“Home invasion” came into the public lexicon in the 90s to refer to particularly brutal robberies where the bad guys burst into your house and assaulted you. But in 2025 those same words casually describe the actions of federal agents. Not dragging OP, just holy shit we’re not adequately outraged.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

“Because if we accurately call out rising fascism … we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war.” 👏 👏 👏

“Most of all, war mindset requires strategic clarity. Trust is built on shared values. Moral courage springs from genuine conviction founded on sound principles. You will not find such conviction nor such principles in the latest polling. Morality is not a popularity contest.”

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Feels like a situation where -- and look, I'm just spitballing here -- the media could take some reporters and cameras to various parts of Portland and report what they see rather than just do stenography for someone with a long history trying to game the system with lies and exaggeration.

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

“Because if we accurately call out rising fascism … we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war.” 👏 👏 👏

Mike, I thought you would appreciate this. He writes like you. Deep thinker. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

Stephen Miller just called a federal judge’s enforcement of constitutional law “legal insurrection.” That’s not rhetoric. That’s fascism—plain and present. If enforcing the Constitution is “insurrection,” then refusing to defend it is surrender.

All of this ends when enough of us put an end to it. Their force is not unstoppable, but we can become an immovable object.

If we are ever lucky enough to get full-blown hearings and investigations into what has happened these past several months, I am 100% confident that we will find that Stephen Miller has been effectively running the country. bsky.app/profile/hunt...

Exactly this. “But Republicans might…” Republicans might what? Shut down agencies? Fire thousands of federal workers? Ignore the Constitution? THEY’VE ALREADY DONE THOSE THINGS. There’s absolutely no reason to believe they won’t keep doing them regardless of what Democrats do.

“We are documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Donald Trump and his administration that may pose a threat to American democracy, since the start of his second term in January 2025.” www.trumpactiontracker.info

This is a really outstanding post. "That’s the point of the compact. .... It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a 'deal' that offers the government much more control."

Escalating threats from the White House to break the law even more should be met with stiffer resistance, absolutely. Appeasement at this point wouldn’t reduce the lawbreaking and rights violations, it would encourage more, and make any future attempt to counter it even harder.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy. Choose.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyone’s critiques of Newson: This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

If Joe Biden were giving this rambling speech, itd be treated as a four alarm fire in every newsroom in the country about his very obvious physical and mental decline. But because its Trump, they'll all mostly just shrug and move past it.

Hegseth did (accidentally) say a true thing. Defense is something you do all the time. Which is precisely why, in the years following the great wars, the department he now “leads” was renamed to the Department of Defense. Sadly this fact is lost on him.

After that droning, rambling, incoherent stream of unconsciousness, filled with fictitious successes and wholly imagined nonsense, I don’t ever again want to hear a mention nor read a word that references Biden’s “mental decline.” Oh. my. god.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

In a stunning violation of OPSEC, we’ll be announcing to our adversaries when and where all of our top military leaders will be. Doesn’t seem Pete learned much from Signalgate. His incompetence is staggering.

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today initiated the process for a label change for acetaminophen to reflect evidence suggesting…” *stares in pending abortion pill ratfuck*

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to deny Larry Ellison this future which sounds supremely awful and dystopian.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

Yup. This is the time to use our privilege. This administration is fascist at every level, the MAGA movement is an explicitly fascist ideology, and I am proud to follow the long American tradition of being anti-fascist and anti-tyrant. You want to come after antifa? I’m right here.

3/3 Here’s truth we must repeat until it sticks: Republicans are cruel. Republicans lie. They serve billionaires. They lie nonstop. And they are Guardians of Pedophiles, shielding the wealthy and powerful at the expense of children. Say it everywhere. Say it often. Make it reality. #AllTheyDoIsLie

If/when Dems regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.

Kamala Harris predicted a lot of what is unfolding today during her campaign and yet so much of the coverage at the time was as if she was taking crazy pills.

As a longtime supporter and contributor to Democratic causes, a former primary campaign staffer, and a volunteer on every presidential and multiple house/senate campaigns over the last two decades, I HEARTILY ENDORSE this message. @housedemocrats.bsky.social must hold the line.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway