"The arguments are not so different from those used by the Bush administration during the War on Terror. At least then, though, there truly had been a foreign attack, and we were later fighting multiple real wars." www.thebulwark.com/p/military-a...

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

It goes without saying, but this should never happen in this country. A stark example of the increasingly extreme wage discrepancy and corporate greed that’s ruining our country.

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

- #PamelasFeedYourHead with we Democrats are the REAL pro-life party. We're awakened to the needs of others, well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, kind, and eager to make the world a better place for all people and animals. -

- 🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasTruth I want to watch the deep dive into the practices of insurance companies and where their profits are distributed. I want to watch a special on why it's ok for our kids to be shot at in a school but there's a circus uproar when a millionaire is killed. -

Rape. Sex is consensual. This was adults with children.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage. (h/t @gelliottmorris.com) newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes? Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

"Literally every single word the President said was wrong... We have enormous anxiety among voters. The cost of living is rising, and people are understandably upset. I just want to be crystal clear there's not a word coming out of the man's mouth that is correct."

Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.

Partnerships with ICE have been a flashpoint in sheriff’s races since the first Trump administration. A Democrat flipped a sheriff’s office in suburban Pennsylvania last week after promising to end a contract with ICE.

I wrote peer-reviewed research papers about the consequences of vaccine refusal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4...

I was very vocal in the press about the harms of groups like the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a well known source of vaccine disinformation. I called Clear Channel and demanded they remove this billboard.

The people STILL have power!

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

Only Donald Trump could assert, in all seriousness, that the most important factor in a superpower's military might is ... branding.

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

Newsom: Let’s stand up for the rule of law. Let’s stand up for a system of checks and balances. And let’s stand up for our democracy—for all of us.

surprising no one paying attention

Wait. I thought y’all wanted Christianity everywhere. In schools, workplaces, government buildings. You can’t have that and also then say “no no, not those Christian’s, not there.” Pick a hill to die on y’all, or I promise this will end up in court where you will have to pick one, I promise 😒😒😒

tl;dr: Because troops were already blocked with preliminary orders in Oregon, this changes nothing on the ground immediately. It is, however, now a permanent order — on both federalization and deployment — and is a huge deal. And, of course, will be appealed.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Lying implies intentionality. There’s no intention with ChatGPT, it’s just prediction algorithms. OpenAI should be prosecuted for selling a product they know to be dangerous, and selling it in a way that obscures what it actually is.

“Well, it’s a guarantee that unless we do things very differently from what we have been doing in the past many years, we will not see an overshoot of 1.5 degrees, we’ll see a permanent breach of 1.5 degrees. So it’s really about making as stringent and as quick cuts as possible overall.”

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Jessica: Donald Trump is still telling us grocery prices are down. Literally millions of people told you last night that is not the case.

We have a new swing voter population, it appears. It will be interesting to see how Dems adjust their campaign rhetoric accordingly. (@mikemadrid.bsky.social is one expert on this issue.)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

That a judge has to order this in the United States in 2025 …

Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division. That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today. Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Why is nobody in the mainstream news media or very few other places talking about the profit incentive for all of this? These private prison corporations donated heavily to Republicans and helped to get Donald Trump elected for their own financial gain. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

There’s a number of commentators who’ve criticised the UK’s free speech laws in recent times, with I think some justification. But it’s worth noting that the First Amendment doesn’t defend itself and speech in the US is being criminalised as well.

It is Illegal, unConstitutional for ICE to be within 100 feet of polling sites. I is Illegal for ICE any any Poll watcher to talk to you, or interact with voters in any way. Document them if you can. Thank you for Voting and Stay Safe.

Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.

Republicans have run and won on demonizing minorities (most prominently blacks). That rhetoric attracted Nazis like Fuentes. Republicans played footsie with racists and bigots for years. It was always going to lead to this.

What the Tucker/Nick Fuentes fiasco really reveals is that the "white nationalist wing of the GOP" is "a major force within internal GOP politics," says @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social. On the pod, David is so good on the GOP's 50-year refusal to police its extremists: newrepublic.com/article/2026...

"Principled conservatives" spending decades pretending as if the conservative movement wasnt actively recruiting and cultivating theocratic fascists in mega churches across the country to power their imperialist project.