Hey @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social , I’d really like to know why you’d vote AGAINST allowing SNAP recipients to purchase hot rotisserie chicken using their SNAP benefits.

OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

The Republican Party cannot be saved. They can and should be crushed at the ballot box, made to pay the consequences electorally for years to come for what they have enabled and perpetrated on all of us and the rest of the world.

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

One way for the media to win back the respect of viewers would be for them to show us that they have some self-respect of their own. When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe

Another batch of Trump's judicial nominees refused in their confirmation hearings today to publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which annoyed Sen. Richard Blumenthal enough for him to call them "monkeys" and "puppets"

Elon. Bezos. Gates. Ellison. Thiel. Andreesen. Altman. Tim Cook. The list goes on. The tech bro robber barons are in many respects shittier and in most respects more influential than their 19th-century predecessors.

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms. In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections. We must mobilize to protect our democracy.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

It’s not news that Megyn Kelly is angry and stirring up faux outrage over something or other. I wish media would stop giving her temper tantrums any air time.

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

"I knew another tech billionaire went to Epstein Island because Epstein told me while I was emailing back and forth with him to find time to hang out" is a bold thing to put out into the world.

Now that we know their names, they should be charged and prosecuted.

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

Chuck Schumer needs to resign. Right fucking now.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

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Elon Musk owns a website that generates child porn and was an eager associate of Jeffrey Epstein long after it was known Epstein trafficked children for sex. How is anyone continuing to be associated with any of his projects companies or operations

42 days after the deadline to release the Epstein Files, Trump has finally released a large batch of the files—yet roughly half of them are still missing. Still, these files revealed damning allegations against Trump. We need answers. ALL abusers must be held accountable.

Not sure how @theonion.com stays on top of breaking news like this but the print edition just showed up at my house with this:

My dude. Shut the absolute fuck up. No one is saying not to enforce immigration laws. We are saying ICE is a thuggish secret paramilitary force abusing citizens and immigrants alike at the direction of Trump and that ghoul Stephen Miller. It should be trashed, never to rise again.

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Even more true now.

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Wow, the White House is so shaken by the turn in the public mood that they thought Chuck Schumer might actually rise up and "seize this moment" to get meaningful concessions. That's how panicked they are. They thought Chuck Schumer would do something.

Why, yes. I AM about to start my [garbled] rewatch of #heatedrivalry. Thank you for asking.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a 'hell no.' We cannot give one more penny to Trump's ICE while its masked, poorly trained agents terrorize people across this country. It's time for the Senate to step up and stop ICE's violence."

My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.

Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

I don't know man. It feels both small ball and existential simultaneously. It's true that it ultimately would have passed regardless. But are we really a party that can't unify against the fascist secret police? What are we doing here? What is the point of an opposition party if we just accept this?

This is a dereliction of his congressional oath of office.

The people of Minnesota represent the absolute #BraveOfUS. Here's one harrowing tale of ICE violence and 8 hours in detention simply for following the Golden Rule: www.startribune.com/opinion-i-sp...

What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout: @peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE people.com/ice-detains-...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

incandescently enraged. They kidnapped a 5 yo and shipped him to Texas with no way for his family to know where he was.

Does anyone watching the violent culture of ICE agents in MLPS, or reading their fascist recruitment ads, think the issue is lack of training? So why are Dems ready to keep funding this monster, with a few "reforms"? Can an opposition meet the moment? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

I'll vote for the Democratic contender who is smart enough to tell Axios to get bent

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.

Naturally How is it this got buried beneath the lede, eh? Our msn political media will need be taken behind the barn like old yeller when this is done

The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

I'm seeing more people use the phrase "American carnage" for Stephen Miller's invasions and I think that's a really great hijacking of his term. He keeps trying to claim the chaos in MN is designed to prevent MSP from turning into Mogadishu but ... it's beginning to look like Mogadishu.

The government is taking people who’ve done everything the right way, and who go to every appointment and fill out every piece of paperwork and abducting and hauling them to Texas and making them start the whole process over again

I'd say it's hard to walk back the optics of shooting a suburban mom in the face, lobbing a concussion grenade at a toddler, and sending a bunch of paramilitary goons door to door asking for papers.

Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...