thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Leavitt: “These are heinous monsters.” Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison. new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Captured media is a tool of authoritarian repression www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

I can't wait for the giant dance party on the Kennedy Center plaza when we celebrate the removal of this desecration

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

Not lawful, but that means nothing to Team Trump.

Trump's black hole of neediness will not be satisfied until everything in Washington is covered in gold and named after him. Shame on his toadies that went along with this. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Glad to see @newrepublic.com crediting people who clearly saw the Trump threat. Still, given the harm now being done, it's not that satisfying to say "I told you so." My own Cassandra cred includes a year's worth of "Trumptastrophe" posts for @peoplefor.bsky.social www.peoplefor.org/trumptastrophe

In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence. 11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Spain’s El País had by far the best main story of any major mainstream outlet I’ve seen: Directly in the article, from the 1st paragraph. “Celebrating himself with a base of lies, half-truths and exaggerations in an effort to take control of the narrative on the economy.” elpais.com/internaciona...

“The guidance to USCIS field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year…By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.”

Shout out to everyone who voted for Trump because he was supposedly the anti-war candidate

J.D. Vance gave a speech in PA today and said there is nobody more impatient to solve the affordability crisis than Donald Trump. Didn't Trump tell us affordability was a hoax?

Team Trump has been begging people to register for JD Vance's speech in PA on Tuesday. Vance is teasing a "groundbreaking" and shocking "MAGA truth bomb"

NOT AT ALL BREAKING: Trump is a loathsome human being

Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?

Kiss even more billions in tourism dollars good-bye, along with the U.S. jobs and businesses that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

When you are writing a column dismissing claims of sexism within GOP leadership, it may not be a great idea to characterize women raising concerns as "a group of bitter shrews" who "want to turn their claws on Johnson." washingtonstand.com/article/the-...

The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

For anti-LGBTQ zealots, "parental rights" are portrayed as sacred when a parent wants to purge books from libraries or classes -- but those supposedly sacred rights are jettisoned when it comes to parents who want to support their trans kids.

As of Monday, Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges, essentially on suspicion of them being judges, as opposed to sure-thing compliant cogs in the mass deportation machine ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Who needs Musk when you've got Russ Vought running OMB and destructive DOGE bros working to dismantle agencies from within?

“It may seem wishful to say—once again—that the rule of law depends on a Congress willing to assert its rightful authority and to hold the executive accountable. It may seem wishful to implore—once again—(R) members of Congress to put country and Constitution over party and political convenience.”

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

If you're ever inclined to think MAGA can't get even more ridiculous....

WTAF?

Read this. These atrocities are happening right here in this country. Right now.

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person. All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

Trying to ban fluoride in water while approving these guys?

Q: Speaker Johnson is calling on the Senate to make revisions to this bill because he says it's doesn't adequately protect survivors MASSIE: That's been a red herring all along. The survivors have always been in favor of this legislation. He's trying to save face.

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

In a desperate face-saving effort to avoid the humiliation of many House Rs voting against him, Trump abruptly changes gears to support House vote to release Epstein files. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Hispanic American women can't go to Home Depot without masked men pointing guns into their cars. This is a violent threat and is illegal.

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

More Trump propaganda: he warns that "troubles are boiling over" but doesn't mention Epstein revelations. Instead he lies that Democrats want to send his "tariff checks" to "ILLEGALS"

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"