Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation." Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:

The descent into cruelty isn’t accidental. It’s cultivated. What began as Trump’s instinct has become MAGA’s culture, where dehumanization is a strategy and empathy is treated as weakness. That always carries a cost.

It reminded me of placating a toddler throwing a fit by distracting him with candy. It’s fucking insane that this man is the president of the United States.

1) “Kaitlan Collins” 2) she’s smart & nice 3) a legitimate question about construction of a controversial project on WH grounds 4) Thanks for explanation 5) but actually she asked you about Venezuela 6) generally speaking if someone or something is irrelevant, the President doesn’t talk about them

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oA2Km0

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Whoa.... He just admitted the whole 50 year disinformation plan with his own mouth.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Me too

"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself"

You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.

Local police must stop this: stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-en... #USpol

Glory To Ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛💪

This is a highly unusual order from a Secretary of Defense, and it’s almost certainly a war crime. In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.

Each of them should be allowed to hit the interviewer over the head with this plaque from West Point.

Lol

This should enrage everyone. Kelly didn’t do anything wrong here, and he certainly didn’t do anything worthy of a court martial

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

How embarrassing. Administration sources were all-in on this Russian wishlist until it was revealed that it was an *actual* Russian wishlist and not just the worst possible peace plan for Ukraine.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols. The fuck? wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Guest: Trump found a way to actually make MBS look better than him. It was an astounding moment. We had the American president defending the murder of an American journalist. It really made us look small. It made the United States look like a wingman to Saudi Arabia.

You play stupid games you win stupid prizes, Lindsey. This temper tantrum you are having is unbecoming, even for you.

“Epstein donated to Democrats prior to 2015!!” So did Donald Fucking Trump.

Yes. This is the way we must be.

This is an amazing opinion. Congrats to @marcelias.bsky.social and his team!

the new info was Donald Trump's updated approval ratings

notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.

Massie: I think I think the speaker wants to save face. He's going to vote for a piece of legislation today that he's disparaged for four months.

If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.

Large crowds of protesters have begun gathering outside the White House demanding Trump’s resignation because of the ongoing Epstein scandal.

SENATOR REVEREND NO ONE IS BETTER AT SOLVING THE PROBLEMS HE CREATES THAN PRESIDENT TRUMP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations. They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

🚨 🚨🚨🚨 Email from Epstein to Maxwell alleges that Trump spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim Release the files.

The queer pop anthem this administration did not ask for. 💕🐴🤥 #BigPhonySchmuck #NewVideo #parody

The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better. Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it. They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.

Layoffs rise to recession-like levels in October. Best economy in the world. All he had to do was not fuck it up, and he fucked it up. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Just wrote an upbeat (!) Morning Shots. I mean, if not today, when? We should relish this moment. For a few hours. Because we should realize that these results are going to make the Trump administration even more aggressive about tilting the 2026 playing field, and we need to be ready for that.

It would be wise for us to remember that Trump praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Marco Rubio should face charges

"As he was being taken to jail on the DUI charge, the intoxicated [ICE] agent not only asked the deputy if he was Haitian, but told another deputy he was going to check the deputy’s immigration status after he was released, the camera footage shows." apple.news/AzK8-ecHXRkCUJfZwqKwurg

Thugs.

There he goes again

I have to stress how highly unusual it is for the most powerful military on the planet to be blowing up random boats in international waters. I can’t help but feel that several criminal charges will ultimately come from these strikes. It makes far more sense to interdict them.