One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Cancel culture is where if you go viral for being racist you can retire early

*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

A group of nine conservative Democrats—Reps. Carolyn Bourdeaux, Ed Case, Jim Costa, Henry Cuellar, Jared Golden, Vicente Gonzalez, Josh Gottheimer, Kurt Schrader, and Filemon Vela—demanded a vote first on infrastructure, and Pelosi caved. As warned, the Build Back Better Act failed in the Senate.

House Democrats could have passed their major reconciliation bill first in 2021, before the corporate infrastructure bill. The Build Back Better Act would have created paid sick & family leave, child care & more. The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.

The social spending bill would have put hundreds of billions into programs that people would have seen before 2024. -extended Child Tax Credit increase -20 workdays of paid family and medical leave -child care, universal pre-K -health care subsidies The Blue Dog Coalition Dems delayed the bill.

Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The easiest thing for Democrats to do would be to stop confirming Trump judges, but they can’t even be bothered to do that. Just failure all the way down. I really hate these people.

President rapist. Cabinet full of rapists. A rapist and an abuser on the Supreme Court. Pro-rape policies. The Republican Party is objectively pro-rape.

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

Guy: Doc help, I'm depressed & alone in this cruel world Dr: Treatment is simple! The great clown Pagliacci is in town. See his show & be cured! G: Pagliacci fucking sucks. He's corny Dr. Pagliacci: You're corny & that's why you're depressed cuz you fucking don't know shit I'm glad your wife left

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

More like Charlie JERK 😠🤬 Somebody should do 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 about that guy

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.

Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

As the Trump administration continues to ramp up its immigration agenda, taxpayers are left footing the bill. A new report from @bloomberg.com shows that on average, it costs more $17,000 to detain and deport a single person. More here 👇 bit.ly/3M2Fe3r

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

Jeff Bezos confirmed sex pest

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Two of the core pillars of this administration is that they HATE Americans and they LOVE sex traffickers

The issue with the "but immigrants provide cheap labor for jobs nobody wants!" argument is that now they're packing immigrants into slave labor camps, so maybe the argument should have always been a humanitarian one instead of a predatory economics thing but idk I'm no NYT columnist or anything

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Lots of people right now are saying this Donald Trump character did an absolute SUCKING OFF JOB on former president William "Bill" Clinton and I think that both men should apologize to their wives about this

[Pan to young James Bond in his 20s holding a martini] Bond: [checks phone] ah yes, the 22nd leg on my parlay just hit double somehow. I'm the worlds richest guy all off the sudden Dweeb: but Mr. Bond I thought you were blown to smithereens Bond: No. Conventionally hot woman: have sex with me, James

"men used to go to war" Listen buddy; the only where i'm tryna to be stationed at, is the gas station! to enjoy, deliciously and reasonably priced hot dogs fresh off the roller! happy veterans day 🫡 #service

Henceforth, this date shall forever be known as Flaming Moe's Day. Sir, this is already Veteran's Day. It can be two things.

Inbox 0 except it's the 12 friends whose stories I haven't muted yet on Instagram

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off. Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory

Truth. Yet Schumer pledges: "We will keep fighting." No. We fought and won battles for them on Tuesday, only to be betrayed on Sunday. We the people (and some of us a lot more than others) are tired of being betrayed by corporations, media, and the representatives who don't represent us.