The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.

I mean this sounds like an oil propagandist in 2013: "Even in Spain the sun does not perpetually shine. Sometimes, the wind dies down. Droughts happen." Meanwhile, comments:

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ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Congress can stop this madness any time they want to. This is on them.

Are you ready? Do you have your signs made yet? We are just 12 days away from the largest nationwide day of protest in US history, and you can be a part of it right here in Roseburg, OR! We look forward to seeing you there!

Dear World, Don’t help him. Oppose him. Defy him. Embarrass him. Arrest him, if you’d like. We’re not with him. Sincerely, Decent Americans

For anyone up late and eager to be pissed off: Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill that would require every pregnancy to be registered with the state and given a "certificate of life" jessica.substack.com/p/ohio-gop-w...

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

This Day in Labor History: March 15, 1940. John Ford’s film version of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, was released to universal acclaim. This was perhaps the greatest moment of the cultural left during the Great Depression!

Read this thread & the underlying one by @eliasisquith.blog. They get at something really important about the sociology of today's economically-collapsing journalism industry. My tl;dr takeaway is that to save democracy from MAGA authoritarianism, we need LOTS more local journalism written by locals

Basically, all of US political life & discourse is premised on the illusion of symmetry between the parties, which requires vastly overstating the flaws of liberals & studiously ingoring the true nature of MAGA. Establishment journos & pundits will maintain that illusion at any cost.

If Russia is helping Iran and we’re helping Russia, and Russia is attacking Ukraine, aren’t we also helping Iran and attacking Ukraine? Because that’s what it feels like…

How many dead Iranian children in a "hit much harder"?

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children. A major throughline of the Trump administration.

Wow. Please take 10 minutes and read this one by one of my favorite authors: @doctorow.pluralistic.net. Cory is the one who popularized the word "enshittification" and now he brings us "morbidly wealthy". I'd like to see that one become mainstream too. Excellent read 👇

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

If only there was a historical example of a right wing, ultra-nationalist movement supported by about 30% of a country that scapegoated a religious minority by blaming them for having authoritarian designs on the country.

When I was a kid, my dad worked one job and we had a house, a car, vacations most summers, and health insurance. Try doing that on one income today. Something didn't just change. Something was changed. On purpose.

Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?

Or in case you thought Rubio isn’t a fascist.

From promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by Ann Coulter’s white nationalist niece one day, to getting face time with the Secretary of State the next. America! We’re still the country where anything is possible!

Had to doublecheck the date on this

👀👀👇🏼 Pay attention and spread the word, Wisconsin voters!

Trump now blocking terror threat warnings because it makes him look bad. “They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

Senator Markey 🎯

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

James Talarico tonight: "It doesn't matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we're running against: The billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system. Not any one politician ... We are running against the broken system and the powerful people who broke it."

A handful of Republicans could end all of this. And there are quite a few who hate this war, masked terrorists in our cities, flouting of Congress, corruption, etc. But unless they prove otherwise they’re all cowards.

The United States gave Netanyahu over $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his horrific war in Gaza. That wasn't enough. Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump gave him one. The American people — not Netanyahu’s right-wing government — should determine U.S. foreign policy.

Look, I'm not saying our nation is being run by foreign operatives actively seeking to destroy American national security, but this is exactly the kind of thing foreign operatives actively seeking to destroy American national security would do. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

"The Peace President."

Authoritarians are the only winners in war.

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Just like Trump, another president once urged a Mideast country to rise up. It didn't go well. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...

Lindsay Graham has never met a war he wasn’t happy to send other people to die in.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

Couldn’t we just pass a law saying that if a murder robot commits murder, then the CEO of the company that built it must get a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison without parole.

Coast to coast, our cry is clear: No War on Iran. Congress declares war. Not the president. Tell Congress: support the War Powers Resolution to stop Trump’s illegal war: tinyurl.com/ke4eknwh We’ve seen this before: presidents escalate, defense contractors profit, and the people pay the price.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

From immediate oversight, to forcing a vote on a War Powers Resolution, to restricting or cutting off funding for unauthorized hostilities, our Members of Congress must use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to this war. Make sure your elected officials hear from you.

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About $1.7 billion flowed from two accounts at Binance, whose founder was pardoned by Trump, to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions, investigators discovered. David Yaffe-Bellany @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

This is what I was talking about last year in my piece on the Everglades camp for MSNBC, when it was already clear the US government was talking to several countries. Not only is the US creating a domestic network of camps, "we’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network."