Making calls is actually a giant pain for me as a deaf person and it *still* doesn't take that long and I *still* do it anyway just in fucking case.... So tldr: listen to Chanda and kindly get over yourselves and make the phone calls.

Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.

Masked ICE gestapo agents just murdered an ICU nurse after assaulting him, stealing the firearm he was lawfully carrying, spraying him with chemicals, then restraining him so they could shoot him point-blank. And the federal government's response is to shield the killers and justify the killing.

/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

I would love for other people to get killed so everyone can know how tough I am personally (no i won’t be doing any fighting) bsky.app/profile/atru...

We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.

Always feel good when Adam and I are the same train of thought. www.lawdork.com/p/the-depart...

The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.

Like Trump's own words directly contradict these push alerts. Why were they sent out? Who made the decision to send them? Don't print lies in the newspaper! bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Remember what I said about how when Trump falters, the media inserts a fake, imaginary version of Trump into the news instead?

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

come on man www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tyranny. Intolerable

The media understood that Project 2025 was damaging Trump in the election and helped him spread the lie that he wasn't behind it.

They like Trump and didn't like Biden

Beyond the fact that this bugfuck insane letter was written and sent to the leader of Norway, the State Dept agreeing to distribute it to other heads of state instead of objecting and honorably resigning or at the very least planning some kind of coverup is a sign of deep institutional collapse.

it should have happened decades ago, but the press and public should never let the U.S. right wing prattle on about freedom and liberty ever again They should be treated the same way a convicted serial rapist would be after announcing a new home nursing healthcare company

the thing that the moderates like jentleson are recommending was the actual policy of the biden administration. dems already Did The Thing and it didn't work. One of Harris's main arguments against Trump on immigration was "we tried to pass an asylum crackdown bill and Trump blocked it!"

Good distinction here and doubly true for young people whose political opinions tend not to cohere until their mid-20s. The average highly politicized person remains an outlier in American society.

"Before you say “Those people are just hypocrites,” it’s more than that. This isn’t just it’s-ok-when-my-side-does-it partisanship. The people who used to be so worked up about the dangers of government tyranny are not just silent right now, they’re positively gleeful about what’s happening."

This is a huge indictment of the state parties

it's a real show of character (derogatory) to lend your name, your mind and your credibility to a fraudulent and disgraceful effort to gut a fundamental constitutional protection, and then whine that people are mean to you about it

every single thing about this administration is stupid and unnecessary but getting into a trade war and threatening a shooting war with Europe - Europe! - because the president saw a Mercator projection and wants to slap his name on Greenland is maybe the stupidest and most unnecessary

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

meanwhile at cbs news www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party

As a reminder: this is a Congressional power. Trump is exercising that power under the claim of a national emergency even as he is creating a national emergency.

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”

The bare reed of truth here is that MN beat out NY for the 435th congressional seat by 87 people. Basically if NYC were willing to build one (1) more high rise from 2010-2020 they would've gotten an additional house seat

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As President Trump ramped up his threats against the people he is supposed to be working for, his administration’s extreme immigration enforcement led DHS Secretary Noem to admit that anyone — U.S. citizen or otherwise — should be prepared to have to prove their citizenship to DHS agents.

Stenography for Fascists

"internal bleeding"

and frequently in the past when such charges have been filed they've been later dismissed because they were made up bsky.app/profile/step...

I never saw a challenge coin outside the military until about 15 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous in law enforcement, which increasingly views itself as a military endeavor

yeah man, what would i, a black guy from the south, know about thugs intimidating people out of voting? what possible experiences in my family, which has been here since slavery, could ever inform my perspective?

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

I feel like this kind of bald-faced lying maybe works better in situations where there aren't huge crowds of people with cameras following agents and documenting their every move

Elon Musk is deadset on speed running through every single horror show the Gilded Age Robber Barons ever gave us, from company towns to pseudoscientific racism.

yep. it's an active choice by major media to avoid mentioning the fact that we replaced 90% of U.S. journalism with Republican and corporate agitprop Financial conflicts of interest ensures they never upset Republican sources, ownership, advertisers, and readers with the pesky truth

When a TV guest goes the predictable route of claiming they're "paid protestors," hosts must immediately ask if they have any proof. When they sputter that they're guessing, ask if *they* were paid to come on TV and lie about it. No? You're offended by that? Gosh, I'm just guessing here like you.

Sure seems like ICE is gping into a violence spiral in MN. They act out, people monitor and protest, they get madder and more agitated, people monitor and protest more. They‘re going to kill more people, administration’s going to congratulate and encourage more, they’re gonna kill MORE people.

Larry Ellison hired a bunch of feckless chodes to dress up right wing CBS agitprop as brave truth telling

up is down, black is white, being snatched off the streets and disappeared by masked goons isn’t an unreasonable search and seizure according to the esteemed brett kavanaugh

The de facto position of the Trump administration is that it's occupying forces are allowed to mock and belittle American citizens, and also allowed to kill citizens who mock and belittle them.