It has been a very, very long week. But maybe better things are coming.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

This is demonstrably pathetic and a sign of true weakness. The Feds lack the numbers to do what they want to do. They can hurt, yes, but not at the authoritarian scale that (de facto President) Miller desires. So they go for the media-bait illusions of power. Like this. Profoundly weak flex.

Well this is weird

So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

We're well past the point where in a normal family, the kids would be meeting to decide if it's time to put Dad in a home for his own safety. Pretty sure none of his kids would give enough of a shit about him to do it, even if he wasn't a ghoulish puppet for Fox News and a handful of billionaires.

Maybe paradoxically, I think this is also better strategy. Voters cast a ballot for a person, not an abstract slate of policy stances, and they can smell focus-grouped inauthenticity.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

One thing that's become painfully obvious is that a whole lot of people don't know what "fascist" means, and most of them are on the right.

“Can the president tell what is real and what is not real” is a pretty simple and important question and I think the answer seems pretty clear

FTR, I don’t think we need to run anti-choice Democrats ANYWHERE. But certainly not in 3 states—even if they’re red—that just passed pro-choice initiatives/amendments. Please just stop it. You have to stand for SOMETHING. And Klein doesn’t seem to stand for anything but cloying both-sidesism

Another big assault by the federal agents. Tear gas, flash bangs, I don't know what else. People panic, scatter. Pushed all the way back to the highway. I can hear calls for medics.

The federal government is actively at war against the civilian population of Chicago

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

So much just happened. Can't process it all rn. Multiple people arrested, including press. Will share more when I can.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

Just came from protest and then an emergency community meeting for Doctor Ian Roberts. #Iowa #ICE

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

So either: 1) A power-crazed man with a fragile ego wants to line up a bunch of toy soldiers to be audience to a pointless speech, just because he can, or 2) This is a cover story and not even remotely what this meeting is about. Either one is likely, and neither one is good.

To be honest, I'm not sure Musk going to Epstein's island means he's a pedophile. I think he's just such a spineless, insecure worm that he'll buddy up to anyone and participate in anything if he thinks it'll make him more popular.

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos. This overshadowed another big announcement... On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation. Hello?

I cannot understate how alarming this is. Everyone should be paying attention, but I think we're all so burned out we barely even notice.

I’m not so sure that Tylenol causes autism since my grandpa, who was a scientist and born before Tylenol, created a shed complete with every barbed wire ever manufactured and had each labeled with the date of production and its use…every generation in my family since has a boy with Aspergers.

My conspiracy theory is that the violent people on the right were hired by ICE this year and that's why their recorded criminal violence has dropped.

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

We need to talk about the horde of edgelord trolls who just want to watch the world burn. There's a frightening number of young men with incoherent politics willing to throw their life away for the lulz, and they're all too aware a few drastic actions could push us to all-out civil war.

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

The only comfort to be found here is that he's so fucking incompetent, the persecution is likely to be slow-moving and inefficient.

Just our president openly threatening people he has personal beef with, very normal, very democratic.

He’s already forgotten who Kirk was

stop stop pretending there's a plan, stop pretending we're Making America Great, stop pretending this man speaks for Real America, just stop it's stupid and he's stupid and everyone who helped put him in power is stupid fuck

This guy is murdering people in the Caribbean and deciding how much your cabinets will cost.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...