I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

Donald Trump is trying to con Americans into believing that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy in order to hide the the fact that Donald Trump and his corruption is the greatest threat to our democracy.

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Prescient

Dear Senators @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov: If either of you vote to re-open, without a binding agreement on healthcare (not a promise of a vote), your constituents will be very very pissed.

Big day for people who care about other people

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill

2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"

People have to stop trying to normalize what’s happening in Gaza because “Hamas is to blame” Of course Hamas is to blame. That doesn’t mean that mass starvation isn’t indefensible. We have to be better than this. You can support Israel and still respect the sanctity of life.

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

No, I don’t think I should try to find common ground with Trump supporters. Or white nationalists, or Nazis, or klansmen, or serial killers, or Andrew Tate.

Senate Republicans just voted to kick 20 million Americans off their health care. JD Vance thinks that is "minutiae." Ernst doesn't care because "we're all gonna die." McConnell says people will "get over it." Don't EVER let Republicans live this down.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Zohran Mamdani never said "globalize the Intifada" and shame on Jonathan Karl for spreading this fiction and Jeffries for not rebutting it.

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

Should be a bigger story that John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain went on American TV and called bullshit on Israel’s lies last weekend. Like John McCain’s widow is now to the left of Cory Booker on Israel. That’s how bad the Dems are on Palestinian human rights.

In a world of Jake Tappers, be a Scott Pelley. ✊🏽

I only wish the Dem establishment was smart enough to understand why AOC is seen as the leader…and to embrace it…and to realize those pushing back on her and her message are the problem.

Trump says “don’t touch Medicaid”—then backs a bill that guts it by $600B?! All while flying private on Qatar’s dime? This isn’t policy. It’s corruption. And if this budget bill passes, the lies become laws. Watch. Share. Rage. @katiephang.bsky.social #WaitADamnMinute #ProtectMedicaid

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And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up

Please watch THIS particular interview, shared by @prisonculture.bsky.social to get the play by play on what happened. Getting arrested for protesting is a king move, but that's not what happened here. This was a goddamned grab and sack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjf...

Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do. They arrested and disappeared him.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

It was never about …. www.thehandbasket.co/p/it-was-nev...

This part

A unanimous Supreme Court decision demonstrates that Trump did something so egregiously illegal that even the most right-wing justices couldn’t side with him. Trump must immediately comply with the rule of law and bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

If Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy can just find a moment between all his Fox News hits about how he’s too scared to take the subway and too dumb to run a dishwasher, I’m sure he’ll get right on this.

Call. Your. Congresscritter.

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security. Every state AG's office could do this. Might help. www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

i imagine it's very difficult finding people who share your passion for turning the poor into biofuel

Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it. Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history. This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.

husband texted me

Ok but you have to understand. There was a black woman jedi on the teevee. They made an all woman ghostbusters. Someone at my job said “Latinx” bsky.app/profile/jame...

This is a @benwikler.bsky.social appreciation post. Great job in Wisconsin. Great job on Maddow. Great job for democracy. Someday I will get a cheese hat.

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

In a world of Schumers, be a Booker - New cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

At his rally in Wisconsin, South African billionaire Elon Musk says he will put an end to the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Dollar so that he, Peter Thiel and David Sacks (the South African broligarchs) can introduce a new cryptocurrency based financial system.