Holy shit

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Yup. It’s not about winning over republicans; it’s about defeating the left

Farage has been targeting my immigration group since the early 2010s. I'm confident, that, just like during the run up to the Brexit vote, my English colleagues will completely downplay my stress and fear, xenophobic threats made at my family, proceed to ghost me and provide no help and support.

trump: i can’t even pretend to believe this god stuff anymore, not even at a memorial service, i hope my enemies all die horribly and i’ll be glad when they do npr: chorlie cork’s christianity on full display at worship service in his honor

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

The image below is from an actual government website, not some ad on TruthSocial.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

“Perhaps there are so many embarrassing documents... Maybe that’s why the administration is taking a wholesale approach to concealing records that may show wrongdoing, corruption and incompetence,” @seth-stern.bsky.social of @freedom.press told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/21/d...

One thing about the "It's legal for the president to commit crimes" Supreme Court ruling is it's also functionally legal for everyone the president employs to commit crimes. In my opinion that's Not Good

America is already complicit in Netanyahu’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and now Trump wants to send him $6.4B more in offensive weapons. Our priority should be ending the war and returning the hostages  — not funneling MORE taxpayer dollars to Netanyahu to bomb starving Gaza.

“Over half of the ice detainees held in New York jails between January and July — and 62 percent in Nassau County — had no criminal charges or conviction, the federal data shows.”

This is truly insane. The definition of "disappearing people"

So Trump is announcing on TV his intention to indiscriminately murder anyone - without evidence, investigation, or legal authority - who happens to be in boats off the Venezuelan coast. In a long list of lawless things Trump has said, this is near the top in its brazen, murderous criminality.

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Israel killed three of these four children in a drone strike targeting their car and an accompanying scooter in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. The entire family of six was hit – only the mother and eldest daughter survived, one of them critically injured and hospitalized.

set aside the folly of such a demand but given everything that the federal government is doing right now Democrats should be doing everything in their power *to* shut down the government

Israeli forces have killed Al-Shifa Hospital nurse Ashraf Mohammed Abu-Mohsin in an airstrike on his home on Al-Moghrabi Street in Gaza City’s Al-Sabra neighborhood. The strike came without warning, killing him, his wife, and their children. Source: Healthcare Workers Watch

He allegedly accepted the money ***in cash*** "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources."

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

It’s oddly comforting when people who push deeply immoral public policy are shown to be horrible people generally. Like, it would be unsettling if Homan were a straight arrow who paid for operations for orphans.

Resharing with ALT text because YEP.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

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I've long been complaining that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have nothing to say about Randy Fine's extremely racist rhetoric about Arabs and Muslims while on the other hand they ***MADE UP*** a Rashida Tlaib quote and attacked her for two weeks over it. Now look, Bash talks to Fine on her own show!

Just a friendly reminder that in the mid-80s, Knorr (the powdered soup and gravy company) had a weird scarecrow mascot made of vegetables.

This is just doing ordinary law enforcement with murders instead of trials, with the weasel word “narcoterrorist” obscuring the fact that the targets are garden variety criminals.

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine. They are: Sen. Jeff Merkley Chris Van Hollen Tim Kaine Bernie Sanders Peter Welch Tina Smith Tammy Baldwin Mazie Huron

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

hey so this is insane

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Brendan Carr isn't going to stop until someone makes him: In the wake of @jimmykimmel.com's suspension, experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct is flatly unconstitutional. They also expect him to keep going. Read this story by @wired.com's @makenakelly.bsky.social.

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

Literally they are. It’s the literal First Amendment. But yet here we are….

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

“In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect because of inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.”

Owning the libs and getting the lulz is the only consistent philosophy. A bunch of third rate, seething malcontents turning the federal government into one giant shitpost.

Today in FFS what could possibly go wrong.

New from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

"Ana" harvests strawberries on CAs Central Coast. She shares, "I earn two dollars for a box of 4 big plastic baskets. Harvesting strawberries is very difficult. You have to work quickly to make many boxes. I spend the entire day hunched over." #WeFeedYou

Christian nationalism's spiritual warfare

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

Losing my ever-loving-mind watching the same people who were just clutching their pearls claiming censorship over mean emails from WH staffers to Twitter about COVID misinfo are now HAVING THE FCC CHAIR openly threaten broadcast licenses over a joke about the president AND THE BROADCASTERS CENSOR IT

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval