The SPLC obviously been in the crosshairs of the new crackdown on dissent, but ironically the ADL is also a group who targets right wing extremists and will be/is being caught up in the dragnet.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

State legislatures also have their own subpoena powers, something they should be reminded of and start putting to more aggressive use.

this was heartbreakingly cruel to begin with. but the detail about the ICE agent smiling for a selfie with her as she cried? rage.

Vance literally joked about murdering fishermen bsky.app/profile/atru...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

🧵The Trump regime knows that they are destroying the economy. They will never admit this in public, but they do in private. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent was photographed reading a text from AgSec Brooke Rollins saying that Trump's tariffs made China shift soybean purchases to Argentina.

Please shut it down and become the most unpopular administration in US history because all of you have a super weird obsession with trans people that you desperately require to keep from facing the disgusting horror of your pedophilia.

Turning on the new season of Slow Horses and it opens with a mass shooting in a shopping mall. Is this really what I want to see right now?

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First time this guy has ever made me laugh

There’s one line Trump needs to be asked about until he gives an answer: “beyond vaccines” What does that mean?

I think I figured out who the “they” is the right wing figures are referring to; maybe they think the shooter was non-binary and are respecting their pronouns.

Just remembered one of the speakers at the Kirk memorial was a pizzagate proponent. That resulted in someone shooting up a pizza joint.

Nope, sorry, Brett Kavanaugh assured me that this is unpossible

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In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down

Blacks and minorities thought that Obama's election signaled that America was finally ready to listen. The Right thought that now that they'd "allowed" one of "Those People" to be elected, that Blacks and minorities would have to shut up.

they were lying about wanting a postracial nation, of course, what they really wanted was a nation where it was impermissible to shine light on the racism we have

The thing for me is this isn’t some disaffected unsuccessful radical, this is someone who did everything you said they should do, and even they are saying, “okay, this isn’t going to cut it.”

we should take away all their money so they can’t do this

Church attack leaves at least 1 dead and several injured as officials say a gunman opened fire and deliberately set fire to a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan. nbcnews.to/48Fw8mp

Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Senator: (posting on bluesky) The president told his supporters to prepare for the “Night Of One Thousand Screams.” Might I suggest he instead hold the Night Of One Thousand Bipartisan Discussions Of Job Creation Opportunities

The part to pay attention to is that the JTTF have been in place for years. They have _already been doing this _. If there were charges to be brought, there would have been. And in a week or two when no charges are brought, this admin will pressure attorneys to do the Comey-style sham prosecutions

The irony is not lost on me that the generation staring down being murdered in school while leadership did nothing are now being asked to step up and face the guns of the military to protect democracy because the same leaders abdicated their roles in helping stop fascisms advance.

many such cases

they want jester privilege without the responsibility of it (which means being in community with the public)

Cancel culture was bad because people who only had influence through a twitter account were mean. But a regime that kills and imprisons people for their tweets is good because they pay the bills

Comedians are funny because they believe their work is really important - so important they need to be protected from criticism and championed - but also “I’m just a clown I can’t be responsible for anything”

Turns out I was 4B before the trend

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

you know things are bad if cops are complaining about other cops

WATCH — @adammockler.com to @scottjenningsky : “Trump created this environment over the past decade… I’m a 22yo YouTuber and you hold me to a higher standard.” (He points out Trump posted Dems are the “party of hate/evil/Satan” and nobody noticed because he has so normalized it)

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

They're not even bothering to actually try to construct a narrative of why Portland is in danger and needs to be "protected." They're just invading a Democratic city to show that they can, and hoping to incite violence in response.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Note per @jamalgreene.bsky.social that the legal reasoning is dubious at best, but that won't stop it from chilling free speech

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Full force is a threat to kill American citizens for protesting the actions of their government Authoritarianism isn’t creeping, it’s here (if not evenly distributed)

A lot has been written about the origins of the Great Replacement theory, but nobody talks about how Robert Welch outlined a version of it in The Politician in 1954.

Trump declaring war on a second US city. At what point do we take his words seriously and admit the federal government started a civil war?

Trump hedges more than his followers with “probably” but still manages to misrepresent why FBI agents were at Jan. 6th. “…probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials.’”