Sources in the Defense Department say that Pete Hegseth ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan when he learned that there was no rum aboard.

And to my astonishment, the military is following these orders

I am Canadian. There is no coming back from this for America. Trump will be gone at some point and the world will remember that Americans, especially the American government, through compliance, flaws in the law, or apathy did nothing to stop this administration from wreaking havoc on the world.

I don’t want to hear a word about “good people on both sides”. Folks still supporting this are not “good.”

"Quiet, piggy!"

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Republican lawmakers have been the primary opposition to child marriage bans across multiple states. Between 2000 and 2018 around 300,000 minors were married in the United States, with 60,000 of those marriages involving an age difference that would otherwise be considered a sex crime. #EpsteinFiles

This is the new playbook: Commit misconduct -> claim persecution -> sue the government -> cash out. If this becomes normalized, every corrupt official will try to hit taxpayers with their legal bills. And yet somehow, almost no one is talking about it.

(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal. Here we go.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

The last time (1600s) a King of England had the power to implement taxes (tariffs) without Parliament's approval, he literally lost his head (Charles I) George III didn't tax colonists, Parliament did Trump's tarrif taxes need congressional approval.

This is seriously one of those things that probably blows the minds of most people outside of the United States. A “swearing in” should obviously be completely ceremonial, and should have no legal weight at all. THE ELECTION GIVES THE WINNER THE ROLE, not the Speaker. It really makes no sense.

Just think, one year ago we could’ve avoided all this chaos but 60% of white men and 54% of white women picked the felon over the prosecutor.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Did moving the clocks back an hour hurt the Lions and help the Vikings? Seems like something to study when teams from different time zones play. Go @detroitlions.bsky.social !

What he said: 💯 🎯

Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

I’m in the stage of grief where one criticizes the winning team’s generally bad city planning. #WorldSeries

The humor, the clarity, the razor-sharp assessment by Obama that it’s all a distraction from their ongoing efforts to make life worse for everyday Americans. More please, President Obama.

Let the campaigning begin.

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

The Trump regime is purely about grift and corruption, that’s the driving common denominator. Is everything else simply a byproduct in a campaign of disinformation and distraction?

1/2 Children.😭😡 The 6-year-old said he saw “snipers on the roof ready to shoot our cars.” The 8-year-old said, “I saw soldiers and was so scared I started shaking.” The 14-year-old said, “They put a gun to my face. Then they pointed it at my mom’s head and said they’d blow her head off.”

why not randomized borders for congressional districts. Plop in population, program to favor straight borders based on streets, and hit the button. Randomize every ten years. Don’t we have that computing power?

Reminding myself, it can’t happen because of one human or even 12. It takes countless of people keeping their heads down and going along with crazy. Where are the whistleblowers?

The cover they tried to bury. 🤭 Release The Epstein Files. Now‼️

How can charges be brought against those soldiers “just following orders” in the Caribbean? i know no one wants to do it, but this (and a 1000 other things) is so messed up.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

I’m a patriotic American, so I’m proudly anti-fascist. How about you? 🇺🇸

If you’re a ridiculously awful and complicit newspaper these days, you characterize the difference between blatant and manipulative lies weaponized for fascist and political violence purposes, and the truth, as “different views.”

Full support. But deep down my claustrophobia is triggered

There losing their jobs because that was the plan all along. They don’t believe in the United States. The shut down is pretext for something far more sinister and anti-American.

If ICE agents are willing to shoot a US citizen in broad daylight, as they did with Marimar Martinez in Chicago, imagine what they’re doing to undocumented immigrants. They shot her in front of witnesses & with body cams turned on The horrors facing those disappeared to camps are sure to be worse

What happened in Portland today?

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

Send in the pickles!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #PORTLAND

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Can confirm. I've been there.

The Dude has spoken: "ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

ICE chasing Portland Pickle is a good sign. #NoKings

"This is where we’ve been headed since Jan. 6. The man who fomented an actual insurrection will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law & deploying the military against civilians. The thing about Rubicons is they can’t be uncrossed." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Time for the creativity. They are fools. Dangerous, but fools nonetheless. Resistance through ridiculousness. Everyday. In their face. Our spirit will not be broken.