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This is fucking amazing

A friend of a friend has been picked up by ICE earlier this week, and his family doesn’t know where he is. Can anybody point me toward a way to find people in ICE detention?

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot. We can never normalize this:

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Yeah, they big fuckin.

As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Eternal shame on @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co for not endorsing Mamdani ESPECIALLY in the wake of Cuomo's inexcusably racist heel turn in these final days. Eternal shame.

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They're stealing our food to finance their fascism.

Look, I’ve been incredibly outspoken against the very real problems the gerontocratic Dem power structure has made for itself, including its submission to corporate interests, but if you keep a fucking Nazi tattoo on your fucking body for LONGER THAN A LITERAL DECADE that’s a *you* problem.

Here, I'll link the explanation again bsky.app/profile/axle...

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

People are not paying enough attention to what the govt is testing in Chicago. “A federal agent pointed a gun at a combat veteran’s face & said “bang, bang” and “you’re dead, liberal”… the agents, including Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino [also threw] tear gas” blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/28/f...

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

"Mamdani's proposals, such as freezing the rent for some New York tenants, free buses and free child care, are not only feasible but also build off the foundations of previous New York City laws, political analysts told ABC News."

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

Trump: "Nobody makes equipment like we do. Nobody makes the ammunition, the weapons, the missiles, the planes, none of it. And if they do, the American sailor stands ready to crush them and sink them and wreck them and blast them into oblivion, right?"

This retired cop has been in jail for months after posting a Charlie Kirk meme on Facebook. His bail is set at $2 million. Read more: interc.pt/3WhLINV ✍️ @lilianasegura.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

Standing there insisting this is all somehow Democrats' fault because they won't support *your* budget -- a budget that explicitly wages war on Democratic constituencies and Democratic programs -- when you refuse to negotiate or compromise at all is just ludicrously laughably stupid.

The frame that says Democrats care about Americans, so when the Trump administration deliberately hurts millions of Americans that puts pressure on Democrats to make unrelated political concessions and does not put pressure on the Republicans who control every branch of the government, is so warped.

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

‘The essence of being a leftist is being dismissed as unserious for being correct too early.’

CBS News is just the latest legacy news outlet to cast its lot with Trump. It settled a bogus case to please Trump, it canceled Colbert to please Trump, it hired Bari Weiss to please Trump. The number of media outlets really willing to stand up to Trump is dwindling. Support them with your loyalty.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

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i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

shit looks real bleak sometimes and I don’t want to downplay how bad it is but also we had seven million people show up to protests last weekend there are more of us than there are of them and I am simply not ready to throw in the towel

Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

They fucked up the demolition by not doing the proper due diligence and to cover that up, they are tearing it all down.

I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?

I for one and pretty sick of the “I voted for the Trump in my imagination” excuse. Voters are never going to study policy statements on websites; that’s not a realistic standard. But if you can’t even get the vague *gist* of what a candidate wants to do, that’s a You problem. Skill issue.

Well, Mike called it

having worked on rehabs and adding onto historic buildings - this is not an approach i have ever seen in the US or in germany that wasn't intended as a total teardown. especially given the season and lack of weather protection. look at the roof.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:

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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.