The President’s cabinet member oversees a federal law enforcement agency. He threatens literal bloodshed if the opposition party refuses to suspend using their first amendment speech rights. He’s threatening state violence in response to opposition free speech.

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

The level of disrespect this regime shows to their fellow Americans reaches a level that’s completely incompatible with democracy. These people literally believe they have the right to kill people who disagree with them. It’s disgusting.

Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned.

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Imagine if his predecessor Kamala Harris did... well, you know the rest.

Hey, what's the point in achieving a Star Trek future of no one can get rich off of it?

Gas is high. Groceries are high. Rent is high. Wages are stagnant. Another forever war. ICE is committing murder on our streets. We can’t eat fresh produce and our national monuments and parks are being pillaged. But, at least the president has made billions of dollars in the last year…

HASSAN: If the president instructs you to break the law, will you follow the president's instruction? SCHWARTZ: The president would never ask me to not follow the law HASSAN: There are multiple examples of the president instructing people to break the law, so it's not a satisfactory response

Who's better off, the US or EU? It depends on the criteria you use. But when the judgment is premised on quality of life, the US enjoyed a huge advantage after World War II, and that's now evaporated. www.ft.com/content/b77c...

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

So courageous

Name and shame

We are still keeping a running count of ICE deaths in the Trump era. When updated with yesterday's tragedy, it'll be at 31 deaths in the field and 59 deaths in custody. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

In the year since Trump ripped $1 trillion out of our healthcare system to pay for his illegal wars and tax breaks for billionaires, hospitals are closing by the hundreds. New from me in @prospect.org.

Trump is running multiple death squads. There's ICE, CBP, DSI, national guard soldiers and various "task force" groups. Imagine if Trump was a leader in any country with a majority Black or brown population. Media outlets would cover these executions as committed by death squads run by a dictator.

Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

Trump makes his third shift of position on the Hormuz transit situation in just 24 hours. The Iranians say it's all but impossible to negotiate with Trump because his positions are hard to understand, capricious and constantly changing. The Iranians are correct about all of this.

VIDEO: Body cam shows Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo using his name to get out of a traffic stop. “I’m Joe Lombardo.” Officer: “I’m aware.” Officer lets him go.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.

Name and shame them all. I know it's unlikely there will be a Nuremberg when this is all over but one can hope.

The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.

US media don't understand and won't report this. Which in part is why we're cooked, literally. Eliot Jacobson: As of Jul 13, global ocean surface temperature has set a daily record for the 42d day in a row. Yesterday's sea-surface temperature is 0.10°C hotter than any previous Jul 13

Sometimes the comedy writes itself

I am a Patient and a Patient Advocate. I came to social media to help others w/healthcare. It brought me to Congress. I advocate alone & self-funded, not in a PAC. Big Pharma hates me & sometimes Congress & journalists ignore me. BUT I will NEVER give up fighting for healthcare & Social Security. 🙏💜

18 months ago, Gary Kasparov published an article in the Atlantic called "Putinization of America" in which he forecast, step by step, exactly what Trump would do in a second term, assuming Trump was Putin. The accuracy of Kasparov's predictions is uncanny, and it points to the Putin experience as

I really think this-drastically limiting the uses of the shadow docket is one of the easiest and most sensible SCOTUS reforms. Its current use is a relatively recent development. Limit it to its historic past use as the "death docket"-reviewing emergency death penalty stay requests &little else.

Their model: 1) Racism is largely individual not systemic. 2) Racism only exists if it’s egregious. 3) Racism is only egregious if it’s outlandish/one explicitly states their intent to be racist. 4) Even then, it’s probably just words that won’t extend to action, and they didn’t *really* mean it.

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

Remember that time when Merrick Garland’s senate confirmation was delayed until after a presidential election, to “let the voters decide”? The confirmation of Lindsey Graham’s replacement should be delayed until after the midterms, for the same bullshit reason

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Los Angeles Dodger Kiké Hernández has decided not to attend the team's visit to the White House.

ICE has gotten so used to their agents killing people they just automatically put out statements, before any investigation, saying the people they murdered were “weaponizing their vehicle” as a way to justify what they did. Shooting people in their cars is almost never justified, it is murder.

Today ICE fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. This is the 11th person they’ve murdered this year—that we know of. He did everything he was supposed to. He was authorized to work in the US. He served his community. ICE still murdered him in broad daylight. Abolish ICE.

The residents of Biddeford, Maine are reacting to the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man by ICE goons today. ICE claims the man tried to "weaponize his vehicle" so they shot and killed him. Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets

Lindsey Graham did not merely disagree w/Ketanji Brown Jackson. He attempted to publicly humiliate her. Jackson is an exceptionally qualified person & Graham questioned her judgment, interrupted her answers, & voted against her confirmation. Death may require decency. It does not require amnesia.

I knew Lindsey Graham well back in the day when he was an honorable person, the sidekick to John McCain, who tried to forge compromises on climate change and immigration, and championed campaign finance reform. The opposite of what he became. His career arc was tragic.

Just a reminder: friends of Trump are not permitted to lose elections, and the FBI will be deployed to ensure they do not.

Senator Raphael Warnock's proposal to ban private equity firms from buying up single-family homes is now federal law.

trump: "I said, 'Lindsey, you're gonna live forever.' And he was gonna have a big victory. He was scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled." Scheduled? Scheduled to win by a lot??? The ONLY way someone is 'scheduled to win' is by cheating. Congress needs to do their fucking job right now! WTF

Dear Dem leaders: If you must speak, express your condolences to Lindsey Graham's family. That's it. This isn't hard. They mocked the attack on Paul Pelosi and the murders of Minnesota Dem Melissa Hortman and her husband. They villainized ICE murder victims. Stop acting like these are normal times.

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

Guy tries to make a Monopoly edition around the 250th birthday, wants to source domestically after tariffs, and realizes that America can't make dice. Dice! www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

Groan

I am an Iraqi person posting from Baghdad and I think that NOTHING that ANYONE will EVER say to celebrate Lindsey Graham's death will be as INHUMANE as what Lindsey Graham has done to my Iraq and its people. Excuse me Mr Iraq War Veteran as I dance in my bedroom, free from the burden of your decorum

Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.