"Masked, secret police, profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something, is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of America."

This is the gulf of America that truly matters

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

@dadchats.bsky.social may not know how to order Munchkins, but his On Law & Littles newsletter is a great source for keeping up with how the administration is running roughshod over the Constitution open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

"No, I do not think tweaking the wording of some New York Times headlines would single-handedly change millions of disengaged voters’ minds, thereby transforming American politics. I think tons of headlines, framing choices, points of emphasis, uncritical repetition of lies, and...

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.

Remember, nobody on the right would ever advocate for political violence www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Charlie Kirk's assassination is a tragedy, and I don't really have much to add that hasn't already been said. But when I saw this, it made me go "holy shit"

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

America, where this could be federal police forces or just a regular everyday incident.

The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.

The issue is that the CDC's immunization committee has not yet recommended the shots. Although the FDA label includes a broad list of conditions that will allow you to self-attest to get the vaccine, pharmacies are worried that the CDC could restrict this further, so are waiting to see what happens.

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”

We need to reclaim the phrase "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.

"The ideas and the technologies that are being destroyed today, in this moment, some of them irreversibly, those are the cures that would have been present 20 years from now. And now we won't even know what we've lost."

I'm reading The Hitchhiker's Guide series to my kids, and it's sort of surreal to realize that 40 years ago, this idea was considered so absurd that it was literally a joke.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

The same people constantly shouting about protecting women's sports

Q: “Are you going to make sure that all the [immigrants detained]…have due process" Indiana Lt. Gov. Beckwith: “They don't have a right to see a judge…When the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor, did we give them due process?” Read more about it in Morning Shots: www.thebulwark.com/p/drinks-app...

One thing I would like more people, and I mostly mean my fellow men, to understand is that no matter how smart you are, other people are also smart and some of them have tried to work on the same problems you’re working on. If a simple solution hasn’t been found yet, there probably isn’t one.

glad he got to the bottom of this for us

Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

$27,630,253 stolen from Maine

I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

When I see Elon Musk and Trump insulting each other I don’t think “Haha yes” I think “those men shut down soup kitchens and many babies and children died as a result”

"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing." It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.

Family who crossed border legally to seek asylum and was granted the right to stay pending a judgement was snatched in court by gun thugs and has been locked up in Texas by ICE for many weeks - including a 6-yo with leukemia who is being denied medical care, suit says. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Vaccines have been so successful that we need to remind people why we have them in the first place

This is *extremely* dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"What blows my mind is our resignation in the aftermath of this nonsense" Jon Stewart on the Minnesota murders

They're insisting that Donald Trump's election as president means he gets to do whatever he wants and not letting him do so is "violating the will of the people" and "overturning an election." But the governors and senators of a blue state? Totally different. They're illegitimate from the start.