One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

OMB Director Russ Vought just canceled $8 billion in climate funding for CA, NY, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, OR, VT, and WA. He also froze $18 BILLION for NYC infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.” How is this legal?

This was so cringe and embarrassing. Trump filled the White House with tacky gold, while tarnishing our reputation in the world.

“….that Democrats decried as racist.” Uh, no @nytimes.com. They ARE racist. Fucking SAY it without using the Democrats for cover.

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it is another day:

Sure Pam. Up is Down, etc.

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement. Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025... on who the real Charlie Kirk was...

Business is booming in the Middle East for Trump. Deal after deal after deal.

Discovery is going to be fantastic, though. We all saw this abuse of power coming. Multiple prosecutors (even Trump appointed ones) tried to stop the administration from making this mistake because there’s no case.

Reminder that Trump campaigned on sending troops into American cities to take out "the enemy from within." Something to consider next time a pundit tells you the election was really about inflation.

Today as I protested ICE fascists in Broadview, IL I realized: •93% of people ICE is snatching up have no history of violence •ICE is the source of violence •We need unity & we need messengers—not martyrs Here’s what I mean—with pics & video from today’s protest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-prote...

Murphy: "The point is to get a few of Trump's political adversaries in jail, but the real point is a tried & true tactic of despots all over the world, which is to just harass & intimidate their political opposition so that protesters don't show up, candidates don't run. That's how democracies die."

How come I only get a bowl with grains and vegetables in my bag at Cava? Per NYT:

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

FOR THE RECORD

There’s a type of regime associated with pins like this and they aren’t great.

Exactly this. Once you cave to the bully, they keep going.

Cava: where the prize in a Happy Meal isn't always a toy!

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Pam Bondi in January: "I believe in the freedom of speech...I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation." Pam Bondi now: "There's free speech, and then there's hate speech...We will absolutely target you...if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

Times Charlie Kirk directly called for, supported, organized, and/or financed political violence, a thread with receipts (via @Cooperstreaming): xcancel.com/cooperst...

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on new $100,000 payment for H-1B visa: “Stop the nonsense of letting people just come into this country on visas that were given away for free. The president is crystal clear: valuable people only for America.” Also crystal clear on definition of "value"...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick clarifies Trump's executive order charging large payments for visas: “The president is crystal clear: valuable people only for America.” Clearly "valuable people" means wealthy, willing to pay a bribe, and preferably of course white.

Describing insufficient evidence for prosecution as a "roadblock" is a VERY weird way to phrase things but then again, I'm not an editor at the NYT

To hear a member of the Sacred College venerate a serial race-baiter is disheartening, to say the least. Showing respect for someone so tragically murdered does not require this.

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

The whole world is mocking MAGA-America right now.

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

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

You know, if Trump is such a little thin-skinned baby that can't take criticism, jokes, or insults, he can stop it all now. Just resign, go back to your old tacky moth eaten bed bug ridden golf resort, and play golf every day. Simple. Save the world, Donald, resign. It might get you that peace prize

Attorney Robert Hubbell has a totally excellent headline today in his substack (to which I recommend everyone subscribe) Https://roberthubbell.substack.com that nicely encapsulates the Big Beautiful Barrier to freedom of speech: "Crybaby Trump says it is illegal to hurt his feelings"

If you’ve ever wondered why crime is higher in majority-Black, Democrat-controlled cities, you can just look at the data. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Today's edition of Congress' continued abdication of its power and responsibility to check the executive.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Ibram X Kendi, Gloria Steinem, Nikole Hannah Jones, Cornel West, Kimberle Crenshaw, & others in 2023 in an open letter pointed out (presciently):

Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.

It's called a think tank because thats what it does to thinking

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Here is the deleted report in it's entirety: web.archive.org/web/20250911...