Casey Means, our next surgeon general, is the platonic ideal of a Trump nominee. She strives for a job that has surgeon in its title, but she literally dropped out of her surgical residency. She also presents herself as a medical doctor, but she hasn’t had an active medical license in three years.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Fuck yes!

That the Bondi hearing is being chaired by Jim I-Let-A-Doctor-Rape-College-Wrestlers-When-I-Was-Their-Assistant-Coach Jordan is... really fucking painful. "'To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie',” former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie said."

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

College dropout lecturing us on constitutional matters. Meanwhile, this assclown can’t even put a proper space between his two first names.

can I just say that, as a heterosexual, I did not feel underserved by the halftime show

The pro-ICE ad that this crypto fascist PAC put out shows a bunch of actors dressed as ICE agents. None of them - ZERO - are: * wearing masks * pointing guns * ramming people’s cars * calling women “fucking bitches.” Burn in hell, “American Sovereignty” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

“Hair extensions and Botox are ours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

I remember all the insufferable assholes who said they voted for Trump because Democrats were warmongers Of course, those assholes were fascists, Nazis, and foreign assets who were lying shamelessly. But still, the irony is… deadly. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

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Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

As much as it that loss sucked for #patriots fans, please check on your #jets fan friends tonight. Sam Darnold just won the Super Bowl.

Tesla’s board read this tweet and immediately voted give Elon another $1 trillion.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

This crapulent toad is one of the most powerful people in the world, but he spends all his time sniveling like a little coward, afraid to do the right thing.

To my view, this exchange further undermines Wolff’s claims that his relationship with Epstein was that of journalist and subject. Here, Wolff shares the pitch for funding from an accused man with Epstein, and offers commentary indicating a shared ideological commitment against the Me Too movement.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

ICE tear-gassed children in Portland, OR today.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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This is a pillar of ethnic cleansing. War crime shit.

The director of Melania movie

Fascism is the apotheosis of the billionaire class’s obsession with paying no taxes ever.

I remain astonished by the number of people who are willing to kiss the ring of a man who ordered his thugs to dismember a Washington Post journalist with a chainsaw.

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Useless. The rhetoric is coming from his camp. Those are the people heating up the violence. What a joke.

Big Leia Organa vibes here

I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder

“They mix baby formula with water that is putrid. The food has bugs in it. The guards are often verbally abusive” Horrendous. Not a place for any human to be in, especially not a little kid. I don’t even have the words to describe how angry this makes me.

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Good news, everyone. The Titanic has turned. Leaders lead. Followers follow. Schumer is a backroom dealmaker who couldn’t successfully lead a family of raccoons to an overturned trash can.

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We meant to write "travel to Minneapolis". To all Border Patrol and ICE agents: Stay home, save a life. Do not volunteer for these positions, quit your jobs or take early retirement unless you want to become famous and hated forever in your own communities.

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.