🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t. What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty. [street art from around the country]

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

The current SCOTUS majority should resign in shame. Each and every one of them.

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NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war” A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

LYING: It's the Lord's work!

Keep voting #RepublicanPartyOfSuffering out until they cease. #GavinNewsom🤩🇺🇸

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

So the asshole and his team of racists is now charging people who are kidnapped by ICE a $5000 ransom to be let go. This is straight up extortion. I cannot wait for this shit to go to court. We live amongst the worst humans on this planet who rejoice at the suffering of their neighbors

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

We’re just straight up doing piracy now, I guess. Figures.

Nothing says "authoritarian state" like having to show 5 years of your social media posts just to visit the United States as a tourist. We are a disgrace. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Somebody absolutely should hold this criminal admin accountable; our corrupt SCOTUS members are co-conspirators.

While Trump is threatening the ICC with sanctions if they prosecute him for war crimes, here is another one of his pardoned thugs. Banuelos was just charged with kidnapping and sexual assault after DNA collected during the Jan. 6 prosecutions was matched with a cold case in Utah.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

These are co-conspirators, not lawyers

JFC. Yes, let’s compound the evil & unlawful activity. These people are so hideous, it strains and tests the bounds of my humanity.

He is a psychopath. He has been since 2015. He will be one to his dying breath. What does that make reporters, institutions, businesses & citizens who allowed identities & loyalties to be subsumed by a psychopath to such an extent our democracy, economy, military & rule of law hang by a thread?

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”

"It seems that we Americans have looked up at the “shining city on a hill” and decided to burn it down." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/what-will-...

I agree with the Gor. Next time the people get power, let's blow up the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Courage! We’ve missed you!Welcome home.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The orange felon insults yet another female reporter by calling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “stupid and nasty” after she inquired about the price of his trashy dictator ballroom after it increased by another $100M. This is what happens when you normalize a criminal for a decade.

More of this !!

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said. I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence. We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments. Seems like a key detail!

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

European reaction to the new American national strategy document

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The evil these men do will live after them. The good leached from their souls long ago. Orchestrated catastrophe so Cassidy wouldn’t experience a moment’s discomfort at the club. F*ck him & every GOP Senator who put short-term, selfish political interests over everyone & everything else.

“What have I done!” 🤡