A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

The federal shutdown is already causing layoffs at the local orgs that help disburse LIHEAP and other safety net programs. When the federal government reopens, the capacity to distribute life-saving assistance is severely limited — making it even more urgent for utilities to stop shutoffs.

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle. Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

1. Yesterday, I talked about how the No Kings rally exposed the regime’s weakness. Donald Trump wants the common folk of America to surrender in advance, like their betters did. But when 7M said no, what did he do? Well, let’s just say he lost his shit. www.editorialboard.com/no-kings-blo...

ICE has purchased guided missile warheads. Guided missile warheads. This needs to be the lead story on every news channel. In every newspaper. It seems like they’re preparing to go to war with America.

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I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

I am putting money on the asshole putting bugs into the WH so Russia can listen in to everything that happens there. I mean, isn’t that what a Russian asset would do? And since every move he has made has been to destroy America and benefit its enemy, that would be par for the course.

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

East Wing ballroom construction at the White House "will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of." - President Trump, July 31, 2025

it's cool how we have a government that 4chans constantly on twitter and shows off videos of the president shitting on americans while also being like, "make sure nobody sees us destroying the white house" this is super normal stuff for highly stable nations

This is what trump is doing to our Government.

This is amazing. My big takeaway is that a lot of these Trump appointees, and definitely Lindsey Halligan, are desperately insecure about how stupid/unqualified they are for the positions they hold. Which just tells me we should talk about it more.

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The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it. These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

In special election for Houston congressional seat, candidates confront a bewildered electorate

"We have an active duty servicemember swept up in an ICE raid who hasn't been allowed to talk to his family since September 3rd." During last week's roundtable, Col. Saenz called for immediate Congressional oversight to protect veterans and servicemembers from ICE agents.

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

When a major news outlet like the New York Times timidly states that Trump's video depiction of shit showed "brown liquid," it's more likely to describe Trump's overthrow of democracy as a "reform process."

“Republican Party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes… today, I quit allowing my complacency to destroy 🇺🇸, and urge you to quit too…” GOP insider Miles Bruner writes in @thebulwark.com he wishes he did it sooner www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

Palestine in East Texas❤️

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

This is Ukraine..

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

DOJ in hot water over Kilmar Abrego Garcia case youtube.com/shorts/9iSJH...

No Kings Lufkin, TX

This is great

People died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court spits on their graves.

I do not like that man Ted Cruz I do not like his far right views I do not like his stupid chin I do not like his smarmy grin I do not like his lying whine I do not like his jelly spine I do not like him, not one bit A craven, phony hypocrite

As bad as all the ICE abuse we know about is, what really makes me shudder is the abuse we're unaware of

I went to my doctor and got a simple blood test to make sure my childhood MMR vax was still effective. The test cost about $25 and gave me peace of mind.

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

www.yahoo.com/news/a... Republican Senator Tim Sheehy just learned the hard way what happens when blind loyalty meets cold, hard facts. On live TV, the Montana MAGA darling was left speechless after being told that Donald Trump’s own administration slashed $1 billion 1/4

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line. Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away. youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

This is real. Chicago today.

A reminder of this outrage in Kherson earlier today - because it has not been reported on any UK or US national TV news that I've seen. I am though disappointed No one from WFP nor any UN agency could bring themselves to condemn Russia.

Nearly all the staff in the Office of Special Education have been fired as part of Trump’s sweeping layoffs. These are the people responsible for protecting the civil rights of students with disabilities and ensuring they receive an equal education. More needless cruelty on display.

🚨 “What it means for consumers is that ‘you’re on your own’ in figuring out how the food safety system is going to work for you." www.consumerreports.org/health/salmo...

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't. But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

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Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t, is.

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.