The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

Look, I'm all for the CFTC cracking down on people like the teleprompter guy doing obvious prediction market insider trading, but there's another sense in which those cases are just the smallest of potatoes compared to the scope and scale of financial crimes happening in this administration.

Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...

Releasing public statements, covertly messaging on social media, trying to influence foreign leaders... Like diplomatic corps and intel agencies? Normal. Manipulating election and legal processes? Abnormal, worth countering. And as Trump just showed, the only country doing that to the US is Russia.

China's economy is much bigger than ours and the gap is growing rapidly. Good thing Donald Trump can't find out deanbaker22.substack.com/p/chinas-is-...

AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.

New in PN: The depressing sameness of ICE murders "And just as we saw in Mpls and Chicago, the government’s so-called justification for murderous ICE violence falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, and “weaponized vehicles” is still being used by DHS as an all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card."

Unearthed records just revealed that Ken Paxton owns 15 homes on a government salary. This includes luxury real estate in Hawaii, Utah, and Florida.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's actions against ABC are an unconstitutional attack on free speech. Join us in calling on the FCC to stop harassing ABC. SIGN the petition: bit.ly/stop-carr-fcc

Trump is using conspiracy theories to sow doubt about the legitimacy of U.S. elections in order to create a pretext for invalidating midterm results he doesn’t like. That's essential context for coverage of tonight's speech.

#econ_ra UMich Ford School postdoc presidentspostdoc.umich.edu/index.php

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

“Without accountability for what Donald Trump has done this go-round to the American people and American democracy,” Kirschner said, “we’re giving our republic away." www.americaamerica.news/p/glenn-kirs...

I had to persuade the social team that Bluesky was the right audience for this. Don't let me down.

This is a state sponsored murder-spree.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

She's right.

PabloReports: What do you think of DHS suspending vehicular stops? AOC: A lot of the stuff they’re doing, they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. They should be facing consequences for killing innocent people in the streets, and they’re just trying to escape those consequences.

the story was about Trump admin's fake/bad faith fight against antisemitism & mentioned Ed Martin calling Tim Hale-Cusanelli – a J6er who dressed like Hitler & said “Hitler should have finished the job” – an “extraordinary leader” during a fundraiser for Jan. 6 rioters zeteo.com/p/if-trump-c...

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.

So much ink spilled over Trump saying 20% Hormuz toll, even calculating out hypothetical effects. It’s just the president losing a war he started, feeling embarrassed, having no idea what to do, going “They’re doing what? Yeah, well, I’ll do that bigger!” Not policy, not strategy, throwing a fit.

Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.

Before leading the US health system, RFK Jr spent decades doing all he could to drive down childhood vaccination rates As HHS head, his extreme anti-vaxx crusade has been turbo-charged—with devastating results He says “measles should only kill sick kids.” He is wrong—it should kill *zero* kids.

The Brief: Get Ready for Trump’s 2026 Disinformation Deluge  talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-bri...

Decades of dehumanizing copaganda have primed people to see a Black man allegedly fleeing law enforcement as deserving of death, as expendable. ICE has the same script writers now trying the same tactics. The only way to challenge their narrative is to challenge all of it, every time:

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

btw this episode of the war on cars, “rethinking criminal consequences for drivers who kill” is soooo good podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

ICE shot someone in the fucking face in Biddeford, Maine this morning fuck ICE forever my heart goes out to their friends and family. maine is like a big small town and i’m from that area. there’s a nonzero chance that someone i know was affected by this. i’m just so mad. ACAB and FUCK ICE

The Slaughter of Trump v. Slaughter, who is also a Yale alum, has some really clear thoughts on whether Yale should keep throwing deals at the feds

One of the most ominous footnotes in American history

In other political figures meeting their end, Dick Cheney spent years denying the torture carried out under the Bush administration. In this @mattbors.bsky.social comic, he reaches hell and discovers that history has kept the receipts. inthesetimes.com/article/mamd...

Lindsey Graham can’t read your mean jokes about him. But I just spent 20 minutes talking to Mitch McConnell, and he tells me that he can.

im done talking about crackers named graham for a while

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

victory lapping on this one

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

the extent to which Callais is a green light for Jim Crow just cannot be overstated

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship

“I listened. I paid attention. I read. I’m always trying to lose my primordial tail and the glistening gills that throb on my neck.” - Henry Rollins

FT - OpenAI and Google have been selling their advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Chinese tech giants blacklisted by the Pentagon. www.ft.com/content/5d6aafa1-5...

Pesto purity thread

Cycling is four times more efficient than walking and one hundred times more fun.

the president's personal racist paramilitary wing are skulking through our streets hunting and murdering people. they may be putting on less of a show of it than they were before, but they have not left and they are no less a threat to all of us