ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

ICE came to my neighborhood today. Will spare you the extremely NSFW screaming I did at them. My neighbors, however, are class acts and came out in force.

Shout out to a number of my neighbors who came out to tell them off and get the f out of our town. And to local reporters who showed up to talk to people and document it. 3/3

According to a neighbor the local PD wasn’t informed of either the alleged escaped criminal or the fed activity. They circled the neighborhood for maybe 30-45 minutes, helicopter above for a bit longer. I only saw one guy not in a car, so it must’ve been a real serious search. 2/

Feds on my block this afternoon, in suburban Chicago. 4-5 SUVs, helicopter overhead. They had CBP markings on their vests and claimed to be looking for an escaped “cartel member” but had time to stop and tell me I was supporting criminals by telling them to go fuck off. 1/

In the moment I didn’t notice front seat dude’s not very opaque face cover but yeah. All the plates on their vehicles I took pics of were out of state - Florida, Maryland, Minnesota.

ICIRR.org Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Can’t wait for @jaketapper.bsky.social’s book about this

🎶PRETTY LITTLE THING LET ME LIGHT YOUR CANDLE COS MAMA, I’M SURE HARD TO HANDLE NOW … 🎶

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

Happy first day of spring from the Chicago suburbs! Wondered briefly why I moved back up here from Austin. Then remembered we got out of a rapidly growing Christian nationalist hellscape ruled by that turd Greg Abbott. Give me frozen water falling from the sky any damn day of the week.

Hi, I'm God. I categorically reject Donold's request for Me to 'bless America.' I will not be doing that until he is long gone. Fuck you, Donold.

Donald Trump is lying to you.

Crockett: Any of us who have ever dated have been hoodwinked a time or two. We’ve sat there and thought he was going to be so great for us because he sold us on all the things and then we realized… they ain’t shit. That’s where we are.

A hero

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

Former Wash Post top editor Cameron Barr severs ties to the company He writes that Bezos’ revamp marks an “unacceptable erosion of its commitment to publishing a healthy diversity of opinion and opinion” www.linkedin.com/posts/camero...

SCOOP: #DOGE has installed two people at the Department of Housing and given them unprecedented access to the agency's highly sensitive data on millions of American and tens of billions of dollars in payments. Both work in real estate. w @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

This is evil. Pure evil.

Trump and Musk claim they’re saving billions through DOGE’s mass purge of federal bureaucracy. Instead, the administration has spent $710 billion in its first month, nearly a billion more than Joe Biden.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

SO FAR tonight, we've seen @jeff-merkley.bsky.social, @schatz.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov, Dick Durbin, @murray.senate.gov, @warren.senate.gov, @markwarner.bsky.social, Mark Kelly, @hirono.senate.gov, @warnock.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, & @kaine.senate.gov

Oh

In a memorandum sent to Justice Department employees, Attorney General Pam Bondi warns that any attorney who “delays or impedes the Department's mission” because of their personal political beliefs or judgements “will be subject to discipline and potentially termination…”

MORE BARGING

I agree. We are witnessing the disintegration of the federal constitutional order.

Time for real protests.

Federal employees are literally BLOCKING the doors to Elon’s goons and begging for HELP. People are protesting all over!The mainstream press is blacked out

USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

Lawyers on here: Is there a legal challenge underway to Musk's apparent seizure of federal spending? If not, why not?

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

The federal government *regularly* spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wired is running circles around the NYT, WaPo, LA Times, etc.

Why aren’t the democrats standing in front of the treasury department with a dozen news crews demanding answers? Seriously what are you guys DOING?

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

No time like tomorrow to confront an emergency crisis happening yesterday

"...we have a thug in charge of the United States and if we don't wake up, we may not have a United States" Preach, Jasmine.

Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois: “I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Albertsons (Safeway...) "commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as well as thoughtful people practices are core elements of the company’s philosophy" "We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen and enrich our stores, our company and our society."

Is the government more efficient yet?

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.