Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Happy Feast of St. Chuck! revannerobertson.substack.com/p/the-feast-...

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

CS gas has been banned in warfare since 1925. And here we are using it against a kid in Oregon.

And with Bible verses, no less. Matthew 19:14 "but Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’" John 11:35 "Jesus wept."

And he's in the Epstein Files. All the qualifications this administration looks for.

In 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Texas now following the lead of Hungary under Orban.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

History is neither positive or negative. It's just fact. The truth. Verifiable through accurate accounts, and witnesses. Opinions and feelings can be negative, usually through guilt. History is not opinion. History just... is. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

This is a Russian drone stuck in one of those nets. That is why frontline villages and cities in Ukraine cover roads with nets. In the conditions of total war, these nets provide a chance for the survival of personnel, equipment, and logistics, as well as civilians. Source: X / @samotniyskhid

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

This seems both self-evidently true and massively important to remember moving forward. Nonviolent resistance is the only path here that has any hope of working

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0. (seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)

I'm sure this will all be perfectly fine.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

Soon everyone will know someone...or be someone.

Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office “There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Important perspective from Greenland.

This is bad. But I'm kind of amazed that there are people still within the administration willing to file this.

This thread is wild...and terrifying.

NASA’s neon halo is a siren song. This "thriving" bloom lures deep-water whales onto the Chatham Rise’s killer shallow slopes. We praise the orbital art, ignoring that for the pods navigating these acoustic nightmares, the beauty effectively marks the start of stranding season.

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

From a US friend's friend in Minneapolis whose child is adopted from abroad:

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

How do we handle this moment? open.substack.com/pub/jrandyta...

Important read.

ICE/CBP is following school busses now. My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)