Senior ICE officer Kody, age 32, tells me he’s been deployed away from home for nearly six months, having been sent to both Los Angeles and Minneapolis. “I miss my wife,” he said, “but I guess that’s just how restraining orders work.”

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

NON-U.S. BLUESKY USERS, I know things are moving fast, so here's a simple update: We have won the war with Iran, which was not a war, and has been put on a five-day pause while we adjust out metrics for winning, because we will not rest until we defeat Iran. Also we are at war with our airports.

US Marines should be proud to make the ultimate sacrifice so that Jared Kushner can build a resort on Kharg Island.

As we move deeper into 2026, we must surely believe at this point that ineffectual opposition is the entire reason that these two men were put at the top. The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does - and what it does is consistently fail to resist or even message against Trump in any effective way.

The thrust of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on voting rights are basically “Jim Crow, but make it national.” Gutting the VRA and buying the openly racist lies about fraud are barely re-mixed versions of the Herrenvolk democracy that governed the south for a century following the Civil War.

so either the strait never reopens, or we get to write another gigantic check to bail trump out. neato

"You see, just like our president, I'm a fucking idiot who's motivated mostly by spite"

I wish some reporter would say IDGAF and just ask him something nonsensical, like how he feels about "the merger between Catio and Dogdoor" just to hear him ramble some shit word salad.

seeing various pics of ICE at airports and they don't seem to be wearing their face masks which is weird because I was told it was an absolute security necessity for them to conceal their identities

It’s not a war. It’s a massive stock manipulation. 

TACO: imma destroy your oil fields! Iran: ok, we’ll destroy everyone’s oil fields TACO: 😭

every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot

Successive British governments have made me desperate to leave and live somewhere else, but they expect me to believe the UK is the most desirable place on Earth. It just makes me think refugees are leaving absolute hellholes.

The bedrock belief of the supremacist spirit is that life must be earned, and those who fail to earn it deserve to suffer and die.

Punchbowl confirms what I suspected in a post last night. Thune reached a deal with Dems to fund DHS except for ICE and Trump rejected it. DONALD TRUMP is to blame for airport chaos - not Democrats.

the US is having people die in completely avoidable incidents because it is run by people who have made a wholesale abdication of any notion of doing anything right or the public good

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

Random thing I learned last night: Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) was related to Hugo Pratt. What a weird thing to find out during an interview.

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Suddenly dawning on me that he put ICE in airports right before several major Spring Break weekends Think about the sheer number of International students that are going to be traveling. This is so deliberate

Unfortunately, people still fully buy that the Nazis were smart and evil. In reality, most of them were a bunch of dumb nerds cosplaying alt-history fantasies to prove they were “totally big strong men and should be treated as such” and that people just… let them. It’s actually quite similar! 🗃️

I think I've said this before but it's striking that the Trump administration has no concept of positive policy. The only thing they can imagine doing with the federal government is inflicting misery and paying off bribes, because that's what they've been told the government does for fifty years

It's talked about to death, but it remains notable that all it took to give Tucker Carlson a serious setback was John Stewart calling him out for being a dipshitted loser incapable of real journalism.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

really really funny that the american commentators still believe that negotiations to end the war are even possible atm. what part of "american diplomacy is now considered untrustworthy because they keep killing the people theyre supposed to negotiate with" is hard to get

As usual, the Republican superpower is being so cartoonishly evil that describing their policies in factual terms makes you sound like a deranged ideologue.

​Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: ​"Negotiations with the Americans are over forever...!" ​"no longer any room for talk with the Americans. They deceived us with promises of no attack … after progress in negotiations, they decided to attack us regardless … trust is completely non-existent"

I, a shitposter whose knowledge of the general world and the American Constitution exists in my head only because I think history is neat, should not know more about Middle East supply chains than actual policymakers.

It hasn't gotten enough attention that Trump, Homan, and Duffy have all confirmed there's a plan in the works to have armed ICE agents at airports *tomorrow.* Words fail to describe how stupid this is. Let's hope more people aren't disappeared or killed.

The battle for Iwo Jima resulted in over 26,000 US casualties, making it one of the bloodiest Marine actions in history.

Things that make Tucker “effective:” 1) billionaires backed him and put him on TV for years, 2) he was willing to say whatever they wanted, 3) he is a shameless liar and racist. A lot of people seem “good at politics” or “good at communicating” if a huge, well-funded media apparatus is behind them.

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps are trolling Trump on TV, in English: "Hey Trump, you are fired! You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

The Democratic party is wildly unpopular right now. Polling shows that people have noticed that they are not fighting. What does fighting look like? For one: forcing votes on impeachment so that we can see that they are united in democracy.

Oh, BTW, turns out that colleges are practicing Affirmative Action for men and have been for a while and STILL struggle to find qualified male applicants. hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I have an idea to solve the Iranian war. The US completely remove itself from the Middle East, tell Netanyahu to pound salt, bring all the military assets back to mainland USA and concentrate on looking after the citizens of the USA.

Every single Republican voted no to fund TSA.

Fascist framing is always the "the enemy is weak and sickly and dumb and also the greatest threat that ever existed who controls everything.". Holding the paradox is the intellectual labor of the party faithful.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

Air travel is about to get a lot more dangerous for people of color, and also for trans people, and ESPECIALLY for trans people who have their actual gender on their ID cards (which the Trump administration considers fraudulent documentation) This could get unimaginably bad, very quickly

I wish an ICE thug on no one but people that were living comfortably ignoring what’s happening because it wasn’t impacting them are in for a rude awakening.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Blue-state shield laws didn't exist before 2022. Now they are “one of the strongest tools that reproductive freedom advocates have to protect abortion access in a post-Roe reality."

The human authoritarian impulse eventually fails to bully reality. This is why they build their own ersatz version, call it reality, and discipline any and punish any folks who might point out they have no proverbial clothes. They will ALWAYS lose to Reality's House. The game is rigged.

Even the idea that being at war might incur noticeable day-to-day inconveniences in middle-class America has been absent for decades

It is pretty similar to how nobody is rallying around the flag for the Iran war because Trump and his movement have said stuff like that is for suckers to defang attacks on them and gain power. Now when they want the power those norms can provide they are not there.

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it