On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Is anyone primarying DeLauro? She’s a prime candidate.

This will be as effective as “please clap”

Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.

Said this today. Why is this guy still our senate leader? @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

The crime rate of CBP agents is higher than undocumented immigrants, incredible

10/10 ICE protest sign

It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.

Elon Musk owns a website that generates child porn and was an eager associate of Jeffrey Epstein long after it was known Epstein trafficked children for sex. How is anyone continuing to be associated with any of his projects companies or operations

Thanks to @thefrisc.bsky.social for featuring us in today's article on "How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals" thefrisc.com/how-to-delay...

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

GET THIS MAN OUT OF ANY POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER ASAP.

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

One of my maybe-hottest takes post-2024 election is that nearly every federal elected official should face a serious primary challenge every time they run for office. Especially the President, but Congress, too. It's good to make officials earn your support.

I genuinely don’t get why there aren’t left leaning billionaires doing this!

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

TFW Bill fucking Kristol is better than the opposition party leadership

If you won’t commit to removing Jeffries as house leader, you have no chance of getting my vote, my donation, or my volunteer time for your congressional campaign.

Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.

Imagine if, instead of ubiquitous fundraising texts or emails, the Democratic Party would send some texts and emails promoting protests, general strikes, etc?

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

🫡

Instead of a shadow cabinet to counter Trump, we need a shadow Dem leadership to counter Jeffries and Schumer.

It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

Honestly: if you won't commit to removing Jeffries and Schumer, you don't deserve votes in a primary. That's becoming a red line for me.

Is Indiana winning the title the first unconditionally good thing that’s happened in 2026 on a national scale? I think so??

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

close enough

The Boss for a reason

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

70% of all Harris voters in 2024 and 65% of all self identified Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide 60% of Democrats believe Israel kills children intentionally and whopping 77% overall have a negative view of Israel.

VA is BACK, BABY

VA is back, baby

Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

really not the point but this lil guy’s voice is CRAZY

Hakeem Jeffries is afraid of a bad poll, meanwhile the observers and neighbors here on the ground in Minneapolis are afraid of being beaten senseless, dragged into a car, and raced out of their neighborhood. They’re not yielding but he is. Consider new leaders, Democrats

NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING YOU DENSE JACKASS ICE doesn’t have bad training! ICE has been sent here to incite violence against my community, and they’re obeying because the culture is irreparably twisted!! The agency must be reduced to rubble!

that’s how you thread the affordability + ICE needle

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