ICE agents are the worst people on earth, man.

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

The kind of stupid viciousness that is the hallmark of this administration

Unreal. Both the Democratic "Moderate Party" candidates quoted here lost by 8 points while the most important city in the country, one county over, elected a Muslim socialist immigrant for mayor

I love that internet searches used to be so accurate it was to the point of causing concern about how vulnerable we were to being known, and now if you type in any name of someone who isnt paying for ad space, the search engine just goes 'no dice, have you considered spelling it different? Look!'

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

'This thanksgiving, make sure you make terrible group bets that *cannot* possibly cash, with your entire extended family' is so fucking dark. DO NOT GAMBLE. Especially dont gamble by looping your aunts and uncles into - DO NOT GET YOUR FAMILY TO DOWNLOAD GAMBLING APPS. I cant believe this shit.

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

If I hadnt experienced Obama, I couldnt doubt this man - as is, I just hope he turns out to be the dude he seems to be. For New Yorkers, for all of us, really. I want someone like he has repeatedly shown himself to be, to be mayor of a major city in this country - to be in charge.

He has been giving the same answer for months but he's asked about it every interview. These questions aren't being asked to inform the public. They exist to continually suggest to viewers that Mamdani secretly hates Jews.

we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Boosting in case anyone knows

This is evil stuff. Shorter Hurwitz: 'Young people are learning the wrong lessons, here - that they can trust their eyes and instincts *and what we taught them*, and draw parallels between events in history, and those transpiring today, and end up sympathizing with Palestinians.'

This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

Also, like, seriously, just get your flu shot every season. Your local pharmacy is fucking begging to give it to you. They would absolutely love to give you a flu AND a covid vaccine, and you should let them. Do it before January, in case you dont have insurance after that; w/ins its *usually* free.

Get your flu shots people. Last year was the worst flu season in 10 years and don't love even a small regional slice like this looking much worse already. For reference national data for last season: bsky.app/profile/pear...

i had a suspicion that states rights would regain some salience if and when the states where rights came into question were states republicans cared about

Americans are brainwashed into believing they can only have fascists or fascists with better PR as leaders. You can tell it's brainwashing because seemingly intelligent people come out here and pretend that Democrats will act like an opposition party...after years and years of proof they won't

Just saw someone enthusiastically proclaim 'You got my back, bro!' And it's so delightfully malapropic, it's made my whole night. Like, 'I've got your back', and 'You can count on my steel' had a cheerful, big-hearted baby.

lol, what credibility? They told us NOT to mask at the start of covid, bc they were concerned about the hospitals running out of PPE, and revealing to the public how wholly unprepared for a pandemic they were. Then they had the SAME GUY who told us that, go 'actually, do mask, or you are bad'.

A French ICC judge sanctioned by the US over the Netanyau arrest warrant says all his accounts with US companies have been closed, making it “like being sent back to the 1990s.” “Without sovereignty – military, health, financial and digital – we can no longer guarantee the rule of law,” he says.

The Zohran meeting was surprising - the libs who process everything Trump does with snarling homophobia are ruining it, as usual.

Bazelon’s, group, Welcome PAC, funded by venture capitalists and corporate moguls like the Walton family, relied on *6-12 month-old* data from a push poll to draw its conclusions… which were predetermined since Welcome staff drafted the questions.

Speaker Johnson is already laying the groundwork for massive redactions in the Epstein files. He lies so easily it barely looks like effort.

The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.

Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...

lol, genuinely selling the country, jesus christ

one of the quiet ways that the internet is breaking, has broken, is that it is increasingly difficult to track down any song that isnt wildly popular. You can have the whole track, all the lyrics, and a LOT of music is just no longer searchable, or identifiable. Which is terrifying to me.

He's for real lost his mind. Doesnt minimize anything, but his outbursts over the last few weeks are fucking bananas. That he utterly collapses whenever someone has the spine to ask him direct questions about his long, long time friendship with Epstein, is something I'd like more reporters to use.

I get peacock with my internet, and was excited to see Highlander The Series is on there - an excitement that was quickly defeated as I realized they've run the whole thing through some hack generative upscaler. Who thinks these freakish, ever-changing faces are good to watch?

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile

The Dems could have had the Right media having this conversation in the last year of Biden's term, essentially precluding the possibility of Trump's nomination. They could have ended all this in the courts, or in the court of public opinion at any moment. They chose 'try to save Schumer'.

'He wasnt a pedohphile, he was into children, he liked children, he wasnt into like children, there's a difference between a child and a child' -Megyn Kelly Even knowing it was all bullshit, the comfort with raping children on the hard right is pretty startling.

Well, everything except ACA subsidies. Dems holding all this, for years, and not dropping it to scuttle his campaign, or his first term, or to put him over a barrel for the budget...but to protect themselves after they killed us? On my most cynical day, this would gall me.

Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.

Even as more documents have come to light, Binienda was photographed with him just last week at her victory party. And despite telling the victim he'd have her back, Mayor Petty endorsed her. School committee should consider King's call to action. theworcesterguardian.org/f/councilor-...

In 2018 his friend and then Superintendent (now School Committee member) Binienda received a plea from a therapist and WPS parent, informing her of the allegations. Despite that, it was only when her successor learned of the allegations that he was banned from schools. patch.com/massachusett...

For #mapoli folks that are horrifyingly reading along the leaked Epstein emails, here in Worcester elected officials continue to run interference for a predator that served 15 yrs on school committee AFTER being investigated for child rape. thisweekinworcester.com/wpd-evidence...

As a semi-dyslexic child, I never imagined that I'd need to learn how to spell "eugenics." But here we are.

hate to be this person but part of your radicalization in this moment should be learning how we were often like this and always striving for this, it just was sequestered away from many of us due to class or whiteness or other factors like that

When I called Schumer's Rochester office to mention how many diabetics he just murdered, I asked if they were familiar with The Bailey's, Schumer's imaginary family that he claims to base all his political decisions off of - they had not. I told them they should look. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

across the board unwillingness to nail this guy to the wall despite swimming in a hardware store amount of nails. article 14 should have taken him off the ballot. they have mountains of evidence on the epstein stuff. we can't call this incompetence or cowardice anymore.

Incredible how much dirt the Dems had on Trump and never used it 'cause the Epstein case hits a bunch of their own guys. Their donor class and the guys they advance as major candidates have so much more in common with him than with you.

More confirmation that Democrats caving was absolute madness