NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Elon Musk's racist assault on the movie appears to actually be helping it to smash box-office records and achieve almost unprecedented critical acceptance. The consensus: Musk is both malicious and an exceedingly dim bulb, even if he's a genius in his own mind. www.wired.com/story/the-od...

Shoot First, Smear Later open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

The US is now aggressively striking civilian infrastructure across Iran, as Trump threatened. This is being reported on major global news networks like the BBC, but major US media is avoiding any reporting on the details of the campaign, relaying instead on Pentagon and White House statements.

Rep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"

I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.

Another Trump administration effort to smear a man they murdered goes down in flames. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

She had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health," and that "he was abusive in their relationship." So they knew they were sending a crazy violent man with a gun out to fill their jail quota.

Malinowski: Is he going to fire John Ratcliffe, who was in charge of his daily briefing? He's implying that China was part of some nefarious conspiracy… Is he going to sanction his friend XI jinping, who he's kissing up to every single day?

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now.

"Be quiet or we'll keep killing you" is one hell of a message for the midterms.

TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.

Additionally, it drives me crazy that the default position in this country is that being here undocumented is a crime. It’s not. Further, legal status isn’t a factor in whether someone should be murdered.

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

The level of disrespect this regime shows to their fellow Americans reaches a level that’s completely incompatible with democracy. These people literally believe they have the right to kill people who disagree with them. It’s disgusting.

Hirono: "Do you believe it is the president's right and duty to order the investigation or prosecution of his perceived enemies, yes or no?" Blanche: "I can't answer that yes or no."

Hochul: But why were they there in the first place? Is it just unsafe for people in this country to even be in their vehicles anymore—that you could get gunned down by rogue ICE agents? People have had enough.

"Cops really shouldn't be killing people ever—almost ever... In other developed countries this just doesn't happen." @timmiller.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social & @jvl.bsky.social discuss a recent spate of fatal ICE shootings and why Americans have become too accustomed to police killings.

Susan Collins faces political liability. PAXIS says: The victim was not the person agents sought. Masked agents, unmarked cars, no body cameras, hallmarks of a gang trying to carjack you. Collins funded ICE. Maine voters are linking her to a killing with no accountability. GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

That’s called war crimes

I'll go with logic.. #politics #logic

Oxford comma for the win! (Never understood the contra argument. Sentences like this prove its utility beyond any doubt.)

BREAKING: Trump will fabricate foreign election interference in his speech Thursday: www.ms.now/news/trump-s... From 5 months ago:

"England’s Birthright Citizenship" Another must-read by @kabcommons.bsky.social in the London Review of Books! American law professors have bastardized history for contemporary purposes, making fundamental mistakes about English law and practice along the way. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A 28-year-old man was brutally murdered in Florida by ICE thugs who chased him onto the path of an oncoming semi-truck. The driver of the truck stopped his vehicle and immediately attempted to aid the victim while the ICE thugs stood around, hands in vests.

"A government that conceals its identity cannot demand perfect recognition from frightened civilians," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social. "ICE mistook Lorenzo Salgado Araujo for another man. He was expected to identify ICE instantly. Only one side was allowed to make an error."

Rep. Seth Magaziner: "ICE agents shot and killed two more innocent people in broad daylight. In both cases, the people they killed weren't even the people they were looking for. In both cases, they shot and killed people who were on their way to work in front of their families."

"say a prayer for that agent...he deserves a debt of gratitude." For what? Shooting a random motorist who had every right to be in the country?

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.

Concur. Abolish ICE. And prosecute the agents who committed these killings.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

Sometimes I’ll be chatting with friends and a sentence I’d never thought I’d say comes out. Today’s is: “The nominee for Attorney General was just referred to the bar for disciplinary consideration, but you don’t actually need a law license to be the Attorney General.”

ICE entered a small Maine town searching for someone with a removal order. Instead, an officer killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero—who officials admit was not the target. With no body-camera footage, furious protesters are demanding the truth. #Biddeford #ICE #Justice

They’ve learned they don’t have to defend their actions because they keep getting away with it.

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

Lindsey Graham: The Good, the Bad, and the Banality of Evil open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Kind of like how we talk about Aaron Burr over 200 years later.

All of us are just one wrong turn from being murdered in our cars, with no apology.

BREAKING: A federal judge has voided President Donald Trump's controversial settlement with the IRS, ruling that his underlying $10 billion lawsuit was filed for an "improper purpose" to engineer a self-dealing agreement. @anntelnaes.bsky.social

This really says everything that needs to be said.

BREAKING: A federal judge just nullified Trump’s $1.776 billion IRS “settlement,” ruling it had “no viable basis in law or fact,” finding there was never a real legal dispute, and referring Trump’s attorney to The Florida Bar for possible discipline.

RIP Sam Neill, 78. Credits include Jurassic Park, Event Horizon, Possession, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Rams (2029), In the Mouth of Madness, Peaky Blinders, Merlin, Bicentennial Man, Sirens, The Piano, The Hunt for Red October, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Dead Calm, Attack Force Z, and many more.

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

Fewer people are posting on social media, for understandable reasons. Most sites are algorithm-focused, pushing garbage into your feed instead of what you want to see. Social media companies only have themselves to blame for this boring, toxic mess. ca.pcmag.com/social-media...

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

At some point, all the bullcrap, all the lies, all the selfish ambition, all the search for status, all the media whoredom comes to an end. And it is true for everyone.