It sure seems like "well those people may have later trafficked drugs again" would also justify executing prisoners and wounded men *in general.*

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: The Somali community is almost universally American citizens. They're part of our family here in Minneapolis. To just go after a whole community indiscriminately, it's unconstitutional. It's flat out un-American. I guess that's what we've become accustomed to with Trump

There is a temptation is to describe what happened yesterday as somehow a “new low.” But it’s not a new low. It’s the same old low. A scene we’ve seen repeated so often there is a kind of numbness to it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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‘We now have confirmation, with the OECD saying in a new report that, without AI capex, U.S. economic growth declined in the first half of 2025. People keep wondering why the employment market is weak, but the economy somehow chugs along. This is why.’ paulkedrosky.com/ex-ai-capex-...

As an R strategist, you'd probably feel better about a 16-point D shift in a special election with 60% of midterm turnout than a 12-point shift with 100% of midterm turnout.

Democrats need to gerrymander California 52D-0R. The rules cannot just apply to one side.

The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.

Lol

Why is it that every time someone posts an example to back up their "OMG AI can do everything!" mentality it looks like obviously ridiculous garbage?

Mark Kelly says Pete Hegseth's reported double tap strike on a boat "seems to" be a war crime, and adds, "if what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We are not Iraq"

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America

They plunged headlong into My Lai/Abu Ghraib territory from the very start of this operation. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It turns out a sucky job market, skyrocketing insurance premiums, masked goons disappearing anybody who "looks like an immigrant," and nonstop blatant corruption aren't very popular among the American electorate.

My parents (broadly liberal but not especially tuned in) brought up Trump murdering South American fishermen completely unprompted yesterday. That's how they framed it, too. Maybe things are breaking through?

you should support liberal currents!

1. The Dems wanted renewed Obamacare subsidies. 2. Trump said no. 3. Then he said actually yes, I want them. I *need* them. 4. *His* party said no. 5. Trump said he never wanted them in the first place. Some 24M Americans are in a jam because of this fool. www.editorialboard.com/trump-now-wa...

President Economy, folks.

A powerful message from six Democrats reminded the military of a fundamental truth: illegal orders must be refused. Trump’s over-the-top reaction only highlighted the danger he poses, while the response from the 'Seditious Six' hints at a more strategic approach to Democratic communications.

Before he took office I was pissed at Ruben Gallego, @gallego.senate.gov, for making some gratuitously disparaging comments against Pete Buttigieg. But I have to say, Gallego is doing a great job as senator. www.huffpost.com/entry/ruben-...

Great MTG post-mortem.

Legality and (un)popularity of this action aside, how many people is this war going to kill? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000? Do these people even care? How much cheaper does gas need to be for 100,000 senseless deaths to be worthwhile?

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."

Read this. A real American.

Looking grim for the Tau as my Tyranids prepare to charge.

Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.* The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.

Daily dose of "ICE are thugs"

Kshama Sawant had consistently worked to help put Trump in the White House (including in '16), then wants to lead the "Resistance" when she succeeds. Fuck her. She is the enemy to decent working people everywhere.

ICE point gun at father in front of son—drag him out of truck by smashing window. "Please put the gun down! That's my dad!" son cries. "You're hurting him... Look he's bleeding!" "Why did you break window? He wasn't doing anything." Club Heights neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Pretty grim to go back and read this. The media liked Trump and helped him win the election.

This is incredible

But it's not all bad news! We're also disappearing brown people off the streets and murdering central American fishermen. So, ya know... Ying yang.

Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."

Fascinating!

Democrats are responsible for every intemperate comment from every random anonymous internet communist. But the Republican president who is at the center of a cult of personality that has consumed the entire GOP can call for mass executions, and somehow this isn’t laid at the feet of Republicans.

There's that famous Collegiality™️ that is just SO characteristic of the Senate 🥰✨

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

This is so absurdly pathetic. The guy is worth half a trillion dollars, and he spends it building a machine telling him he's great.

like, yes, trump's relationship with epstein bears investigation, but also *he was held liable for sexual assault*, *boasted about sexually assaulting women on tape,* and has been accused by numerous women of harassing, abusing, or raping them.

a largely true story that right-wing propaganda and sundry irritable "leftists" convinced a critical mass of people was fake? do tell

billions of dollars in computing power to tell elon musk that he’s the world’s specialest boy

Every time MTG comes up in a positive light, I cringe. She is not our friend. Her interests are directly opposed to our interests. She's a hateful demagogue with no respect for the truth. Let's not replace Trump with Girl Trump.

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

It's one poll, etc., etc., but these are "Democrats win Senate seats in Texas, Iowa, Alaska, and also Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina." This would be the biggest electoral blowout of my lifetime.