OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said. Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%. Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

Reup

In Portland, Oregon,(DHS) and (ICE) used pepper spray on the breathing hole of a peaceful protester who was wearing a blow-up frog costume.

The shutdown of the United States government will continue until Trump cannot do what he wants when he wants as he wants. He does not care about anyone or anything other than himself, and he has 24/7 food, housing, and security, so why should he care? He's like Putin in Ukraine now...

"As comical as many of Trump’s comments were, the president’s nakedly partisan appeal to U.S. military officers was a violation of every standard of American civil-military relations, and exactly what George Washington feared could happen with an unscrupulous commander in chief."

Trump has never done anything in good faith, from his wedding vows to his failing to pay contractors to his stiffing his investors with his losses while writing the losses off himself. He's not acting in good faith towards our allies, our trading partners, or America, and MAGA loves him for it.

He seems to be forgetting that we're supposed to be the good guys 👀

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Exactly this. It’s no accident.

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?

We no longer know one another. The longest consecutive stretch in American history without mandatory service should end. t.co/0EzTL3M79g

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

The government’s explanation that it simply wanted to “reunite” parents and children “crumbled like a house of cards,” Kelly writes. “There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FIRE finally go around to opposing firing people for criticizing Charlie Kirk. www.thefire.org/news/you-can...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

CBO sees lower us growth, higher unemployment this year

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

The world sees America clearly. Americans do not.

MAGA SCOTUS: We said we'd only "call balls and strikes," but now whatever we want the law to be is the law, and we're not going to explain ourselves to the likes of all of you, you're all going to have to guess. Then you'll learn that whatever we led you to believe is ok is not: "Carlotta loses."

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

This is a start...

This thread.

This is exactly right.

Teens are calling Idaho's suicide hotline and being told that they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

Medicare as United Health.

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Sterilizing executive compensation on the way down.

The important thing to understand is that we are all Lisa Cook. You may imagine that your legal and financial history is so blameless that there’s no way MAGA can come after you. If you believe that, you’re living in a fantasy world. Criticize them or get in their way, and you will become a target.

Even after everything, I still can’t get over how a president makes BILLIONS on worthless crypto and gets rid of police for crypto fraud, but we’re all talking about mortgage fraud by people who earn government salaries in the low hundreds of thousands. I just can’t.

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Must-read thread.

People of DC (and beyond....)

Most non-French speakers have never heard the words to the French anthem - written for their revolution, the Bastille & Guillotine one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQ-...

This, but also, note that most of the coverage is framed as tit for tat, when in fact it is “if TX gerrymanders *even more*, maybe CA will decide to gerrymander *at all*”. As if the status quo is some kind of tabula rasa.

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

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@jfallows.bsky.social posted yesterday: Betteridge's Law of Headlines, illustrated. ("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No.")

I have to hand it to the President, he managed to flip the convo to measurement challenges, stats agency independence, etc. and away from the anti-growth effects of his policies on the labor market.

ICE has arrested and incarcerated and is trying to deport a Cuban legal immigrant who is a political dissident who entered legally, is here legally, who has committed no crimes and is married to a US citizen WITHOUT DUE PROCESS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

All on the whim of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Amen. @delong.social describes current US trade policy precisely and succinctly:

Every week, I see at least one headline that’s exactly this tweet.

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” A few months the Alien Enemies Act was invoked to fly Venezuelans to El Salvador. Today's news is www.wsj.com/world/americ...

1. According to President Trump, large American cities are crime-infested hellholes. Last month, Trump claimed that cities run by Democrats have “heavy crime” and called Los Angeles a “trash heap...under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks.” The data tells a different story