In Portland, Oregon,(DHS) and (ICE) used pepper spray on the breathing hole of a peaceful protester who was wearing a blow-up frog costume.

Serious question.. in the video both of the officers told the Alderperson that they didn’t need a warrant. This is not my field, can someone explain (who knows the law)? What would be the basis for not having a warrant?

This story is breaking my heart. And making me so furious.

Federal employees are heading home today; however, members of Congress will continue to receive their salary. As the humorist Andy Borowitz wrote: “That’s like eliminating the fire dept & sending checks to the arsonists.”

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Hypocrisy.

2 Bl*ck men hung in Mississippi yesterday. 1. Cory Zukatis - found around 10:30am hanging in Vicksburg MS. 2. Trey Reed - found hanging around 7:05am at Delta State 🚨 PLEASE stay safe and mindful on your surroundings‼️

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

They killed someone on Friday:

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.

“At least 6 Historically Black colleges have issued alerts and halted classes after receiving threats…” abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-...

The White House is using the Social Security Administration to create propaganda. Don't be fooled. Social Security field offices have lost 20% of their staff, and in-person and phone wait times are growing.

there you fucking go

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

People seem to have forgotten this. When I was a kid. President Reagan was shot. He didn’t die. I was home sick and watched it on loop. I was stunned. But it wasn’t political. It was a man who wanted an actress to notice him. The President! He shot the President and it wasn’t political.

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

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NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Welp. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

if only there was a term for waging war against your own country.

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.

One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

In a significant policy shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law. abcnews.go.com/US/replenish...

This is a breaking news story.

Reading has always been an act of resistance ✊✊✊

We found hundreds of examples of federal agencies & institutions purging their websites of anything Black, including: -Profiles of Black military heroes (Army) -Documents on the Tulsa Race Massacre (National Archives) -Resources for educators for teaching slavery (NMAAHC)

WTF!?!? Maybe she's TWELVE?! @indivisible.org @moveon.org @50501movement.bsky.social in Seattle, PLEASE help shut down Avelo Airlines! THIS IS A KID! IT'S OUTRAGEGOUS!

These are the “Career criminals” Trump is talking about. Sickening.

Vice President JD Vance casually revealed Thursday that the White House “hopes” that cities across the country will follow the capital’s lead—that is to say, hand over the reins of their local law enforcement and welcome the National Guard into their city limits. trib.al/XC5ZXTw

The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures. Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives. This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.

We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.

Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible

Watching the democrats abandon their Black female colleague in this moment is a reflection of what it is to be a Black woman working in liberal spaces.

Once again he is laying out the plan. He has been saying something like this for years. So what is the counter/opposition plan ? Even better what is the other sides plan. Any plan at all ?

Please email and call for SJ’s reinstatement, an independent investigation into discriminatory employment practices, and full transparency from NPS. Acting superintendent: [email protected] Recent acting deputy superintendent: [email protected] archive.ph/202508181628...

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Listen, you can’t break the Trump cult, but they are the minority. We need a sustained presence of Democrats in rural spaces to talk to their neighbors and run for office. Seats go uncontested for decades. Hate gerrymandering? Get Democrats on every ballot and every race. We have to run to win.

Guess the penalty: 1️⃣ Spear a cop with an American flag at the Capitol 2️⃣ Toss a sandwich to a cop One gets a pardon, the other a felony. Which is which? Answer carefully—America’s justice system is grading your test. 🍔🇺🇸 #EqualJustice

'how do people become billionaires anyways' u might wonder

The Energy Star program has saved Americans more than a half-trillion dollars in energy costs and has reduced climate pollution. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate or privatize it. By @jeffbradynews.bsky.social