Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

One of three Tennessee lawmakers who drew national attention in 2023 when Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature moved to expel them following a gun control protest is running for Congress, he announced Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3IEravT

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The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head. @kevinhfoster.bsky.social recently visited the ICE facility and spoke with people there and across Portland—and the reality of what is happening on the streets is very different than what the administration wishes to portray.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

📽️ VIDEO: Republicans who resisted Donald Trump after years of enabling him are not heroes and do not deserve credit. Marc Elias emphasizes that framing them as such ultimately serves Trump's agenda. Watch below👇 https://bit.ly/48aleVG

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

MAGA thinks the majority will sit there and just accept masked, armed ICE agents to continue terrorizing their streets. They are wrong. Dangerous, desperate overreach by a weakened Administration.

Alternative apps are available, below. People also are using WAZE to mark "Icy Conditions" on the nav app.

Apple’s feedback chat: Https://www.apple.com/feedback

The Apple main switchboard is (408) 996–1010. If you ask politely they’ll connect you to a real person who will take your complaint.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Apple, you too??? Grow a pair. Unacceptable. #Apple #ICEBlock

the only organized terrorism is the Republican party

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Hey mainstream news media. Maybe do your job and let people know just how fucking crazy this guy is. He’s trying to start a civil war.

Abolish ICE…

Oregon AG Rayfield: The first thing that might’ve told you the federal government wasn’t doing so hot was when they started off some of their arguments by talking about Truth Social as their source of facts. Actually got a comment from the judge: “Is this really how you’re going to move forward?”

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

my cousin had the family over tonight for a party whose theme was “everyone make a cake and then we will sit around in the backyard and try all the cakes” and honestly like, we should do this once a month

went Outside™ today for the first time in months and i need someone who loves me to grab me and drag me outdoors—by force if necessary—every time i start getting blue

Even a Trump loyalist has voiced his displeasure with some of Hegseth’s decisions, particularly his rollout of Trump’s “America First, Peace Through Strength” National Defense Strategy. The initial draft for the strategy was met with widespread disapproval, which is rare. trib.al/1EtcZr3

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

📽️A MUST watch from Marc Elias: It's easy to disengage with the constant stream of bad news flowing out from the Trump administration. But when we become immune — when we stop being outraged — our democracy crumbles. https://bit.ly/48aleVG

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying his actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.

—> #SaturdayNightLive ⦁ Opener #SNL <— #PeteHegseth (#ColinJost) Address to #Military Officials getting interrupted by President #Trump (#JamesAustinJohnson) #SNL51 #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/vZb1WO1_lGI

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

Ugh. Gross. Stephen Miller is a literal monster.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls. Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

Here we are, ladies and gentlemen, starting October off with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker calling for President Donald Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment, declaring: “There is something seriously wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment should be invoked.”

Additional footage of the speaker’s confrontation with Rep. Madeleine Dean has emerged.

This is a wild story of how Ukrainian drone program has taken out 1/5th of Russia’s refining power and otherwise so hurt oil/gas industry that there are pretty severe shortages for Russian civilians

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Oct. 2, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess. The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This is wild.

My god.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2024

Now that Trump has bribed his spurned onetime future daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle with an ambassadorship it's a good time to remind everyone that on Insurrection Eve she was at Trump's private residence in Washington and received a phone call from Ali Alexander—who led the march on the Capitol

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Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

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I am all in favor of getting outraged over trivial bullshit as a blessed relief from getting outraged over actual real-world horror, but being pissed off about Golden Globe nominations...I can't.

Reminder: A 24 page police report details a woman’s horrifying account of being drugged and raped by Pete Hegseth. (Currently, Hegseth is Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.) In 2017, a woman said she was the victim of a sexual assault perpetrated by Hegseth at a GOP women’s…