bsky.social @rossdellenger.bsky.social is the CFB enquirer coming back in some form this season?

One of the more notable things about our present political moment is that former Republicans like Joe Walsh or the folks at the Bulwark have a more clear eyed understanding of political strategy than a significant number of long-time, moderate Democrats.

@tysonalger.bsky.social what’s your take on Timbers? Feels like malpractice to not have a dedicated analytics team in 2025 but maybe it’s obscured in an org chart or outsourced and not publicized?

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.