ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations. The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel). "The party of small government,” folks.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

My mom was on Medicaid with her Alzheimers. Medicaid pays medical bills directly. It does not send checks to people, you fucking stooge. And just like Medicare, you MUST be legal to obtain it.

There should be a permanent and ever-growing protest in front of the Supreme Court.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.” More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

“𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐒 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐈𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐕 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.“

It seems like that's kind of the main thing to understand about the situation.

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

South Korea, Brazil, and now France have all convicted current or former heads of state of serious criminal offenses during Trump's second term, and the thing I love about it is that it's starting to seem like foreshadowing.

ICE was created post 9/11 to combat terrorist threats. If they aren't combatting the number one terror threat to America - Domestic Violent Extremism and white supremacists - then they don't need to exist as an agency.

Donald Trump’s America is taxpayers paying farmers to grow crops only to let them rot unsold while grocery store prices are through the roof as he tells us everything is cheaper than ever despite the fact that he has never been shopping in a grocery store in his entire life.

More people should be talking about this.

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

It’s insane that for the last year, lots of people knew Ham Hock Homan: - accepted a bribe bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, & we just found out about it - Kash, Bongino, & Bondi swept the case under the rug - we have no idea where that $50k is

What I am really most curious about with Tom Homan: did he keep the $50,000, did he claim it on his taxes, and what do the tax authorities in New York have to look into today that they did not yesterday because of @carolleonnig.bsky.social's reporting?

So what happened to the $50K in cash Tom Homan got in the Cava bag? Was it deposited in his bank account and reported as income that he paid taxes on? Is it under his mattress?

I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame. They want power by any illegal means necessary. Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.

According to this report, the FBI recorded Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 bribe in Sept of 2024, promising to improperly award government contracts. The Trump administration shut down the investigation, and Homan is now acting director of ICE. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

JD Vance jokes that Marco Rubio will take over as host of ABC's late night show. Which is funny because Rubio is one of the very few members of the Trump administration with actual experience in government, as opposed to being a talking head on Fox News.

I'm old enough to remember back to 2003, when MSNBC fired Phil Donahue and cancelled their most popular show, all because he allowed voices critical of the war in Iraq. 1/

The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

The role of corporate media consolidation in the collapse of Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism is far too under-acknowledged in public understanding of history.

I was raised antifa. My mom was a WWII widow. All real American patriots are anti-fascist.

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I can’t think of another instance when a sitting president sued anyone for libel, slander or defamation. Pretty sure not even Nixon, who was chronically at war with the media, went there. Am I forgetting something?

Meta is building a data center in Wyoming that will use more electricity than all the homes in the state COMBINED. This will cause electric bills to skyrocket. Oh, and destroy the planet at the same time. This is what happens when there is zero accountability for Big Tech.

One of the most wondrous things for many immigrants coming to the US has been how honestly America grappled with its history — the good and the ugly. It shows confidence when a country does that. Hiding, rewriting — those are cowardly acts we associate with Communist China.

"Chuck Schumer, why are you doing this? Hakeem Jeffries, why are you doing this?...It's the donors...They're not up to the moment...sternly worded letter? ARGHH." On 'We're Not Kidding', watch @markruffalo.bsky.social 'hulk out' over the uselessness of top Dems. Full show: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

I feel like reelecting the guy who tried to overthrow the government last time he was president, and who ran on a promise to pardon the people convicted for trying to overthrow the government on his behalf, was maybe a bad idea.

It turns out they never had any idea what made America great

Bill Pulte runs an agency that oversees over half the mortgages in the US. And yet he has posted on social media all day every day for weeks about the mortgage of ONE person, who just so happens to be a Democratic appointee to the Fed Reserve with 11 years left in her term.

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

Trump has been demonizing the libs since he pushed the racist birther theory about Obama. He falsely claimed Dems destroyed America by stealing the 2020 election from him. It's absurd that anyone in the media lets a Trump supporter get away with a call for toning down rhetoric w/o mentioning Trump.