So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

I am a 60-something mother of three college-educated, Sunday School-raised children. On Monday I will start a new “cubicle job” **just to have health insurance.** I lost my affordable insurance entirely because of JD Vance’s political party. The Vice President can fuck alllll the way off.

Can someone smuggle copies of this newspaper into the offices of The New York Times and Washington Post so their editors can learn how to write headlines again?

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Learn more about why ICE’s new policy that lets agents enter your home without a judicial warrant is dead wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

History is being erased

This is nice work by Elliott. Note too that the only demographic group in which Trump has majority support is white non-college-educated respondents, and there he is just barely holding on. There is no electoral downside to opposing authoritarianism.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky. That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

The negligence is deliberate. And deliberate negligence kills in concentration camps.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

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This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats. Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.

ICE has escalated from Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to Arresting legal migrants to Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to Arresting random bystanders. Who's next?

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There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.

To recap: @GovBillLee rejected tens of millions of dollars to feed hungry low income kids, but wants to up his coupons for kids already in private schools to $300,000,000 yearly. Any questions?

Agree w Garrett, w this footnote: In my memory, as child watching news from Birmingham on our black-and-white TV, Bull Connor's squad was brutal in retaliation. But they didn't seem as clearly to be *provoking* or inciting a reaction. They were intimidators. CBP/ICE are provocateurs (Eg Reichstag)

“Words like ‘freedom,’ ‘justice,’ ‘democracy’ are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.” — James Baldwin

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“We will invade your city without permission, we will taunt you, we will kidnap and harass citizens, we will smash our way into schools and shoot tear gas at students, and if you stop to film us and we don’t like it, we will shoot you three times in the face.” Tyranny

I spent days hearing do-nothings whine “why don’t Americans fight back?! You’re all cowards” and the truth is that America—as an entity—will kill you immediately if you even look at a cop the wrong way

Make it viral.

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That's a hostage situation.

This is surreal to see with the feeble old president falling asleep behind him

Ugh.

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

the New York Times is so very responsible for the state of trans rights in the US right now due to their concerted effort to promote and normalize anti-trans bigotry and propaganda it was INTENTIONAL, like we’ve been telling you all along

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

JD Vance announces his 2028 campaign slogan: Yes We Klan.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

By Cotton’s logic, any effort to survive is only interpretable as guilt. Flipping the boat over? You must be trying to save the cargo, not yourself. It’s a monstrous logic, both morally and strategically; Cotton has neither the intellect nor the soul to see why, but unfortunately he does have power.

This would be fucking hilarious if it wasn’t such a depressing sign of how deep in the sewer we are.

Russia wants the EU to collapse because it’s a military rival. It needs a pretext for getting rid of the EU that isn’t territorial expansion, though. So it advances the idea that the EU isn’t democratic (as if Russia was). The richest man in the world falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

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